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Are you using it on your Ioniq5? After reading so many 12V battery issues from Ioniq5 owners I'm anxious to attach any peripherals that might pull power excessively. I'm still thinking if I should install a dashcam or not.
have you used preconditioning on the ioniq 5 though? i never have, and it charges blazing fast at electrify america charging. i'm sure if it were genuinely harmful to do what i'm doing it wouldn't charge or would charge slower.
the downside to preconditioning is it shortens range because energy must be used to warm the battery!
I've only charged it once at an EA, it actually charged pretty slow, don't know if it was because the battery was cold, but the charger was about a mile from my house so it would have needed more time to precondition. The difference in charging speeds from a cold battery to a properly warmed battery can be quite a bit. When I was out of town earlier this summer on vacation, the Tesla chargers were about 5 minutes from my hotel so the car didn't get a chance to properly precondition the battery, and until the battery warmed properly the charging speed was about half. The extra energy it uses is not much and is worth it, and preconditioning only happens when you are your way to chargers anyway. If you precondition your battery in the mornings so your battery is efficient, you would most likely be plugged in anyway
Are you using it on your Ioniq5? After reading so many 12V battery issues from Ioniq5 owners I'm anxious to attach any peripherals that might pull power excessively. I'm still thinking if I should install a dashcam or not.
There's actually a recall on the 12V battery issue, I have letter from Hyundai that should be coming in the mail today (the USPS scans and sends to my email mail that is coming in). This will be the 4th recall, although like the other three, it's thankfully software
that’s not the world we live in. If you make that cord 100 feet, someone will plug it in 50 car spots away lol
I haven't seen that to be true. I've been in this office for almost 4 years and walked in and out that door every day and this is the first time anything like this has happened. The cord is plenty long to reach the plug on any car as long as the part of the car that has the plug is whats pointed closest to the charger.
On top of how rude this was...its also damaging to the charger.
Are you using it on your Ioniq5? After reading so many 12V battery issues from Ioniq5 owners I'm anxious to attach any peripherals that might pull power excessively. I'm still thinking if I should install a dashcam or not.
Yep that's a concern of mine too, some stay powered up. I had one for my previous car and while it worked OK most of the time, when it didn't it was a PITA. The most common issue was my wife and I both drive the I5 (and prior car it replaced) for most all our in town daily driving, and using two different phones to connect to the wireless carplay dongle was always problematic requiring multiple steps to re-setup and connect to a different phone. Also often slow to connect - she'd complain she was most of the way to the gym in the morning before it synced up.
Yep that's a concern of mine too, some stay powered up. I had one for my previous car and while it worked OK most of the time, when it didn't it was a PITA. The most common issue was my wife and I both drive the I5 (and prior car it replaced) for most all our in town daily driving, and using two different phones to connect to the wireless carplay dongle was always problematic requiring multiple steps to re-setup and connect to a different phone. Also often slow to connect - she'd complain she was most of the way to the gym in the morning before it synced up.
We've had the Ioniq 5 since July 2023, now has almost 18k on it, haven't had any issues. Zero. My wife, son and daughter always connect their phones, both BT and USB with no issues. My son once connected his laptop which uses usb-c. Of course BT one at a time
My office has a back door that has 3 EV charging spots in front of it. This moron backs in when his charge plug in above the driver side front wheel and proceeds to stretch his charging cable all the way across the roof of his car blocking access to my door. You can still squeeze by on the drivers side. Apparently he didnt want anybody doing that so he put a big note on his windshield that says "DO NOT ACCESS XXX OFFICE".
So, I unplugged his car and wrote on the back of his note "DO NOT BLOCK ACCESS TO MY OFFICE"
Best thing? Its not even an EV its just a PHEV.
🔌 need love too!! Glad mine locks once it plugs in. He/she needs to activate that same option.
