The 2025 IONIQ 5 refresh is giving major "Solarpunk" energy. ⚡️🌱
Finally, an EV that doesn't just look like a giant smartphone on wheels, but actually fixes the one thing we all hate: range anxiety. The new 84 kWh battery is a beast, and they finally added a rear wiper (if you know, you know).
Whether you’re planning a cross-country escape or just want to stop living your life around charging station maps, this update is the one.
Read more on why the update is a total game-changer: [https://tinyurl.com/9v9evmca]
Building a Solar Garage for EV Charging (10.5 kW System)
At a Glance
Solar Garage Array
• Panels added: 24 × 250 W = 6 kW
• Combined System Peak: 10.5 kW
• EV charging rate achieved: 9.6 kW
• Build timeframe: About a year (with interruptions)
• Primary purpose: Faster EV Solar Charging
The Solar Garage is producing power.
After purchasing an Ioniq5 electric vehicle (EV) last year, it became obvious that increasing the solar array size would be…
Sürücüsüz Araç Teknolojileri: Waymo ve Hyundai İş Birliği
Sürücüsüz Araç Teknolojileri ve Waymo
Son yıllarda, sürücüsüz araç teknolojilerini geliştiren şirketlerin sayısı hızla artış göstermektedir. Bu şirketler aras...
Elektrikli otomobil ve üst düzey mobilite deneyimini Türkiye’de daha da yaygınlaştırmayı ve bu alanda sektöre öncülük etmeyi hedefleyen Hyun
Hyundai IONIQ 5 Advance Özel Fiyatıyla Dikkat Çekiyor!
– Hyundai Assan, Türkiye’deki elektrifikasyon atağına yepyeni bir fiyat politikasıyla devam ediyor.
– Türkiye için özel olarak geliştirilen “IONIQ 5 Advance”, 1.649.000 TL’lik fiyat etiketiyle şimdi çok iddialı.
– IONIQ 5 Advance, 58 kWh bataryası ve 125 kW (170 PS) gücündeki elektrik motoruyla öne çıkıyor.
Elektrikli otomobil ve üst düzey mobilite deneyimini Türkiye’de daha da yaygınlaştırmayı ve bu alanda sektöre öncülük etmeyi hedefleyen Hyundai Assan, 2024 yılındaki elektrifikasyon stratejisine ağırlık vermeye devam ediyor.
Türk tüketicisi için özel olarak geliştirdiği yeni donanım seviyelerini oldukça cazip ödeme koşulları ve fiyatlarla sunan Hyundai Assan, geçtiğimiz ay satışına başladığı IONIQ 5 Advance modelinin fiyatında yüzde 8’e varan bir indirim yaptı. Gerek teknolojisi gerekse sunduğu üst düzey konforla segmentinde fark yaratan IONIQ 5’in 4×2 çekiş sistemine sahip Advance donanım seviyesinin fiyatı 1.649.000 TL olarak belirlenirken aynı zamanda “Şimdi Al, 6 Ay Sonra Öde” imkanı da var.
Mittlerweile sollte jeder gerafft haben, dass mit Hyundai nicht zu spaßen ist. Der neue Ioniq 5 N beweist das eindrucksvoll. Das Beste kommt zum Schluss. Das gilt auch im Hyundai Konzern. Nach dem Genesis GV 60 Sport Plus mit 490 PS und dem Kia EV6 GT mit 585 PS markiert die Hyundai Ioniq 5 N die derzeitige Speerspitze auf der Plattform. Bis zu 650 PS strapazieren die Pneus mit viel Drehmoment. Wie viel genau lässt Hyundai noch offen, aber bereits der Kia EV6 GT darf mit 740 Nm prahlen, es dürfte also nicht verwundern, wenn sich der maximale Druck bei über 800 Nm bewegt. Besonders in Zuffenhausen dürfte man bei der Ankündigung nochmals die Augenbrauen angehoben haben, denn auch die allgemeine Auslegung verspricht mehr als nur eine freudige Geradeausfahrt mit bis zu 260 km/h Spitze. Denn die reguläre Systemleistung von 609 PS/448 kW verteilt sich mit 226 PS/166 kW auf der Vorder- und mit 383 PS/282 kW auf der Hinterachse. Und da die N-Varianten auf der Nordschleife geschliffen werden, dürfte hier ein feiner Kurvendynamiker anstehen. Mit aktivierten N-Grin Boost gibt es nochmals mehr Zunder, welches sich auf 650 PS/478 kW zusammenaddiert. Der Sprint auf Tempo 100 km/h? in 3,4 Sekunden Geschichte. Statt auf straffer Rennstreckenabstimmung legte Hyundai beim Ioniq 5 N eher Wert auf eine Rallye-inspirierte Auslegung. Zudem wurde das Fahrzeug im Gegensatz zur regulären Variante deutlich versteift. Auch die Lenkung wurde sowohl im Drehmoment als auch im Feedback überarbeitet. Und wer Lust hat geht mit dem Alpha-Ioniq 5 danke N Drift Optimizer spielerisch leicht quer. Für ewig-gestrige bietet Hyundai zudem das N e-shift an welches ein Achtgang-Doppelkupplungsgetriebe vorgaukelt. Tatsächlich eher ein Nostalgie-Flash denn gerade die lineare Leistungsentfaltung von E-Autos ist ein echter Gamechanger. Optisch gibt es natürlich jede Menge aerodynamisches Spoilerwerk und in den Radkästen verrichten 21-Zoll-Alus mit Pirelli-P-Zero-Bereifung ihren Job. Insgesamt duckt sich der Ioniq 5 N 20 Millimeter tiefer gen Asphalt. Auch der Innenraum wurde an die sportlichen Bedürfnisse angepasst. So darf man sich unter anderem über Sportsitze mit verstärkten Sitzwangen freuen. Beim Laden hat Hyundai ohnehin keine Lust auf Kompromisse und setzte beim Ioniq 5 schon vom Start weg auf 800 Volt-Technologie. Dementsprechend pumpt der elektrische Saft mit bis zu 350 kW in die E-Venen. 80 Prozent sind so in gerade mal 18 Minuten erledigt. Werte, von denen man in Europa, mit ganz wenigen Ausnahmen wie dem Porsche Taycan und Audi E-Tron GT, nach wie vor maximal träumen darf.Seine Premiere hat der Hyundai Ioniq 5 N nun also in Goodwood gefeiert. Wir sind schon gespannt auf die finalen technischen Daten und wollen natürlich auch wissen, was für ein Minus der Koreaner auf dem Bankkonto hinterlässt. Wir tippen mal auf ungefähr 80.000 Euro Wir halten Euch auf dem Laufenden. Fanaticar Magazin | Fotos: Hyundai
