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Intro: 00:00
Exterior: 1:09
Interior: 2:26
Infotainment: 3:06
Features: 8:33
Practicality: 9:57
On the Road: 13:47
Verdict: 22:00
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Paul reviews the 2020 Hyundai Ioniq PHEV. With stronger green credentials than the cheaper Ioniq Hybrid and a more versatile powertrain than the pricier Ioniq Electric, the Plug-In could just represent the electrified sweet spot in Hyundai’s range. Or does it? Watch and find out!
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00:00 G'day, I'm Paul and that is the Hyundai Ioniq and I'm going to explain to you why it's a
00:04 bit like Diet Coke.
00:06 Come with me.
00:08 Right, so this is a full fat Coke.
00:11 It's bad for you.
00:12 It's got lots of sugar in it but it makes you feel really good.
00:15 That is a petrol car, right?
00:17 This here is a plug-in hybrid.
00:20 Still tastes like Coke but it has no sugar.
00:22 It's not quite as good as water, which is full electric, but it gets you through the
00:27 day, especially if it's been a long day where you'll get home and mix it with a lot of alcohol.
00:32 Anyway, the whole Ioniq range covers everything from hybrids right through to the full electric,
00:37 but this one that you're looking at here is the entry level to the plug-in hybrid range.
00:40 It is cleverly called the Ioniq plug-in hybrid elite and it starts from just under 42,000
00:46 Australian bucks.
00:47 Now, if you want to speed things up a bit and you want to skip ahead, you can either
00:50 go down to the comments section if you're watching this on YouTube, click on the links
00:54 there, it'll jump ahead to the part of the review that you want, or if you're watching
00:57 this on a website somewhere, the time codes are just up there.
01:00 Make sure you subscribe to this channel by clicking the subscribe button and then click
01:03 on the bell button.
01:04 I know you hear it about a million times but that will make sure you get a notification
01:07 every time we drive something new.
01:09 Okay, I guess the jury's out on styling but I'm going to explain why it looks the way
01:13 that it does.
01:14 0.24 is the coefficient of drag.
01:16 That is the amount of resistance this car has as air pushes up on it.
01:21 You can almost fall over it if it hit a pedestrian.
01:24 That's how slippery this thing is.
01:26 Not that you should ever hit pedestrians.
01:27 But anyway, they have updated the styling here so you can see new lights and then on
01:31 the premium model it gets LEDs front and rear.
01:34 So it is a stylish looking car but the wheels, let's talk about the wheels.
01:39 16 inches.
01:40 They kind of look a bit strange.
01:42 I have a VP SS Commodore and it has wheels like this when I think Holden was trying to
01:47 be aerodynamic and they didn't look great then.
01:50 And 26 years later, not a great deal has changed.
01:53 But look, in the general sense of things, this is why electric cars need to look like
01:58 this because they are cutting through the air and not creating much drag.
02:02 That maybe also explains why Hyundai only offers this in four colours.
02:05 Blue, red, grey and white.
02:08 It is a very basic colour palette.
02:10 Here's something I found earlier.
02:12 There are two holes for filling this thing with go juice.
02:15 This one for electricity.
02:16 There's your AC charging plug.
02:18 But then there's one at the back for petrol because this is a plug in hybrid.
02:21 Except this one, you can't open from the outside.
02:24 You've got to press a button inside the car.
02:26 Tell you what is not silly and that is the styling inside this cabin.
02:31 They've actually done a really good job here bringing it forward and making this feel like
02:36 it's worth its money because remember, these are kind of expensive only because of the
02:40 batteries and all the other things underneath the body.
02:43 So you've got to make this interior look good and it's a big step forward from the last
02:47 Ioniq.
02:48 Now, not only journalists like this but Hyundai says this now has a soft touch dashboard.
02:53 You know what actually, I'm going to buy a hardness tester and we will make this a test.
02:58 How soft touch is your soft touch dashboard?
03:00 One thing I don't need to buy though is a good infotainment system because that thing
03:05 right there is fantastic.
03:07 Hyundai's infotainment game has massively stepped forward and it is thanks to this.
03:11 It looks really impressive.
