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.
Unless you’re doing lots of long trips, charging speed is largely irrelevant and should be pretty far down your decision making list. The vast majority of most people’s driving is around town and back and forth from work to home. Any EV, save maybe the Leaf, will suit this just fine — you’re going to be charging at home almost all the time, and will essentially leave your home each morning with a full tank of “gas.”
I’d only worry about charging times is I took a lot of long trips, and even then it wouldn’t be all that consequential to me.