Hi, Yes, I finally did it. I bought a fully electric car. Whoa. This is heavy.

So I'm on my way to pick up my brand new fully electric car. It's a Hyundai 2020 Ioniq Electric Elite. None of that premium rubbish. Um, just the standard Elite model.

And it is, yeah, a brand new 2020 model. So how did I actually come to buy a brand new fully electric car? Hmm, I've been talking about it for like five years or something like that. Getting an electric electric car. and like I didn't expect that I'd buy a brand new fully electric car.

I thought I'd buy like a second hand leaf or something like that. And actually over the years I've been, you know, I'm in an houring and chatting on the forums about buying a fully electric. uh, Leaf Canisten Leaf. That is a car and I've even like test driven a couple.

I've been set up like watch things and looked at them and it's like oh, secondhand electric car unless it's like a couple of years old is a little bit of a ticking time bomb. Especially uh, the Nissan Leaf actually because it doesn't use a liquid-cooled uh battery pack. So Leaf came in in 2011 2012. So there's lots of like 2012 to like the affordable ones.

about like under 20 000 Australian dollars. None of this uh us rubbish in this video. all Australian dollars. Uh, you're looking at you're like you know, maybe a 2014 Leaf or something like that.

And those old lists with their 24 kilowatt hour pack didn't really have that great a range like even when it was brand new. We're talking like 120 kilometers tops or something like that. It basically doesn't even get me up to the Blue Mountains, let alone get me back. Um, so it's you know it.

It's pretty hopeless. And of course the battery pack uh, drops with uh, age of course. and it's not a liquid cool one. So there's lots of reports of old uh leaf batteries.

you know, just like losing. Like you know, 30 40 percent of their uh, capacity. So like, you buy a secondhand leaf and it might get like 80 kilometers, 90 kilometers range if you're lucky like that. And it's not that practical.

So you know you can get like larger battery pack ones, but they're either like, like Asian import ones like directly from Japan. Anyway, why did I want and get an electric car to begin with? Well, I they're cool and B uh, like people love my solar videos and things like that. and everyone's been wanting me to get an electric car so I can do videos on it and stuff like that. So that's why I've been looking for one for like five years.

But I'm a bit of a tight ass and I've just been arming an R in for way too long. So pretty much in the end I decided to get this brand new one because believe it or not, I'm sitting in my 2014 uh Toyota Corolla. It's pretty beat up. I've got kids, it's been canyoning a lot, so I wasn't going to get a particularly good price selling this privately, But I was able to get an absolutely brilliant trade-in price on this, which made a brand new.

Well, it was part of the reason what made a brand new electric car affordable. And if you believe it or not, I effectively maybe depending on how you look at it I effectively swapped this 20 my 2014 Toyota Corolla, which I bought used at the time. I effectively swapped it for a brand new 2020 Hyundai Ioniq Elite fully electric car. So ordinarily a fully electric car.

Very expensive here in Australia. Like pretty much the cheapest one you can get. like you know, around about fifty thousand dollars. Hyundai Ioniq Elite Uh, which I'm I've just bought is basically a ticket price of like fifty three thousand, five hundred or eight hundred or something.

But that's drive away price. There's all sorts of. There's Gst goods and services, tax, there's uh, dealer delivery charges, there's stamp duty, there's all sorts of uh, stuff. and as well as the Australia tax.

Uh, for getting a car here in Australia because we have to import it. We're on the other side of the planet, right? It costs money to import them into Australia and there's absolutely no uh, tax incent government tax incentives in this country for buying electric vehicles unlike other countries. That's why Dave, why don't you buy a Tesla? Why don't you get the new model Free Three: It's cheap. Yeah, it might be cheap.

In California, it's not cheap here. I've done a video on why Teslas are so expensive here in Australia and showing a we don't have any uh tax breaks for any government, state, federal or state government. uh tax breaks for there's a little bit of knocks off your registration or something that you save like 100 bucks or something. It's like there's essentially no tax breaks at all for buying electric vehicles here in Australia.

