For the all-wheel-drive SE ($50,500) and SEL ($53,000) trims—probably the ones most people will buy—range increases by a useful 30 miles (48 km) to 290 miles (467 km) on a full charge. The $58,100 AWD Limited gets less of a range boost and is rated at 269 miles (432 km). There’s another all-wheel-drive version, the $55,400 Ioniq 5 XRT, but you can read about that one in our companion article.
Despite the larger batteries, fast charging is still very fast. With an 800 V-capable DC charger, both small and large batteries will go from 10 to 80 percent in 20 minutes. But as you’ll note from the photo, this Ioniq 5 has a new party trick—the charging port is now of the NACS (J3400) style, as used by Tesla Superchargers. Using a CCS1 plug will require an adapter, which comes with the car.
Those Superchargers might be more numerous, but they aren’t as capable as the 350 kW machines you might find at an Ionna or Rivian charging location, and so they’re slower to use—24 minutes from 10–80 percent for the SE standard range, or 30 minutes from 10–80 percent for the larger-batteried cars. Faster charges are suposedly coming with Tesla’s version 4 hardware.
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The row of pixels by the side of the charge port quickly tells you what your state of charge is.
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Jonathan Gitlin
A 350 kW Electrify America charger would be faster.
Jonathan Gitlin
The row of pixels by the side of the charge port quickly tells you what your state of charge is.
Hyundai
A 350 kW Electrify America charger would be faster.
Jonathan Gitlin
We arrived at a (V3) Supercharger with a preconditioned battery at 45 percent, and the car almost immediately began charging at 126 kW, reporting 16 minutes to 80 percent and 48 minutes to 100 percent.
You can now manually precondition the battery for optimum charging, and I’m told that plug-and-charge functionality will come soon via an over-the-air software update. (Whether that applies to older CCS1 cars, too, I am not sure.) Until then, you’ll need to download and use apps to initiate a charging session, including at a Tesla location.
AC charging is slower, as you might expect. Charging from 10–100 percent will take 5 hours 40 minutes for the small battery and 7 hours 20 minutes for the larger one. Hyundai is including a ChargePoint charger when you buy one (or a $400 charging credit).
