If your ioniq is anything like my old Niro, you actually have 2 condensers, and it can pull both heat and a from the heat pump at the same time.
That also means if you have a leak in one, you lose both. That’s how I found out about the setup.
I haven’t looked to see how the ev6 or ioniq 5 are configured though, but I’d expect it was the same as the niro
test driving with sales staff is awful. They know next to nothing about cars in general.
FTFY.
When I bought my gas cars, they had no idea about the features of the car. Same held true for my EVs.
They’re just there to make sure you don’t run off with the car while you figure out for yourself if you like it.
I saw one last month plugged in to an EA station and into idle fees. Driver nowhere to be seen.
Yeah. I love it in the green. I wash it weekly and put ceramic wax on it a month back, so you know it sparkles.
Not sure how often I need to redo the wax, but probably going to in like 3 or 4 weeks
EV6 driver here.
Never had range issues. I’ve put on 6k in 3 months. We’ve made a few road trips.
I’m also never at a charger more than 10 minutes. We plug in and get the fuck out, because that’s how it works when you have 800v charging. I’ve never wished for the slow tesla charging (lol 400v at 150 kw) in my road trips, because I had 350 kw at 800v the entire trip every single time I was outside my home area.
It’s also significantly more comfortable in the front seats than a tesla model X (dad has one). I can’t say for the back seats, because I haven’t sit in the back of either. The front seats are excessively roomy if you’re not over 6’5". Above that depend on if it’s torso or leg that your height is mostly concentrated.
There’s no phantom breaking that plagues every tesla model. It doesn’t exist. So you’re not going to randomly get rear ended because Musk couldn’t tell the difference between a speed limit sign an the road number.
You also have an openable sunroof on higher trims, something tesla hasn’t figured out yet despite being a thing for literal generations.
The most generic comment, without any attempt to isolate a location.
Don’t forget when all the gas stations, and 8 tesla super chargers in the mid west went down cause the power grid had an issue. Gonna rail on ea without any ability for anyone to see why it’s partially down to push a dumb narrative
I could see it being useful for traffic jams, stop and go traffic, and rush hour. EVs would passively gain range in those situations. As a matter of maintaining battery while driving at any sort of real travel speeds? Not worth it.