03:12 It's super high resolution and I'm going to walk you through everything there is to know
03:16 about Hyundai's infotainment system.
03:18 So 10.25 inch screen, beneath it, just as a side note, you've got capacitive touch buttons.
03:24 So what you do is just click with your finger, you just kind of push a little bit and it
03:28 activates so they're really handy.
03:30 The screen can be displayed in split screen and here on the home screen you'll see three
03:34 main pillars and then you can swipe to get to the other menu items.
03:38 The navigation first, so it's a really nicely presented screen, very high resolution and
03:43 entering addresses is really easy.
03:45 So you just click up here, if you want to type in an address, you just start typing
03:49 it in, you'll see suggestions showing up here and then once you've found one you just click
03:53 on it and it will give you the different options.
03:55 You hit start guidance and away it goes.
03:57 Inbuilt traffic guidance there as well so it will reroute if traffic does become bad.
04:02 Now the curious thing here as well is that you have the ability to look for points of
04:06 interest such as chargers because this is a plug-in hybrid and of course you've got
04:11 the electric model as well.
04:13 This will navigate you to the nearest charger where you can plug the car in and get that
04:16 full charge which is really handy to know.
04:19 And outside of that the rest is all pretty straightforward.
04:21 You get voice recognition as well but it only applies to Apple CarPlay or Android Auto when
04:25 you have your smartphone mirroring and I'm going to go into a bit more detail on that
04:29 in just a second as well.
04:30 Back here on the home screen you've also got access to the radio menu.
04:34 DAB+ digital radio is inbuilt so you get an absolute raft of stations there, more than
04:39 you could ever know what to do with and the music quality is fantastic thanks to the 8
04:44 speaker Infinity sound system.
04:46 Back on the home screen you also have for the plug-in hybrid model and also for the
04:49 electric a whole stack of driving data.
04:51 So here you've got your range.
04:52 As you can see here we're down to zero because we have used all of that internal battery
04:57 and we're now basically just using that internal combustion engine to move the car with the
05:01 electric motor as a boost when required.
05:04 When you hit that you'll be able to select options for chargers.
05:07 So you can see there's a charger there and it can also guide me to that charger should
05:11 I want to go there.
05:12 Energy information, this tells you how much range you've got and how long the car is going
05:16 to take to charge.
05:17 So if you just plug in on a standard plug it's going to take 4.15 hours whereas if you
05:22 plug in on an AC charger which is a slightly faster version of a standard domestic plug
05:28 it'll take around two and a half hours to charge.
05:30 So that is really handy information to know plus your battery life there as well.
05:35 Charge management, this is another fascinating thing.
05:37 Probably not that big of a deal for something with such a small battery like this but you
05:40 are able to set off-peak charging.
05:42 So if you do have cheaper energy rates after midnight for example, simply pop that into
05:46 here and the car will then charge off-peak.
05:48 You can also limit the amount of charging current that is coming through the car.
05:52 So if you've got extension cable or something you're not meant to be using you can limit
05:56 the amount of current that it's pulling out of that.
05:58 Eco driving, this tells you what your history is like.
06:00 Now the fascinating thing here, we'll get to this in the driving section, but this car
06:04 is fairly bang on when it comes to its driving performance.
06:08 In our previous driving loop, 85 kilometres with a full battery, the car averaged 1.9
06:13 litres per 100km.
06:14 So it ran out of battery at around that 63km mark and then from there onwards it was using
06:18 a mix of battery and also the internal combustion engine.
06:21 1.9 litres per 100km, that is pretty impressive stuff.
06:25 And then energy flow, I think Toyota kind of mastered this with the Prius.
06:29 You've got an idea of where your power and torque is coming from, where your regen's
06:33 going.
06:34 It is really clever in the way that it presents that information.
06:37 Now the other interesting thing in here as well is the manual.
06:40 So a lot of car companies will build the manual into that infotainment system, but this one's
06:44 a little bit different.
06:45 It has a QR code.
06:46 So just getting your phone out, you open the camera, scan it on the QR code, there it is
06:51 there and it says open hyundai.com in Safari and then Bob's your uncle, you have the web
06:57 manual on your phone for your car.
