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[jbkerkhoff]

Solar Ioniq5 EV Charging: Self-Reliance and Reduced Carbon Emissions

The Solar Energy Project continues At this point I’ve made about 20 posts regarding my adventures in Solar Energy. They all lead to a Solar-powered “Gas Station” for an Electric Vehicle (EV). As prices for solar equipment have come down, the idea is within reach on my budget. Starting with solar power for the Amateur Radio station and progressing through a rainwater system, power for the shop,…

[ecodweeb]

EV Rentals with Turo and Hertz: nope, never again

As you may be aware, I justified the purchase of Karen the Kona based on Albert the Audi being out of service for a drivetrain replacement and my husband needing to rent a car to visit his father for his birthday on a weekend I was supposed to be out of town for work. Needless to say the rental experience made him very, very glad that I bought a second car.

This all started out with optimism: he was going to rent an Ioniq 5, which was a potential candidate as “next car” whenever that time came. He rented the car on Turo from a lady who apparently had a fleet of cars with a “driver” who delivers the cars to the renters. This person doesn’t follow directions, as my husband was detailed with photos as to where the car needed to be parked at his work and which charger to plug it into. They ignored all of that and plugged it into a Level 2 charger in the wrong part of the parking lot, meaning the car wasn’t charged sufficiently for him to immediately hit the road when he got off work.

Not like that was going to happen -- the car was delivered with a flat rear tire and he spent over 20 minutes in fleeting daylight to photograph every wheel on the car which had massive curb damage, every scratch, wrinkle, and tear. This car had just over 30,000 miles on it but looked like it had triple that in wear. He was so late coming home to get the dogs that I called him afraid he’d been in an accident of some kind. When he gets home, he plugs the car into our ChargePoint Home Flex 50A charger so it’ll soak up as much power as possible before he hits the road. I got our Ryobi hand held air compressor out and aired all the tires up to the factory spec. The rear tire was over 8lb underinflated -- not good for tire life.

So after rushing about to install the dog cover in the back seat, harness and load the dogs (remember we have a quasi-geriatric who needs help getting into and out of cars and is prone to puking), and load up all his stuff.... he kissed me on the forehead and said goodbye, walking out and leaving his dad’s birthday card and present on the pool table. Oops. This, however, wasn’t going to be the worst of the weekend. He had to stop twice on his way up to put air into that rear tire. The trip is only ~180 miles so every 90 or so he’d have to stop and air it back up. His consumption was low 3′s - which is poor for this vehicle as it should get over 4 on a trip like this - and he rolled up with 6% state of charge (he left with around 90%) and a low tire warning.

Now, on Saturday - the day after he left - I bought the Kona and had every intention of driving it up to his parents house and dropping off the birthday present, however the whole locking the keys in the car at the Greensboro charging stop derailed those plans. He did look at the car and found that it did indeed have a nail in that tire, and had asked us to bring him a tire patch kit - which we couldn’t do. I felt terrible about this, in fact, I moped about it for days.

He did the smart thing and ignored the car until Monday, when he took it to a tire shop. Turns out this thing didn’t have one, but two punctures in it and it was filled with slime where someone used the roadside kit on it already. There is no way this car should have been handed off to him in this condition. This is where things get ugly, fast. He had been calling the owner multiple times and only getting voicemail. He was messaging her in the app and could see that she read his messages but wasn’t responding. So he called Turo and Turo refuses to replace the tire, saying they’d reimburse him if he did it. The tire shop refuses to let the car drive away with that tire on it. Eventually - after about two hours of calling - Turo agreed to send a roadside tow truck to tow the vehicle back to the Raleigh dropoff/return point. John now needed to rent another car to get home.

