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 group is thrashing the house group at charging velocity… 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” record 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 among the manufacturers that was added to the “coming quickly” record, nevertheless it additionally already launched a automobile with a local NACS port, and a number of other of them are out within the wild. On condition that the automotive consists of the appropriate port to cost on a Supercharger, it ought to have the ability to cost no downside, proper?
Effectively, homeowners are discovering that it could possibly, in the event that they undergo the traditional course of for third celebration autos on Tesla Superchargers (obtain the app, arrange fee data, begin cost classes by app, and many others) and have the correct adapters or a 2025 automotive with native NACS. Hyundai hasn’t made it official but, nevertheless it appears lots attainable.
And immediately we noticed one check that reveals Hyundai beating Tesla in a single metric, even on Tesla’s dwelling turf.
Out of Spec critiques 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 automobile fees 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 price than another autos (it tops out at round 230kW), it has an exceptionally broad charging curve, which implies that it could possibly keep that peak cost price for longer than different autos. Different autos begin charging quick, however decelerate quickly because the battery fills up.
The upshot of that is that charging classes shall 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 velocity champion (and the Ioniq 6 fees even quicker by way of “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 check, which you’ll see on its YouTube channel. The 2 vehicles have related battery sizes, so it’s truly a fairly 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 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 exhibiting 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).
Because of this the Ioniq 5 might solely obtain a peak cost price of 123kW within the check, which is nonetheless improved from the ~100kW that earlier mannequin 12 months 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 profitable out. Gradual and regular gained this race.
There have been a couple of difficulties on this particular check. For some motive, 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 velocity to begin charging classes on Superchargers as in comparison with CCS stations.
The interruption additionally meant that the Hyundai needed to ramp up its charging velocity once more. It might 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 routinely. 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 price and getting extra complete power, the Mannequin 3 nonetheless gained out in an important sensible metric – miles per minute.
Power actually doesn’t matter that a lot, what issues is how far it could possibly get you. And the Mannequin 3 is way 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 gained immediately’s check handily.
Now, if we had been to strive the identical check with an Ioniq 6…
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