Drove my Ioniq 5 to the hills: Real world range after a 300 km trip

Excellent ride quality, no body roll, powerful performance with great handling on curvy roads.

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I got my Ioniq 5 delivered on February 10 , from Hyundai franchisee Popular Hyundai, Ernakulam, after two weeks of making full payment to HMIL. I received 1.5 lakh discount applied for 2023 model and it took only a total of 3 weeks after booking. The delivery experience was good overall, even though the salesman missed explaining the menu controls and functions completely. I am still figuring out how to use some of the features like adaptive cruise control, since the control buttons placed in steering wheel seems not easily read. It may take several weeks of usage and need to sit with the user manual to understand its operations. It would be easily grasped if the salesman could brief all the operations while delivery. I got the vehicle delivery with odometer reading of 20 km, and I am still under 1000 km of usage.

The purchase status in Hyundai "cllicktobuy" portal is not getting updated on time which made me confused many times, and needed to call the company sales rep several times, including to see whether the payment is received or not. it is interesting to see that even after two weeks of getting delivery, the website shows the vehicle is not yet started transit from Chennai depot as of today!.

First trip to hills to check range:

I decided to check the real world range in Hi ranges of Kerala by taking a journey from Thodupuzha to Kanthalloor for a two day round trip of 300 km. I started from home at Thodupuzha with 100% charge using my 11KW charger which runs on 6KW solar plant. I reached my resort on a hill top in Kanthalloor after passing scenic tea plantations of Munnar, and Marayoor with 58% charge left, 151 km journey and estimated 298 km left to drive. A few kilometers of road to the resort was very bad and was like a mild off-road with heavy gutters which increased by heart beat and finally reached the hilltop without any underbody hits or body scratches.

The next day started to descend the hills and it took about 4 hours to get back to home at Thodupuzha with 41% charge left and estimated 196 km left to drive which is great and there is no scope of range anxiety. While downhills, I used regeneration level 3 and turned off AC for a total of about one hour in round trip during chilly tea plantations of Munnar.

Likes:

• Excellent ride quality, no body roll, powerful performance with great handling on curvy roads.
• Around 500 km of real world range which is excellent.

Dislikes:

• The AC vents in rear seems less effective and not enough cooling for rear passengers.
• It would be nice if the windshield and window glasses were heat resistant solar glass as seen in Kia EV6. The glasses get very hot in sunny days.

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