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.
As I understand it, if you have common lithium ion batteries, faster charging degrades your battery capacity over time. How much degradation is caused by extra fast charging vs slower, IDK. I just thought it worth mentioning.
Apparently, the latest lithium polymer batteries are not as sensitive to state-of-charge. So, you can use the full capacity, 1-100%, without concern for accelerated degradation. Whether or not the lithium polymer batteries handle fast charging better as well, IDK.