Hyundai Ioniq 5 vs. Kia EV6 Race to 0%

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We take our long term Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Kia EV6 to to zero percent battery to see what happens.

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00:00 Hey, I'm Alex with Motor Trend.

00:01 Hey, I'm Eric with Motor Trend.

00:03 And we are here today with our Hyundai IONIQ 5 and the Kia EV6.

00:08 And we're going to do a little race today.

00:10 So underneath the skin, both of these cars are basically the same

00:13 riding on Hyundai's E-GMP electric vehicle platform.

00:17 And what we're going to do is we're going to start here in sunny Santa Monica

00:21 with 20% state of charge.

00:22 And then we're going to head north on PCH.

00:25 We're going to see whose car runs out of battery first.

00:28 Then we're going to call roadside assistance and see who can get to the charger first,

00:32 charge it to 80%, and then get back on the road.

00:36 It's like the dumbest race you've ever heard of, right?

00:38 Yeah.

00:38 You're going down.

00:40 All right, so departing Santa Monica with 20% state of charge

00:44 and 48 miles shown on the gauge cluster.

00:48 So the goal here is to be basically as inefficient as possible.

00:53 So I'm going to run in the highest regen mode, one pedal driving.

00:58 And I might as well endure cranking up the heat here as well.

01:01 So I'm going to put this on full blast, 82 degrees and level eight for the fan.

01:08 And it's going to get plenty toasty in this car, plenty quick.

01:11 So I might have to take this jacket off soon.

01:14 But let's get out of town and see what happens.

01:16 Oh, here we go.

01:18 I just popped it into sport mode and it dropped down from 48 miles shown

01:22 on the projection to 45 instantly.

01:24 So try and do some strong accelerations.

01:28 Pacific Coast Highway is kind of perfect for that.

01:30 So let's enjoy this thing's 443 pound feet of torque

01:36 and 4.4 seconds here in a 60 time along the way.

01:39 Why don't we?

01:40 All right, we just took a quick lunch break.

01:43 Apparently, leaving your car running while parked is considered cheap.

01:54 Anyway, I'm down to 9% 26 miles range.

01:57 Yes, I just got the low EV battery warning 10%.

02:03 All right, 3%.

02:06 3% 8 miles range.

02:12 Starting to feel a little range anxiety.

02:23 So we finally hit zero miles.

02:25 This battery is totally flat.

02:27 But what's funny is it actually gave me eight miles from the point it first told me that it was on zero miles.

02:32 So a little bit of bonus.

02:33 But now here I am.

02:34 I am flooring the accelerator and nothing is happening.

02:37 So it's time to call Roadside Assistance and see what happens next.

02:51 Uh oh, I think I'm dead.

02:52 Oh my God, I think I died.

02:58 I'm at the worst spot possible.

03:01 So the car's died 11 miles after the battery ran down to zero.

03:10 Or we got zero miles of range.

03:12 One hour later.

03:12 [Music]

03:24 So now we're here.

03:26 We have contacted Roadside Assistance.

03:28 They sent us a text.

03:31 It might be a two hour wait.

03:33 Hopefully it's faster than that.

03:34 Yeah, so the waiting continues.

03:40 I'm already out of the way.

03:41 Yeah, it's not over until it's over.

03:44 Not over until it's over.

03:45 [Music]

04:01 Oh hey, where are you?

04:03 Oh, the beach looks nice.

04:08 You haven't actually gone anywhere.

04:11 That's too bad.

04:13 Well, I'm plugged into a 350.

04:18 So 15 minutes to 80.

04:22 Where's your tow truck?

04:23 Dude, it's so crazy.

04:25 So they texted me an update with a tracking link.

04:33 And the driver is just now leaving downtown Santa Monica.

04:37 Oh man.

04:38 Sweet.

04:39 All right, well, good racing against you.

04:43 Good one.

04:44 Yeah, it was fun.

04:45 Yeah, cool.

04:46 Well, keep me posted and we'll talk soon.

04:48 All right, later man.

04:50 All right, so that was Eric.

04:56 He hasn't even moved from the beach yet.

04:57 So this one's in the bag.

04:59 Another win for the Hyundai IONIQ 5.

05:01 For the full story on what happens when we run our EVs to zero,

05:04 head to MotorTrend.com.

05:05 [MUSIC PLAYING]

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