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.
True, heard good stuff about the charging and it’s good looking. Went ID4 though because it was ~10k€ less than the other electric SUVs there are (VW wants to empty the lots for the facelift so they offered 9000€ rebate on those 12-18month old ones sitting around here) Ioniq5 and ev6 were high on my list, but out of my budget. Could have waited 2 years though probably for a used one.
At least you can look down on the Solterra/Bzblarg for charging speeds. What’s up with the EV market claiming everything is an SUV too? My EV6 and your ID4 are not but I guess marketing controls all.
Don’t know. Crossover , SUV or whatever. Family hauler that fits the stroller and some stuff almost as good as the estate I had before. Would have preferred an estate and the id4 kinda is a higher estate with a bit of an high stance
Crossover basically refers to the gray area between car and SUV. At least the government doesn’t make you register them as trucks like PT Cruisers in 2001.
I think it has to do with the max price to qualify for the $7500 rebate. If it’s a truck or an SUV the max price is $80K to qualify. If it’s a car it’s like $55K. So I think it’s less about marketing and more about being able to charge a premium and have consumers still qualify for the subsidy.
The newest ID4 will go 10% to 80% in 30 minutes, so slower than the Hyundai, but not that much slower, and more than acceptable unless you are just road tripping all the time.