Tech issues with Hyundai’s latest EV drop leaves a few orphan Ioniq 5s and 6s still for sale
Hyundai’s biggest drop in electric vehicles in Australia yet attracted the usual rush of customers desperate for one of the top-rated Ioniq 5 electric SUVs and the newly launched Ioniq 6 electric sedan.
Hyundai’s practice of offering its electric vehicles in an online rush has frustrated many, perhaps never more than on Wednesday, when reports of the website’s outage abounded. Hyundai admitted some non-specific technical issues.
These “drops” usually sell out within minutes, but due to the technical issues, there were still some Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6 EVs, more than 24 hours after the original drop on Wednesday, February 21 at 1:00 p.m.
The Driven was looking at a few locations for the Ioniq 5 and there were still a few units available.
Most of the EVs available were the top-of-the-line Epiq AWD variant, which started at $85,000 before street use.
The configurator also allows buyers to see what’s available in their state or to express interest in a variant/configuration that may not be available.
The Driven attempted to go through Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 shop configurator for different states and Ioniq 5 Epiq Edition became available in many parts of Australia.
This variant now comes with digital rear-view mirrors found on some base EVs in the Hyundai/Genesis family.
Last month’s release featured only the Ioniq 5 SUV, which saw 250 EVs snapped in just 15 minutes.
Similarly, the new all-electric Ioniq 6 sedan was available through the Dynamiq 2WD variant configurator.
This time it was Hyundai’s most significant drop in electric cars we’ve seen, with over 470 vehicles made available to Australians interested in making the switch to electric.
Of the 470, the all-new Ioniq 6 “Streamliner” sedans were the bulk. As I said, some are still available.
300 of these examples were available in February, with 76% of the total being the more efficient Dynamiq 2WD variant. Only 71 AWD variants were available in the form of 36 Techniq and 35 top-of-the-line Epiq variants.
Given the larger number of Dynamiq variants that can be ordered, it makes sense to still have a few available for customers to order. This variant offers a range of up to 614 km with the single-motor drive train with up to 168 kW of power and 350 Nm of torque.
Delivery of the Ioniq 6 sedan would take place within three months of the order being placed.
Riz is the founder of carloop based in Melbourne specializing in Australian EV data, insights and trends. He is a mechanical engineer who spent the first 7 years of his career building transportation infrastructure before founding carloop. He has a passion for cars, especially electric vehicles, and wants to help reduce traffic emissions in Australia. He currently drives a red Tesla Model 3.