$60,000 Hyundai Ioniq 5 battery replacement quote

[Ws6]

Reminds me of early CVT adopters where fix was never repair transmission but instead buy a rebuild or replacement….

No offense WS6 this is HK first pass at EVs and they will sort out these issues if real and have excessive issues. I think car insurers will get data quick and price the EV insurance accordingly for collision and comprehensive claims. EV should pay much higher as they are not as repairable yet.

No it's not. They developed their first pure EV in 1991, the Sonata Electric Vehicle. This is why they are absolutely killing it with the eGMP architecture. They have been about EV's for decades. You have found 2 whopping vehicles with "maybe" damaged batteries that "needed" to be replaced, and somehow concluded that HK doesn't know how to make an EV. It's as absurd as concluding that GM cannot build an engine because the C7 press car blew up when the magazines tested it (which was kindof funny, I admit).

https://www.electricmotornews.com/gb/storia-veicoli-elettrici/storia-hyundai-30-anni-innovazioni/

There is a reason the H/K "twins" absolutely dominate awards. World car of the year, World Performance car of the year, on and on and on.
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/12/1...ch-of-awards-for-their-new-electric-vehicles/

 

[edyvw]

No it's not. They developed their first pure EV in 1991, the Sonata Electric Vehicle. This is why they are absolutely killing it with the eGMP architecture. They have been about EV's for decades. You have found 2 whopping vehicles with "maybe" damaged batteries that "needed" to be replaced, and somehow concluded that HK doesn't know how to make an EV. It's as absurd as concluding that GM cannot build an engine because the C7 press car blew up when the magazines tested it (which was kindof funny, I admit).

https://www.electricmotornews.com/gb/storia-veicoli-elettrici/storia-hyundai-30-anni-innovazioni/

There is a reason the H/K "twins" absolutely dominate awards. World car of the year, World Performance car of the year, on and on and on.
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/12/1...ch-of-awards-for-their-new-electric-vehicles/

They also make ICE vehicles longer than 1991, yet they replace engines like rotors.

 

[350Rocket]

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I see a $7500 list price for the battery. Clickbait for sure plus so

How could they do better? The battery was fine. What more could you want?

The manufacturer and insurance company say it's not fine. So if the kid continued to drive it and it burned down a couple houses then he is at fault. And the price was confirmed, exactly the same price.
Unfortunately I have 3 more pages to read here to see if the false information stops spreading here.
The car is being scrapped, whether you guys like it or not.
This is a rare situation.... because there are so few on the road so far.

 

[andrew_j]

No it's not. They developed their first pure EV in 1991, the Sonata Electric Vehicle. This is why they are absolutely killing it with the eGMP architecture. They have been about EV's for decades. You have found 2 whopping vehicles with "maybe" damaged batteries that "needed" to be replaced, and somehow concluded that HK doesn't know how to make an EV. It's as absurd as concluding that GM cannot build an engine because the C7 press car blew up when the magazines tested it (which was kindof funny, I admit).

https://www.electricmotornews.com/gb/storia-veicoli-elettrici/storia-hyundai-30-anni-innovazioni/

There is a reason the H/K "twins" absolutely dominate awards. World car of the year, World Performance car of the year, on and on and on.
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/12/1...ch-of-awards-for-their-new-electric-vehicles/

Hyundai and Kia have little experience in volume sales of EVs over time. It seems like Tesla has that owned with other makers coming up. The 2 reported may just be those or it could be more with the $40k- $60k repair.

I won’t comment on 1991 because it is as low volume and most car makers were experimenting then and little tech made it forward…

 

[350Rocket]

Fake news. Battery only costs $7500.

The insurance company is not going to be putting Bob's Batteries or whatever might be available in a car. It's going to have to be OEM, especially with the risk of fire.

 

[350Rocket]

People replace batteries and motors in EVs. I don't see the quibble.

You don't believe it's relevant that most of them are currently not financially feasible to replace? That doesn't matter? Lol.

 

[atikovi]

The insurance company is not going to be putting Bob's Batteries or whatever might be available in a car. It's going to have to be OEM, especially with the risk of fire.

As posted back in #20, OEM battery is $7500,

 

[OVERKILL]

As posted back in #20, OEM battery is $7500,

No, what appears to be an OEM remanufactured battery is that price, the OEM battery is $31,666:

 

[atikovi]

No insurance company is going to pay for new when reman is available and is just as good. Insurance is supposed to make your like it was before the damage, and before the damage it didn't have a new battery.

 

[350Rocket]

No, what appears to be an OEM remanufactured battery is that price, the OEM battery is $31,666:
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I have a hard time believing that $7500 reman is even available. If it is it would make this possibly one of the cheapest Ev's to replace a battery on, but it seems extremely unlikely based on what I've read on the 2 ioniq's that both had the exact same $61,000 price quote from separate dealerships.

