Hyundai Ioniq Plug in Hyrbid Review and Test Drive
The Hyundai Ioniq hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electric car range has been updated just 12 months after going on auction. There's more tech, just prices have risen.
Hyundai has given its Ioniq hybrid and electric-car line-up a major makeover just 12 months after it went on sale.
The Hyundai Ioniq is the only automobile in local showrooms with a selection of hybrid (white in our gallery), plug-in hybrid (red) and pure electric power (blueish).
While Japanese giant Toyota was one of the pioneers of hybrid – and by far the world's biggest seller of the applied science – Korean carmaker Hyundai is making massive inroads.
Indeed, the Hyundai Ioniq has outsold the Toyota Prius and so far this year, although Toyota has expanded its hybrid power across more than models including the Toyota Corolla, Toyota Camry and Toyota RAV4.
While debate continues near whether electric and hybrid cars pay their fair share of road tax – hybrids are more fuel-efficient so pay less in fuel excise, while plug-in hybrids and electrical cars can avoid fuel excise altogether by running purely on battery ability – Australians are beginning to embrace the new tech.
"Nosotros've seen a dramatic uplift in light-green car sales over the past 2 years," says Scott Nargar, Hyundai's senior director for hereafter mobility and government relations.
While the 'green' credentials of electric cars that run on coal-fired power – and the carbon footprint of manufacturing electric vehicles in the beginning place – tin can besides be debated, there is no doubt more Australian customers are looking to save fuel or avoid petrol stations altogether.
Hyundai says hybrid, plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles now business relationship for 2.viii per cent of vehicle sales in Australia – more than doubling in the past five years.
Sales of pure electric vehicles alone are up by 650 per cent, even when not including Tesla which does not share its data.
Of that 2.8 per cent of the full car market that has some form of electric power, petrol-electric hybrids account for 91 per cent of the sales mix while pure electrical cars represent 5 per cent ahead of plug-in hybrids (4 per cent).
"We can clearly see dark-green car acceptance is continuing to grow in Australia and we are proud to be part of this journey," says Nargar
Hyundai is well placed for whichever technology buyers choose. At the moment, demand for the Hyundai Ioniq shows an interesting split: 42 per cent sold so far are pure electric, 37 per cent are hybrid and 21 per cent are for the plug-in hybrid.
The 2022 Hyundai Ioniq comes in for visual changes within and out likewise as a technology overhaul to boost the petrol-costless driving range.
All three models become new headlights and tail-lights, a revised shield grille, new wheel designs, and a revamped interior.
Inside, all models come with a new 10.25-inch high-resolution touchscreen for infotainment, the instrument cluster gets a new digital dash display and conventional cabin control buttons have been replaced by bear on buttons.
The pattern of the dash itself is completely new and uses softer materials for a more upmarket appearance. Mood lighting has been added so it looks high-tech at nighttime.
Each of the three Hyundai Ioniq models is bachelor in two grades: Aristocracy and Premium.
The Hyundai Ioniq hybrid has had an $800 price rise and now starts from $34,790 plus on-route costs (about $38,700 drive-abroad co-ordinate to Hyundai's website), while the Premium version is up past $g and now starts from $39,990 plus on-road costs ($44,000 drive-away).
The price of both versions of the Hyundai Ioniq plug-in hybrid are upwardly by $1000. The plug-in hybrid Aristocracy at present starts from $41,990 plus on-road costs (about $46,000 drive-away) while the Premium costs from $46,490 plus on-route costs ($51,000 bulldoze-away).
The Hyundai Ioniq pure electric machine has had the biggest price rise ($3500) due to the fitment of a bigger battery pack. For now, battery technology is yet getting dearer, not cheaper.
The Hyundai Ioniq electric in Aristocracy class now starts from $48,490 plus on-road costs (about $52,900 drive-away) while the Premium is $52,490 plus on-road costs ($57,000 drive-away).
All Elite models come up with a new advanced prophylactic pack which includes low- and high-speed autonomous emergency braking, radar cruise command with traffic jam assistance, lane keeping technology, blind-spot warning, rear cantankerous-traffic alarm, rear parking sensors and auto dipping loftier beams.
Premium models proceeds LED headlights, an electrical park restriction, a larger digital musical instrument cluster, heated and cooled front end seats, a ability adjustable driver'due south seat, wireless phone charging, and front parking sensors.
All Hyundai Ioniq cars come up with a sensor fundamental with push button-button start.
The Hyundai Ioniq hybrid comes with a choice of redesigned 15- and 17-inch alloy wheels depending on the model grade, while the plug-in and electric versions both ride on 16-inch alloys, albeit with a unique blueprint.
Hybrid models come up with a full size alloy spare wheel and tyre in the boot, just the plug-in hybrid and electric versions take no spare tyre and come only with an inflator kit.
Despite carrying a spare tyre the Ioniq hybrid has the nearly cargo space amidst the trio: 456 litres when measured to the height of the rear seats, 563 litres when measured to the roof, and 1518 litres when the back seats are folded flat.
