Is An Older One Price Shopping for In 2025?

• The Hyundai Ioniq 5 has been round since 2022 in America. However for 2025, it bought important updates, together with an even bigger battery and a Tesla-style NACS plug.
• However used Ioniq 5s are an excellent worth. Are they value shopping for as we speak?
• Automobile and Driver’s 40,000-mile check of a 2023 Ioniq 5 indicated the automobile is “nice however highly effective,” low-cost to take care of and good at DC fast-charging.

Each time I drive a Hyundai Ioniq 5I shortly keep in mind why it is one in every of my “Simply Purchase This” suggestions for anybody fascinated with an electrical crossover. It appears to be like cool, it is usually glorious on vary, it has class-leading DC fast-charging, and it is faster than any comparable gasoline automobile on this class.

For 2025, Hyundai additional refined its successful system with a bigger battery, elevated vary, an up to date inside, and, most crucially, a Tesla-style North American Charging Normal (NACS) plug. It is also turning out to be an excellent deal for 2026even because the EV tax credit finish.

However I might argue the used offers are the place it is at. A fast scan of Vehicles.com reveals which you could get a 2022-2024 Ioniq 5 all day lengthy for $25,000 to about $35,000, relying on miles and situation. That is a number of automobile for not a ton of money. So, is an older Ioniq 5 value it?

This newest video from Automobile and Driver might assist inform your choice. It is a wrap-up of the journal’s commonplace 40,000-mile, two-year long-term check. (If studying is extra your jam, see their article right here.) And it is a candid take a look at what it is like to actually reside with one in every of this stuff.

As my pal, C&D’s Managing Editor for Evaluations, Andrew Krok, explains, they opted for the Ioniq 5 in all probability most individuals find yourself with: a middle-of-the-road SEL trim with dual-motor all-wheel-drive for these Michigan winters. Meaning 320 horsepower and 446 pound-feet of torque, powered by a 77-kilowatt-hour battery with an official ranking of 266 miles.

I would not say 266 miles is “nice” in late 2025. The EV discipline has superior a lot lately that round 300 miles looks like desk stakes today. A 2025 Ioniq 5 SEL AWD boosts vary to 290 miles, for instance.

But each Ioniq 5 has an Eco Mode operate that deactivates the entrance motor for extra effectivity, so you’ll be able to positively stretch these miles additional.

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Nonetheless, C&D’s freeway vary exams had been merely… high quality. In lengthy 75-mph freeway runs, the magazine averaged round 210 miles of whole vary, although it is not clear in the event that they used Eco Mode extensively or not—I’ve performed higher on this automobile and my very own Kia EV6, which has basically the identical {hardware}. Nevertheless, throughout two winters, they noticed sub-200-mile vary estimates, and that doesn’t shock me.

However there are numerous upsides to the Ioniq 5, even an older one. C&D beloved the 4.4-second zero to 60 mph time, for one—you will be consuming comparable Toyota RAV4s for breakfast. There’s additionally the cool appears to be like, glorious inside area, fold-down rear seats and Utility Mode. That turns the Ioniq 5 into an enormous battery that may cost all kinds of gadgets, such that one C&D editor really lived within the again for a number of days. (Hopefully, he did this by selection.)

The downsides of their older mannequin are the dearth of a rear windshield wiper, one other repair that was made for 2025; an interface that would use a number of extra bodily buttons; and a finicky cowl for the DC fast-charging port.

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However this is the place the Ioniq 5 actually scores a house run: service prices throughout these 40,000 miles. That may be $82, whole. The automobile wanted one journey to the seller for a tire rotation and a cabin air filter change, each of which might be performed without spending a dime at residence. “Essentially the most cash we spent on the Ioniq 5 was, weirdly sufficient, the wiper blades,” Krok stated. The inventory Hyundai ones weren’t so nice, and a alternative set took flight throughout a freeway drive.

After which there was a 12-volt battery failure downside—the usual battery in each automobile that operates vital capabilities like locks, doorways and lights. That is a statistically uncommon downside with Hyundai and Kia EVs (and never one I’ve ever encountered, fortunately) however it was fastened without spending a dime on the seller. And the second time, it was merely as a result of the battery was dangerous.

I might add that on a fast-enough DC charger, you’ll be able to see speeds of as much as round 230 kilowatts, and the automobile can usually go from 10% to 80% in simply 18 minutes in supreme circumstances. That makes it probably the greatest fast-charging EVs available on the market, and whereas newer choices are catching up or doing it quicker, you will not get them for a similar value as an affordable, pre-owned Ioniq 5. And with an adapterthis automobile may even entry the Tesla Supercharger community now, too.

So is that this an excellent used purchase? I might say it’s, and C&D’s testing appears to agree. It is nice, highly effective and you’ll even sleep within the again in a pinch. Contemplating what Ioniq 5s are going for on the pre-owned market today, it could be a fair higher deal than a more moderen one.

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