00:00 G'day, I'm Paul. Hyundai is just about to launch the new IONIQ 5N.
00:04 They're actually launching it at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
00:06 This here is a prototype version of the IONIQ 5N, and we're in Sweden with Hyundai at the moment because they're doing some
00:13 fine-tuning on the stability control systems, and also giving us a chance to have a bit of a drive of this before we do
00:18 finally get to drive it in dry conditions as well. So this is going to be a first taste.
00:22 I don't have a stack of information, so I'll give you everything that I do have,
00:25 but everything else will come at a later date.
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00:32 so you can find out every single time we publish new content. Let's hop inside the car and go for a bit of a spin.
00:36 Okay, so let's do some driving. So I'm going to point out at this stage, this is a prototype still,
00:42 so it's not a complete vehicle. Means some of the materials and stuff inside the car aren't correct.
00:48 And in addition to that, I can't show you the screens here, but I can describe what I'm seeing.
00:52 Now this video, just because we don't have much time to shoot it, we're going to use B-roll,
00:56 which is just footage that I'm probably not in over the stuff that I'm talking about,
01:00 but will give you as much information as I possibly can. So why are they here in Sweden?
01:04 Well, it's all about testing on these icy conditions and then shooting the stability control,
01:09 but there are a couple of really cool features here.
01:11 And we're on this huge sort of big circle on a lake here,
01:14 and I want to run you through the stability control with the drift optimizer.
01:18 So right now everything is on just the normal mode, and when you start turning in,
01:22 it basically will constantly bite, and it will constantly just be keeping the car in line.
01:28 It doesn't give you any fun behind the wheel, and it's designed just like you would expect it to be if you're driving
01:33 to and from work in conditions like this.
01:36 And it means that you can be aggressive with it, and then it will bite and stop the car from sort of doing anything too badly.
01:42 So that's all sort of pretty straightforward.
01:45 But then what you can do is press the ESC sport button.
01:49 ESC sport gives you the ability to add a bit more throttle
01:53 and get the car to go sideways. If you then counter-steer,
01:56 it will wait just a little bit longer before it actually
02:00 brings in the braking to keep the car in line.
02:04 So this is all pretty standard stuff, and there's nothing sort of too
02:07 groundbreaking there in terms of how that works.
02:10 It just does what it says on the box, and it makes you feel like a bit of a hero, but it's pretty safe
02:16 all the time. Now where it gets interesting is the drift optimizer. So I'm going to come to a stop here to activate it.
02:24 Okay, so come to a full stop, switch stability control off by pushing and holding.
02:29 It comes up saying stability control has been switched off. Then we tick
02:34 drift optimizer. It gives you a whole bunch of warnings. Okay, so that is active. It comes up the top here saying drift.
02:40 And in a straight line,
02:43 you can feel that it's kicking
02:45 totally sideways. But with this active, I'm able to lean into the throttle,
02:50 start applying steering lock.
02:53 But what it's doing, it's letting me go all the way to the limits of the car.
02:58 And it means that when you are reaching those limits where typically you would lose control of the car, instead of losing control,
03:05 you just feed in a bit more throttle, a bit more steering angle, watch where you're going, and away it goes. It just basically lets the car
03:14 continue going around in circles all day long. We're on a surface here that is like
03:18 barely any traction whatsoever. I can just stay in it,
03:23 it just feeds in steering lock, and it will just keep going sideways. It is an incredible system, and they've done such a good job
03:29 for you to actually tune it and make you feel like an absolute hero as well.
03:32 Now another cool feature you can do as well here is actually change the torque distribution.
03:38 And with stability control off, we can actually go all the way from
03:43 totally front-wheel drive to totally rear-wheel drive or some variation in between. So right now it's set on 80/20.
03:50 So this is not drift optimizer. This is actually stability control being entirely off, and it's up to the
03:55 driver to figure out how it all works.
03:58 But there's another cool system where you are again in control of the car, you're able to set the settings yourself
04:04 and tell it exactly what you want to do.
