You did REALLY well with the car. This info below is for people new to EVs, thinking of buying one. The chargers do say up to 350kW, but you would need a car that can take 1,000 Volts at 350 Amps (multiplied together, that makes the 350kW). The Hyundai / Kia / Genesis group of cars is one of the fastest charging cars under $100,000 on the market - they can all take 800 Volts at around 300 Amps to max out in the 240kW range (Volts x Amps = Watts, and a kiloWatt just means 1,000 Watts). Most EVs are 400 Volts or less. You'd need the new Porsche Taycan or a Lucid Air Grand Touring to get above 300kW. As of 2024, no production passenger car can take 350kW - the chargers are just future-proofed so when cars are made with batteries that CAN take it in the years to come, they're already in place. The car charges much faster when it's emptier, and when the battery is above 70ºF. To use the battery preconditioning using the built-in onboard navigation: select POI (Place Of Interest) --> EV Charging Stations in maps, and select the DC Fast Charger location on your route. As long as you have at least 20% State Of Charge, it'll start to get the battery to the right temperature for quick charging when you're 30 miles or so from the charger (a heating coil icon shows on the battery level icon on the bottom of your instrument screen). If you're at less than 40% State Of Charge and your battery is the right temperature, you will rip into the charge. For people in Northern States or for colder weather, that's what you would use. If you've been driving pretty solidly in mild dry weather, doing some overtaking and braking for the half-hour before you get to a charger, the battery is usually warmed up nicely that way too. Same as your cellphone if you use a lot of apps that draw power like the Maps or some games - the battery in the phone warms up. And just the act of charging anything electric with a battery warms it up, so you'll see speeds ramp up when it's plugged in for a minute or two and the battery starts to get toasty. Once the battery starts to fill up, there is less room to stick free electrons so the car tells the charger to slow things down. The movie theater thing you said is a great way of explaining it. That's why people online suggest "charger hopping" - if you can drive down to 40% or lower, just charge to 80% before the slowdown in charging, then drive to 40% or lower to the next charger, you get to your destination quicker. It takes as long to charge from 0% to 80% as it does from 80% to 100%. It's usually not the charger that is running slow because of a fault, it's the car telling the charger to run slow because the battery is too cold or too full. But if you help it to get in optimal shape, charging is quick. At 3:28 you got it up 237kW (close to the maximum the IONIQ 6 can pull). Ford Mustang Mach-E or Chevrolet Bolt drivers can only DREAM of charging that fast. Using the A Better Route Planner app is great. People that don't like the idea of an EV say how you have to plan a trip ...but if you were traveling a big road-trip back in the day, you would plan the route using a road atlas or a AAA TripTik. A Better Route Planner is just a TripTik on a phone screen, and it has the added benefit of getting you to stretch your legs / eat and drink / go to a restroom on a regular basis. Put in your destination, it plans the route. It takes less than a minute! And your car in Sports Mode can go from 0 to 60 mph faster than a Ferrari Testarossa!
Thanks for adding all that information! We also hooked up a CarlinKit Android 9.0 CarPlay Ai Box with A Better Route Planner installed. That made the display much larger.
Glad you are enjoying your Ioniq six. It looks great by the way. I just purchased one mid August unfortunately I have experienced the electric system problem about 2 1/2 weeks after I purchased it. It basically would not go into drive or reverse and it gave me the check your electric system warning so it became undrivable. At the time of this writing it is still at the dealership waiting for whatever part it needs. I spoke to the dealership yesterday and they told me that they don’t know when the part will come in, so no estimated time of repair so far. I’m hoping this will fix the problem once and for all and that I don’t encounter any more issues. We really like the car otherwise.
Sorry to hear that you have a warning. Hope the part and service will be in quickly so you are back on the road. The recall was taken care of during our trip and so far everything is working perfectly.
You did REALLY well with the car. This info below is for people new to EVs, thinking of buying one.
