Hello, Just trying to gain some perspective here as I was at both dealers today and for the first time laid eyes and touched the interior of both the Ioniq 5 and ID4 and I was greatly disappointed with the interior quality of the Ioniq 5 in terms of material choices. Don’t get me wrong, I think the Ioniq looks good, tech is good, and specs are good. It’s pretty much scratchy hard plastic everywhere, even in high touch areas like door armrests. In contrast I checked out 2 ID4s afterwards and was pretty much “blown” away with the materials used - when having just seen the Ioniq 5.

Is this normal? EVs aren’t cheap vehicles and I understand the big part of cost are the electrical components like the battery, but the interior quality alone is greatly steering me towards an ID4 instead of the Ioniq 5… Along with an apparent 3 year wait for the Ioniq 5 AWD in Canada.

  • scott__pBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    But how often does this actually matter? I’m in the middle of a road trip in my i4, and out of five charging stops I was only waiting for the car once for 10 minutes. The other 4 times the car was at my target charge by the time I was ready to go. I think any if the cars above 150kW charging speed are probably fine, she probably the above 100 will by doable if you only road trip once it twice a year.

    I’m not saying that Hyundai isn’t easy ahead in the charging system, I’m just saying that it probably isn’t a reason to buy the car on its own. I would choose the Ionic 5 over the id.4 for the quality (weirdly, but Hyundai is killing it and VW, bluntly, isn’t), styling, and ride quality, but the charging speed would be a bonus rather than a selling feature.