And because of that, like basically electric car in Australia, 50 000 Australian dollars are over is classified as you know, a reasonably expensive. I'm not going to say luxury car. A Tesla Model 3 at 80 000 Australian dollars, drive away almost is a luxury car. Here in Australia, we actually have a luxury car tax if you want a model S for example that comes in at about Australian dollars depending on what the current exchange rate and all sorts of things is like.

Even the base model Tesla model three is like eighty thousand dollars. Here in Australia, Drive away. and if you want like a red one, well that's an extra four thousand dollars. Thank you very much.

And this is why electric vehicles aren't very popular in Australia. I don't know how many sell each year, but it's not that many Tesla's Yeah, they sell to the well-off and things like that and I'm a bit of a tight ass. like there's no way I was going to pay 50 000 for a brand new car. I've never paid anywhere near that in my entire life.

Most of my cars this 2014 Corolla I've got now I bought that used Um from the dealer and it wasn't a new car. And so how did I get to buying this, uh, brand new 2020? Well, covert happened of course. And the government is offering, uh, nothing to do with electric cars they're offering. Uh, like, you know, all this surplus it's costing, you hear it on the news, You know it's costing billions of dollars of uh, you know, cash, incentives and and things like that.

So uh, businesses small and medium, and even relatively large size businesses are getting, uh, various, uh, tax grants and things like that. Um, so the money from that, combined with, uh, the excellent trading I got in this car which I could not have got if I sold this, uh, privately because there's I searched for this particular year in this particular model and there were like eight pages of exactly on the private, uh, car sale sites of this car. Like selling it privately would have been a nightmare. It's all beat up, you can't you know.

And also, uh, because I'm buying under the business, I can claim the it's a business card. I can claim the Gst back. So goods and services taxes 10 here in Australia. So right off the bat, there's five grand, uh, saving.

And of course, I was able to, uh, negotiate. uh, the price way down from the, uh, you know, fifty three and a half ticket price or something. So along with all that, and of course, um, it's an instant asset tax write-off as well. We've got up to 150 000 until the end of the year when it goes back to zero.

Uh, business assets doesn't matter whether it's a car, whether it's a renovation to your office, or whether it's you know, buying a brand new swanky oscilloscope doesn't matter what it is, it's an instant asset write-off You, of course, don't get that money back, but it reduces your taxable income from that. And uh, so you know at the end of the financial year chain and end of the Baz quarter, you claim the Gst back. You get the instant asset. uh, write-off? Uh, you know there's some tax advantage there and other things.

and uh, yeah, it's been cleared by my accountant. He says, yep, no worries, we can do this. And um, that's how I ended up with a brand new car. I think I effectively swapped this 2014 Corolla for this Ioniq.

Um, which I think is pretty cool. Yeah, you could argue that. you know I should have just kept kept the cash. But the whole idea of the government cash incentives, um, was that you was to help inspire business confidence and to help the economy.

And you know it doesn't fall into a depression or anything like that. So you're supposed to go out there and spend the money and well, yeah, I got an electric car. Cool. The Hyundai Ioniq Elite.

Why did I go that for over and this and leave? Well, let's look at the options for electric cars. Uh, here in Australia at the moment of course. Uh, the three most popular would be uh, well, the most popular is the Nissan Leaf of course. and you know you can get brand new 2020 model.

It's more expensive. a little bit more expensive than the Hyundai I think it's like 55 000 Australian dollars or something like that for the base model and the Tesla of course the model 3. As I said, that's about 80 000. There's no way that just wasn't an option.

Uh, and the probably the most affordable one um, at the moment is the Hyundai Ioniq Elite at you know, just over 50 000. There are others on the market mini have a little, uh, fully electric car, doesn't have a huge uh range, but but it's like 55 000 or something like that. And there's a uh, Renault Zoe or whatever it is. It's a little tiny micro compact car, and it's fairly relatively cheap.