As you may be aware, I justified the purchase of Karen the Kona based on Albert the Audi being out of service for a drivetrain replacement and my husband needing to rent a car to visit his father for his birthday on a weekend I was supposed to be out of town for work. Needless to say the rental experience made him very, very glad that I bought a second car.
This all started out with optimism: he was going to rent an Ioniq 5, which was a potential candidate as “next car” whenever that time came. He rented the car on Turo from a lady who apparently had a fleet of cars with a “driver” who delivers the cars to the renters. This person doesn’t follow directions, as my husband was detailed with photos as to where the car needed to be parked at his work and which charger to plug it into. They ignored all of that and plugged it into a Level 2 charger in the wrong part of the parking lot, meaning the car wasn’t charged sufficiently for him to immediately hit the road when he got off work.
Not like that was going to happen -- the car was delivered with a flat rear tire and he spent over 20 minutes in fleeting daylight to photograph every wheel on the car which had massive curb damage, every scratch, wrinkle, and tear. This car had just over 30,000 miles on it but looked like it had triple that in wear. He was so late coming home to get the dogs that I called him afraid he’d been in an accident of some kind. When he gets home, he plugs the car into our ChargePoint Home Flex 50A charger so it’ll soak up as much power as possible before he hits the road. I got our Ryobi hand held air compressor out and aired all the tires up to the factory spec. The rear tire was over 8lb underinflated -- not good for tire life.
So after rushing about to install the dog cover in the back seat, harness and load the dogs (remember we have a quasi-geriatric who needs help getting into and out of cars and is prone to puking), and load up all his stuff.... he kissed me on the forehead and said goodbye, walking out and leaving his dad’s birthday card and present on the pool table. Oops. This, however, wasn’t going to be the worst of the weekend. He had to stop twice on his way up to put air into that rear tire. The trip is only ~180 miles so every 90 or so he’d have to stop and air it back up. His consumption was low 3′s - which is poor for this vehicle as it should get over 4 on a trip like this - and he rolled up with 6% state of charge (he left with around 90%) and a low tire warning.
Now, on Saturday - the day after he left - I bought the Kona and had every intention of driving it up to his parents house and dropping off the birthday present, however the whole locking the keys in the car at the Greensboro charging stop derailed those plans. He did look at the car and found that it did indeed have a nail in that tire, and had asked us to bring him a tire patch kit - which we couldn’t do. I felt terrible about this, in fact, I moped about it for days.
He did the smart thing and ignored the car until Monday, when he took it to a tire shop. Turns out this thing didn’t have one, but two punctures in it and it was filled with slime where someone used the roadside kit on it already. There is no way this car should have been handed off to him in this condition. This is where things get ugly, fast. He had been calling the owner multiple times and only getting voicemail. He was messaging her in the app and could see that she read his messages but wasn’t responding. So he called Turo and Turo refuses to replace the tire, saying they’d reimburse him if he did it. The tire shop refuses to let the car drive away with that tire on it. Eventually - after about two hours of calling - Turo agreed to send a roadside tow truck to tow the vehicle back to the Raleigh dropoff/return point. John now needed to rent another car to get home.
HIs mom went to the tire shop and picked him up, she’d intended to take him to Enterprise (which he worked at in college). On the way he saw Hertz and that Hertz had a Tesla Model 3 sitting right in front of the lot, so he asked his mom to pull in there. The Tesla actually needed to go back to North Carolina, so they were delighted that he inquired about it. I was less enthused, because I knew he was going to utterly hate the car but at least he could say he’s driven one on a real road trip and could form his own opinion.
