Hyundai INSTER

I think this should be true for all EVs with NCM batteries.

Picked up our Buttercream Elegance Inster this morning. Looks great (everything does on a sunny morning). Took it for a spin with the kids into town and back. Drive assist features (which I hadn't explored much in test drive) make driving it a breeze. Only aspect I think will take getting used to is parking. The pedals are quite sensitive so I found nudging slowly back into a space to be a bit "jumpy". It really is a tardis too. It feels so roomy inside but looking at it now parked where our old saloon car was, it's looks so neat and tidy.

I'll take a look at the driving mode. IIRC, it was set in normal mode though heading off from the garage. I think it's more a case of getting used to it (first EV).

I finally have a VIN apparantly, after my deposit in March, probably will see it early August

Buttercream here arrived June 6th booked early March. Odd experience of trying to open car and no response! I thought to use Bluelink and that worked and then when in car the engine started. I couldnt find the fob and thought I had locked it in the car earlier but no it was in a wire basket I use for shopping. I guess the wire stopped the signal transmitting? So could I have driven off with just the Bluelink function as it will also turn on the motor?

I note Bluelink is 'free' for 6 mths but I doubt I will pay for it after that.

Nice, will try that too. I do have auto-hold on so it's worth a try.

Collected our's on the 1st ; I'd almost forgotten what it was like to drive since the test drive in mid Feb, better than I remembered. Seats are so comfy, suspension rides the donkey tracks for roads here in West Cork well. Accelerates pretty good from 90km to 110km . My wife didn't drive it before but luckily loves it. Bit concerned at the ICCU failures that have been reported though. Cracking car & for the price good value. Looked at the Ioniq 5 N in the showroom, very nice but €80k bit beyond us, 650 ps & top speed of 260 km.

Just heard from the dealer that our Khaki Elegance is now only expected to arrive by late August, we had been given a July date for pick up.

We had put a deposit down on the 1st of May.

Auto Hold

for me auto hold serves no useful function (unless stopped at traffic lights at night to stop dazzling cars behind), and only after I pressed the AH button (and the light went out) did I realise how very jerky it had been making low speed manoeuvring (especially into concrete multi-storey car park spaces where sudden lurches could be very expensive!)

with AH off low speed manoeuvring is a pleasure and a breeze. It will be staying off!

‘Fuel’ Consumption

Today is exactly 7 weeks since I bought the car (02/‘Elegance’ 49kWh) and over the 910 total mileage (1464.5 km), driven normally over a typical mix of motorways, fast ‘A’ roads, country lanes and urban, it has achieved 4.7 miles/kWh consumption (or 13.22 kWh/100km using this handy converter tool: https://www.inchcalculator.com/convert/mile-per-kilowatt-hour-to-kilowatt-hour-per-hundred-kilometers/%29 which I think is pretty decent, and not far short of the WLTP figure based on 46kWh ‘useable’ capacity not the 49kWh used by Hyundai in the model specification. If WLTP uses the ‘gross’ 49kWh spec then their range figure is exceeded!

Note: a sizeable chunk of the 55hrs 57mins elapsed time shown is when the car has been stationary and I’ve been going through +trying to understand all the driver settings, menus +infotainment etc! So I’ve no idea what the average driving speed has been - suffice to say I try to drive at the speed limit when conditions allow

I just pressed the AH button and the light went out - job done!

As I mentioned above, I can find no use for this feature, so it’s remained off. I suspect Hyundai included it to stop journalists criticising the car for not having it! Despite this I have even seen YTs where the ‘reviewer’ slagged off the car for having 2 buttons for fresh +recirculated air (which I like! 🤣) and ‘old fashioned’ buttons ‘everywhere’ (which I love 💕!!)

it does - the proximity sensor detects the key in your pocket +allows you to open the boot eg to put your shopping in, then when you close the boot the car remains locked until you press the black button on the door handle (either side)

I use the paddles a lot - absolutely love them! - and the brakes hardly ever

it’s a very different style of driving and, in a sense, I use the paddles like gears

and this is why I don’t need Auto Hold:

• mostly I’m in position 0 (coast mode) which, together with being in Eco mode all the time), has delivered excellent economy (see my previous post)
• approaching junctions / slower cars /lower speed limit etc, I ‘change down’ to position 1 (very modest regen - I believe this does not activate the brake lights because the retardation is just like ‘engine braking’)
• if more retardation is needed then I just work down ‘the gears’ as needed until (if needed) I reach position 4, or ‘I-Pedal’
• I-Pedal, of course, has a ‘built-in’ Auto Hold (but without the jerkiness!) and therefore there’s no need to use the brakes at all for the car to remain stationary - even on hills up or down (I haven't tested extreme inclines so I don’t know if there’s a limit)
• if traffic conditions are very congested it’s quite possible to adopt ‘no pedal driving’, just flipping between regen 3 and 4 as traffic keeps moving slowly forward and then stopping - which delivers the absolute best economy figures apparently 😊

NOTE: just tested whether the brake lights remain on after I-Pedal stops the car and yes, they do (which is a good safety feature!)

I'd be impressed with that 13.22 kWh/100km if I could know the average speed ? surely the car can tell you this ?

The BMW i3 Rex could achieve this no problem at slower speeds but a lot less on the motorway, it could do 220 Kms with 28 Usable Kwh if you stuck to slower roads which I have here anyway in the sticks.

The id.3 77 Kwh couldn't achieve anywhere this consumption, but it was a 2000 Kg lump and also had to carry around around 10 Kwh of unusable battery which is ridiculous.

Thanks for the effort, it doesn't answer the question, looked more like an answer from a politician, lol.

Folks,

On my Tesla M3, I can/have added my wife as a driver meaning that she can schedule charges etc.

On our Inster (delivered last week), she is the main driver on Bluelink but can't seem to add me. When I try to set up my own account, it says that an account on the car already exists.

Can anyone help? TIA.