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I have the Ioniq Hybrid and it has the same "no rear wiper" issues as the Ioniq 5 it seems.

I'm kind of surprised TC hasn't made a video about outlets in North America being installed upside down the vast majority of the time. (Seeing the one in your garage is upside down reminded me to post this.)

Aaron the Tinkerer

You just gotta joking the hacking community that will spin up around that car. Someone will find the config file and change it. Also: down with the animated blinkers on corvettes

kn0tsin

I drive a Tesla Model S in the UK. The dash animation shows a blinking, all-red brake light on the rear, despite the car having orange indicator (turn) signals all around. Whenever I notice, I think of "the" video! 😂 A friend has the Ioniq 5 here and it, too, has orange indicators on the rear.

George M1GEO

The new car looks good, I ordered a Ford Maverick Hybrid. Until there's more infrastructure for electric vehicles I'm hesitant to get one. At least the hybrid will help me be more eco conscious. Good luck on the trip to Florida.

I have the old Starlink dish. I am curious if you have connectivity issues during heavy rain, because I sure do. Not sure whether it’s due to attenuation of signal through rain, or the physical impact of the raindrops on the dish causing it to lose track of the satellite.

My guess based on the profile is that there is a significant savings in drag to not add a wiper arm. Some water jets would be welcome in those cases though.

Seems a bit daft that there's a problem when you can fit yellow and red LEDs in the same place and have it flash red and yellow (ok amber) alternately and if any legislatures object just turn one of them off. I always preferred trafficators anyway, but that's just my being awkward.

Jim Hewlett

Alec's has the rear tail stop lights four "pixels" 😀 high and the German and Aus one's are three high with turn indicator LED row below

Jim Hooke

An article with video of the German Ioniq 5 tail lights https://jalopnik.com/the-hyundai-ioniq-5s-taillights-are-a-reminder-that-hyu-1848025465/amp

Jim Hooke

I wonder what it would take to mount an Aus-spec taillight set into a US-spec Ioniq. Thirty years ago it would probably have been pretty simple, but these days, who knows....

Brooks Moses

Have you asked the dealership you bought it from if they can enable the amber turn signals? Some North American cars (as stupid as this sounds) have exactly the same light assemblies as the rest of the world, it's just a software change to enable the amber lights. As designing and getting compliance/approval and then manufacturing two separate light assemblies is stupid.

WizardTim

Looking forward to a vid on that car, it's gorgeous! (as far as cars go). Starlink as well, I guess.

Leigh Beattie

PS: Your video on the Bolt EV lead me to discover your channel years ago and helped me make the decision to buy my own. I LOVE it and am never going back to ICE.

The Ioniq 5 gives me strong Delorean vibes.

Best to find a high spot to mount the "dish" for sure. I've found that the Starlink dish will attempt to adjust over the course of days/weeks. Mine was initially pointed way more north than it is now, directly into the top of a tree that I have no way to move. Was hit or miss for several days. Eventually all of a sudden it was like "No obstructions" and I went and looked and it was physically a bit more flat vs a huge northern angle. Still north, and aimed a few degrees west, but not like it was... and enough to clear the tree. I also found that the service was more reliable after I put the _exact_ coordinates of where I mounted it in on the website (and I've found Google Earth's satellite pics to be off by about 10', for reference). Like, I moved it 30 feet from where I marked it previously, and it worked fine, but it worked better after I set it properly. No idea why this would matter, but I changed it back to the old spot to make sure I wasn't crazy and the service was in fact degraded. I also have the round dish, so, dunno if this matters or not.

Jason Hughes

I salute you

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I'm still driving an increasingly-rare first-gen Mazda6 hatchback here in similar snow country, and I don't know how I'd live without the rear wiper. The Mazda6 hatchback was a bit of a sleeper, since it looks almost identical to the sedan (which they sold for quite a bit longer). The only way to tell them apart at a distance is the presence of a rear wiper. Why the hatchback, with almost exactly the same rear window slope as the sedan, got the rear wiper and the sedan didn't is beyond me, but I'm certainly happy about it. Very nice choice on the Ioniq 5, though. It's definitely been on my short list of cars to consider.

Tnarg42

You'd think that they could have the kind which park in the vertical position, to have the least drag. Always annoyed me too about sedans.

I Move for a Bad Science Thingy

A wise man once told me, “temporary solutions become permanent”, or some grab bag of verbiage. Looks solid to me!

