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 staff is thrashing the house staff at charging pace… at the 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 could be delayed (although some house owners are discovering methods to cost anyway).
Hyundai is without doubt one of the manufacturers that was added to the “coming quickly” listing, nevertheless it additionally already launched a automobile with a local NACS port, and several other of them are out within the wild. On condition that the automotive contains the suitable port to cost on a Supercharger, it ought to have the ability to cost no drawback, proper?
Effectively, house owners are discovering that it might, in the event that they undergo the traditional course of for third get together automobiles on Tesla Superchargers (obtain the app, arrange cost data, begin cost periods by app, and so on) and have the correct adapters or a 2025 automotive with native NACS. Hyundai hasn’t made it official but, nevertheless it appears a lot doable.
And as we speak we noticed one take a look at that exhibits Hyundai beating Tesla in a single metric, even on Tesla’s dwelling turf.
Out of Spec opinions took a Tesla Mannequin 3 and a 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 with native NACS port to an area Tesla Supercharger to do a 1v1 charging take a look at, and discover out which automobile 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 signifies that it might 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 will likely 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 when it comes to “miles per minute,” in the event you account for automobile 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 see on its YouTube channel. The 2 vehicles have related battery sizes, so it’s really a reasonably shut take a look at.
Within the take a look at, the Mannequin 3, charging on dwelling turf, charged for 31 minutes and 53 seconds, and 55.7kWh was delivered from the charger to the automobile.
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 formidable 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 largely 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 take a look at, which is nonetheless 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 continues to be what ended up successful out. Gradual and regular received this race.
There have been a couple of difficulties on this particular take a look at. For some cause, 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 begin 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 might even be troublesome to precondition a Hyundai – warming the battery to realize higher charging speeds – as a result of to this point, Tesla stations aren’t included in Ioniq 5’s navigation system, so preconditioning received’t occur robotically. An replace ought to come quickly to allow that.
Nevertheless, this wasn’t a complete victory for the Ioniq 5. Regardless of reaching a quicker cost charge and getting extra complete power, the Mannequin 3 nonetheless received out in crucial sensible metric – miles per minute.
Vitality actually doesn’t matter that a lot, what issues is how far it might 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% increased effectivity, and the Mannequin 3 received as we speak’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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