07:00 So it is a really clever setup and it means they don't need to waste any space trying
07:04 to integrate a manual into that screen there.
07:06 The other great feature on Hyundai's and Kia's is the voice memo function.
07:09 If you're out on the road and you come up with a great business idea, like a new YouTube
07:13 channel for cars, you can simply record it into here, it will stay there and then you
07:17 can catch up with it later.
07:19 And then you have the rest of your basic functions like phone, so obviously all Bluetooth pairing
07:23 there.
07:24 You can do everything that you can in most other cars except the voice recognition function,
07:27 which is a little frustrating unless your phone is paired and mirrored.
07:31 And then outside of that you've also got specific functions and settings that I find fascinating.
07:36 So for example in the display settings you have a blue light filter, so at night time
07:41 it will reduce the amount of strain on your eyes by limiting blue light emissions.
07:44 Here's a fun fact for you.
07:47 Did you know this is one of the first Hyundais with this big screen but it is also one of
07:51 the first Hyundais with widescreen Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
07:54 Most modern cars these days that do have these big screens, and Volvo jumps to mind here,
07:59 you can't actually get a widescreen version of your smartphone mirroring.
08:03 Well Hyundai has solved that.
08:05 Plug this in for your smartphone mirroring, it pairs up with the phone and then it displays
08:09 your CarPlay option, which is just there.
08:13 Look at that, you are getting a full screen experience.
08:15 So it is really beautifully laid out and this is something that you're not getting in much
08:20 more expensive cars.
08:22 And one more fun fact for you, Hyundai has killed the auxiliary plug, it's gone.
08:26 It's kind of like the CD player, it's slowly becoming extinct from cars and they've gone
08:30 in favour of Bluetooth and USB streaming for audio.
08:33 Enough about infotainment, so you would expect given this is a base model, weird name, Elite
08:40 for a base model, but anyway, it is the Elite and it means it's the entry level.
08:44 Hyundai has still thrown a lot of features at it, so dual zone climate control, you've
08:48 got USB connectivity, only one USB port though, so that controls your Apple CarPlay, Android
08:53 Auto and charging of your phone, two 12 volt outlets and then a whole bunch of blank buttons.
08:58 I really don't like blank buttons.
09:01 Rear parking sensors, a reverse view camera with rear cross traffic alert, that is a really
09:05 important feature in this day and age with kids running around everywhere.
09:09 This is what the key looks like, so keyless entry and start and proximity as well, so
09:14 it's a basic looking key, but it does the job.
09:17 You also get a feature called Auto Link.
09:19 This is the less useful version of Auto Link.
09:21 There's two versions, Auto Link and Auto Link Premium.
09:23 Auto Link Premium uses a SIM card so you can access the car remotely, whereas Auto Link,
09:28 which is what's fitted to this car, is a Bluetooth module, so you have to be within range of
09:33 the car to use it and it displays a lot of telemetry data that you can kind of get from
09:37 the car anyway.
09:38 It's that remote service that allows you to start the car and do a whole bunch of functions
09:41 remotely that's handy, so bit of a miss there, but whatever.
09:45 Safety functions, you've got eight airbags plus autonomous emergency braking, which is
09:49 the tech that stops the car if you don't, with pedestrian detection and that works all
09:53 the way up to high speed, which is around 180 kilometres an hour.
09:57 What about day-to-day life?
09:58 How are you going to interact with this interior?
10:01 Let's look at storage first.
10:02 There is stacks of it, so plenty of storage in the glove box there, centre console, plenty
10:07 of storage as well, cup holders galore, Diet Coke as well, and then storage for your phone
10:12 as well, the upper spec models get wireless phone charging, so you don't get any of that
10:15 here.
10:16 But what about build quality?
10:18 So Hyundais are generally pretty good, but I have noticed when we were doing our soft
10:22 touch dashboard test that this is a bit nasty, so it's a dashboard cover and it's cut out
10:29 the back, so it's missing that rigidity, it's a little bit wonky.
10:32 Same with this, just kind of feels a little bit wonky and not nice, which is not really
10:38 what you want for a car that is around that $45,000 mark.
