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… a minimum of 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 homeowners 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 a number of other of them are out within the wild. Provided that the automobile contains the appropriate port to cost on a Supercharger, it ought to have the ability to cost no downside, proper?
Properly, homeowners are discovering that it may possibly, in the event that they undergo the conventional course of for third social gathering autos on Tesla Superchargers (obtain the app, arrange fee info, begin cost periods via app, and so forth) and have the correct adapters or a 2025 automobile with native NACS. Hyundai hasn’t made it official but, nevertheless it appears lots attainable.
And at the moment 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 sooner on Tesla’s community.
The Ioniq 5 relies 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 signifies that it may 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 periods can 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 velocity champion (and the Ioniq 6 prices even sooner by way of “miles per minute,” for those who 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 be able to see on its YouTube channel. The 2 vehicles have comparable battery sizes, so it’s really a fairly 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 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 powerful 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).
Because of this the Ioniq 5 might solely obtain a peak cost price of 123kW within the take a look at, 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 remains to be what ended up successful out. Sluggish and regular received this race.
There have been a number of difficulties on this particular take a look at. 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, because of the a lot sooner handshake velocity 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 velocity once more. It might even be tough 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.
Nonetheless, this wasn’t a complete victory for the Ioniq 5. Regardless of reaching a sooner cost price and getting extra complete vitality, the Mannequin 3 nonetheless received out in a very powerful sensible metric – miles per minute.
Power actually doesn’t matter that a lot, what issues is how far it may 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 received at the moment’s take a look at handily.
Now, if we have been to attempt the identical take a look at with an Ioniq 6…
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