[Lolafied]

Originally Posted by RoJu

The insurance cost alone is Rs.1.43 lakhs. Although it’s not mandatory, they still insisted on opting for in-house insurance since it's an electric vehicle.
However, I’m surprised by the low premium quoted by Acko—how is it so cheap, especially considering it includes third-party coverage and is for an EV?

A piece of advise if I may. Always get Battery-protection add-on in your insurance - whether it is dealer insurance or any other. You can check for other insurance quotes on policy bazaar & select the add-ons or speak to agents & am sure you will get Insurance for much less (with battery-protection add-on). Please ask the dealer to match it, if they don't & the delta is huge, you can opt for outside insurance but make sure you have battery-protection add-on & RTI.

[aa1997]

Originally Posted by shobhit.shri

This is my regular route to office in Bangalore. I was driving on eco mode and with single padel driving - which both are very good for Bangalore's office hour traffic - and the car gave me 12.2 km/kwh mileage. The AC and wireless charging both were on the whole time. Even the range is showing 391 at 81% charge! I am not a sedate driver, the max speed at this drive was above 65km/h, but I drive very carefully.

I must say I am amazed at this performance!

Can you check the continuous(instant) km/kwh consumption when crushing at 80-100kmph. Really wondering what this number would be given we have lot of really long expressways getting ready.

This should give a very realistic number on the bottom side as there will be minimal braking. Appreciate if you can try this please

[mally2]

Originally Posted by aa1997

Can you check the continuous(instant) km/kwh consumption when crushing at 80-100kmph. Really wondering what this number would be given we have lot of really long expressways getting ready.

This should give a very realistic number on the bottom side as there will be minimal braking. Appreciate if you can try this please

There are multiple YT reviews of the CretaEV with highway driving providing range estimates from 380-420. That’s the real range on highways. NMCs usually provide good range for the first 50% charge and then the next 50% would be slightly lower. Multiple YT videos have confirmed that.
Interestingly though the car hit 380km @ 0% and still continued to drive another 30km and finally ended flat at 408km. Make what you want if that. It’s both a good and bad thing IMO.

Source - Gaadiwadi test of CretaEV

[shobhit.shri]

Originally Posted by Lolafied

Always get Battery-protection add-on in your insurance - whether it is dealer insurance or any other.

Acko's comprehensive insurance includes battery cover, and they confirmed it on email. But it's a great suggestion anyways. It wouldn't make sense to exclude the component with 50% car value from insurance.

Originally Posted by aa1997

This should give a very realistic number on the bottom side as there will be minimal braking. Appreciate if you can try this please

I am also super curious to know it but haven't yet got a chance to take the car out on highway. Will definitely do it as soon as possible

[Praneeth]

Originally Posted by Lolafied

But it is overpriced by atleast 2 Lakhs (HMIL
probably doesn't want the EV variant to be priced lesser than ICE variant).

Agree that creta electric is overpriced by at least a good two lakhs. I still feel that it’s a well rounded product in EV space. But with the launch of Windsor Pro, the price difference is hard to ignore.

Hyundai dealers are offering discounts up to 40k. When pushed further , they keep on repeating that the price will increase by 3-4% and no additional discounts will be given.

Would you still consider creta electric over Windsor pro given the choice ?

[raghavm]

Got my delivery of Creta electric mid April. Just a couple of suggestions to new buyers.

1st, The extended warranty:

Team BHP forums suggested (and rightly so) to take it at the time of 1st service - might be some offers be presented. So did not buy it with the vehicle. Meanwhile, I already have a Hyundai vehicle, and recd. a message of current Summer Camp from Hyundai where upto 30% off was available on warranty extension. Contacted the service center, and was provided a 20% discount on 4th+5th year extended warranty. I was just lucky to have known of about this offer as I'm on their whatsapp list. For others, I suggest should keep following with service center on any such deals. Remember - 1st 90 days of the purchase, the charges are lower for extended warranty. So I got the 20% discount on already lower extended warranty. Team-BHP forums and readers- 10/10 for the suggestions.

