I snagged a 2025 Ioniq 5 to replace my 2021 Chevy Bolt yesterday and already put 150 miles on it. I’m kind of blown away and wanted to share some things that stood out.
- The car is wide. Much wider than the Bolt. Gonna take some getting used to.
- Not sure how I lived without a power lift gate until now. It was great when loading laundry and groceries into the trunk.
- The driver seat can lay completely flat - flatter than the zero gravity mode that you may have seen. Perfect for napping while waiting at the laundromat, and I’m looking forward to trying it while car camping.
- You can pull the car forward and backwards with the keyfob while standing outside of it. Already used it twice - once to pull out of a tight parking spot, once to center myself after street parking a bit crooked.
- The surround view is incredible. It made parallel parking an absolute breeze.
- Autopilot is scary but works. I was only brave enough to use it on the highway with no other cars around.
- Auto-parking doesn’t seem to work very well, but I’ll have to play around with it.
Overall I’m super happy with the car and keep looking for excuses to go somewhere. Happy to answer any questions.
How bad internet-connected surveillance?
Do they have the legal right to determine if you’re fucking in the car and sell your performance data to third parties?
I’m too ugly to have sex so it’s a non issue
Yo just wanted to say I think these are some of the best looking new vehicles on the road. Things look like little spaceships, they’re awesome.
Congrats
Nice car!
One thing that strikes me as weird though:
Perfect for napping while waiting at the laundromat
How do you have a new 2025 EV but cannot afford a washing machine? As in, in my country a washing machine is considered such an essential thing to have that if you are poor and you cannot afford a new washing machine when yours breaks you can apply for special government assistance to buy one.
It absolutely blows my mind that someone would prioritize getting a new car above getting the basics things you need to live.
I live in a small condo and my washing machine is too compact to wash large bedding, so I take my comforters and blankets to the laundromat. I am far from poor, this is just how city living works for many people.
How is the 2025 version different than previous years?
NACs charging is the big difference
I’m in Europe so that probably hasn’t changed here… So what’s the benefit of 2025 vs the previous generations l wonder 🤔. I’m considering getting this as a used car so 2025 model is not really an option.
Welcome to the club! The I5 is an awesome car and selling well for good reason. It’s not perfect and HDA (it’s not auto-pilot) is great on the highway, but never trust it because it’s just a machine and you’re driving.
Enjoy your CCnC system, pre-condition button, and rear wiper! I’m totally not jealous.
All great and none of it matter if this car (well, it’s real owner) is selling my personal data to 695826 different data brokers
If it’s listening in on everything I say and selling it, I’m out
If it’s selling all my location data, I’m out
I’m assuming it does sell, so I’ll never own one of these
You could always just pull out the fuse on the GPS/network module, or remove the module itself. When my eye tracker in my car annoyed me, I just pulled the unit out and put the cladding back. It fixed the false positive issue it kept having with sunglasses.
… You have an eye tracker in your car wtf?
Why?
It’s to keep you from falling asleep/getting distracted my a phone/etc. It came with the trim, which was annoying AF. Luckily, it’s pretty easy to remove. Basically just an IR cam and a IR floodlight attached to a logic daughter board. Pop the unit out, and put the cladding back.
I removed it because it kept beeping loudly that it couldn’t see my eyes, causing me to nearly crash. It gets fooled by sunglasses, the things you use in summer for the sun, and winter for snow blindness/glare.
Yeah, hell’s no.
That’s one of those anti patterns that will actually distract me and cause a crash
I got a 2025 Ioniq 5 too and absolutely love it.
Except for the lack of hitch availability. Ecohitch and Stealth Hitch are the only two options available at the moment and they’re both made in the US.
I’m planning to add a hitch to mine for my ebike. I’ll have to look into both of those options.
If you hear a weird rattle in the back, it will be the rear seatbelt that’s retracted but twisted, so the metal hits the plastic, drove me mad for a couple of weeks till I figured that out.
It’s great in traffic on the motorway/freeway it literally will drive itself, just have to wiggle the wheel every now and then.
Is yours a 2025? I heard that they fixed the seat belt rattle in the latest iteration by making an indentation in the door
Mine (2025) rattles when twisted.
