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My own car an Ioniq 38kWh has an EV! warning and the app claims a Battery Management (BMS) error, so it is in the garage awaiting formal diagnosis and then repair.

The only real plug for Hyundai, I imagine other companies do similar, is that because the car was serviced with a Hyundai dealer we are eligible for Hyundai Assist a recovery process. As part of this I was able to get a hire car and we lucked into a receiving an Ioniq 5. Unsure what size of battery, aside from huge. Whilst driving it about I saw the marks of some suckers stuck to the window, so this was for its 700 miles (pre me getting it) was a press-car! I believe the car is this 84kWh variant

Why not give my experience of my time with it?

Initial Experience

My initial experience is broadly in comparison to my car, which I chose in part because it was small. I didn't want a cross-over style car.

First thing was that the car feels wide, they've sculpted the inside to be more cavernous than would initially think which added to the feeling that the car is driving on both sets of white lines. On the roads here, certainly on the North-West of Scotland, as they gradually get narrower the cars external width starts to match that internal sense of width. It gets touch-and-go sometimes. Controls felt very familiar, though some comforts like heated seats and heated steering wheel are hidden, being activated by a touch-sensitive button that opens a menu on the touch-screen, not a physical button that can be used whilst keeping eyes on the road.

It feels fast, even in eco mode it takes off more swiftly and has a more linear accelerator. Normal and Sport mode were too fast for me to begin with; overtaking opportunities were a little fraught as the car accelerates so quickly it was a little 'woah' and having to steer more aggressively than I am used to. It cruises nicely, though it is obvious it's a bit of a brick. When rolling downhill it doesn't pick up speed as easily as the more streamlined Ioniq does, I can only assume that Ioniq 6 is much more efficient given its streamlined appearance.

It is shite in the rain. Perhaps this is more related to tyre choice (Michelin Primacy 4) but omfg, even in eco mode the car spins up tyres super easily. Although somewhat stable round corners, coming out of them or across bumpier bits of road the car wallows which makes it feel as heavy as it probably is. The only other time you feel that weight is using the brakes. There's this big sense of inertia and although the regeneration sucks up a lot of that energy when the brakes do engage there's a greater sense of inertia that the regen wasn't able to sook enough.

It's not efficient for the type of travel I've got to do; long distance and relatively constant speeds. I'm getting 2.5-3.2mi/kWh, my comparison to that is I have to try hard to get lower than 3.6mi/kWh in my car and regularly achieving 4+ mi/kWh on the same drive at similar speeds and conditions.

I can't think of much else really. The small ones seem to like the back seats, there've been no complaints from their wee rides about. I like the rear passengers get their own vent in the pillar in-front of them as well as charge-ports under the seats (which slide).

More impressions to come...

I'm unsure how long I have this car for. It will depend on how quickly my car gets repaired. I think I'll be able to give a better impression of how it is compared to my own Ioniq with time and more experience behind the wheel. I think I'd like to do a comparison going back down the range to the older car when I get it back; How does it feel to be back?

edit 1: spelling

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