With the discharge of Hyundai’s 2025 Ioniq 5 with native NACS port, house owners are heading to Tesla Superchargers to see how the expertise is. And it seems, the away workforce is thrashing the house workforce at charging pace… at the very least in some metrics.
This has been a busy time for the transition to NACS, the brand new EV charging normal for North America that was initially superior by Tesla and now standardized by SAE.
We’ve seen a number of manufacturers added to Tesla’s “coming quickly” listing for Supercharger entry, and even past that, VW and Honda have each made their very own bulletins that entry is coming quickly. However we’ve additionally had a setback, as Kia introduced entry can be delayed (although some house owners are discovering methods to cost anyway).
Hyundai is likely one of the manufacturers that was added to the “coming quickly” listing, but it surely additionally already launched a car with a local NACS port, and a number of other of them are out within the wild. On condition that the automobile consists of the fitting port to cost on a Supercharger, it ought to have the ability to cost no drawback, proper?
Effectively, house owners are discovering that it could actually, in the event that they undergo the traditional course of for third social gathering autos on Tesla Superchargers (obtain the app, arrange cost info, begin cost classes by way of app, and so on) and have the right adapters or a 2025 automobile with native NACS. Hyundai hasn’t made it official but, but it surely appears lots attainable.
And right now we noticed one take a look at that exhibits Hyundai beating Tesla in a single metric, even on Tesla’s house turf.
Out of Spec opinions took a Tesla Mannequin 3 and a 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 with native NACS port to a neighborhood Tesla Supercharger to do a 1v1 charging take a look at, and discover out which car expenses higher and quicker on Tesla’s community.
The Ioniq 5 relies on Kia/Hyundai’s joint E-GMP platform, which has been hailed for its distinctive charging efficiency.
Regardless of it having a decrease peak cost fee than another autos (it tops out at round 230kW), it has an exceptionally broad charging curve, which signifies that it could actually keep that peak cost fee for longer than different autos. Different autos begin charging quick, however decelerate quickly because the battery fills up.
The upshot of that is that charging classes will probably be quicker with a broad cost curve, so long as you’re charging as much as a excessive state of cost. Hyundai says the Ioniq 5 can cost from 10-80% in simply 18 minutes, making it the present charging pace champion (and the Ioniq 6 expenses even quicker by way of “miles per minute,” should you account for car effectivity – extra on that later).
That broad cost curve shined in Out of Spec’s side-by-side take a look at, which you’ll be able to see on its YouTube channel. The 2 vehicles have comparable battery sizes, so it’s really a fairly shut take a look at.
Within the take a look at, the Mannequin 3, charging on house turf, charged for 31 minutes and 53 seconds, and 55.7kWh was delivered from the charger to the car.
However the upstart Ioniq 5 managed to achieve 59.6kWh in half-hour and 37 seconds, a barely shorter time and barely extra power delivered.
These numbers are shut sufficient to name it a wash, however nonetheless a powerful displaying on away turf.
The victory is all of the higher when contemplating that the Hyundai isn’t even charging at full energy. The E-GMP platform makes use of an 800 volt structure, and Tesla’s Superchargers principally use 400 volts (the brand new V4 Supercharger will present 400-1000 volts, however most within the wild are V3).
Which means the Ioniq 5 may solely obtain a peak cost fee of 123kW within the take a look at, which is nonetheless improved from the ~100kW that earlier mannequin 12 months E-GMP vehicles have seen when charging at Superchargers. However that’s far decrease than the 250kW peak the Mannequin 3 can attain.
However that aforementioned cost curve continues to be what ended up profitable out. Sluggish and regular gained this race.
There have been just a few difficulties on this particular take a look at. For some cause, the Ioniq 5 randomly stopped charging, and Out of Spec couldn’t work out why, and needed to spend time restarting the cost session – which fortunately didn’t take that lengthy, as a result of a lot quicker handshake pace to begin charging classes on Superchargers as in comparison with CCS stations.
The interruption additionally meant that the Hyundai needed to ramp up its charging pace once more. It could even be tough to precondition a Hyundai – warming the battery to attain higher charging speeds – as a result of to date, Tesla stations aren’t included in Ioniq 5’s navigation system, so preconditioning gained’t occur mechanically. An replace ought to come quickly to allow that.
Nonetheless, this wasn’t a complete victory for the Ioniq 5. Regardless of reaching a quicker cost fee and getting extra whole power, the Mannequin 3 nonetheless gained out in an important sensible metric – miles per minute.
Vitality actually doesn’t matter that a lot, what issues is how far it could actually get you. And the Mannequin 3 is far more environment friendly than the Ioniq 5. Whereas the vehicles have similarly-sized batteries, Tesla says the Mannequin 3 can go 363 miles, whereas Hyundai says the Ioniq 5 can go 303 miles. Account for that ~20% larger effectivity, and the Mannequin 3 gained right now’s take a look at handily.
Now, if we have been to strive the identical take a look at with an Ioniq 6…
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