The base ID4 has a smaller battery so you have to up the trim to Pro. And no dealers have 2wd with longer range of 468 kms. They have plenty of the pro trim with awd. $50km plus tax and in stock. Too rich for me.
This time I didn't want anything with less than 350km usable range all year round. Our original Ioniq, although a great car, the battery was just an awkward size. 200km in the summer, down to 130ish km in the absolute dead of winter when it was really cold. That made it difficult sometimes when my wife would burn 100km of that range going to and from work leaving the car basically useless after work in the winter, or leaving only 80-100km (tops) left in the summer - even a trip up to Port Perry to visit her grandmother in the nursing home after work was tight in that case, for example.
The ioniq, game changer with the 77kw battery - range anxiety really just isn't going to be a thing anymore. 350-400km all day long in the dead of winter, and 550-600km in the summer.
I have the car programmed to charge to only 80% currently (typical recommendation for long term battery longevity, never charge to 100% if you don't need to) and right now (checking the Bluelink app on my phone) it's showing 346km range at 72% charge.
Moral of the story, go for something with the big battery if you want to virtually completely remove range anxiety from the equation.
I could make the trip to Quebec. But, my wife isn’t on board with the whole idea yet.
1/ Buy from a big reputable dealer in one of the major cities. Montreal has worked for me twice, and you're more likely to find a dealer with a salesperson who speaks english. Honda Boucherville was where we got our '22 Ioniq, and we bought our 2017 ioniq at a dealer called AutoFlash. Great experiences at both. I can give anyone interested the contact info for the fellow I dealt with at Honda Boucherville if anyone wants, they had a few other Ioniq's IIRC.
2/ Try to find a car that was a trade-in at said dealer. They'll have checked out that there's nothing fishy about it before even accepting it as a trade, of course.
3/ Don't buy from corner-lot type places in Quebec, ever. See #1 and #2.
4/ Due diligence the history and ownership - carfax, check the ownership isn't branded,
5/ Due dilligence mechanical. Hook up an OBD scanner, check that the codes weren't conveniently cleared just before you went to see the car, drive it and check no new codes pop up, and in the case of the ioniq5, it has lots of convenient PID's that show lots of battery info and history. Here's our 2022 for example.
State of health, 100%. Only 140kwh of fast charging ever, and about 60-80kw of that was on our drive home. Fast charged 17 times as of the time of that screenshot - it was at 9 when I first checked it in the dealers parking lot. Was experimenting at one fast charger a few days ago and that added about 6 or 8 connection/disconnection cycles that it counted, plus 2 on our way home, for our current total. TONS of other info as well. OBDLink MX with the "Carscanner" app with the Hyundai PID pack loaded.
6/ A reputable dealer will offer you a short term warranty - Honda Boucherville was 30 days for example. If anything major goes pear shaped, you're good.
7/ The taxes are a little more complicated, if anyone gets to the point of being serious about this, I'll detail further.
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