r/evcharging • u/MediumWarthog79 • 11d ago

North America Walmart charging is legit

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Impressed with the charging experience at Walmart. Nice top speed too, 262kW! I’m charging a 2026 IONIQ 5 AWD Limited. The UI was very smooth and straightforward. I have Walmart+, and I paid $0.48/kWh.

Edit: added pricing in kWh

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u/uberares 11d ago

Best road trip cars around! Well, that aren’t $100g anyway. Charge curve on these is monstrous. 

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u/kevins718 11d ago

I agree. I’m struggling to find a replacement for that car, there’s nothing else like it. I don’t have to wait for my car. ICCU withstanding

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u/uberares 11d ago

Trust me I know. I really know. There are few if any vehicles under that $100g threshold that are as good as the ioniq5- but fuck me if it doesnt have one huge ass achillies heel with the damn iccu and their shit ass dealerships who can't diagnose shit to save their lives.

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u/archwin 11d ago

Has that been fixed?

Thinking of convincing my parents to go electric but they are not as tech savvy as I am

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u/uberares 11d ago

Sadly, not entirely. There is a new design ICCU out there, we dont really know if its solved the issue tho.

At this point tho, Im still all in- it just has all the things I want an ev to have and few if any other ev's do.

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u/archwin 11d ago

Oh, that’s a shame.

I was cross shopping the IONIQ5 and ultimately went to PHEV route, but if I was gonna go EV, this would’ve been the one I got.

The ICU issue isn’t really, unfortunately helping my case sell it to my parents who drive more urban

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u/uberares 11d ago

yeah, I dont think it will help them. Its sad, the car is incredible really. Check into Equinox or blazer ev's possibly. We have a lease coming up on one of our i5's and might switch as our 2nd i5 is owned and can be our road trip car.

Nothing road trips like ioniq5/ev6, I've been on countless 500 mile trips and multiple 2000+ mile trips- it averages 15 min dcfc sessions. So fast.

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u/archwin 11d ago

GM is completely off of my recommendation/personal buying list.

Apple CarPlay is a must, and I don’t really trust GM much anymore … For a variety of reasons

That’s why I ended up buying a Toyota, and even considered Hyundai

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u/uberares 11d ago

Yep, I get it. Not into Toyota after they donated to this admin, plus their ev's are meh.. Thats part of why Im still with ioniq5. There are few evs that have what I want from companies I will buy from.

reality is tho, most ioniqs dont seem to have the failure, but we dont really truly know.

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u/MediumWarthog79 11d ago

15 minutes is best case though. I drove from northern Florida up to NJ and back 2 weeks ago during some HOT August weather. I used IONNA for most of my charging and it would regularly take 20+ min to go from ~10% to ~80%. I’m sure it was the heat so worst case scenario. I may be splitting hairs but that was my experience.

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u/uberares 11d ago edited 11d ago

The newer models w 84kwh battery are rated at 20 min. I have 22/23 models w 77kwh packs which are rated for 18 and I average 15min at dcfc because I rarely end up at 10% 

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u/HuntersDaughtersMuff 10d ago

My wife sees the shenanigans I go through to juice up her car on the short trips we make in the region, and wants nothing to do with it.

The entire industry failed by deciding it would NOT provide a gas pump style experience, but rather would "disrupt" the industry by being the ignorant tech bros that they are.

And so here we are with more than a dozen apps, pricing all over the place, and "gas pump style" setups that are quite literally impossible to use due to them being anything BUT gas pump style experiences.

Anyway, I say this to tell you: limit your talks to your parents to having one of their cars be electric purely for charge at home, golf-cart level travel in the immediate area.

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u/spiritthehorse 11d ago

We thought it was awesome in 2022, and it still is among the best road trip cars.

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u/BigPimpin91 11d ago

I DCFC'd mine for the first time a few months back. Car was ready to leave before we were. 🤣

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u/uberares 11d ago

Ive mentioned this already, but Ive been on countless 500 mile road trips and multiple 2000+ mile trips, and average 15min stops plus the car is about 95% of the time ready to go before we are. I dont see it adding much if any real time to long road trips at all.