Jerame Edwards

Ah yes the infernal US centric light combo special you have videoed about. The same EV here in Aus and all other cars have "proper" turn signals. We're getting a lot of cars with the directional bar type LEDs that chase in turn direction. For hazard lights all come on together

Jim Hooke

I'm 100% in agreement. So much of the infrastructure is RIGHT THERE, but it's hard to get people to tap into it because that costs money. If there were a lot of fast chargers near you, you could maybe make it work, but it's nowhere near as nice as access to slow charging at home. At the very least, building codes need to be updated to mandate sufficient EVSE installs in new builds, but I would absolutely support an electrification mandate for landlords.

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I really wish I could get an electric car. Would be perfect for me and my driving patterns...save for the fact I'm in an apartment that is a converted 80s office building with an underground parking garage. Need a law to force chargers to be installed down there.

Certified Nerd

If it's not so bad once we're not dumping salt everywhere, that'll be nice. But I will not be surprised if Hyundai adds one for 2023. I'm mostly indifferent about it, but it definitely is irritating.

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Lack of a rear wiper is a huge oversight in an otherwise amazing car. The aero treatment hasn't worked here doesn't seem like Rain-X makes a difference either. Some folks are using the rear facing camera in a pinch it seems.

Car looks great! Antenna looks like an antenna. Glad the move is going well and things are turning out like you want them too. :)

Yea, wipers are far more effective than modeled or even wind-tunnel tested airflow in clean, non-Winter conditions ;). I've driven hatchbacks all my life and can't stand it when I drive a car with no rear wiper, even if it's a sedan. I understand why sedans don't have them, but I constantly reach for one anyway as I actually like to *see* out the rear window. Ridiculous, I know.

antibrevity

I just want you to know something: I, too, have always felt the same way about the rear lighting. I have always preferred having amber turn signals, but I've always kept it to myself (you know the whole, "you make mountains out of mole hills" thing people say). Well your video helped to validate what I felt was always right. So when my new Tacoma came not only with red turn signals, but red turn signals that DON'T EVEN DOUBLE AS BRAKE LIGHTS (whyyyyy??) I went out of my way to find, purchase, and install a custom wiring harness that addressed this by making the red, turn signal lens part of the braking lights and uses an amber/white switchback LED in the clear reverse lens for the rear turn signals. So thank you Alec, for making me feel validated enough to chase what really mattered.

I've wondered if there was a change in regulation since the Lucid Air, made in California with the US market in mind surprisingly has thin amber turn signals strips and it looks glorious, but oh well. I'm confused why the Ioniq 5 with a hatchback style doesn't even offer a rear wiper as option, but I remember they mentioning the airflow around the area would account for that, apparently it didn't work lol.

Guy Mendes

Hey, it's a Squarial!

Martin Deutsch

Homestuck rims

Eve Cable

When you made that video about red turn signals, I was like, "YES! THANK YOU! Why do they do that? It's so annoying!" My dreams were shattered recently when I realized that the car I was considering getting, a Lincoln MKZ, has no amber lights in the back. 😡 The Ioniq looks very 80's retro, almost tacky, but kinda cool.

I Move for a Bad Science Thingy

I'm just glad they're so different. People seem to prefer one over the other, and I actually like the interior of the EV6 better. But I really don't care for the exterior. Meanwhile other folks find it really futuristic, so they've done a great job making two very different vehicles on the same platform. For me, ride comfort matters more than interior styling, and since I like the exterior of the Hyundai so much more than the Kia, and the Kia is supposedly much more of a firm ride, it was hands-down the Hyundai. I actually signed all the papers before I ever set eyes on the car, that's how sure I was I wanted it!

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So far so good! I occasionally experience brief interruptions, and sites that pull resources from a whole bunch of places are sometimes annoying (even just Twitter often loads profile pics really slowly) but a sustained download can easily get over 100 mbps, and streaming video is now quite good!

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Heh, neat! Don't worry though, before I even put it on the cinder blocks it was surprisingly steady in wind. I couldn't even see the dish pitching at all. I'll just climb up the ladder and check on it every once in a while

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It's basically if EPCOT were a car, so you know I had to get one.

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Car is neat looking dude.

John Dye

I like the matte grey, it looks great on such angular styling. Considering how 'uncool' Hyundai was not all that long ago, they've certainly come a very long way. Congratulations on the new vehicle!

ChasingSol

It is, but did you know it's hand-wash only? That's suuuuuuper fun. OK, so they tell me it's hand-wash only and that it shouldn't go through a tunnel-style car wash, but the little pamphlet also says pressure-washing is fine. So what I've decided is that touch-free car washes are OK, so long as you don't get a program with a wax-like product. I did not know this before I bought the car so... we're learning together! I figure if I ruin the finish after a couple of years I might bite the bullet and have it re-painted (or maybe wrapped). My first-choice was actually white.

