Brought this home this week. 2023 Ioniq 5 Preferred Long Range RWD. Took reaching out to a lot of dealerships but finally found one for sticker price in Kamloops and scooped it up. Absolutely love this thing, its incredible how smoothly and quite it drives along while still having instant torque for passing with no fuss. First trip was also my first public charging experience and was far easier and faster than I expected.
Overall it looks like I’ll get about 420km (highway) - 480km (city) for range. I pulled in at golden and was surprised how quick it was to get charging. Just pull up, plug it in, and tap a button on the app and it’s going. Takes the same as paying at the pump with a card. The car immediately went to 200+ kw and overall took 19 minutes to bring it back to 80%.
It averaged 16.8kwh/100km so this would be ~320km of range added for a cost of $10. Or $3.12 per 100km = a tad under 2L/100km in equivalent costs even just using rapid chargers. Home will be a bit cheaper yet.
Overall it was great to drive back and we’ll be taking to Vancouver later this month. Zero concerns for taking it on road trips even as everyone makes comments like EVs aren’t useful outside the city. If the napkin math holds it’ll be about $60ish round trip to Vancouver and back.