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cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

For some reason about a month ago, it seems like a thousand people in the Seattle region bought Hyundai Ioniqs, because I'm suddenly seeing them every time I go out anywhere. I had never seen one before, and I looked it up and learned that they're apparently very good EVs or hybrids

The thing is, the reason I bothered looking it up is because they are extremely striking vehicles. The picture doesn't do it justice, you have to see one in person, they are the most distinctive looking cars I've ever seen, at least from the back. And it occurred to me today that this is very very funny, because Elon Musk tried to make a cyber truck and the result was a laughable clown college piece of shit, and meanwhile Hyundai just quietly rolled these things out to production and they look a thousand times more futuristic and cool than anything his tiny brain could ever imagine.

Possibly, and we can't be certain here, but just maybe this is because the Hyundai has a distinct design, not really resembling anything else and clearly dreamed up by someone with an ounce of creativity, instead of a person who has no mental functions other than regurgitating the most surface level pop culture garbage imaginable. We just can't know


hootOS
@hootOS

This is the Hyundai Vision 74, a concept car that Hyundai recently greenlit into production.

This is what happens when you have a design team with a proper creative vision for their vehicles, and you let them run wild.

Teslas look like plain ass cars because Elon doesn't know anybody with vision, and doesn't hire anybody with vision. because if you have vision, it means you have your own ideas. Musk doesn't want anyone's ideas but his own.

Meanwhile, Hyundai is willing to listen to their designers and push the boundaries, and the result is fucking phenomenal looking cars like the Vision 74 or the Ioniq. This is what happens when you don't hire Yes Men to coddle your boring bullshit ideas and, instead, let people do their damn jobs.

also gravis is totally right, you need to see the ioniq in person to truly Get It. I saw one in Winnipeg pull up to an EV supercharger and i couldn't stop staring at it. it's beautiful in photographs, but mesmerizing in meatspace.


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i wanted one so bad but theyll forever be out of my price range

however, the 2021 ioniq ev is way more affordable even if it looks like every other car and has shit range. luckily i rarely ever take cross country trips so it would be perfect for me

still cant afford it, but its much more attainable than the ioniq 5 (pictured above) if much less common (you will be making a cross-country trip to buy one)

hyundai's naming is confusing. they made the ioniq, a hatchback with hybrid and plug-in hybrid models, through the 2022 model year. it's pretty fine but pretty boring: https://www.caranddriver.com/hyundai/ioniq

the teal beauty in your photo is the ioniq 5, an EV that everyone adores because it looks cool as hell and is built on a nice modern EV platform (E-GMP). they sell these things as fast as (or faster than) they can make them

they are now building an electric sedan, the ioniq 6, on the same platform. it also looks cool as hell but in a completely different way: https://www.caranddriver.com/hyundai/ioniq-6

in summary: cybertruck, lol

My 2018 Nissan Leaf is running fine and I’ll probably keep driving it for another 10 years, but I really love the look of the ioniq 5 and I’ll probably try my best to get one when I need to replace my car. It looks great, has good specs, and hopefully the price will come down over time.

I see so many more EVs now than I did even a year ago. Mostly model 3s and Ys, of course, but occasionally one of these. It's honestly hopeful: the tax credits from the "inflation reduction act" are actually working, and electrification is finally hitting its stride.

Hyundai/Kia has really been the big EV company here.

I see almost no Teslas on the road, it's almost all Kia Soul/Niro EVs, Hyundai Ioniq or Kona EVs, but now EV6s and Ioniq 5s are appearing a lot too.

Next most popular is the Chevy Spark EVs or Bolt EV/EUVs.

I'm guessing nobody can really afford a Tesla, and they use weird chargers.

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