2022 Hyundai IONIQ 5 First Drive: This easy-peasy EV is poised to crush the electric car market.

what comes to mind when you think of the word pixel maybe a tiny dot that's a bit of information in a very large picture or how about a piece of code that's dropped into software so the machine learns your habits your preferences and even to recognize your voice well that is the idea and the foundation behind this which is the car of the future this is the hyundai ioniq 5. [Music] the hyundai ioniq 5 is the first in the coming model lineup of ionix all electric cars in the coming months we're going to see a sedan and we're going to see a full-size family suv this is a compact suv it's everything that you expect in an suv it even has all-wheel drive and it's everything that you expect in an electric car but in true hyundai style it has leading edge technology that you might find in much more expensive cars it has a lot of innovations that you've never even seen in an electric car and it has some surprises the hyundai ioniq 5 is an suv and it has everything that we love in suvs including a sizable cargo area seats that fold flat and then under here you will find the charge cord so this is where you're going to charge store that charge cord you can leave it in your house you're not going to need it at a public charging station but it's nice to have if you do need it when you're out traveling another thing that's really cool about this is the charge door which is right here and how do you open it well you look for those pixels and the door opens here are the pixels again here's where you can plug in for the standard charging for fast charging you plug in there and to close the charge port tap the pixel the ionic 5 starts with this open cabin feel you think about open plan houses well think about this as the open plan car cabin so notice how wide and open this space is in fact even here the floor is flat and that gives you extra space for reaching things like this cubby where you can put your phone it's a great place to plug in your phone this is where you're going to connect to apple carplay the other usb ports do not connect to apple carplay or android auto but it's great because i can't reach it there while i'm driving but i do have plenty of space here one caveat about this space i might look at this and think it's a great place to put a handbag it actually is not because the floor is flat if your handbag spills or falls over into your foot will you may end up having things underneath your feet while you're driving which is super dangerous so not a great place for a handbag but really nice open space i also like the dashboard which is nice and open we have this wide pane multimedia system that's a single unit it has two screens and i'm going to tell you what this little mystery space is this is your media screen and so this is where you have your functions your home screen and then when you have your phone connected apple carplay and android auto will show up in here as well you have navigation and you also have climate you've got climate buttons here though too which are really great and then you've got these uh fast fast buttons you can go to your navigation media you can set your favorites there is your camera and park assist there is your park sensor and then a radio button here and the stop start button is there i like that they're not all behind the screen but really at my fingertips where i need them when i need them another thing that hyundai has considered in the ionic 5 is what you're going to do while you're charging your car now you can charge it very quickly it's the fastest charging ev on the market but it still takes time 18 minutes so what are you going to do well you can put it in chill mode and what do i mean by chill mode well they added this check this out look at the leg rest and look how far back the driver's seat goes i can take a nap the gear selector is here so it's actually you're going to need to get to be pretty intuitive about what gear you're shifting into and where this is it's not exactly easy to see behind the steering wheel but that's okay you have a driver information screen here so you can customize that by pushing this button here you can also set your adaptive cruise lane keep assist which is super strong and really good it really follows the the curves of the road very well and then over here you have your entertainment function down here is your drive mode selector so this is an unusual place we've seen this kind of a dial on um some of the sports cars that we've driven but i've never seen it do this you basically punch this button or tap this button to choose your drive mode so you can choose eco normal or sport and then if you need it for snow mode for all-wheel drive you just hold it down but if you want to put it in eco you can actually enhance your eco performance with these paddle shifters so you'll pull back the paddle to increase the regenerative braking it actually makes it feel like the car is breaking when you lift your foot off of the accelerator and that cycles the energy back into the battery of the ionic five and then there's this little space over here wondering what this is this is actually a magnet board so you can use magnets to put little messages here little sticky notes or whatever it is that you want to put here or you can leave it there it's got a nice fabric covering it just lends a little elegance to the overall look and feel of the ionic 5's cabin inside the ionic 5 the idea of the pixel is both visual and experiential so you'll see the pixel represented through graphic icons throughout the interior and then you'll also experience the pixel as the ionic 5 learns your habits your preferences and your voice instead of a hyundai logo you actually have these four dots that represent ionic so this is these are the ionic pixels you'll also see the pixels represented here so as you tap for voice commands the pixels light up right there you'll also see the pixels on the door panels you'll see them on the seat upholstery and you'll see them represented on the front and rear lights of the ioniq 5. i have cart the cup holders here in the center and this is a very open center console so if you'll notice the center console has two usb ports there is a wireless phone charger here so i can pop my phone there and then there's also a nice open space where i can put other things so i can put a bottle of water i can drop my key or other things into this center cubby the last thing that makes the cabin feel really open and airy is this and that is a panoramic sunroof that has this soft fabric screen that i can open like this [Music] we're driving the all-wheel drive model it gets about 260 miles to a charge the two-wheel drive version gets about 300 miles which is about as good as you're going to get in the current ev market we are in southern california just outside of san diego we are headed to an electrify america charge station so we can charge up the ioniq 5. i'm about 126 miles of range i started with about 250 miles of range 225 miles of range something like that so it's been pretty good efficiency getting up here i did not drive in eco mode and i did not really use the regen i just drove and it was pretty true the the range was pretty true to uh the miles that i drove so that was good and fun drive experience this is a fun little car to drive so as we drive down the hill to the electrify america station where i'm going to need to charge because i've got 125 miles of range it's about 60 miles to the charge station and then it's probably another 15 or 20 miles back to the hotel so i don't want to run out of battery luckily they do have a battery rescue vehicle that is here and available for us if we need it turn slight left onto highway 79 among the innovations that hyundai introduces in the ionic 5 are super fast charging so you can charge this from 10 battery level to 80 battery level in about 18 minutes it's the fastest of any car on the electric car market right now it has a much more fuel efficient battery the battery holds a lot more charge than prior electric car batteries in the hyundai family but it's not any heavier so that makes it not only more efficient because it holds more but more efficient because you can go further on that charge they also are introducing free charging for two years at electrify america station so if you buy a hyundai ioniq 5 you get two years of free charging another innovation in the ionic 5 is reverse charging so you can actually put an adapter on your car and use your car to charge something else you want to charge a campsite you want to run some lights outdoors or you lose the power to your house in a storm well you can actually power your house for a couple of days with the charge and the battery in the ioniq 5. so this is an accessory part purchase it separately with your car uh-huh i mean it just plugs directly into your charge port so we'll go to your charge port and you'll press the detent for opening your door and then you just plug it in then you'll press the button to turn it on and then you get the green light saying that it's powered okay then you can plug whatever you want into the lower side oh that is so cool oh and this shows me how much power's left in my car yes in the battery wow that's really cool and if we had something plugged in it would actually tell you how much power was being consumed so if we had like a barbecue running electric bbq would show like 1.7 kilowatts in that screen if you only want the the external energy to go to 50 that remain means you have about 150 miles remaining after your day uh-huh okay so i can i could say i want to i want to use the power in my house but i don't want to go below 50 of the battery charge and that's what this would let me do the hyundai ioniq 5 delivers everything that you expect from hyundai it has those future forward features that put this car years ahead of many other electric cars on the market it gives you a lot of technology and a lot of really great features for the money things you might find only in more expensive cars and then it gives you this really cool futuristic design this is what the ioniq family is going to look like we're going to see the pixels we're going to see this ionic badge and you will know just by looking at those very futuristic headlights and taillights that the future is now 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Published: Thu Dec 16 2021