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I’ve been running a Ioniq electric for 3500 miles now. It replaced a Volvo V40 which I absolutely loved. The only reason the Volvo had to go was the ioniq was available via tusker leasing / work for £300 per month including everything bar electricity. (Based on 18k for 4 years).
it also, as you will all be aware has big tax advantages.
when I first got the car the range was 193, after a week it had become 203 and then when e cold weather hit it fell to 186.
my plan is to use the car for my work commute, a 90 mile round trip. Realistically my only option is to charge at home. There are stations on my route but when you finish at 2am the last thing you want to do is pull over and sit there for an hour when bed is calling!
so far the car has proved to be boringly competent. It does exactly what it says on the tin. As long as I stay to 65 on the motorway the displayed range is the same as the actual range. I use it in eco mode which does restrict the off the line performance but is adequate for the congested roads of the south east.
if you want to reduce the range turning the heater/ac on seems to reduce the range by 20 miles initially although if you turn it off 30 minutes later you get a big chunk of that back.
we have charged it once on the public network, it worked fine and I was surprised to see on my return after 4 hours that people were queueing for the 3 available chargers.
prior to this i did try to charge it as a test run close to home. It was an absolute disaster and I suspect if I was reliant on public charging points I’d be disappointed.
on the whole as a commuter car in the first instance it has been a huge success. I’ll report back after a few more miles to see if it continues to impress.
my only criticism is that for a car that costs north of 30k the interior needs to be better. It’s not that it’s poor quality, everything seems solid but it just doesn’t feel special. Perhaps the Audi engineers need to be taken to Hyundai to see what constitutes engineering quality, then perhaps the Hyundai interior engineers can pay a visit to Audi to see what an interior should look like!.
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