I don't think it has a big range, and it's just it's not suitable for what I uh, want and Mg actually have a brand new electric car here in Australia? can't remember what it's called um, but it's got a fairly limited range, but it is actually cheaper. It's about 46 000 Australian dollars, so it's cheaper, but it's made in China. Yeah, okay, I don't think so. So once I realized that you can probably make this fully electric car thing happen and my accountant agreed, then it pretty much came down to the Nissan Leaf and the Hyundai Ioniq and I went for the Ioniq because pretty much it beats the Leaf in almost every aspect.

Um, except for pretty much our performance. The Leaf has got more, uh, newton meters of torque, it accelerates faster. it's it's got more punchy performance so you're after a more sporty Ev then you would go for the Leaf, But the Ionic has, pretty much, um, every aspect of the Leaf beat it's it's bigger inside, it's got a slightly bigger boot which is always handy. It's got it.

It's more electric car like. The Leaf is more like normal car. the Hyundai Ionic and I'll be doing future videos on this. It's got like the uh, flappy paddle, uh, regen braking selection so in theory you can just hit, hit the flappy paddle and never have to use your brakes.

Maybe I'll like try and do a video like driving around Sydney without using my brakes once. That'd be interesting to see if that's possible. but you know, and it's got like a better, uh, instrument display and lots of other, um, sort of, you know, electric car sort of, uh, refinements over the Leaf. The Ioniq, though, has a smaller battery pack, but it actually gets more usable range because the performance of the Leaf comes at the price of battery efficiency.

I.e uh, watt hours or kilowatt hours per kilometer. or per hundred kilometers per range. Um, so the I think, don't quote me on this. I think the Ionic I can't remember the exact numbers, but it has something in the order of like, you know, 15 to 20 better, uh, efficiency per range.

That's why it's not quite as, uh, punchy as the Leaf. So, but yeah, I'm happy to trade off. Um, you know, punchy performance for range? Definitely. So it's got a smaller battery pack, hence why it's uh, you know, about three four grand cheaper than the Leaf? Um, but it actually gets more effective range and the range is pretty decent.

Like, I think it's 311 320 kilometers. Something like that. It's like if you drive it really aggressively. Apparently it can be as low as 290 kilometers, but that's you know.

Pretty decent range for pretty much every usage scenario I've got for it. So yep, it's good enough for Australia and the Ioniq. Uh, cost less to a service than the Leaf as well like, but you only have to get it serviced every I think fifteen thousand kilometers or once a year. I wouldn't do fifteen thousand kilometers in a year, so you only have to get it serviced once a year and both of them are exactly the same in terms of our warranty.

Both of them have a five-year car warranty plus an eight-year battery warranty, and that's why I kind of, in the end, just decided you don't have to worry about it for like the next eight years, like pretty much five year warranty. Nothing goes wrong with modern cars in like, you know, five or eight years. Oops, my little Sony Rx0 Mark Ii here just overheated and shut off. It's pretty warm day here today and sitting in the car on the dash.

so uh, yeah it. but it's got to set in to uh, set it for higher so it shouldn't hopefully turn off now. Anyway, the good thing about buying a new car is that you know I shouldn't have to worry about this for eight years like Um, which is absolutely fantastic. and the essential maintenance cost is almost borderline zero.

Um, it's only like a hundred and fifty dollars. Cost of ownership is is bugger all. Um, and of course I can get uh, free. You know I've got solar power to repair it.

There's other nearby charging stations that I can charge it up for free, and really, I shouldn't have to spend a cent on this thing apart from registration and insurance, pretty much so that's the advantage over the petrol car. Now there's of course. uh, the Evs are like more expensive up front. Of course, the Ioniq is available in a hybrid, a plug-in hybrid, and a fully electric.

I went for the fully electric one and you pay a huge premium for that because of the battery pack. It's about twenty thousand dollars more expensive I think the same one I'm getting in a plug-in hybrid version. You can, you know it's it. has a regular internal combustion engine plus a battery pack, which might get you.

I don't know, 80 kilometers, 50 kilometers range or something like that, but you can plug it in and recharge. So depending on your daily usage scenarios, you can actually get a plug-in hybrid to pretty much never use its internal combustion engine. But I wanted a fully electric car. I didn't want to.

