Great drive with a couple major oversights Hundai needs to address.
I've been pretty happy with my 2026 Ioniq 5 for the first few months I've had it. It's fun to drive, fast charging is actually fast, and home charging makes my wallet happy.
Hyundai really needs to fix a few things, however. The driver attention system hates joy (it breaks every time I smile) and freaks out at night, and is nigh-unusable for the driving automation features unless I open my eyes so widely that they are about to fall out of my face. I have to resort to turning the associated drive assist features off completely for the majority of my driving. It's a shame, really. It needed a lot more calibration and testing before being put into a production vehicle. The capacitive touch sensing on the steering wheel is great, though, and is a major improvement over torque sensing.
The lack of automatic locking when the driver walks away with the keys is a terrible design choice and lags behind other manufacturers. It's not hard to do, y'all.
On the infotainment side, the maps are... acceptable but not great, and it commonly takes up to a minute or two to actually load the user profiles when starting the car, far far far too slow. Otherwise the infotainment system is pretty good, and Android Auto works great.
Overall, though, the vehicle is really, really good and probably my favorite vehicle so far to drive and own. If/once Hyundai puts some more work into the driver attention system and polishes a couple rough edges, things will be nigh on perfect.
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