I Finally Got Hyundai's New Electric Car and Here's What I Really Think of it

rev up your engines well if you're wondering about buying an electric car i got a great one today a guy just recently bought this it's a 2022 hyundai and we're going to show you the truth about these things no bs no company sends it to me these are real people so he bought this yondai ioniq five the brand new vehicle now there's one problem because of all the cars today and that's the price these things are supposed to start at 39 100. he paid about 53 grand for it and this isn't the top of the line one the top of the line one start at like 53 grand and go even further so you're gonna overpay for them there's no arguing that there's just no way out of it but since this is a brand new one since it's a modern design watch this this system set for any type of charging system one of those gigantic 800 volt jobs you can plug that in it'll also do the 400 volts and also do the 220 and it'll also do the 110 so it's set up for anything people are going to ask what about the range okay he feels real comfortable going 230 miles but he's got one caveat and that is recently it's been over 100 degrees here and coming over here he had to turn that ac on full blast it knocked his range down quite a bit and he barely made it into a charging station so understand if you're in a really hot climate or a really cold climate less range on it also realize when you do charging where you're getting it charged has a big deal to do what can happen a lot of the stations don't work correctly aren't even set up i've seen that when i drove around the nation looking at them but the big thing is how they actually charge can change radically by what type of charging you're using what level and if anybody else is using it because he was in cooksville things were going fine he got like a 15 charge guy comes with a chevy volt plugs it in the whole system goes out realize the more ones that are on there gonna have problems i've also had customers with them that somebody else comes and plugs it in they didn't go out but the rate went down and instead of being able to charge it up in 15 minutes it took two three hours instead now before he came over here he charged it up one of those electrifying america places because the deal with buying this is you get two years free electrify america so you didn't pay anything for it he's more into this time saving there well it went from 30 to 80 in 10 minutes now that's fast of course you got to have the station to plug it into because if you're going to plug it in at your house at 110 man it's going to take a long time to recharge it so just realize that it has the capability this particular one to use any of the charging stations but you never know where you're going to find them and even if they're going to work when you're there now it's got a fascinating design if you look here kind of looks like somebody creased the door no it was designed that way to be more aerodynamic to get the most out of the battery that you possibly can and of course these are open now because we got them open normally they're just flush fancy alloy rims look they're aerodynamic they'll cool but they won't take up all the wind turbulence that a normal wheel well one interesting fast set is this no windshield wiper i guess they didn't want drag now it's pretty aerodynamic coming through here there's my fingers a lot of the turtle blow off but there isn't a wipe around the back they wanted to go that far and yes it has a frunk like a tesla but it's quite a bit smaller as you can see a few cans of soda or a bathing suit in the towel is about it it looks like a motor but it isn't now a lot of people are worried with electric battery cars the batteries are going to start on fire and yonder actually had a lot of problems with them originally but this new design as you can see they've got cooling systems on it with regular old antifreeze so you're not really going to have to worry about that they even went so far that when things get hot these little vents open up to suck more air into the cooling system and as we go inside it's got a spartan modern look and it's not as insane as a tesla look map nav media pretty easy tune not too many buttons and what i really like is it's a very simple system it's just like a regular car drive neutral park in reverse and unlike the crazy tesla where you gotta mess with the screen here's the wipers easy to do you don't have to mess with some stupid screen and going to the other side look same thing headlights simple none of this garbage of having to push buttons on the screen i gotta say yondai was pretty smart in this instead of making this futuristic space thing of elon musk they made a thing that looks like a regular car and has regular car controls and a regular steering wheel things that people are used to and when you go in the back it says a crossover type vehicle there's a reasonable amount of room i'm sitting here look he has his girlfriend and his mother-in-law and father-in-law to be i guess sitting in the back plenty of room very comfortable and sure it's not leather you know what these are comfortable this take the sweat off you they'll keep you warm in the winter cool in the summer and they will last a lot longer than leather just take it for a spin so start it up of course you won't hear an engine start because it doesn't have an engine you can see everything you got to confirm so your blah blah blah blah blah and it's got all the information you want and where is it it's right here in front of you this is not a tesla if you remember the tesla's where's the information it's over here so you're looking to