10:42 Seats, normally cloth seats, you think back to a time when you were younger and leather
10:47 seats were the domain of the rich and famous, but cloth seats have improved.
10:52 Have a look at this, that is really nice material, it looks super luxe and it kind of looks like
10:57 the type of couch you'd find in a premium home.
11:01 Leg and headroom up the front here is good, my driving position feels really nice, stacks
11:06 here.
11:07 I'm going to go for the second row though, let's check that out.
11:09 I'm not the world's tallest guy, but it is tight back here.
11:12 I reckon it's about as tight as your mate when it comes time to shout at the bar for
11:17 their round of drinks.
11:18 But anyway, it is pretty comfortable though, these seats are nice.
11:21 Over here you've got some creature comforts, there's an armrest, a couple of cup holders
11:25 and then you've got ISOFIX points on the outboard seats if you want to have the kids in there.
11:30 Air vents as well.
11:31 This is really important for climates like Australia, you're going to be absolutely sweating
11:36 bullets if you don't have air vents in the back.
11:39 Have a look down here in terms of sweating, that's what I reckon was happening at Mercedes-Benz
11:43 when they approved a driveline hump in the fully electric EQC.
11:48 Now a driveline hump, the purpose of that is to put a driveline from the front of the
11:51 car to the back and it's generally for cars with all-wheel drive or rear-wheel drive.
11:55 In the case of electric cars you don't have anything between there, especially in front
11:59 wheel drive ones.
12:00 So in the case of the EQC where they've effectively carried over the chassis and you've got this
12:04 big hump in the middle, this is what it should look like, either a flat floor or simply a
12:09 little hump there to get you over it.
12:11 Now this is another interesting thing as well, look at these vents here.
12:15 You know what they're for?
12:16 These are for cooling the battery, so they're not pushing air in or anything but they do
12:20 vent the battery so you don't have stagnant hot air building up under there.
12:24 It isn't going to make you hot but it is an interesting point and you'll find this on
12:27 a lot of EVs or plug-in hybrids where you have to integrate a fuel tank and also a battery
12:32 pack as well.
12:33 There's a storage around the place.
12:35 Igor, if you can pass me the Coke can.
12:38 Don't Coke.
12:40 You've got storage in the doors there that is pretty handy.
12:43 So look, in terms of space it's not incredible back here but it is going to be fine for shorter
12:48 journeys or if indeed you have someone that isn't a freak in the front seat.
12:53 Let's talk about the boot space you're going to find under here.
12:56 Here's a curious thing first though, there's this little bit of glass here so when you're
12:59 looking in that rear vision mirror you look through this.
13:02 It's a really weird design, you're not looking through this top section but anyway, 341 litres
13:08 of cargo space in its current form and that expands to just over 1400 litres if you drop
13:13 the seats.
13:14 There's also this nifty cargo blind but what do those numbers really mean?
13:19 I'm going to show you in just a second.
13:20 Under the floor is where you keep your charging equipment.
13:23 There is no spare tyre, it's just a tyre mobility kit.
13:26 Alright let's go for the big bag.
13:29 Put that one in there, that just sort of fits under there.
13:33 Get this little bag, that'll slide in next to it and then we've got this guy too and
13:39 there you go, Bob's your uncle, you have managed to fit a decent amount of luggage in your
13:44 Ioniq.
13:49 So we've hit the road in the Ioniq, before I tell you anything about how it drives and
13:53 all the stuff under the bonnet, I want to point you towards this, paddle shifts.
13:58 So these have become a very popular thing in all kinds of cars including SUVs which
14:02 I find a little bit strange but they have a very different purpose here.
14:07 When I pull back on this, I can pull back up to three times and what it does is instead
14:12 of shifting gears, it is changing the regen level and the regen level is how much energy
14:18 I'm putting back into the battery every time I let off the throttle.
14:21 It's using the car's momentum and its inertia to generate power to then cram back into the
14:25 battery and this is such a clever system because if you don't want it to brake hard, you just
14:30 pull the plus, if you want it to brake a little harder, you pull on the negative.
14:34 Genius.
14:35 But unfortunately that's where the genius ends because it is a really, really clunky
14:40 system.
