The Hyundai INSTER sub-compact EV with 355km range will be officially released later this month. It was teased today and based on the CASPER ICE model available in some markets. Thoughts?
Check the manual but if it's like our EV6, it's actually recommended to charge to 100% at least once a month to trigger a cell rebalancing thing.
Just don't leave it charged to 100% for days.
I think this should be true for all EVs with NCM batteries.
New stats from June registrations, and the Hyundai Inster moved from the place 74th to the 63rd with exactly 100 registrations in the month of June, passing the MG4 and the ID3. With more deliveries currently happening and 252 registrations let's see how well does it sell in July
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 didn't notice any jumpiness (..but I'm on my 3rd Hyundai group BEV). Make sure you're in normal or eco driving mode and not in sport mode. …because that one will be jumpy. Other than that, you'll just get used to the instant torque soon.
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).
When reversing, if you turn off auto hold, it should slowly reverse by itself, you only need to use the brakes.
Pretty sure I tested this when I did the test drive, same behaviour as our Kia EV6.
I finally have a VIN apparantly, after my deposit in March, probably will see it early August
I noticed the same when I did a test drive when reversing, I think that we will get used to, but worth checking the different modes
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.
Looking through the manual, there's a parking assist button that will auto-brake if you're about to hit something. Might give that a go. I did put it in ECO mode last night and found it a bit less sensitive to the pedal when reversing back into a spot.
Nice, will try that too. I do have auto-hold on so it's worth a try.
Great advice from cromelex there. I never turned on auto-hold on any of our 3 BEVs. Auto-creep is perfect for me.
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.
I seen my first one out in the wild this morning, I was surprised at how compact it is in real life.
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.
This worked a treat. Parking a breeze without auto-hold. You just control the speed with the brake. I might prefer auto-hold off in general for driving in stop-start traffic. It gives you a nice 'lift off' when you come off the brake.
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 tried to turn off 'auto hold' but did not seem to work. Perhaps needs to be done before starting engine. Is it not useful to have driving in urban traffic with frequent stops?. I am getting used to the reverse 'jerk' so a just a dab and we move off smoothly with brake to control speed.
I got caught with eyes off the road twice today … so that safety feature is included.
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 💕!!)
Quick tip for newbies…. First thing I tried to do with new car was open boot. I struggled for a bit but now now their is a pimple just under the S of inster and pressing on that releases the boot. I think it only releases boot and not all the doors.
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 find the auto-hold great, so I don't have to rest the foot on the brake at traffic lights. It's great for hill starts too.
AFAIK, it keeps the brake lights on, which isn't great for folks behind, though I haven't tested this.
I'll try switching it off for reversing and see how that goes.
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:
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 haven't missed the auto brake at all since turning it off. When driving, it serves no purpose for how I drive. I brake to stop, and I just keep my foot on the brake until I need to go again. I guess if some prefers being able to rest their foot (instead of holding the break), then auto-brake could be a nice feature. It would still be a pain for anyone though when it comes to parking, especially in tight spaces.
There was one moment where I went "oh, no handbrake". Pulled up in a space on a slight incline. Put the car in neutral (car still on) and let my foot off the brake. It rolled a fraction before I quickly went back on the brake. I guess in that scenario, auto-break would have held the car… but that was more me leaving the car on so I could go through the car settings.
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.
great question - wish I knew the answer!
It’s called ‘Idle time’ I believe - but I don’t know if this is recorded (does anyone else?)
HOWEVER… hidden away in the menus is ‘Energy Consumption History’
I only discovered this a few weeks after I bought the car
GOOD NEWS: I took photos 😊
BAD NEWS:it works like a dashcam and only stores the most recent ☹️
MORE BAD NEWS: it only stores date, distance +consumption (not ‘Idle’ time ☹️)
So here’s the data:
527 miles history has been recorded (383 miles missing - see above)
17/4/25 car registered (to a sales guy at the dealership)
16/5/25 I collected the car (with 402 miles on the clock) and drove c 132 miles, mostly motorway (M1, M42 - exiting at Solihull) then mix of ‘A’ roads / dual carriageway, urban, and country lanes back home near Redditch - see the two bar graph entries for 16/5 (I stopped at an M1 services for a pee and to figure out the smart cruise control settings - ‘Idle’ time!)
4/7/25 910 miles on the clock (so I’ve driven 508 miles)
Thanks for the effort, it doesn't answer the question, looked more like an answer from a politician, lol.
the Hyundai Inster does not record ‘Idle’ time data - which cars do? And with EVs new owners will inevitably be spending a lot of ‘Idle’ time working through the menu screens, trying to understand the displays, features, settings etc
As I said previously “I try to drive at the speed limit when conditions allow”. In other words I am driving at the maximum permissible legal speed in the UK and the 16/5/25 combined data points (115miles at 4.5kWh and 17 miles at 5kWh) reflect real-world ‘fast road driving’ consumption data for the UK (obviously not in Germany where there is no speed limit on many motorways) because keeping up with the traffic flow is the safest and least stressful way to drive
I doubt you will find any new Inster driver (or indeed any driver!) who can provide the actual average driving speed you clearly want, if it’s not recorded by the car
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.
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