the side it's right here now this is the lower range one if you get the luxury one that starts at 53 they're probably selling them for 75. that's got a heads-up display but this particular one does not various drive modes it's in normal we're going to put in sport because you want to zoom in he said an eco it goes like a granny car but sport it goes better so we're going to find out got a real nice wide-angle backup camera and i gotta say this thing handles really well when you got a car that's this smaller side on the outside a lot of space inside but they maximized it you don't have an engine transmission driveshaft so it's a lot simpler of a machine you got a really fun driving experience now this isn't as quick as a bmw i3 but not only does it cost a lot less they're making these they stop making the i3s and i do have to say this is definitely the smoothest hyundai i have ever been it here we go and we're off we're now going 50 miles an hour now we're on 60 miles an hour this thing is fun and still at that speed the only thing you hear the tires they can't stop tire noise that's the only thing you hear now that was with traction control on now we've turned traction control off let's see what it does a tad bit quicker this thing's fun to drive i feel like i'm in a miniature rocket ship and it does handle it's got really nice handling look ma no hands it's still going straight yonda here is going for regular people hopefully when the interest rates go up higher and when people start defaulting on their car loans that are a thousand bucks a month the price of everything will come back down to earth and a car like this if they do actually start selling them in a 30 000 range they'll probably start selling like hotcakes for people that don't mind a little inconvenience when they're doing highway traveling but understand that ah they put a 220 volt charger at their house easy to charge it up overnight they live in a place that's got good wiring system and has plenty of electricity and it is a car that fits a lot of people's needs and sure it's not lightning like the model s i mean 0 to 60 time is three times slower than that but it's still really fast do you really need a car that can go zero to sixty in two something seconds you really don't this is more manageable comfortable as can be all electric you don't have to deal with gasoline you don't have to deal with changing oil really this particular one when he bought it two years of free electricity at electrify america so you can get it charged you have to worry about paying for charging and they got all the setups in the screen like the rest of them and you get your computer and you see where the charging stations are they got a 20 25 minute commute you can go a lot of commutes before you have to recharge it it's totally practical enough for that this thing is supposed to be rated at 300. he says he's comfortable with 230. now this is the more economy one it's just rear-wheel drive it's not all-wheel drive you go all-wheel drive you said guys that have all-wheel drive ones instead of the 230 you're probably going back down to 180 you're gonna use up more energy that's just the way that it goes it's probably unnecessary for most people because realize this is an electric car and guess what what's it controlled by electricity and computers so you get in the snow you really don't have to worry about sliding all over the place because all the systems that this thing has can handle driving in the snow it's not like an old mustang with rear wheel drive that's going to be doing donuts the whole time even if you put five tons of salt in the backing bags to hold it down so you don't really have to worry about having all-wheel drive in a vehicle like this now what i like about it too is if you see it's got a reasonable amount of clearance because technically it is like a crossover suv it's not like a prius where it's a quarter of an inch off the ground the lower the ground you go the more aerodynamic i've had guys bring me tesla's that they rented they didn't buy them the company will never give me or they don't like me but people that rented them i jack them up the bottom of the car is all scraped up those things go over speed bumps scrape rip things off this has got good enough clearance so that's not something that you're gonna have to think about if you didn't think about that and you bought a low car and it kept hitting you'd say why not buy this car it's too low to the ground this is not too low to the ground as you can see it's a little bit lower than my matrix but not all that much lower just coming out with them there's not that many of them for sale but still as old scotty says i'd wait because i think with the interest rates going up people are going to be defaulting on car loans that are a thousand bucks a month and over the price of these cars is gonna have to drop at some time in the future now i'm not a magic crystal ball i can't say it's gonna happen three months from today but i could just about guarantee it within the next two or three years at the match things are going to start dropping and you might wait till they drop plus think about this they're kind of a unique thing now if they become more acceptable other companies jump in they're going to be competition and price and then with the people that are defaulting on a thousand dollar a month payments that are out there there's going to be a flood of cars and you'll get a better price so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that bell [Music]

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Length: 10min 44sec (644 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 11 2022