It’s obvious that you just want to brag that you can afford a brand new car.
How is it obvious?
Your comment is obvious to me that you have issues that you’re projecting on to other people.
It’s an electric vehicle sub dude, you probably going to see people discuss their new car. It’s an exciting purchase and sometimes people like to discuss it with other owners, nothing about showing off.
I posted about me waiting for my new (used) car last week. Was I showing off too?
It’s a 22 without the rear wiper 😐
Just just got a 25 Ioniq 6 Limited about a month ago. I will echo most of the points here. It’s wider than the Kona we had previously, enough that the parking sensors are very unhappy while pulling in or out of the garage. The driver assist features are fantastic, used them both ways for a recent 3.5 hour trip and it was a game changer. They aren’t true autopilot (in the way Tesla advertises it), they are fully driver assistance features that take 80% of the load from you but REQUIRE you to pay attention since they will disengage without warning, and don’t handle some situations well (like lanes splitting apart). We find the fast charger is fantastic, IDK why more manufacturers aren’t putting 800v architectures into their cars. Charged 20-80 in literally 20 minutes last week at a 150kV EVgo station. Everyone else was taking easily twice that long. The V2L feature turned out to be a game changer. We just had a very bad storm in the Pittsburgh area last week and were without power for almost three days. Used the interior plug to keep the chest freezer running to drastically reduce our food losses. Running it for 8 hour overnight used about 4% battery. We are picking up a true V2L adapter to use the J1772 port and not have to leave the car on overnight for future needs. I think the auto parking seems pretty gimmicky, I can’t think of a case where I would not want to pull into a spot on my own, but it’s not so busy that I’m comfortable gaffing about with the auto parking. Maybe for parallel parking since we don’t do much of that. We liked the surrounding view the first couple weeks but I end up mostly just using my mirrors and the normal backup camera since I find it more natural still. We mostly turn off the parking sensor alerts, I wish I could disable them without disabling other alerts (or even just the side ones, they are super sensitive and not helpful IMO).
I forgot where I read this but I saw a review that ranked the best 2025 non-Tesla EV’s for the US market. Number one was the Ioniq 5 and number two was the BMW i4 M50. Ever so slight price difference between the two. (/s)
I5 won multiple ‘the best EV’ awards period, not best ‘non-Tesla’ and it even won against European carmakers on its homeground.
Great car as long as you don’t have an iccu failure. My car is a year old and has been at the dealer for the last month because of an iccu failure and part being back ordered.
It took over 3 months to have the ICCU replaced in my EV6. I filed a lemon law claim on it and Kia is buying it back
I wish Canada had lemon laws or I’d sell the car back
Yeah, I think its pretty bad how Hyundai handles the issue with defective ICCUs. If this part fails so often, why does it take weeks to deliver? I’ve heard stories about people waiting more than a month for that part, and the spare part failed again after some time.
I’ve been waiting a month and still no time frame.
There’s another 5 years until we replace our vehicle. But I still eye the Ioniq reviews with envy. It looks like a great vehicle.
I’m in the market for a bolt. Can I get a ask what the dealer gave you for a trade in on it? Just so I have that in the my back pocket at the dealer. Also, how flat would you say the rear seats in that thing go down? I need to slide a couple decent sized Pelican cases in there full of work shit to make the purchase worth it.
$12k for a 2021 with 30k miles. The rear seats folded to quite an incline in the Bolt, but it was flat enough to slide furniture into it. I hauled plenty of large items in it.
Yikes. You bought it new for like $35,000 4 years ago?
Buying a new car is always a dumb decision
As an I5 guy too, the i5 doesn’t have autopilot like you may think. It’s highway drive assist is what you’re likely referring to. And I wouldn’t trust the car to drive on regular town roads better than it would on the highway.
It works best using the smart cruise+steering assist. And it’s exceptionally handy in stop and go traffic.
Appreciate the insights. The Ioniq 5 is a sweet car, probably my favorite looking EV with the retro-futuristic styling. The Bolt is a solid car and at the time we got ours, with all the incentives thrown in, was an insane value. 3 years in and still no complaints with our Bolt EUV, but when we eventually replace our aging Subaru, we’ll seriously consider Hyundai/Kia.