14:41 As you roll off the throttle in most electric cars, there's a bit of a gradual reduction
14:46 in speed and the deceleration is uniform.
14:48 Here when you roll off the throttle, there's nothing, nothing, everything and then all
14:51 of a sudden it starts slowing down, gets to the point where it gets to around 10 kilometres
14:55 an hour and then it just stops slowing down.
14:57 Again, in a lot of modern EVs, they're actually allowing the car to come to a full stop under
15:01 complete regen which means you never have to use the brake pedal.
15:04 This just is one step too far back and it really hasn't been engineered well enough
15:10 to make this a smooth driving experience with regeneration.
15:13 Let's talk about what is under the bonnet.
15:15 There are two drivetrains here.
15:16 There is a petrol engine, so that's a 1.6 litre naturally aspirated four-cylinder petrol
15:21 engine.
15:22 It produces 77 kilowatts of power and 147 newton metres of torque.
15:27 So that's a pretty modest engine in that sense but it mates with an electric motor
15:32 that produces 44.5 kilowatts of power and 170 newton metres of torque and that produces
15:39 a combined power output of 104 kilowatts of power.
15:44 So that means that when you do need to get up and go, you have the assistance of the
15:47 internal combustion engine and also the electric motor or it can simply run on a full electric
15:53 mode for about 63 kilometres.
15:55 But the end result of that is when you do need to give it a little punch, give it a
16:00 kick, everything comes to life and you get that surge so you're not just stuck with a
16:04 lacklustre small power output petrol engine.
16:07 I wanted to explain a question that we get asked a lot and that is combined power output.
16:14 What the hell does it mean?
16:15 Okay, so this is under the bonnet of the Ioniq and it's pretty straightforward.
16:19 Here you have the plug-in hybrid system which is a petrol engine, this is an internal combustion
16:24 engine, 1.6 litre and immediately next to it is an electric motor.
16:29 These two combine at some point to give you maximum power and also maximum torque but
16:35 they also work independently of each other as well.
16:37 How do you come up with a maximum power figure that isn't simply these two combined?
16:42 Because this is 77 kilowatts of power, this is 44.5, one would assume that you simply
16:47 add those together and you have your peak power.
16:49 Well you don't and I'm going to quickly explain why as simply as I can.
16:54 This is a power curve, down here we have RPM which is engine speed and then here we have
17:01 kilowatts of power which is a metric of power production.
17:05 This is kilowatts, you can also do horsepower but it's all very much the same thing.
17:09 With our internal combustion engine, it tends to produce most of its peak power at the top
17:14 end of the rev band so it climbs something like this and then drops off as it reaches
17:19 its peak.
17:21 Its peak is 77 kilowatts of power.
17:24 Our electric motor on the other hand produces most of its peak power right at the bottom
17:29 end of the rev band and then it tapers off so it looks more like this.
17:35 And this is not to scale by the way so engineering Nazis just chill out.
17:39 The way this works is we need to figure out what the peak is.
17:42 The peak is going to be when these two are at their highest points so it could be here,
17:47 it could be here, wherever the peak is it's going to be what the biggest number is.
17:51 So in this case it's going to be around here somewhere where you add this number and this
17:55 number together and that gives you the peak of 104 kilowatts of power.
18:01 If the electric motor was to produce its peak somewhere around here, that number would be
18:05 much higher but it doesn't which is why your peak occurs when we have the highest power
18:10 output figure for both of these engines/motors.
18:13 So hopefully that explains what the difference is there.
18:16 Same thing here with torque.
18:17 So this produces all of its torque down low, this produces torque a little later so you're
18:22 going to reach a peak not at the start of the rev band but slightly later.
18:25 If you have any questions let me know, if we've mucked anything up let me know but keen
18:29 to hear your feedback either way.
18:31 So what's the point of adding all this extra weight?
18:33 I mean you've got batteries, you've got a whole extra system there to worry about.
18:37 Well it's fuel economy because it means if you predominantly travel on electricity alone
18:42 and that's under 63km a day, you're going to use zero fuel.
