Great car - would make a few changes
The feel of a luxury car with the practicality of a family car. The only thing I'd like different is 1) more charging stations, and 2) more range. I thought with a range of 303 miles I could drive from Los Angeles to Monterey - it's about 300 miles away. However, I only got halfway before the charge was way low. It took me a long time, wasted time, driving around to places that apps said had chargers, where the chargers were either broken, or in use, or the slow type. What should have been a 5 hour drive turned into an 8 hour drive for me. So I won't take the IONIQ traveling on the road anymore. I take my plug-in Prius instead, where I can get up to Monterey on about 3/4 of a tank of gas.
Other than that, I get lots of compliments on the style, and the beautiful teal color. I would prefer to have a rear window wiper - and I think the rear compartment cover should have come with the car.
The only thing that bugs me about the car is the headrest - it's way too tilted forward. With my Prius I was able to take the headrest off and turn it around backwards and it's perfect. With the IONIQ, because of the shape of the headrest, I can't turn it around. It's just not comfortable for me in any position I've tried.
And just a side-note... when we bought the car we expected to get tax benefits from buying an electric vehicle, but we got none, because the vehicle was made outside the USA. And the salesman never told us that. We talked all about the great tax rebate but he never knew, or never told us, that we didn't qualify for it with the IONIQ.
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