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 workforce is thrashing the house workforce at charging pace… at the very least in some metrics.
This has been a busy time for the transition to NACS, the brand new EV charging customary 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 can be delayed (although some homeowners are discovering methods to cost anyway).
Hyundai is among the manufacturers that was added to the “coming quickly” listing, nevertheless it additionally already launched a car with a local NACS port, and several other of them are out within the wild. Provided that the automobile contains the suitable port to cost on a Supercharger, it ought to have the ability to cost no downside, proper?
Effectively, homeowners are discovering that it could, in the event that they undergo the traditional course of for third get together autos on Tesla Superchargers (obtain the app, arrange fee data, begin cost periods via app, and so forth) and have the right adapters or a 2025 automobile with native NACS. Hyundai hasn’t made it official but, nevertheless it appears lots doable.
And right now we noticed one check that exhibits Hyundai beating Tesla in a single metric, even on Tesla’s house turf.
Out of Spec opinions 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 car expenses 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 could preserve 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 will probably 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 when it comes to “miles per minute,” in case you account for car 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 house turf, charged for 31 minutes and 53 seconds, and 55.7kWh was delivered from the charger to the car.
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 powerful 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).
Which means 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 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 remains to be what ended up profitable out. Gradual and regular received this race.
There have been a number of difficulties on this particular check. For some purpose, 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 start out 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 tough to precondition a Hyundai – warming the battery to attain 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 mechanically. An replace ought to come quickly to allow that.
Nevertheless, this wasn’t a complete victory for the Ioniq 5. Regardless of reaching a sooner cost price and getting extra complete power, the Mannequin 3 nonetheless received out in crucial sensible metric – miles per minute.
Power actually doesn’t matter that a lot, what issues is how far it could get you. And the Mannequin 3 is far 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% larger effectivity, and the Mannequin 3 received right now’s check handily.
Now, if we have been to attempt the identical check with an Ioniq 6…
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