I have an Ioniq 5. It’s great. Highly recommended.

Reminder: Hyundai motor company donated $1 million to the orange MAGAt king’s inauguration.

I bought one last year and it’s been a delight.

I have many complaints about it and they’re all incredibly petty.

Their most recent OTA update also allows you to disable location sharing, presumably to conform to California law.

I would definitely have gone for an Ioniq 5 as well if money was not a question. But at the end of the day, the Ioniq 5 was overkill for my use case so I ended up going for a used Hyundai Kona. Still very happy with my choice, even if I would've loved an Ioniq 5. But it did save me like 60.000 DKK.

I think this is what “want an EV, research it heavily” folks tend to end up with, where Teslas leans more “want an EV, don’t research it quite as heavily” crowd.

Not that either brand makes bad cars.

I just mean the Hyundai/Kia EVs are less “sexy” on the surface. Their charge and range is lower, but if you look into it, it’s an engineering compromise for faster charging. Hyundai isn’t a very “glamorous” brand, but their recent cars have been excellent, and if you actually look into Tesla, well… gestures at X. Lower end Teslas are priced somewhat attractively and tend to have better resale value than Hyundai at the moment, and it’s quite rational to assume “well, they’ve been making EVs longer.” But if you research it, Teslas have a more hidden costs over time, and even though some systems like the heatpumps are less refined than Teslas, Hyundai engineered the heck out of the car.

Test-drove one when I was looking for an EV. Nice car but the turning radius is ridiculously large, which along with the general size of the car made me go for a Kia EV3 instead. I guess those points wouldn't be much of an issue on American roads though.

I nearly got an Ioniq 5 as our second car, but ended up getting a BMW i4 instead. I was very impressed with the Ioniq 5 - it's a fantastic car. We already had an iX though, andI figured it'd be best to stick to something with the same UI. I'm mostly a frontend developer and UI quirks really get to me, so I'd rather just deal with one set of quirks.