With the discharge of Hyundai’s 2025 Ioniq 5 with native NACS port, homeowners 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… a minimum of in some metrics.
This has been a busy time for the transition to NACS, the brand new EV charging commonplace 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” checklist 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 could be delayed (although some homeowners are discovering methods to cost anyway).
Hyundai is without doubt one of the manufacturers that was added to the “coming quickly” checklist, but it surely additionally already launched a car with a local NACS port, and several other of them are out within the wild. Provided that the automotive contains the suitable port to cost on a Supercharger, it ought to have the ability to cost no drawback, proper?
Properly, homeowners are discovering that it will possibly, in the event that they undergo the conventional course of for third social gathering automobiles on Tesla Superchargers (obtain the app, arrange cost info, begin cost periods by app, and so forth) and have the right adapters or a 2025 automotive with native NACS. Hyundai hasn’t made it official but, but it surely appears a lot attainable.
And right this moment we noticed one check that exhibits Hyundai beating Tesla in a single metric, even on Tesla’s dwelling turf.
Out of Spec evaluations 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 check, and discover out which car prices higher and quicker on Tesla’s community.
The Ioniq 5 is predicated 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 charge than another automobiles (it tops out at round 230kW), it has an exceptionally broad charging curve, which implies that it will possibly keep that peak cost charge for longer than different automobiles. Different automobiles begin charging quick, however decelerate quickly because the battery fills up.
The upshot of that is that charging periods might 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 prices even quicker by way of “miles per minute,” when you account for car effectivity – extra on that later).
That broad cost curve shined in Out of Spec’s side-by-side check, which you’ll be able to see on its YouTube channel. The 2 vehicles have comparable battery sizes, so it’s truly a reasonably shut check.
Within the check, the Mannequin 3, charging on dwelling 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 realize 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 larger 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).
Because of this the Ioniq 5 might solely obtain a peak cost charge of 123kW within the check, which is however improved from the ~100kW that earlier mannequin yr 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 remains to be what ended up profitable out. Gradual and regular gained this race.
There have been a number of difficulties on this particular check. For some purpose, the Ioniq 5 randomly stopped charging, and Out of Spec couldn’t determine 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 start out charging periods 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 troublesome to precondition a Hyundai – warming the battery to realize higher charging speeds – as a result of up to now, Tesla stations aren’t included in Ioniq 5’s navigation system, so preconditioning gained’t occur robotically. An replace ought to come quickly to allow that.
Nonetheless, this wasn’t a complete victory for the Ioniq 5. Regardless of attaining a quicker cost charge and getting extra complete power, the Mannequin 3 nonetheless gained out in a very powerful sensible metric – miles per minute.
Power actually doesn’t matter that a lot, what issues is how far it will possibly 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% greater effectivity, and the Mannequin 3 gained right this moment’s check handily.
Now, if we had been to strive the identical check with an Ioniq 6…
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