I snagged a 2025 Ioniq 5 to replace my 2021 Chevy Bolt yesterday and already put 150 miles on it. I’m kind of blown away and wanted to share some things that stood out.
- The car is wide. Much wider than the Bolt. Gonna take some getting used to.
- Not sure how I lived without a power lift gate until now. It was great when loading laundry and groceries into the trunk.
- The driver seat can lay completely flat - flatter than the zero gravity mode that you may have seen. Perfect for napping while waiting at the laundromat, and I’m looking forward to trying it while car camping.
- You can pull the car forward and backwards with the keyfob while standing outside of it. Already used it twice - once to pull out of a tight parking spot, once to center myself after street parking a bit crooked.
- The surround view is incredible. It made parallel parking an absolute breeze.
- Autopilot is scary but works. I was only brave enough to use it on the highway with no other cars around.
- Auto-parking doesn’t seem to work very well, but I’ll have to play around with it.
Overall I’m super happy with the car and keep looking for excuses to go somewhere. Happy to answer any questions.
Just just got a 25 Ioniq 6 Limited about a month ago. I will echo most of the points here. It’s wider than the Kona we had previously, enough that the parking sensors are very unhappy while pulling in or out of the garage. The driver assist features are fantastic, used them both ways for a recent 3.5 hour trip and it was a game changer. They aren’t true autopilot (in the way Tesla advertises it), they are fully driver assistance features that take 80% of the load from you but REQUIRE you to pay attention since they will disengage without warning, and don’t handle some situations well (like lanes splitting apart). We find the fast charger is fantastic, IDK why more manufacturers aren’t putting 800v architectures into their cars. Charged 20-80 in literally 20 minutes last week at a 150kV EVgo station. Everyone else was taking easily twice that long. The V2L feature turned out to be a game changer. We just had a very bad storm in the Pittsburgh area last week and were without power for almost three days. Used the interior plug to keep the chest freezer running to drastically reduce our food losses. Running it for 8 hour overnight used about 4% battery. We are picking up a true V2L adapter to use the J1772 port and not have to leave the car on overnight for future needs. I think the auto parking seems pretty gimmicky, I can’t think of a case where I would not want to pull into a spot on my own, but it’s not so busy that I’m comfortable gaffing about with the auto parking. Maybe for parallel parking since we don’t do much of that. We liked the surrounding view the first couple weeks but I end up mostly just using my mirrors and the normal backup camera since I find it more natural still. We mostly turn off the parking sensor alerts, I wish I could disable them without disabling other alerts (or even just the side ones, they are super sensitive and not helpful IMO).