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Originally Posted by JSRusso
My wife and I just recently purchased the Hyundai Ioniq 5. We love it! Lots of power, handles great and plenty of space for the kids and our dogs. It gets about 270 miles on a full charge, and has the ability to DC fast charge up to 80% in about 20 minutes. The vast majority of the time its used by my wife to go back and forth from work which isn’t too far about 15 miles each way. She only charges the vehicle once every week. It will take about 8 hours to go from 5% to 100% on our level two charger in the garage. As an added bonus, Hyundai includes free charging at Electrify America chargers for 2 years. We didn’t buy it to save the planet. We drove it and loved it. We got $7500 tax incentive taken directly off the MSRP and an additional $2500 discount so the Limited trim version was 48k. I’m looking forward to trading in my Toyota Camry in the next year and am certain I will go with another EV. Quiet, Fast, Comfortable, no fumes or smells, no carbon monoxide worries, and little to no maintenance required. As for road trips, I do plan to drive it to back and forth between NY, South Carolina and Florida. We are the type who get restless after 3 or 4 hours of driving and take frequent breaks. Charging the vehicle to 80% in 20 minutes while I’m grabbing a snack or using the rest room isn’t a problem.
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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
I guess that will be a road trip with frequent stops, like every 200 miles or so
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My wife has a clotting disorder and needs to walk about 50 paces every hour or so so we stop pretty frequently anyway. Even so, you could bang out an 800 mile day with only 3 stops so it isn't too bad.
If you can do 1000 miles in a day with only 2 stops....well I tip my hat to you, Sir!
Joe