Considering the Ioniq plug-in hybrid must accomodate a fuel tank equally well as a battery pack, cargo space is restricted to 341L/446L/1401L respectively.
To accomodate a much bigger battery pack, the pure electric Ioniq has 357L/462L/1417L in cargo space respectively.
Service intervals are 12 months/15,000km, whichever comes starting time, the same as most of Hyundai's mainstream car range.
Hybrid and plug-in hybrid models cost $1525 for the first five routine services, while the pure electric model is $160 per visit (just $800 over five years/75,000km).
Warranty on the Hyundai Ioniq is five years/unlimited kilometres and the bombardment pack on all variants is covered for eight years/160,000km.
On the route
The biggest tech modify to the 2022 Hyundai Ioniq range is to the pure electric model, which is where we spent most of our time behind the wheel during the media preview drive.
For a quick groundwork on the other models, though, the Hyundai Ioniq hybrid carries over the aforementioned ane.six-litre petrol engine paired to a 32kW electric motor and 1.56kWh lithium-ion bombardment pack as earlier. Like the Toyota Prius, it is primarily designed to move the automobile from residual using the electric motor and the onboard battery pack recharges when the vehicle is braking or coasting.
The Hyundai Ioniq plug-in hybrid carries over the same 1.half dozen-litre petrol engine paired to a 44.5kW electrical motor and 8.9kWh battery pack as earlier. It promises 63km of driving range on battery power in ideal weather condition earlier the petrol engine takes over, though most owners tell us existent-globe battery range is closer to 30km to 40km, depending on driving way and conditions.
The big news is the Hyundai Ioniq pure electrical model. It has a new liquid cooled 38.3kWh lithium-ion polymer battery pack (up from 28kWh), which has 37 per cent more capacity than before, a higher free energy density, and a higher maximum power output.
The electric motor now has 100kW of power (upward from 88kW) and Hyundai says the larger battery pack enables a real world driving range of 311km.
Using a commercial 100kW DC fast-charging station Hyundai says the Ioniq Electrical can be charged from empty to 80 per cent of its capacity in 54 minutes (or 57 minutes when connected to a 50kW fast-charging station).
Using a personal charging station at home or work Hyundai says the motorcar Ioniq be recharged in vi hours and five minutes thanks to the increased chapters of the on-board AC charger to 7.2kW.
On a household power socket, even so, it will take 17 hours and 30 minutes to recharge the Hyundai Ioniq from empty.
Equally with about Hyundais sold in Australia the Ioniq has benefited from local pause tuning.
Each model has a slightly different suspension setting to suit the dissimilar weights of each car (1375kg to 1575kg depending on the variant and whether information technology is hybrid, plug-in hybrid or pure electric) but they all have a familiar experience.
The 16-inch tyres on the electric model accept a decent level of comfort and grip and are only noisy on coarse-flake surfaces.
Both the plug-in hybrid and pure electrical models now accept paddle shifters than enable the driver to increment the amount of regenerative braking (past increasing the resistance in the electric motor) by tapping the left paddle. Indeed, you tin can restriction the car quite heavily this way, effectively turning it into a 'i pedal' mode if yous and then desire.
It works well enough – and having the flexibility to adjust the electric motor'southward braking force is welcome – but of course slamming the brake pedal is the just fashion out of an emergency.
Lane-keeping or lane-centring systems piece of work differently on different cars. Some struggle to detect the lane markings and work sporadically. The Hyundai Ioniq lane keeping system managed to 'read' the road more than half the time (when conspicuously marked) and managed to negotiate the kickoff half of relatively tight turns.
But the intervention was aggressive and inconsistent and I reckon many drivers will switch it off (as we did) by pressing a button on the lower dash console to the right of the steering bicycle.
It's not meant to be a race machine but the Hyundai Ioniq Electric threaded its mode through corners with comfort and ease.
The near telling attribute of the test drive, though, was that I wasn't worried about driving range.
This is despite being sent on a long route on open up and flowing roads where the speeds were typically between 80kmh and 100kmh – the worst conditions for an electric automobile. They prefer stop-start traffic and then they tin recapture some free energy when braking.
Unfortunately, we didn't get to run information technology to empty but the battery pack had used near half of its chapters in a 160km bulldoze, which supports Hyundai'southward claim that 311km is in fact possible in real-globe driving.
VERDICT
The 2022 Hyundai Ioniq range brings genuinely worthwhile improvements, but the price rises of upward to $3500 demonstrate that electrical-motorcar engineering is withal a long way from being affordable to the motoring masses.
Drive Rating
Overall –7.9
Functioning – 7.0
Ride Quality – 8.0
Treatment & Dynamics –7.5
Commuter Technology –8.1
Interior Comfort & Packaging –8.5
Infotainment & Connectivity –8.v
Fuel Efficiency – 7.0
Safety –8.ix
Value For Coin –vi.0
Fit For Purpose –ix.0
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Source: https://www.drive.com.au/reviews/2020-hyundai-ioniq-review/
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