I had seen someone else do a "2 years update" so I figured i could do it myself:
In short:
~62,000 miles in 2 years
IONIQ5 was 🅱️pretty güd
Electrify America: slightly less so
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Needless backstory: after having a motorcycle as my sole mode of transportation for all of 6 months before another driver kindly helped put an end to that (I made it out *mostly* okay), I decided I was ready to have a few more walls around me whilst I putted about, also wanted it to be as comfortable as possible should I wind up playing chauffeur/DD for friends (the 2 free years of Electrify America charging helped push my hand into the purchase, as opposed to leasing).
2024 IONIQ 5 LIMITED
-the car is mostly (very) good. I count myself lucky that I never had any of the "big issues" that can happen to it happen to mine. Right around the 2 year mark, my 12v battery gave out on me, but that was it.
-android auto via wired connection is *spotty* as heck, but it works well enough that i can still use it, just have to accept that I may lose connection once during transit and then have to wait for the long cycle time as it reconnect
-for a hot minute (especially in the first year of owning my car) it would randomly start and appear to be working, but the AC would just appear to not be cooling down the car. I would just need to restart the car and it would work properly again
-lane assist is a bit piddly at times (i feel its somewhat degraded over time), other times its extremely good.
-"car stopped ahead of you" warnings also a bit finicky, sometimes it has saved me, other times it will blare alarms when a car is slightly slowly turning about a mile in front of me (very minor nitpick)
-im sure theres a boatload of features I've not utilized that I [c/sh]ould've
-it would be nice if they had a mode that leaned into "camper mode" where I could run climate without turning the car on [the "auto-off" timer on that seemed to be variable duration. Remote control climate start was arguably a way to work with this, but I only did car camping a few times where I wasnt in the driver seat to just manually do this, so I didnt have to bother too much.
-remote control climate start is a godsend
-the apps for both blue link and Electrify america were generally decent, though goodness were there times where it *insisted* on signing me out and making me login again.
-the range is a bit of a bummer, I only ever use eco mode, but I approximate my mileage to be 160miles at 80% (which should be 190, and a 100% charge supposedly having a range of 225, which I'd say as 190)... My common experience was seeing "effective range of 50miles", needing to get to a charger 25 miles away, and then pulling up to the station with 4 miles to spare. (Even trying everything in my power to drive as "effeciently" as possible). This happened enough times (3x) where I only felt comfortable guesstimating a range of "whatever the car says, minus 30 miles."
Overall, I'd rate my experience a [10/10 | 5/5 | 👍]
But I certainly paid for it, so id hope so. If I was being more harsh or critical, I'd say 7.5/8. It does everything id expect a car to do. Leaves some room wanting for features it feels it *almost* delivers on. Is extremely expensive. (But of course, in a market where everything is expensive, and people continue to let used/new car companies get away with charging so much, I guess this is a pretty good standout. But for nuanced car reviews, yer better off talking with someone who reviews cars for a living, I reckon.
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Electrify America (not directly related to IONIQ5, or Hyundai, but considering its a bonus/incentive/partnership, its still worth noting & discussing):
-By and large, its an okay network. *PLENTY* of issues, but on average its okay.
-prior to [current year] political issues, and living in texas, the prices were honestly very comparable to gas prices, but maybe slightly better. I think one thing people who are used to EVs forget is how scary/new it can be to do charging over pumping gas. Another thing that people will talk about is how much money you can save on gas by using an EV. This is a personal point, I just wanna say when youre selling people on EVs, its important to say that the savings only really are shown in home/LV1+2 charging, but LV3 (depending) can honestly reach up into gas prices, but without gas station convenience. [This is the part where I'd insert a spreadsheet I had made where I compared $-per-kWH and $-per-gal (by converting effective mileage of EV and Gas-guzzler and various breakpoints)... but I lost it, and you roughly get the idea I'm angling at here]. Its 100% easier for city drivers to have an EV if they have the capacity to easily charge it at home or work and dont need to do too many impromptu drives, but it's disingenuous to say its easy for everyone.
-EA's (and electric charge stations in general) really need to implement weathering amenities you take for granted [e.g. overhead shelter to protect you from the rain*]
-*especially with the trial of EA not being "based on charge," but rather "based on time spent at charger," which works well for the mostpart, but you run into issues on cold days / odd days where you're barely squeaking out 34kW/hr, despite no other chargers being used, despite it being a nice clear warm day.
-*being forced to disconnect your car in a torrential downpour or pay for every minute you've not done so is just awful, i reckon they need to implement a "common sense" feature that looks at adjacent chargers, and only pings you with extra charges if every other one is occupied² [or something like that. I probably spent ~$100 or so in idle fees over the years for accidentally sleeping through my alarms to disconnect in 30 minutes when I'd be doing my 2am charge sessions]
-² one of my biggest gripes with EVs is just dealing with other owners. For the most part I avoided this by doing all me EA charging at extremely off hours. Over time I have noticed people generally being more observant and kind to others, but *goodness* has there been moments where I question how these people function on a daily basis. A queuing system built in to the app, a little "take a number" ticker, a designated FIFO lane. *anything* would be better than how some urban sprawl chargers find themselves situated.
-within the last few months where I live, they've added a few more charging locations, which is quite rad to see; im looking forward to see them become more common. I do think it's a bit of an annoying bummer that pretty much every type of charger wants you to be brand loyal and download a proprietary app (or pay different non-member rates), but whatever, I guess those are the times.
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I think that's about it!
(I've probably missed some points i originally wanted to make, and the formatting/sentence structure is awful as this is rambling post i drafted on my phone whilst at a work luncheon. But perhaps i will edit this in post)
Thanks for reading this far, I hope you have a great day!
(Hyundai/Electrify America: if you're looking for a spokesperson / idea guy, hit me up!)