Hyundai Ioniq 5 (2025) Review

The Ioniq 5 arrived looking like nothing else and it still does, because Hyundai committed to the pixel motif and the flat, upright, glassy shape rather than softening it into another crossover. Underneath is the thing that matters more, an 800 volt architecture that pulls a genuine 350 kilowatts and takes the pack from ten to eighty percent in about eighteen minutes when the charger cooperates. The 2025 revision enlarges the battery, adds a native connector for Tesla's network in North America and finally fits a rear wiper.

The cabin is a triumph of packaging, with a flat floor, a sliding centre console and rear seats that recline properly, and Hyundai kept physical climate controls when almost everyone else deleted them. Vehicle to load turns it into a generator. The blot is reliability, specifically the integrated charging control unit failures that stranded a meaningful number of early cars and drew a recall. Resale has been soft across the segment, which makes a used one very tempting indeed.