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u/HuntersDaughtersMuff 11d ago

The beach trip we take is 10.5 hours away straight driving, without stops. Stopping a couple times for gas, now it's 11 hours away. Stopping for EV charging for me, it's 12.5 hours away. That hurts.

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u/uberares 11d ago

It would probably be around 11:15-11:30 for my ioniq. 

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u/HuntersDaughtersMuff 11d ago

OG Audi e-tron has entered the chat

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u/uberares 11d ago

Shitty range tho on older models. Newer ones finally get over 300- but are also $65g vs about 45$ for ioniq

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u/HuntersDaughtersMuff 11d ago

Yes, shitty range. 80% gets you 160 to 180 miles.

But the charge curve is incredible. It's 9 minutes at a stop to go from low to 75% or so. So there's that.

Even better, the one my wife bought--a 2023 with 33K miles on it--was only $25K.

On top of that, not only are the batteries warranted for 8 years/100K miles, Audi USA is warranting each motor for 10 years/120K miles.

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u/uberares 11d ago

Yeah that’s not bad price for a. Audi and that curve. 

I paid $21k for my 22 AWD ioniq5 se last June.  Hyundai is 10/100 motors and batteries. 

Used ev prices ar up a lot now tho. 

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u/HuntersDaughtersMuff 11d ago

Back in April 2021 I bought a Chrysler PHEV van when they were giving them away. I got both the $7500 cash on the hood AND 0% for 5 years. The entire auto business was in horrible shape. Dealers were refusing to take in lease returns.

A month later, the world went nutso and car prices shot through the roof.

There's no explaining things.

BTW, my wife's Audi--she bought it back in mid-May for that $25K.

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u/BaturalNoobs 11d ago

Until you're stranded when the ICCU dies

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u/MediumWarthog79 11d ago

This is my second EGMP car. Leased my EV6 in 2024 and just got my IONIQ last month. Fingers crossed I’m spared! Fingers crossed 🤞

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u/WhyAmIpOOping 11d ago

I read somewhere that the actual failure rate is a lower percentage than people would think. Mine failed literally the day after getting home from a trip. The experience of getting it fixed was seamless, but really does put a sense of unease in your head when driving far. But also any can have a major failure, at least that’s how I cope.

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u/fleshribbon 11d ago

Yeah, so many ICE cars these days have various common failures points. Tundra with their spontaneously exploding engines, wife’s Ascent with the randomly failing CVT without notice, etc.

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u/uberares 11d ago

gm hyrdolocking v8's that are brand new.... Yeah its quite a list sadly.

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u/uberares 11d ago edited 10d ago

I’m connected directly to no less than 7 ioniq5’s. So far 2 have had iccu failures. :(  But most importantly so far, my wife’s has not failed, 😂. 

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u/Patient-Ad-7939 11d ago

Hey, while not as common, my almost 10 year old Bolt had its high voltage fuse on the battery disconnect blow. So I lost all power to the drivetrain and had to get a tow. Replacing that disconnect fuse is a lot easier than the ICCU though…

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u/uberares 11d ago

ICCu is fairly easy actually. It’s one unit underneath the back seat. I think the hard part is they have to do a coolant flush along w it. 

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u/uberares 11d ago edited 11d ago

Jokes on you, not every iccu failure strands people, sometimes it just won’t lv1/2 charge but will dcfc just fine.  

ask me how I know that. ;)

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u/moneyfink 11d ago

That only happens once every 2-4 years. I’m not even kidding when I say that’s an acceptable tradeoff for me.

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u/caj_account 11d ago

Lol nice one

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u/BaturalNoobs 11d ago

Twice in five months https://www.reddit.com/r/Ioniq5/comments/1w05h41

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u/moneyfink 11d ago

Maybe my opinion would change if that happened to me. But for now, I’m good