You know, if you go in electric, go the whole hog I reckon. But everyone's needs a different like I probably could have got away. um, with most of my usage for uh, a plug-in hybrid with only like 50 kilometers range or something like that. But yeah, nah.

Fully Electric. Winner. Now of course, if you do a lot of miles in your car. So if you're like a you know, a taxi or a fleet car that has to do you know, like tons of kilometer traveling sales person or something like that then uh yeah, it's like a fully electric car like not paying for petrol can actually not gas petrol here in Australia, Thank you very much.

Not paying for petrol can be a really big deal. And of course, there's also, uh, buying an electric car. It's pretty much making a or you know, putting your money where your mouth is, making a statement about, uh, the future of not only you know energy, infrastructure, sustainability and things like that. but also like here in Australia for example, this country has two weeks worth of petrol supplies like we basically don't refine here anymore.

There's current late governments talking about, you know, trying to fix this because they know how big of a problem it is. This whole country has like two weeks worth of petrol. So if anything happens in the world and you know supply lines are cut, uh, things like that, then yeah, if you've got a petrol car, pretty much screwed. But uh yeah, with an electric car, Well if you've got solar panels, you can just charge the sucker.

So by buying, using, and promoting a fully electric car, or just electric cars in general, you're pretty much, uh, you know, promoting and supporting the building of the infrastructure required. And to pretty much get off at least. Uh, you know, fossil fuels. For uh, petrol cars.

I know they can't possibly match uh, fossil fuels in terms of like charge rate. I can feel this. We talked about this on the Ev blog forum. I can.

I actually timed it the other day. I can drive into a petrol station, fill this car up with 500 kilometers worth of petrol, and go walk into the shop and be paid for it. And actually, you know, use the thing to clean my windows or whatever and I can do this All this in three minutes and I've driven out. Um, it's just.

you know, it's absolutely for 500 kilometers worth of range. No electric car is probably if the foreseeable future is ever going to come close to being able to recharge that instantly effectively. But uh, from what I'm hearing from people who own fully electric cars, it's like they've never really had a problem. You just sort of change your mindset a bit.

Uh, plan a bit better and it shouldn't be a problem. So hopefully yeah, it's going to be fun to play around with this thing. Go on some road trips and things like that. I'll be doing a ton of videos on the electric car.

Of course, various aspects of it probably won't be main channel. uh, worthy. So subscribe to Evblog 2 if you're interested in electric cars and you want to see my continuing thoughts including a full review. Maybe I'll put a full review on the main channel once I get the car and I like, I've had it for a couple of weeks or a month or something, Let me know.

Yeah, if you want to see that full review of the brand new Hyundai 2020 Ioniq Electric Elite anyway, this is cool. Let me know your thoughts down below. Uh, have I made a mistake by buying a fully electric car? I don't think so. I think it's going to be cool.

It's going to. It's going to feel different. It's going to be different driving. Uh, so like in terms of like regen braking and things like that.

And it's got all the auto uh, you know, the radar sensors and the auto stopping and and you know all sorts of stuff like that. So anyway, it's going to be fun. I'm going to, uh, head in and pick it up. I'm at the dealer.

Let's go check it out. They've actually got inside. I thought they just have it outside the lot and it's got a wanky bow on it. Too much? Let's check it out here.

We go over here somewhere. there's only one available and it's mine. There it is. Brand New 2020 Ionic Elite.

Look at that bow. That's just no. No, that's just wrong. So there it is.

White. because that's all they had in stock. Um, that was basically like it. Otherwise, it would have been like several months wait or something to get it from the factory.

so it would have been. you know, quite significant. So they don't hold a lot of these in stock. There you go.

Electric Ionic. Fantastic. Fully electric. None that hybrid or plug-in rubbish.

Yeah, you know the usual alloy wheel thing for you wheel aficionados and uh, we'll have a better look later. But uh, that's it. It's mine. How do they get down to here? I don't know.