The chargers do say up to 350kW, but you would need a car that can take 1,000 Volts at 350 Amps (multiplied together, that makes the 350kW). The Hyundai / Kia / Genesis group of cars is one of the fastest charging cars under $100,000 on the market - they can all take 800 Volts at around 300 Amps to max out in the 240kW range (Volts x Amps = Watts, and a kiloWatt just means 1,000 Watts). Most EVs are 400 Volts or less. You'd need the new Porsche Taycan or a Lucid Air Grand Touring to get above 300kW. As of 2024, no production passenger car can take 350kW - the chargers are just future-proofed so when cars are made with batteries that CAN take it in the years to come, they're already in place.
The car charges much faster when it's emptier, and when the battery is above 70ºF. To use the battery preconditioning using the built-in onboard navigation: select POI (Place Of Interest) --> EV Charging Stations in maps, and select the DC Fast Charger location on your route. As long as you have at least 20% State Of Charge, it'll start to get the battery to the right temperature for quick charging when you're 30 miles or so from the charger (a heating coil icon shows on the battery level icon on the bottom of your instrument screen). If you're at less than 40% State Of Charge and your battery is the right temperature, you will rip into the charge. For people in Northern States or for colder weather, that's what you would use.
If you've been driving pretty solidly in mild dry weather, doing some overtaking and braking for the half-hour before you get to a charger, the battery is usually warmed up nicely that way too. Same as your cellphone if you use a lot of apps that draw power like the Maps or some games - the battery in the phone warms up. And just the act of charging anything electric with a battery warms it up, so you'll see speeds ramp up when it's plugged in for a minute or two and the battery starts to get toasty.
Once the battery starts to fill up, there is less room to stick free electrons so the car tells the charger to slow things down. The movie theater thing you said is a great way of explaining it. That's why people online suggest "charger hopping" - if you can drive down to 40% or lower, just charge to 80% before the slowdown in charging, then drive to 40% or lower to the next charger, you get to your destination quicker. It takes as long to charge from 0% to 80% as it does from 80% to 100%.
It's usually not the charger that is running slow because of a fault, it's the car telling the charger to run slow because the battery is too cold or too full. But if you help it to get in optimal shape, charging is quick. At 3:28 you got it up 237kW (close to the maximum the IONIQ 6 can pull). Ford Mustang Mach-E or Chevrolet Bolt drivers can only DREAM of charging that fast.
Using the A Better Route Planner app is great. People that don't like the idea of an EV say how you have to plan a trip ...but if you were traveling a big road-trip back in the day, you would plan the route using a road atlas or a AAA TripTik. A Better Route Planner is just a TripTik on a phone screen, and it has the added benefit of getting you to stretch your legs / eat and drink / go to a restroom on a regular basis. Put in your destination, it plans the route. It takes less than a minute!
And your car in Sports Mode can go from 0 to 60 mph faster than a Ferrari Testarossa!
Thanks for adding all that information! We also hooked up a CarlinKit Android 9.0 CarPlay Ai Box with A Better Route Planner installed. That made the display much larger.
Glad you are enjoying your Ioniq six. It looks great by the way. I just purchased one mid August unfortunately I have experienced the electric system problem about 2 1/2 weeks after I purchased it. It basically would not go into drive or reverse and it gave me the check your electric system warning so it became undrivable. At the time of this writing it is still at the dealership waiting for whatever part it needs. I spoke to the dealership yesterday and they told me that they don’t know when the part will come in, so no estimated time of repair so far. I’m hoping this will fix the problem once and for all and that I don’t encounter any more issues. We really like the car otherwise.
Sorry to hear that you have a warning. Hope the part and service will be in quickly so you are back on the road. The recall was taken care of during our trip and so far everything is working perfectly.
Did you get a loaner in the meantime? Im on the fence between the ioniq 6 and Tesla model 3
@@tube1906 I did. Ironically the gave me an Ioniq 5