Hyundai Ioniq 5 first drive review videos!

[elfrocampeador]

I don't consider every reader to be fully informed or have followed IONIQ 5 for long. It was just a counter statement to the twice repeated video note of how easy it will be in tight parking slots is all. No offense intended for the informed crowd here.

As for the EV6 comparison was it demand or just a glitch that brought down the EV6 reservation sight? I'm not speculating but just asking. Did any trim run out of available IONIQ like the EV6? Granted there wasn't that marketing angle but there is only a waiting list over there for the KIA and no changes over on the IONIQ page. All that to say this, though they share the same platform they are two differently appointed vehicles that share the same DNA but may not share the same price.

If KIA's web page is an indication as you believe then Charlie Kim is correct. Was it hard to sell out 1,500 First Editions? Will more non-First Editions be available in 2021/22? The easiest thing to do is just wait another month or two to find out what the MSRP is but for some this is the hardest. When that day comes then we can all just guess at what each of our local KIA dealers will sell them for over MSRP as Hyundai stated they have the ability to do.

Maybe the MSRP is irrelevant when swimming with sharks. Metaphorically speaking of course, and no offense to any dealership folks reading these threads.

The dynamics of the reservations is a reasonable question, but I don't think we have any reasonable way to guess what's happening there. For one thing, I don't think the EV6 reservation is comparable to the Ioniq 5 reservation... The EV6 reservation seems to be for the first edition, which we can probably assume to be severely limited in number. The Ioniq 5 reservation is for the primary release (as the Project 45 edition is not being released in the US) and thus there are probably way more of them (and it is unclear if it's a limited reservation or essentially a waitlist for when real units ship). Furthermore, we don't really have insight into production vs demand and allocation between countries. Best we can do is wait and see. In any case, hopefully prices will be comparable to their competitors.

 

[restyler]

.... the first few to be released will have solar on the roof. With the roof area available I doubt that would be relevant to anything other than a 12V battery.

No, the power from the roof panels actually goes straight to the Main Battery Pack
Quoting the first reports from February:-
Hyundai says that the solar panels can add up to 2,000km per year (around 5-6km per day) of additional range if it's driven in sunny environments such as Spain or the south of France.
So here in the UK, that should give me an extra 25 miles per year if its a really good Summer