He loaded up the pups and headed towards home. I called him at one point and it sounded as if he was talking to me in a tunnel, the audio quality of the Tesla was horrible - worse than the Hyundai, our Audi, or really any vehicle we’ve owned with a factory handsfree system. He said that I, too, sounded like I was in a tunnel to him. I’d say perhaps it was a bad connection, but all calls I made were at home over Gigbit Fiber (T-Mobile Wifi calling for the win). I asked him how he liked the car and he said “on paper I thought I’d love it, but it keeps emergency braking in the middle of sweeping bends on US220 and the last time it threw the old dog against the back of my seat, so I can’t use the cruise control system at all.” Well, that’s both unfortunate but also what I expected. We have a friend who lives out that way and is currently stuck with a Model 3 (intended it to be a 3-6mo purchase then flip for $$$ until the used market for Teslas dropped out). He told me that his does the same thing, and that he’s just accepted that he has to manually drive that section of 220 to get to Roanoke.
When my husband got home, he didn’t say he hated the car... but he did say we’d never buy one. We’d ridden in Kyle Connor’s 2018 model on I-95 and both complained about the wind noise, he said that this 2020 model was just as bad as the 2018. He also said that the trim that goes around the passenger seatbelt in the B-pillar would squeak/rattle - and I said hold up now, that was an endearing trait on your Volvos (the “volvo squeak”) and he said yes but that wasn’t loud and border line ear piercing. He then went into the common complaints -- the touch screen is annoying to use, nothing about the car was intuitive, and that the minimal interior was too minimal for him.
He didn’t plug the car in, and I asked him why. He told me that Hertz told him so long as they could move it around the lot that he didn’t need to charge it. I told him we should plug it in because I recalled reading an article from Reddit that Hertz (or someone else renting EVs) had modified their return policy so that if you brought it back with over 70% charge there wasn’t a fueling fee, 30-70% there was like a $50 fee and below 30% was a $100 fee. He wanted to argue that “They said,” and I said “It’s Hertz, do you really want to chance this?” So we plugged it in and let it charge until it was over 75% charged to return it. While we waited the owner of the Ioniq 5 messaged him - not called, messaged - that she’d so sorry, she just got off a 16-hour international flight and wasn’t able to respond. John’s exact words were to her were “If you’re going to be renting vehicles and know you’ll be out of touch on a flight, you should have someone to manage this for you.” He was much more polite than I would have been.
We dropped the Tesla off and didn’t think much about it until a few days later when John was dealing with Turo about being reimbursed for his trip interruption. Turo finally agreed to refund him the cost of the Hertz rental, but they wouldn’t refund anything on the actual Turo rental. He flat out said he’d never rent from Turo again. He then checked his credit card and sees an additional $75 charge from Hertz for his rental. He calls Hertz and they tell him it’s because he returned the car without charging it. He argues, no I did. They’re confused. You used a Supercharger, so that’s why there is the fee. He said no, I plugged it in at my house and charged it above 70% before returning it, keeping in line with the online policy. This call gets escalated, and ultimately they’re told the office issued this charge and that he’d need to take it up with them.
So we have a friend who works at the office we dropped the car off at, and she told us that no his rental was closed out by corporate and gave him a number to call. The person who answered again said well you supercharged it, and he said no I charged it at home. The agent couldn’t seem to understand this and I couldn’t help but grin when he said “Madam, we own 6 EVs and three charging stations at home. I charged it at home before returning it, I did not pay to use a supercharger or anything else.” They say they need to send him to a Tesla specialist, that person again wants to argue that he charged at a Supercharger. Well, after standing his ground they come back and say “oops, sorry, yeah, we’ll reverse this charge.”
At the next run club he saw our friend who works at the office. She said she poked around and saw that the office never closed the rental out when he returned it and had rented the car back out to someone else who did charge at a supercharger and it billed to my husband’s rental. Ultimately this was a comedy of errors that only we could experience.
So, will we rent a car from Turo or Hertz again? Turo’s a hard no - when they were RelayRides I had an account and cancelled it after the Liz Fong-Jones lawsuit. I named their treatment of this vehicle host as the reason I was closing my account, as a result... several years later after they rebranded to Turo, I re-opened my account to rent my BMW i3 to my best friend who took it on a 2800+ mile excursion to Florida before he moved to Colorado. I had to fight because my account is permanently blacklisted from renting card on their platform. I went through many avenues to find out why - it’s not Turo policy to explain why they do things - and the NC Attorney General’s letter to Turo got a written response that was forwarded to me stating that I was deemed high risk due to comments made to customer service and not due to my driving record.
Will I rent from Hertz? Well, we did notice they have Kona Electrics as rentals and since we own that model I’d gladly rent one. However, I’d make sure that I return the car during business hours (we dropped off overnight while they were closed) and ensure my rental is fully closed out and that I do not owe any additional fees. My husband has said he simply refuses to go by car if it’s not his Audi.