HIs mom went to the tire shop and picked him up, she’d intended to take him to Enterprise (which he worked at in college). On the way he saw Hertz and that Hertz had a Tesla Model 3 sitting right in front of the lot, so he asked his mom to pull in there. The Tesla actually needed to go back to North Carolina, so they were delighted that he inquired about it. I was less enthused, because I knew he was going to utterly hate the car but at least he could say he’s driven one on a real road trip and could form his own opinion. He loaded up the pups and headed towards home. I called him at one point and it sounded as if he was talking to me in a tunnel, the audio quality of the Tesla was horrible - worse than the Hyundai, our Audi, or really any vehicle we’ve owned with a factory handsfree system. He said that I, too, sounded like I was in a tunnel to him. I’d say perhaps it was a bad connection, but all calls I made were at home over Gigbit Fiber (T-Mobile Wifi calling for the win). I asked him how he liked the car and he said “on paper I thought I’d love it, but it keeps emergency braking in the middle of sweeping bends on US220 and the last time it threw the old dog against the back of my seat, so I can’t use the cruise control system at all.” Well, that’s both unfortunate but also what I expected. We have a friend who lives out that way and is currently stuck with a Model 3 (intended it to be a 3-6mo purchase then flip for $$$ until the used market for Teslas dropped out). He told me that his does the same thing, and that he’s just accepted that he has to manually drive that section of 220 to get to Roanoke. 

When my husband got home, he didn’t say he hated the car... but he did say we’d never buy one. We’d ridden in Kyle Connor’s 2018 model on I-95 and both complained about the wind noise, he said that this 2020 model was just as bad as the 2018. He also said that the trim that goes around the passenger seatbelt in the B-pillar would squeak/rattle - and I said hold up now, that was an endearing trait on your Volvos (the “volvo squeak”) and he said yes but that wasn’t loud and border line ear piercing. He then went into the common complaints -- the touch screen is annoying to use, nothing about the car was intuitive, and that the minimal interior was too minimal for him.

He didn’t plug the car in, and I asked him why. He told me that Hertz told him so long as they could move it around the lot that he didn’t need to charge it. I told him we should plug it in because I recalled reading an article from Reddit that Hertz (or someone else renting EVs) had modified their return policy so that if you brought it back with over 70% charge there wasn’t a fueling fee, 30-70% there was like a $50 fee and below 30% was a $100 fee. He wanted to argue that “They said,” and I said “It’s Hertz, do you really want to chance this?” So we plugged it in and let it charge until it was over 75% charged to return it. While we waited the owner of the Ioniq 5 messaged him - not called, messaged - that she’d so sorry, she just got off a 16-hour international flight and wasn’t able to respond. John’s exact words were to her were “If you’re going to be renting vehicles and know you’ll be out of touch on a flight, you should have someone to manage this for you.” He was much more polite than I would have been.

We dropped the Tesla off and didn’t think much about it until a few days later when John was dealing with Turo about being reimbursed for his trip interruption. Turo finally agreed to refund him the cost of the Hertz rental, but they wouldn’t refund anything on the actual Turo rental. He flat out said he’d never rent from Turo again. He then checked his credit card and sees an additional $75 charge from Hertz for his rental. He calls Hertz and they tell him it’s because he returned the car without charging it. He argues, no I did. They’re confused. You used a Supercharger, so that’s why there is the fee. He said no, I plugged it in at my house and charged it above 70% before returning it, keeping in line with the online policy. This call gets escalated, and ultimately they’re told the office issued this charge and that he’d need to take it up with them.

So we have a friend who works at the office we dropped the car off at, and she told us that no his rental was closed out by corporate and gave him a number to call. The person who answered again said well you supercharged it, and he said no I charged it at home. The agent couldn’t seem to understand this and I couldn’t help but grin when he said “Madam, we own 6 EVs and three charging stations at home. I charged it at home before returning it, I did not pay to use a supercharger or anything else.” They say they need to send him to a Tesla specialist, that person again wants to argue that he charged at a Supercharger. Well, after standing his ground they come back and say “oops, sorry, yeah, we’ll reverse this charge.” 

At the next run club he saw our friend who works at the office. She said she poked around and saw that the office never closed the rental out when he returned it and had rented the car back out to someone else who did charge at a supercharger and it billed to my husband’s rental. Ultimately this was a comedy of errors that only we could experience.