2nd, about the charger:

I had initially opted for Premium - HC variant, then discussed again with the dealership about the expensive cost of the charger @ Rs. 73K. They also agreed, suggested to go with regular charger for now, and buy the fast charger later from market. After careful consideration, settled on Exicom Spin Air 11 KW charger. Exicom is the same company that is supplying to other car manufacturers also. Some other options were there, but my point was to go either with Exicom or Statiq, as these 2 are already present since past few years and have a good service record. The charger cost 39k instead of 73k for Statiq charger from Hyundai. 2 year warranty. So far the charger is doing pretty good. The dealer was highly knowledgeable, and helpful. Explained everything on phone about the kind of wiring that was required for the 11 kw charger. Amazon summer sale was on, and it came down to about 41k @ amazon with 10% additional bank discount. Still went with the dealer as he came down to 39k, plus he was so helpful with initial setup phase. The dealer and the charger - 10/10.

However, installation guys were really unprofessional - 3/10. The guys themselves told me - it was their 1st EV charger installation with 0 training or knowledge about this charger. They were actually AC/refrigerator people. The charger did not work initially after the installation, and the exicom technical person on phone took screenshots from the mobile app they asked me to download. After checking the data values, he informed that there was a problem with my earthing. My electrician came the next day and informed that earthing was fine, but the installation guys had not connected the earth properly. My electrician connected the earthing, which just got the charger running. The technical team asked me to do all the network related installation setup myself and guided me on phone (it should have be done by them actually). A very basic knowledge on networking is all that was needed, and the charger was up and running in about 15 minutes. Once installation was done properly, the charger is now working great. About 25 to 30 minutes per 10% for my 42 kw battery. Attached pictures of my complete setup for the charger. The electrician installing the setup suggested to add the socket for the regular charger also in this box only (in case of emergency), along with a couple of more sockets for future proofing the setup. 1 of these I can immediately use for the outdoor wifi cam for safety of my car during the charges.

[aweracker]

Originally Posted by Praneeth

Agree that creta electric is overpriced by at least a good two lakhs. I still feel that it’s a well rounded product in EV space. But with the launch of Windsor Pro, the price difference is hard to ignore.

Hyundai dealers are offering discounts up to 40k. When pushed further , they keep on repeating that the price will increase by 3-4% and no additional discounts will be given.

Would you still consider creta electric over Windsor pro given the choice ?

With the Windsor pro, I really hope this car gets to 21 lakh for excellence variant otherwise there isn't a point.

Creta is overpriced for sure. It's my first choice but still.

[RoJu]

With the announcement of the Windsor Essence Pro at an on-road price of ₹18.5 lakhs in Mangalore, the Creta now feels overpriced. The only concerns are its Chinese origin against the brand value of the Creta. However, looking at the number of cars delivered so far, it's very minimal—just slightly above BYD’s sales numbers. Even at the showroom here, they've sold hardly 7–8 cars so far, which makes me anxious. Also, the ₹7 lakh difference in the on-road price for the Excellence LR variant is significant. Should I wait a few more months? The Hyundai sales team is still not giving any indication that prices will go down, as they are positioning the Creta Electric as a premium segment vehicle, similar to the Ioniq 5.

[luffy_op]

Originally Posted by RoJu

Should I wait a few more months?

Seeing more competition coming in, Mahindra to also open up bookings for the pack 1 on the twins, it does not make sense for Hyundai to increase the price, so if not in any urgent need, I would definitely suggest waiting for couple of months.

[Praneeth]

Originally Posted by RoJu

With the announcement of the Windsor Essence Pro at an on-road price of ₹18.5 lakhs in Mangalore, the Creta now feels overpriced. The only concerns are its Chinese origin against the brand value of the Creta. However, looking at the number of cars delivered so far, it's very minimal—just slightly above BYD’s sales numbers. Even at the showroom here, they've sold hardly 7–8 cars so far, which makes me anxious. Also, the ₹7 lakh difference in the on-road price for the Excellence LR variant is significant. Should I wait a few more months? The Hyundai sales team is still not giving any indication that prices will go down, as they are positioning the Creta Electric as a premium segment vehicle, similar to the Ioniq 5.