Yeah, got to drive it out the door, down there, down the ramp. I'm sure they got it all figured out. All right. I'm here with Bruce from Bennett Hills Hyundai and he's going to give us the um, what what do you call it? The spiel, the rundown, the rundown, the pre, the after purchase rundown before I drive off.

and, yeah, enjoy the car. All right, let's go. All right. What do we got here? So the first thing I usually do will show the customer that you are able to lock and unlock the car from this button right here.

Okay, so all you need to do is just press that button. Car unlocks. Yep. You jump in, you push to start and away you go.

No worries. except we do it on the other side here in Australia. For all my Yankee viewers know the steering wheel is on the correct side. Well, trust me, it is all right.

Well, let's uh. I'll hop in the back and you can show us inside. All right. How do we start this thing? Bruce? So we just put our foot on the brake.

Yep, push the start button. It's that quiet. you just can't tell it's on right. but everything is running.

Does it always pop up with that info thing? Correct. You can either wait for that to go away. Thank you. Just press the confirm button as I will right now and then.

What we do is we've got a screen that we just swipe over to the left and this is your basic menu so it'll show you basic Ev stats, how much range you've got left, how long before the battery ends, you can search for nearby stations. What type of charge points though? Does it only do type 2 or does it do certain types? It will let you know so once you've pressed on it, it should give you an idea. See here how it says fast Charge? Yeah, so that's how you know. Got it? And then it'll give you a list of other places that you can go to as well.

and you can also have a look at your driving stats as well. So driver information. It will just give you slight things like you know, deceleration acceleration, uh and then your speed distribution as well. What speed distribution? Oh, as you're driving along, it will tell you the stats.

So it all depends on how you're driving the car, whether you're driving economically. So apart from that, you know you've got access to your phone. This is just general information on the car. Uh, Apple, carplay and Android order.

We're gonna need a connection for that. Uh, This is just basically like a manual so you just need to scan the Qr and it'll give you basic information. Like you know, keep the distance bright and avoid the glare. I didn't notice that one before.

Um, voice memos just in case you're driving along. You never know Dave, you're not. Oh, if I come up with a great idea for a video, I can just hit that, Hit that and record and record. Yeah, that's great.

Perfect. Why are you on those little things? Uh, media. Once we connect your phone that will come up, Usb video and Usb images all come up through here. This is just your map, so once you open that up, it opens up the map screen navigation menu which I'll also give you a rundown on later and these are just your general settings for the car and this is significantly improved over the Uh 2019 model.

Correct! So the screen is a lot bigger now and the cluster is a little bit bigger as well. Once we get over to the cluster, I will press resume route because it will give you the turn by turn on that screen too. Oh okay, so you don't have to. You can look at the heads up like the instrument cluster and not the main in screen.

Correct. Correct. It just makes it a lot easier. How about the uh, the rear vision mirror? Because if you look in the rear vision well, you can.

There's a split. That's right. there's a split in the well. I'm not sure if it's going to show up here, but anyway.

Um, it's kind of. I'm not going to say it's annoying. I'll let you know after using it for a while, but show us if you don't like that, what do you do? He almost thought of everything. So all you need to do is have it in drive or reverse of course, right? And you just press this little button right here, the view button, View button and then you can see.

We have the rear camera correct. Excellent, Good. Fantastic. And that can stay on as you're driving as well.

just in case. That thing at the back is annoying, right? And it probably gives a big bigger field of view too. Correct. You can see more than what you can see in your two merits.

It is a shift by wire of course, so everything is done by just pressing a button. I will close this door because every time you press on drive, it wants to engage the handbrake. Okay, so it's very easy. It's in park right now.

All you need to do is have your foot on the brake to engage by pulling up or pushing down to release the handbrake. Now, shift by wire just means you need to press a button. So reverse puts it in reverse for you. Drive neutral if you just want to stay stationary and of course, park and all you need to do is.

as I said earlier, foot on the brake and pull up to engage your um, handbrake. And this bit here actually doesn't do anything. it's just a place to put your hand correct. Now you've got three different driving modes which the selection will come up here just over here.

