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.

  • GoSh4rks@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    On the flip side, the IONIQ 5 has the benefit of being on an 800V architecture and therefore has blistering charging speeds

    800v doesn’t really buy you “blistering” charge speeds. You can get the same speeds at 400v - the input voltage doesn’t really matter when the battery cells operate at around 4v and cell temperatures are the limiting factor.