Agree , With EV's, it's really difficult to judge the value a car is offering for the given price. Im in line to get an Excellence LR variant, but even im having second thoughts about getting the vehicle right now or waiting for a few months.
Hyundai sales team are very eager to push the vehicle, however they are adamant that the prices won't go down.

[Lolafied]

Originally Posted by shobhit.shri

Acko's comprehensive insurance includes battery cover, and they confirmed it on email.

Hi. Just had a call with Acko people - Battery protection addon is provided in zero-dep plan itself but this doesnt cover Water Ingress. I asked them 3 times & the person confirmed 3 times that water ingress is not covered - fire, theft, natural calamities (like floods etc) & short circuit cases are covered. Water ingress situation is not covered. So please be careful while purchasing this policy & if you already did, please confirm from them (in writing) that if water ingression situation is covered & if not, then make sure you don't drive in water logged areas. The batteries are IP 67 rated but why to take the extreme risk.

[car_guy1998]

My cousin has purchased a White colour Creta Electric 51.4 kw top variant today, replacing his 2017 City ZX iDTEC.

It costed him close to 26L and was told that he took the insurance from outside.

So, this is the second Creta Electric within my circle. The first Creta Electric was bought by one of my friends just after its launch and already ran more than 6000 Kms is what I heard and as far as I heard, his car had suffered from dreaded ICCU issue, to which he had to wait for couple of weeks to get that part and replace it.

At first, he booked the Smart(O) variant but later shifted to Excellence as he felt that there isn't much of price difference between Smart(O) and Excellence.

Before Creta, he had considered Windsor and in fact, booked one. But, had to dissuade from purchasing it as he heard about the poor AC cooling issues in Windsor.

Now, I too am thinking of getting a Creta Electric replacing my 2014 City iDTEC, that has been lying unused since the day I moved to USA and make dad use the EV as daily driver while keeping our Hycross Hybrid for highway runs.

Will most probably end up getting the Smart(O) 51.4kw in Black or Matte Grey by this year, hopefully.

[Sandeep M]

Originally Posted by car_guy1998

My cousin has purchased a White colour Creta Electric 51.4 kw top variant today, replacing his 2017 City ZX iDTEC.

The first Creta Electric was bought by one of my friends just after its launch and already ran more than 6000 Kms is what I heard and as far as I heard, his car had suffered from dreaded ICCU issue, to which he had to wait for couple of weeks to get that part and replace it.

Getting the dreaded ICCU issue in just 6000 kms is just insane.

What happened to your friend's car when he got the issue? One user in the Ioniq 5 thread mentioned that his car was not charging anymore. Read an article about this and it mentions drainage of 12v battery and car slowly losing power until it comes to a complete stop.

[car_guy1998]

Originally Posted by Sandeep M

Getting the dreaded ICCU issue in just 6000 kms is just insane.

What happened to your friend's car when he got the issue? One user in the Ioniq 5 thread mentioned that his car was not charging anymore. Read an article about this and it mentions drainage of 12v battery and car slowly losing power until it comes to a complete stop.

My friend told that the car didn't charge when he tried to charge his car with MG charger at home (he also owns a ZS EV that is used by his dad) and as far as I heard, he hasn't got the Hyundai charger installed at home.

And, when he asked the service center guy about this issue, that service center guy didn't even bother to tell about why this issue had happened.

[Praneeth]

Originally Posted by car_guy1998

So, this is the second Creta Electric within my circle. The first Creta Electric was bought by one of my friends just after its launch and already ran more than 6000 Kms is what I heard and as far as I heard, his car had suffered from dreaded ICCU issue, to which he had to wait for couple of weeks to get that part and replace it.

ICCU issue within 6000 kms , and a few weeks downtime is kind of scary. One of the reason im considering Creta electric is reliability and service support. Any kind of downtime more than three or four days will be difficult to manage. And seems like majority of sales and service people i have interacted with in Hyundai showrooms have absolutely no knowledge of how to sell and explain queries for an EV.