So drive Mode so you just need to press on that and it'll go from Eco to normal and you see how the cluster is changing color and then everybody knows that red goes faster. So Sports mode goes red. Excellent. But I, uh, test drove it in Eco mode the other day and I didn't really realize it was Eco mode.

It still dries pretty well. It's probably it's the nicest way to drive it because it does all the regen for you if you've got it in Eco mode and you've got it on level three generation. Once you take your foot off the brake, it'll regenerate the power back to the Uv battery for you without you having to do it with the flappy paddles. So in theory we can drive this without using our brakes.

correct? Uh, part of the electronic handbrake is the auto hose function. What that does is let's say you're constantly in traffic and you're sick of having your foot on the brake. All you need to do is turn on auto hold. Then once it highlights green.

Once I put it into the drive and it highlights green. I can now take my foot off the brake and it'll also hold the brake for me and the brake light on for me as well. Nice! Four different menus up on your cluster. You can see them changing as I'm pressing the button just on the side there.

so the first one's your driver menu. It'll let you know how economical you're being with the car, your energy flow. Of course when you're driving along, this all changes. So your fuel consumption or I should say your electric electricity consumption accumulated information is just like a trip computer.

So is your driver information all right? So the next one over is a compass, but if I've got the map open and I'm navigating somewhere, it will give me turn by turn and how long before my destination ends neat. and next one over will be some of your safety features. So the lane keep assist Driver retention Warning: There's little sensors in the car that can sell from your behavior. If you're starting to weave in and out of cars, it warns you to pull over your tire pressure monitor and then the next menu is your user settings.

Now the car comes with a complete safety pack which means it's got collision alert, collision avoidance, adaptive crews. On top of all of that with the start stop technology, lane departure warning, lane keeping, blind spot monitoring a rear cross traffic alert, and driver attention warning which can all be adjusted in the user setting, driver assistance, and you've got user settings for your doors doors lock up. Once you get past a certain speed, you can, you know, turn that off. Um, the lights, the convenience, the service intervals, it's all there.

It's very, very easy to use. Now you've got automatic lights which I've set for you, and you've got a rear fog light which you can turn off from here. Uh, your wipers are automatic so I'll set them in auto for you now so that you don't have to do it ever again. Great! There we go.

This is A and this is a Type 2 as well. So the top one would be the general one and then your bottom one would be the type two. Same as what you get on Teslas and we can see well. I don't know I have to get better light, but these bottom two here.

these are for the extra phases. This is only a single phase charger inside this. so uh, you can get three phase to get so it'll charge it like a nominal like seven point, six, or seven odd kilowatts. Um, but the three if you had three for.

if this model had three phases, uh, which the Hyundai's don't then it would charge like 22 or something like that. Otherwise, you've got to use the Dc fast charge down here and the two pins up the top are your Um signal interface so they would talk and uh to your charger and tell how much power is available and all the rest of it. Middle Pin Earth basically Ac charging and Dc charging direct to the battery pack. So this car comes with a puncture kit which I will put down here for you and then it comes with just your standard 240 volt which you can plug into any household.

Yep, Okay so this is what goes into the car. Of course this goes into your household plug and then you will get some sort of a readout on that It will start letting you know what the levels of the battery are. You can also see that as you're charging up on that screen. Got it? And there are lights in the front dash aren't there? Yes, that charge that? show the stator charge.

That's correct. See those three little knots that'll let you know where your child's level is right? Got it all right? Awesome. And that way you can keep the car locked as you're charging it? Yep, I think we're almost ready to go, aren't we Bruce? Yep, that's it. Awesome! Thanks Mate! No problem at all and I believe you've got a key for me.

I sure do. Here we go. Fantastic! Thanks Bruce. Not a problem so let's go right.

Parking brake is off yes going on to Uh. Pennant Hills Road which is probably one of the worst roads in Sydney. It's beeping at me. What's it beeping at me for? I don't know.

it's beeping. Do I leave a door open? Yep, No. it's definitely beeping at me. Let me get above a certain speed.

What's going on? Hmm. it's interesting. You.