04:07 And again, it's something that you can't do in a lot of cars. Tesla tried to do it with the Model 3 and it works well there,
04:12 but here they kind of give you that extra granular control we don't quite get in the Model 3 as well.
04:19 So even with everything off, I'm able to just feed in throttle and steering lock,
04:24 and it will just do everything that it needs to do, and then we can go all the way to...
04:28 Let's go just to rear-wheel drive.
04:31 And in rear-wheel drive, it is literally just driving a rear-wheel drive car on ice, which is
04:42 hilarious fun. This car is genuinely unreal. I think what they've done here is something to be sort of pretty impressed with.
04:47 So let's head over to the ride and handling track,
04:49 and I'll just run you through a couple of the other features that they've got going as well.
04:52 Okay, so we have moved over to the handling track,
04:57 and I'll just run you through some of the other stuff that we've learned about this. Again,
05:00 we don't know all of the information. I'm just going to feed you as much as I do know.
05:04 So basically this sits on a wider track. It's lower. It's got different camber to a regular IONIQ 5.
05:11 It also has adaptive damping as well. So you'll have different modes that you can run through
05:15 to adjust how the ride feels behind the wheel.
05:18 In addition to all of that, it uses an ELSD on the rear axle. So the ELSD is effectively
05:24 mimicking a full mechanical LSD, but it's electronically controlled,
05:28 and it means that they can snap it open and close so that when you do
05:32 sort of get into a condition where you do want to be feeding
05:35 torque to that rear axle, it's going to act like a regular LSD. That also gives you the ability to do
05:41 torque vectoring as well, because you can open and close that as required.
05:46 I'm getting really switched off here. This is so much fun. The other interesting feature they've got as well...
05:52 Scanning click through here...
05:56 The other cool feature they've got as well is
05:59 fake gear shifts. So with the pedal shifters on an 8B, typically what's being used for is adjusting how much regen you have.
06:07 Whereas here in the...
06:10 (laughs)
06:12 Out of the side window...
06:14 (laughs)
06:16 Yeah, so typically with EVs, the
06:19 pedal shifters are used for controlling the amount of regen that you have.
06:23 Whereas here, what you're able to do is actually use the pedal shifters to simulate gear shifts,
06:27 and that gives you a tacho here on the screen.
06:30 And
06:32 the tacho is basically like an RPM gauge, and obviously
06:36 this isn't like an internal combustion car, but they wanted to mimic it for customers so they would feel comfortable with
06:42 a rev gauge for the head of the driver. And then when you do pull the pedal shifters, you're actually simulating gear shifts.
06:52 So then the car is basically, you know,
06:55 shifting gears, which is just a weird phenomenon, but it's something they're trying to do to bridge the gap between an internal combustion car and
07:02 the end vehicle.
07:05 So look, Albert Biermann, the bloke that's responsible for engineering all this stuff,
07:08 he's saying that this is capable of doing two laps of the Nurburgring without any degradation, which is pretty incredible for an EV.
07:14 They're also talking about a new battery chemistry as well
07:17 that hasn't been available on previous versions of the ioniq 5 that is fitted to this.
07:22 So that means they can get better current draw and also means that
07:25 that's a track mode available to you that you're able to engage to give you that better life on the tracks that can really hammer it.
07:30 Yeah, look, it is all pretty impressive. We do have such limited information,
07:34 so I haven't been able to give you a great deal of detail or show you what any of this stuff looks like.
07:37 But look, the first glance here is this is pretty unreal.
07:41 It's been awesome to be able to come to Sweden and actually test it out on these surfaces and get a
07:45 much better feel for how this goes. Like earlier,
07:48 we did some split view testing as well to see what stability controls were like and how it accelerated
07:52 using that ELSD and everything was really impressive. So look, I think they've done a great job.
07:57 If you do have any questions about it, let me know in the comments section below.
08:00 I'll answer as much as I possibly can, keeping in mind I don't have much information.
08:04 I've just been told what I've been told and yeah, I'll answer whatever I can answer for you without getting into trouble.
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