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That Ioniq is certainly far better-looking than its Kia cousin. I really don't like the tail lights on the Kia EV6 at all. But the Hyundai looks good.

Laurence MacNeill

I'm a structural engineer and calculating wind forces and wind resistance of buildings (and objects attached to buildings) is part of what I do. If you're curious feel free to DM/E-Mail me and I'd be happy to calculate the exact wind speed at which your antenna would either slide or blow away!

oh.... she's pretty!

Paul Schuur

That doesn't have much to do with the roof, you just have a bad envelope. This house barely warms up and I actually think that's in large part *because* it has a white flat-roof and no attic to trap heat in.

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my buddy Karl has StarLink out in rural Arizona and it's been a life-changer for him... i hope you have as much success with it and that it keeps working well for you, too!

Deviant Ollam

That matte finish is stunning. Very nice.

Yes, and yes

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The pickin's are slim with EVs that I want, and reviews suggested the Ioniq is comfort-first in a way no other EVs have been so far. Everyone seems to be going for "sporty" which means rough and bouncy suspensions, and the Ioniq has (thankfully!) gone the other way. If there were more options I might have considered it a deal-breaker, but as things are now I begrudgingly went with it. Even the VW ID.4 has all-red rears here in the states! It's incredibly annoying!

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It's dried salt-spray, so not exactly weather but weather-related. It comes off with a rinse

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Didn't you have a Volt before? (I still have mine). Did you trade it in on the Ioniq 5?

The 8-Bit Guy

why'd you buy a vehicle with red turn signals? it was important enough to me to vote with my wallet on that issue 😂

I feel like we will see a video soon about the tail lamps. In fact, I’m looking forward to it!

Charlie Davidson

I work in a flat roof building. Unfortunately, that means we have to run the central air conditioner as early as April and as late as November because while the temperature (and humidity) may go down outside, the heat is trapped inside. Anyway, nice pics. Thanks for providing them.

Mike Chimeri

Is your driver’s window okay? Is that just weather?

Given which of the pixels are "frosted" and which are clear, I am pretty sure they're entirely different modules. If I could track Euro-spec modules down it might be interesting to see if they work, but the wiring harnesses could be different or maybe it would need some re-programming. I've actually thought about doing this, and I'll see what parts availability is like, but I think it's probably more trouble than it's worth. While they are combined, they're big and bright, and the third brake light is also quite large, too. So it could definitely be worse.

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I have been waiting for what feels like forever to get my magical invitation to order a Starlink kit. I live in a rural area and while I have access to Xfinity I also find them to be robber barons disguised as an ISP. Hopefully you like the service.

Kevin Maher

I love the design of the Ioniq 5, with all its 80's touches. Good choice 👍 Would it be possible to reprogramme/rebuild the lights to EU-spec? Or would that be too complicated with warranty and the likes?

Me, too. I'm so disappointed that Hyundai did it here. Their international versions of the car have the bottom row of pixels light up amber, but the NA versions are altered *just for us* I have been told our lighting regulations require the lights to be at least a certain physical size ant not just brightness, so it could be the rest-of-the-world spec wouldn't meet our regs. That's the most charitable explanation, but I'm not sure it's correct.

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My biggest car-related pet peeve is cars where the turn signal is also the break light. I HATE THEM.

Elysia Fields

Well, depending on the design of the car it may truly not need one. My first car was a Civic and it didn't have a rear wiper, yet so long as you were moving at any reasonable speed nothing would land on the glass thanks to the airflow around the car. And once you moved it would clear off quickly from a stop. That was an actual car with a trunk, though, so the glass wasn't exposed to salt spray. This, being a hatchback/crossover has the glass at the very back, so it's not so lucky. They designed scoops into the spoiler which are *supposed* to make the same sort of airflow trick work, but it's not cutting it for salt. We'll see how it does in the warmer months.

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I thought something was wrong when I rented a car in the US and it had no rear wiper. This one baffles me, it just seems to be a cost thing.

It is bigger than you would expect from its proportions but it's not *that* big. It's about the size of a CR-V or RAV4, but not as tall. My folks had a '15 Equinox and it's a similar size, but I think the interior space is a tad bit longer. Certainly seems that way with the seats folded

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Thanks!

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A big reason I made the reservation as soon as I saw it

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schmancy!

Xyon of Calhoun

I don’t want to just replace my Subaru Forester XT which is simply a great car, but I cannot say how much I love the styling of the Ionic 5! The draw to get one is so strong. That exterior styling is a real knockout!

Adrian's Digital Basement

That car is sooo big

Car looks good. Gratz

Michael Ford

That car looks like a space ship

at0m

Ohhhhhh I like the car!!!

Ruairi P Donaldson