So, will we rent a car from Turo or Hertz again? Turo’s a hard no - when they were RelayRides I had an account and cancelled it after the Liz Fong-Jones lawsuit. I named their treatment of this vehicle host as the reason I was closing my account, as a result... several years later after they rebranded to Turo, I re-opened my account to rent my BMW i3 to my best friend who took it on a 2800+ mile excursion to Florida before he moved to Colorado. I had to fight because my account is permanently blacklisted from renting card on their platform. I went through many avenues to find out why - it’s not Turo policy to explain why they do things - and the NC Attorney General’s letter to Turo got a written response that was forwarded to me stating that I was deemed high risk due to comments made to customer service and not due to my driving record.

Will I rent from Hertz? Well, we did notice they have Kona Electrics as rentals and since we own that model I’d gladly rent one. However, I’d make sure that I return the car during business hours (we dropped off overnight while they were closed) and ensure my rental is fully closed out and that I do not owe any additional fees. My husband has said he simply refuses to go by car if it’s not his Audi.

[anjarsalam]

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[rowthautos200]

Hyundai Ioniq 5 EV launched at Rs. 44.95 lakh. The Ioniq 5 is available with a 72.6 kWh battery pack that has an ARAI-certified range of 631 km.

[dztechs]

مقارنة بين IONIQ 5 و Kona: ما هي سيارات Hyundai الكهربائية المعروضة للبيع حاليًا؟

لقد تطورت شركة Hyundai بشكل كبير مما كانت عليه من قبل. على سبيل المثال ، إذا نظرت إلى Hyundai Accent من عام 1995 ، فلن تُخمن أبدًا أنها صنعت بواسطة نفس الشركة التي تصنع حاليًا سيارة IONIQ 5 الكهربائية مُتعددة الاستخدامات. لقد غيرت الشركة حقًا الطريقة التي تصنع بها السيارات بالإضافة إلى تطوير نهجها الكامل في الصناعة. من المُثير للدهشة أنَّ Hyundai تمكنت من إعادة ابتكار نفسها مرة أخرى ، وهي تُقدم حاليًا بعضًا من أفضل السيارات الكهربائية في السوق. من IONIQ 5 إلى Kona ، تُعتبر السيارات الكهربائية من Hyundai مُنتجات مُمتازة ومُتقدمة. تحقق من ما هي أرخص سيارة كهربائية في هذا العام وهل تستحق الشراء؟ Read the full article

[verbuchstabiert]

[savageonwheels]

Savage picks the Top 10 Cars

What are my Top 10 Vehicles of the past year. Here are my annual Zoomie awards, plus links!

2023 Zoomies, the best vehicles of the past year … Zoomie goes all social media trendy this year whittling the 50 or so vehicles I’ve tested in the past year down to a dynamic Top 10. Eat your heart out Letterman*! What’s the Savage criteria for a Zoomie? Art: Stuart Carlson There’s no point system. These all come from the gut, and a wee bit of brain. They are the 10 vehicles I most enjoyed…

[motogadi]

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari Gifts Hydrogen-Powered Supercar to Deputy CM

🚀 Union Minister Nitin Gadkari Takes Green Driving to the Next Level! 🌿💨 Known for his love of alternative fuels, Gadkari Ji just gifted Bihar's Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav a hydrogen-powered supercar! #Nitingadkari #EV #IONIQ5

Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, is one of the country’s most forward-thinking politicians. The minister is also well-known for his attempts to increase the number of alternative-fuel automobiles in the country. Notably, the MoRTH minister has been seen driving around in some of the country’s most expensive electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles. His vehicles change…

[molecars]

FIRST LOOK 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N -650 bhp INSANE Hot Hatch!

[dkavisen]

Lokale kunstnere dekorerer elbiler Rådhuspladsen

Lokale kunstnere dekorerer elbiler Rådhuspladsen

Det første event til årets Art Festival i Fredericia er udover det sædvanlige. I samarbejde med Karvil Biler og andre gode lokale kræfter skal kunstnerne Emil Staggemeier, Erik Møller Jørgensen og Johnny Gilberg male en Ford Mustang MarkE og en Hyundai IONIQ5 lige midt på Rådhuspladsen i Fredericia. Eventet finder sted den 29. oktober fra kl. 9.30-14.00 og alle er naturligvis velkomne til at…

[zacefronews]

