@Han
Yea, I thought it was a steal, 5k miles SEL AWD. Original MSRP was a tick under 52k, 25k OTD after EV tax credit. I’ll probably get another EV in 2-3 years when things settle down more and hand it down or keep it as a backup car.
Until it doesn’t drive, the 5/6 gets 400+ miles of range, or something like fsd gets added. If it also becomes too annoying to use ccs instead of nacs that would push me.
Knowing me roughly 5 years, I’m terrible about wanted to get a new car. Depends though what is out at the time, I’d like to go with another I5 if possible.
I got a 1 year lease so…not long lol. I really hope they allow me to re-lease it as I absolutely love this thing.
Harley said:
I got a 1 year lease so…not long lol. I really hope they allow me to re-lease it as I absolutely love this thing.
I know, this car is awesome.
Re-leasing sounds like a good idea!
Until the wheels fall off. My Ioniq replaced a nearly 20 year old Honda Civic, and I can’t justify burning money on a new car purchase every few years.
Besides, I quite like the car.
If something slightly smaller comes along with some incredible battery or charging advancement around 2029-2030, I’ll take a look.
I plan to own it at least until my now 7yo needs a first car of his own.
2 year lease, then gonna buy some sort of Rivian probably.
I honestly don’t know. I tend to hold onto cars for a very long time. My previous car was an '06 Honda Accord with 238K miles which I bought new. I’d probably still be driving the Accord, but I got a killer deal on the Ioniq. For the Accord I had a trade in that I got $500 for, and was very happy about it.
I know a lot of people think that the cars are going to get better, and I’m sure that’s correct, but I’m not sure I’m going to care. For the Accord I installed an Android head unit and a backup camera, and that did pretty much everything I wanted.
The new Ioniq really has a number of amazing safety features that make me feel a lot better, but it had a price to match. I’m not really sure what they could add at this point that isn’t fully self-driving, to improve the experience. Even then I suspect there will be retro kits that are almost as good. I think we can see that with some of the open source autopilots already.
So it really comes down to if I get into an accident, or if there’s a serious problem with the car that makes repairing it no longer worth the trouble. All that is outside my control.
@Porsche3
I’m with you, I’m gonna keep mine for as long as I can unless there is an accident or if maintenance becomes overly costly when the car is outside of warranty.
Outside of battery size, range and charging, I think they will do mostly smaller changes to the Ioniq 5 going forward.
@Han
I’m honestly wondering what they can do to make a serious improvement in EVs in general. For my current needs 300+ miles is more than enough range. I just took a road trip to Tennessee from Ohio, charging the car often took less time than recharging the people (we stopped for lunch, and also snacks). So I don’t see batteries really needing to improve for my usage.
They might be able to eek out improvements in the electrical motors, but I don’t foresee any major advances, we’ve been working with electric motors for over a century, they’re a pretty well understood technology.
There might be additional efficiencies for charging and storage, in terms of eliminating wasted electricity, but that’s pretty small right now.
My current IONIQ 5 is a lease, but our next one will be for my wife and financed. I will probably repeat that again once my lease is over, but it may be the IONIQ 9 by then.
If I had bought it and it had NACS I’d have kept it 10 years. But I’ll see what’s available in 26. I would love an Ioniq3. This guy is just a bit wider than I’d like.
I was planning to jump into a new lease when this is up but I am about 100% sure the EV incentives will be out the window in the US at that point.
Avery said:
I was planning to jump into a new lease when this is up but I am about 100% sure the EV incentives will be out the window in the US at that point.
It sucks that the federal EV tax credit is probably going to go away.
The only fallback that you have is if you live in a state that offers it, which not everyone has the benefit of taking advantage of a state EV tax credit.
Until the wheels fall off and a shop tells me they can’t safely put them back on anymore
Michael1 said:
Until the wheels fall off and a shop tells me they can’t safely put them back on anymore
So true!
I intended on just leasing the i5 for 2 years but I like it so much I wish I had just waited for the 2025 and bought it. My lady hates it so I guess I’m in luck that I leased…but if it were up to me I would buy/keep it as a daily driver and keep my other car garaged.
I just leased mine for 2 years to give myself the option of upgrading if the tech evolves quickly. But I’ve had my ICE car for 16 years and am very open to keeping my Ioniq 5 for 15+ years and putting big km’s on it, doing lots of road trips around Australia. I went with the 84kWh battery to ensure that I have plenty of range, even with degradation over time.
Until the wheels fall off. I’m at 75k miles so far and the car shows no signs on slowing down.
I plan on having to buying a mid tier Autel scan tool to support DIY repairs as needed once this is a beater. I would feel comfortable even swapping battery modules if needed.