So I have to take a road trip in an EV, and it’s winter. So I’m going to have to use the AC. I know in my old ICE car I could have the AC off and the fan would blow hot air just from the engine. With my EV it seems to be the same, even with the AC button off the vents are blowing hot air. Is that hot air just heat vented from the battery? Or is it still using battery power for the compressor to heat the air.
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