Hyundai INSTER

Sorry for the dumb suggestion, but did you press the button on the adapter? It won't power on otherwise.

That's conclusive then - unless the adapter is broken ;)

As Tomek7 said on the 15th V2L works on his Elegance.

Yours has a light interior which I think is exclusive to the Launch Edition (?).

So, maybe Elegance has V2L, Launch Edition doesn't?

…I'll try my adapter on the Signature when it arrives.

V2L conditions not met shows up on the car screen on the Ioniq 5 until you press the button on the top of the adapter.

Most interesting didn't know that,thanks for that,wouldn't work at my place as its a Not Spot,no mobile signal ever?

I note the Inster inverter,V2L as we like to say in the jargonese,is 3.6 kW. That's pretty decent, I assume it must get the around 10 amps from the traction battery?

It doesn't need a mobile signal, car and phone communicate via bluetooth.

Has anyone managed to get the Bluelink working consistently? In particular I am having issues getting the climate control to turn on. The other functions (e.g. turn on the hazards) will work consistently but climate control will say it has succeeded but will not be turned on in the car.

Bluelink is an app that allows you to control functions of the car remotely. So you can turn on the climate control from your house before you go out to the car. All of the functions (lock/unlock, hazard lights) are working except the climate control. The climate control itself works fine once I'm in the car.

Did wonder about that thanks,good to know,but any App to car would.?

Voice over WiFi is my way round it thanks.

I don't know how car manufacturing works but my Inster was in the dock in cork on the 20th of January and collected 14th of February but when I open the engine bay on the electric motor there is a manufacturing date 15/01/2024??? How does that work

I have to ask - your what?!

Sorry to hear your colour was not shipped. My Black Elegance arrived last week, so there are some in the country. Really loving how good this is to drive. Happy motoring everyone and do look back into this car when they have more stock in showrooms.

Shaming the Enyaq owner, love it.

Is there not five regen settings? 1, 2, 3, iPedal and Auto? On the Ioniq 5 you hold the right paddle for 3 seconds and it turns on, it's very like D mode on a VW.

I get the impression that you really like the Inster.

I had a tough time with a just launched car switching over....its a Tavascan and thet had to consult underwriters who came back and said they would insure it in same terms as an ID4, which it pretty much is. I don't know what they'd do with an inster in the same case. Although judging by here there's going to be loads on the road soon.

My renewal is up end of Feb so only a few days away and I'm struggling to find insurers to get best quote available.....but renewal wasn't too bad so I might just go with it.

I actually watched a video talking about the difference between i-pedal (all the way on the left paddle) and Auto (all the way on the right paddle) and couldn't really follow it, so I decided to give Auto a go on a trip today. The journey was Dublin to Wicklow in two separate trips, the first city and the second mixed city and motorway. I used Auto for city and Adaptive Cruise Control for motorway. Have to say I loved Auto - I think it may be the mode I've been looking for. It is basically a smart regen that only kicks in when you need it. So it uses the same forward sensors as ACC to recognise a car in front of you and will apply increasing regen to the point of stopping behind the car if you are in traffic. So it is like i-pedal in that it comes to a complete stop in that scenario, but also lets you coast if you ease off the accelerator with no car in front of you (instead of immediate applying a heavy regen brake like i-pedal). This feels great! It is almost like ACC for city driving - you still have to use the accelerator but you will use the brake much less than normal and you don't get the kind of jerky driving of i-pedal. It also apparently gives slightly better efficiency, though I think of that data is coming from AWD cars where i-pedal keeps the forward engine engaged permanently.

Speaking of efficiency, I'm sitting in my hotel room in Wicklow and decided to see does Bluelink have any efficiency data for today, and it does! It doesn't have the individual trip efficiency that you can get in-car, but it does show the overall efficiency for the day. So today I did those two trips as follows:

So 76 km in total. I had the heating on at 23 degrees, it was approx 12 degrees outside and I had my phone on change. This gave an energy consumption for the day as follows:

You can see the figures add up - 76km @ 14 kWh/100Km = 10.67 kWh.

So I have to say I'm delighted with that! In the Soul I'd be delighted to get 14 on purely local trips - throw in the M50 and the N11 and it was heading for 20 very quickly. So 14 for today's mixed driving, on a wet and windy (though mild enough) day is a big improvement. For my Elegance car, assuming a usable capacity of 46 Kwh that gives a range of 328 km - nice! Obviously that would fall if I kept going on the motorway but overall I'm impressed.