You pre paid for it
It’s going to look the same as every other modern car… Surely?
Leased a 2024 ionic 5 today and going from a 2016 Honda CR-Z hybrid to a mo-dern electric car was a lot of fun. Highly recommended!
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Enjoy! You’ll probably never want to go back to ICE after driving electric.
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I think this might be my next buy, in a few years. Please do a review in a few months.
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I can tell you right now I enjoy being able to see the people in the drive through window instead of just seeing their hands when they hand down the food…
What kind of lease deal did you get? I tried working the dealers around here but nobody wanted to come close to what I was offering.
Ended up with a mustang Mach e for $450/mo, 15k miles a year with nothing due at signing.
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The local guys must have been doing some deal or something, I was going to wait a a while but a friend of mine got an Ionic 6 so I started looking at the website and playing with the builder and the lease payments were around $300 for a 2 year lease. After a test drive and talking to the dealer they offered me $230 a month for 2 years and paying me $3500 for my trade in (8k - the 4500 they could put towards the lease) and that was good enough for me. None of the other cars on their site could get close to that number which was weird. I probably gave them a few grand on the trade in, but 8k wasn’t bad for an 8 year old ICE car. Even if it was still getting close to 40MPG.
Looks like it works out to $417/mo for the lease. I was trying to get an I5 limited for $500ish/mo but they couldn’t come close.
Boulder must have a glut of Hyundai’s lying around.
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While charging at home is a big advantage of owning an EV, I’d look for EV chargers around you, especially a Tesla supercharger. They are pretty fast, and around here are set up in the back of places like grocery store parking lots. You go in, get your shit, and come back 20 minutes later to a mostly charged vehicle. You’ll pay less than half of what you would for an equivalent range worth of gas.
Just get used to treating your car like your phone. Instead of filling gas when it’s near E, get in the habit of keeping your EVs charge maintained whenever you’re going somewhere that has a charger.
I would say we are largely to a point now where EVs are pretty convenient. The charging network nationwide is pretty good and growing daily. Rural areas might be underserved but if you live there you probably have a house with a garage.
There are also a handful of plug in hybrids out there. The all electric range on most options now is pretty dogshit, but that’s likely to change in the next few years as I know some manufacturers are working on longer electric range PHEVs.
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g15377500/plug-in-hybrid-car-suv-vehicles/
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The Hyundai lease includes 2 years of free charging at Electrify America stations, 30 minutes DC charging or 60 minutes level 2 charging I think. The Ionic 5 has an 800v infrastructure so on a 350kW charger can go from 10% to 80% in 18 minutes. Should probably get in the habit if using the free charging instead of charging at home.
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OK, moving insurance from an 8 year old car to a new car is not much fun. They did offer to put a bug in my car and charge me accordingly… uh, no thank you.
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First trip to a public charger, 32kWh of energy in 11 minutes, went from 41% to 80% adding around 180 miles of range to the car. Cost at the charger (covered by Hyundai) was $18. I’ve put about 330 miles on it, which was a little over a tank of gas in the Honda. 8 gallon tank so a little over $30 a tankful so I’m saving money!
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Dang I was so close to leasing an Ionic 5, but had concerns that you are completely blowing up. Enjoy the car! I’m happy to read your experience.
I ended up buying a 2025 Camry.
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Our cheap EV (used 2020 bolt, $11k after credits) is so much better than any gas car I’ve ever owned that it fills me with joy every time I drive. It is just better tech for a car, period.
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Unless there is an EA station near you or a place you go often, it’s probably not worth it. I got the same thing with my new car and was initially like you. I do try to use them on road trips, but there aren’t a ton so need to plan carefully.
At home, only time I use is when I go to Target as they have one in parking lot. Otherwise not worth it to drive there and wait 30 minutes to save like $8.
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We’ll see, I’m not paying for utilities at the moment and if I avoid charging the car at home (we have a level 2 charger in the garage) I can keep it that way, so 20 minutes every weekend doesn’t seem too bad, and the EA station is within 2 miles of the house so it isn’t much of a hassle.
This x1000. Got my mom into a Bolt EUV last year, my dad in a Model Y 2 years ago, and myself 2.5 years ago. It’s just such a vastly better driving experience and we all still feel that joy. I used to tolerate driving, now I look for reasons to drive. Which just makes all the EV hate from the toxic masculinity and maga crowd so, so funny.