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@HyundaiCanada: Zac Efron continues his sustainable journey around the world #DownToEarth in Season 2! Watch ‘Down to Earth with Zac Efron Season 2’ on November 11th only on Netflix. #HyundaiCanada #IONIQ5 #downtoearthwithzacefron

[delorean]

笠岡であった「ふれあいEV」に参加してきました

倉敷在住のEVオーナー、ミズシマさんが毎年行っているイベント「ふれあいEV」に行ってきました。以前はテスラのオーナーズミーティングでしたが、ミズシマさんがヒョンデIONIQ5を増車されたのを機に、全てのEVに対象を拡大。EVデロリアンも参加可能となりました。友人のきのぴーさんからのお誘いで、休みの調整もできたので初参加。農業用の空港を貸し切ってEVの加速をフルスロットルで楽しむ＆みんなでキャンプをするという趣向で、100台以上が集まる盛況な催しでした。

5日5時半、空が明るくなり始めた頃に出発。きのぴーさんのテスラModel3とEVデロリアンが縦走し進みます。途中の充電は、東広島の道の駅「のん太の酒蔵」と、福山三菱自販本店のディーラーで。到着時には冷たい雨が降り始め、あーあ、と思ったものの、さすが「晴れの国」。その後は薄日も差すほど天候は回復しました。到着直後、映画コメンテーターの有村昆さんに話しかけられ、いきなり動画撮影。こちらはまたどこかで紹介されるのではないかと思います。

初日は、テスラ、フォルクスワーゲン、アウディ、ヒョンデに加え、中国製BYDのEV試乗ができました。私はヒョンデIONIQ5とBYDのATTO3に試乗。どちらも素晴らしい乗り味でした。どうも韓国製・中国製のクルマに信頼が置けないという方が多いようですけど、一度試乗をお勧めします。固定観念が変わりますよ。会場には、i-MiEV乗りのヨコヨコさんやEVパンダのママリーノさん、福岡からeKクロスEVの江崎さんらいらしてました。そして千葉の杉本さんもIONIQ5でご参加。ほぼ毎週Clubhouseでお話してるのに、リアルに会うのは初めてだったので、とても嬉しかったです。

夕方になると、主催者がIONIQ5の電気で作った焼きそばをみんなに振る舞ってくれました。やっぱりEVから電気が取り出せると何かと便利です。天気を心配してたのに見事な夕日が。これから車中泊のキャンプなので助かります。

そして夜。滑走路にテスラモデル３を並べてライトショーをやってくれました。ご存知の方も多いかもしれませんが、テスラ車にはこんな機能が標準装備されてます。みんなで同じ時間にタイマーをセットしておくと、一斉に曲とセットでプログラミングされたヘッドライトの光の演出が見られるんだそうです。このために空港を借りたんですね。あいおニックおじさんの奥様が日産ENV-200から取り出した電気で焼いてくださったたこ焼きなど食べながら、しばし談笑。この後、EVデロリアンのシートを倒し、エアークッションを広げたスペースで横になり就寝。意外とぐっすり眠れましたw

翌朝はヘルメットと手袋を装着した状態で、滑走路をフルスロットルで走るアタックに挑戦。EVデロリアンは手作りなので控えめに走りましたが、きのぴーさんはフルスロットルで180キロは出てたはず。EVの実力さすがです。この日は尾道の実家に泊まることにしていたので。少し早く現地を出発。昨日も充電で立ち寄った福山三菱自販本社に行くと、GW明けでディーラーを開けていたらしく、店長、社長、従業員に囲まれましたw 興味を持ってくださってありがとうございます。GW中唯一のイベントでしたが、とても楽しめました。「ふれあいEV岡山」主催の皆様、現地でお会いした方々、ごうもありがとうございました！

[anjarsalam]

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[vwiolets]

throwback 2 the time when I was talking 2 this girl and I was ranting Abt cars and I was like "if I were a car I'd be an ioniq5" and she called that hot.

Bro... You just called this thing hot??? Wtf?

[differentfundragon]

650馬力のスーパーEV、ヒョンデ IONIQ5 N｜HYUNDAI IONIQ 5N｜IONIQ 5 N Track Day