 

[OVERKILL]

No insurance company is going to pay for new when reman is available and is just as good. Insurance is supposed to make your like it was before the damage, and before the damage it didn't have a new battery.

I have a hard time believing that $7500 reman is even available. If it is it would make this possibly one of the cheapest Ev's to replace a battery on, but it seems extremely unlikely based on what I've read on the 2 ioniq's that both had the exact same $61,000 price quote from separate dealerships.

Well, the site I used for Canadian parts:
https://www.hyundaipartspro.com/pro...el=0&ukey_driveline=0&searchTerm=37501GI351RM

Doesn't have that part #.

They do however have the regular (non-RM) part #:
https://www.hyundaipartspro.com/p/120547947/37501-GI351.html

 

[350Rocket]

No insurance company is going to pay for new when reman is available and is just as good. Insurance is supposed to make your like it was before the damage, and before the damage it didn't have a new battery.

Makes you wonder why they didn't go with reman. Almost like it wasn't available.

 

[atikovi]

Makes you wonder why they didn't go with reman. Almost like it wasn't available.

I can't imagine too many have failed for there to be many cores available to rebuild.

 

[OVERKILL]

I can't imagine too many have failed for there to be many cores available to rebuild.

Right, so we don't know if the reman part # even exists beyond showing up on a few of the US Hyundai parts websites. We do however know that the non-reman part # exists, is available, is available in Canada, shows to be the correct part for this vehicle, and is massively more expensive.

 

[Ws6]

The



The manufacturer and insurance company say it's not fine. So if the kid continued to drive it and it burned down a couple houses then he is at fault. And the price was confirmed, exactly the same price.
Unfortunately I have 3 more pages to read here to see if the false information stops spreading here.
The car is being scrapped, whether you guys like it or not.
This is a rare situation.... because there are so few on the road so far.

Out of 50,000 sold in the US, we have 2 cars from Canada with issues....yeah, I'll call it rare, too.
The EV6 sold just under 40,000 units in the US, so just under 100,000 cars with the same underpinnings/battery, and we have 2 in the news for this. Forgive me for not freaking out.

 

[350Rocket]

Out of 50,000 sold in the US, we have 2 cars from Canada with issues....yeah, I'll call it rare, too.
The EV6 sold just under 40,000 units in the US, so just under 100,000 cars with the same underpinnings/battery, and we have 2 in the news for this. Forgive me for not freaking out.

It won't be so rare once we have a lot more Ev's on the road. And I don't think the couple people that so far have had this bad luck consider it to be so insignificant.
The problem isn't with how often it happens (so far) as that is extremely affected by how many cars are on the road at this time. The problem is with what happens if you need to fix it. Sorry, but at this point these are the definition of a throwaway vehicle. Hopefully that changes in the future, but no amount of blind defense from the fanboys can change that.

 

[edyvw]

I have a hard time believing that $7500 reman is even available. If it is it would make this possibly one of the cheapest Ev's to replace a battery on, but it seems extremely unlikely based on what I've read on the 2 ioniq's that both had the exact same $61,000 price quote from separate dealerships.

OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer! That means they sell part they make for auto manufacturers. Doesn’t mean it meets same quality standards. Depends on OEM.
OE: part made by OEM, going through all QC and sold under car manufacturer name!

 

[Owen Lucas]

Agreed. We also need all ICE cars to adopt one engine. Which one should it be? Honda 2.0? Coyote 5.0? Diesel? B58?

Not one battery size of course, or at least require that they would all be rebuildable and replaceable. If CARB can mandate the killing off of most ICE vehicles by 2035 they can sure demand this too. Only time will tell.

 

[Ws6]

It won't be so rare once we have a lot more Ev's on the road. And I don't think the couple people that so far have had this bad luck consider it to be so insignificant.
The problem isn't with how often it happens (so far) as that is extremely affected by how many cars are on the road at this time. The problem is with what happens if you need to fix it. Sorry, but at this point these are the definition of a throwaway vehicle. Hopefully that changes in the future, but no amount of blind defense from the fanboys can change that.

The battery costs what at an engine/turbos do. Is what it is.

 

[demarpaint]

It won't be so rare once we have a lot more Ev's on the road. And I don't think the couple people that so far have had this bad luck consider it to be so insignificant.
The problem isn't with how often it happens (so far) as that is extremely affected by how many cars are on the road at this time. The problem is with what happens if you need to fix it. Sorry, but at this point these are the definition of a throwaway vehicle. Hopefully that changes in the future, but no amount of blind defense from the fanboys can change that.

Good point, and they're still fairly new. Oh, since when does every car with a problem, even a major problem make the news? Asking for a friend.