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 group is thrashing the house group 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 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 can 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” checklist, nevertheless it additionally already launched a automobile with a local NACS port, and several other of them are out within the wild. Provided that the automobile consists of the proper port to cost on a Supercharger, it ought to have the ability to cost no downside, proper?
Nicely, house owners are discovering that it might, in the event that they undergo the conventional course of for third occasion automobiles on Tesla Superchargers (obtain the app, arrange fee info, begin cost periods by means of app, and many others) and have the right adapters or a 2025 automobile with native NACS. Hyundai hasn’t made it official but, nevertheless it appears lots attainable.
And as we speak we noticed one check that exhibits Hyundai beating Tesla in a single metric, even on Tesla’s residence turf.
Out of Spec critiques 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 check, and discover out which automobile expenses higher and sooner 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 fee than another automobiles (it tops out at round 230kW), it has an exceptionally broad charging curve, which implies that it might preserve that peak cost fee 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 sooner 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 sooner by way of “miles per minute,” when you account for automobile 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 automobiles have comparable battery sizes, so it’s truly a reasonably shut check.
Within the check, the Mannequin 3, charging on residence 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 realize 59.6kWh in half-hour and 37 seconds, a barely shorter time and barely extra vitality 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 better 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).
Which means that the Ioniq 5 might solely obtain a peak cost fee of 123kW within the check, which is nonetheless improved from the ~100kW that earlier mannequin yr E-GMP automobiles 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. Gradual and regular gained this race.
There have been just a few difficulties on this particular check. For some motive, 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, because of the a lot sooner 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 could even be troublesome to precondition a Hyundai – warming the battery to attain 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 mechanically. An replace ought to come quickly to allow that.
Nevertheless, this wasn’t a complete victory for the Ioniq 5. Regardless of attaining a sooner cost fee and getting extra complete vitality, the Mannequin 3 nonetheless gained out in crucial sensible metric – miles per minute.
Power actually doesn’t matter that a lot, what issues is how far it might get you. And the Mannequin 3 is way more environment friendly than the Ioniq 5. Whereas the automobiles 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 gained as we speak’s check handily.
Now, if we had been to strive the identical check with an Ioniq 6…
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