18:47 But if you're doing a longer journey this becomes a really efficient proposal because
18:50 the first 63km are petrol free and that means you get a combined fuel economy of just 1.1
18:56 litres per 100km and that is roughly what we've achieved during our testing.
19:01 The big difference between a hybrid and a plug in hybrid is that you can charge the
19:06 battery on a plug in hybrid using AC, so that's alternating current electricity and it's pretty
19:12 straightforward, you can either charge it at home on a standard 10 amp circuit or you
19:15 can actually plug in a faster charger which is a 3.3kW charger and that all charges an
19:20 8.9kWh battery.
19:23 So to put that into context, a Tesla battery in a Model 3 for example is about 79kWh, so
19:29 this is about a tenth of the size of a full electric car which is why you're not getting
19:33 that massive amount of range but equally you're not getting a smaller amount of range either
19:38 because it's not a super heavy battery like it is in a full electric car.
19:42 Let's put all the electric car mumbo jumbo to the side.
19:46 You are getting a really impressive package here because it looks, well I guess it looks
19:52 a little bit like a weird electric car, but it looks fairly normal inside the cabin, it's
19:56 fairly normal, but it drives absolutely beautifully.
19:59 So Hyundai does a custom ride and handling tune for Australia and that means you are
20:03 getting a car that is super, super compliant over bumps.
20:07 16 inch alloy wheels and fairly chubby tyres mean it's not crashing over everything and
20:12 the compliance is sensational and that is regardless of the type of road you're throwing
20:17 at it.
20:18 Hyundai has done such a good job here making this feel like a nice car to drive.
20:22 The steering is bang on point, it's nice and light, it's an electrically assisted unit,
20:27 it doesn't have that sporty feel to it and nor does it need to, it's perfect for parking
20:31 and making tight manoeuvres.
20:33 Turning circle of 10.6 metres curb to curb means you won't have to do 50,000 point turns
20:38 to get this around in a tight street.
20:40 Visibility out the cabin is great, we've got decent sized wing mirrors.
20:44 Now out the back there I mentioned earlier that it has like a little, a porthole that
20:47 you see through so you've got two levels of visibility out the boot.
20:51 They both work fairly well, I think in the Prius it's a little bit compromised but here
20:55 in the Ioniq I can see clearly out the back there without any dramas.
20:59 Being an electric vehicle it is dead quiet so right now we are in EV mode so even with
21:04 the battery down to simply 11% it will still motor along with the engine off so right now
21:11 it is dead silent and it is barely making a whisper so that is one of the big advantages
21:16 of driving an electric car.
21:18 So far so good but Hyundai has done something that annoys the absolute crap out of me.
21:25 There is a dual clutch transmission lurking under here.
21:28 I cannot fathom why you would bother putting a dual clutch transmission in a car like this.
21:33 It does not need quick gear shifts.
21:35 Yes a dual clutch transmission is more efficient than a torque converter but why do you do
21:40 this to people?
21:41 You go and get this package that is really nice and then add a clunky dual clutch and
21:45 you can hear it on occasion clunking along as it goes up a hill.
21:48 You get that slight sort of fidgety lag as it moves off the line.
21:53 It really is just a disappointing inclusion in what is otherwise a really good car to
22:00 drive.
22:01 So Hyundai Ioniq plug-in hybrid in one of the four colours it's available in.
22:05 Do I love it?
22:06 No, not really.
22:07 I don't love the gearbox.
22:09 Dual clutch gearboxes just annoy the crap out of me.
22:11 I don't like the regen mode.
22:13 It's pretty nasty at times and it needs some refinement.
22:16 Hyundai just buy a Tesla and copy what they do with regen.
22:19 That will solve your problems immediately.
22:21 But if you put that stuff aside, if you can take advantage of that 63km electric driving
22:25 range and charge it each night, you could potentially have a car that you barely ever
22:29 switch on.
22:30 It just runs on electricity the whole time.
22:32 So from that point of view it's good, it's affordable and all that kind of stuff.
22:35 Do you agree with our verdict?
22:36 Did you buy one of these?
22:37 What do you think of it?
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22:56 I think someone's about to get arrested.
23:01 That guy's been there all morning and I think all night as well and he's now getting questioned.
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