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.
What are you doing all the time that requires you to interact with the center screen so much?
When I drive it’s just change track or volume. Things that are on the steering wheel of any new car.
Selecting songs, picking GPS destinations mainly
And the steering wheel buttons on the ID4 were awful with no tactile feedback or sense of where they were located
In the Ioniq 5 you have to input a charger destination on the infotainment system to get battery conditioning to be enabled.