Hyundai IONIQ 5 N vs Hyundai IONIQ 6 N

The Hyundai IONIQ 5 N is £0 cheaper to buy. Running costs are almost identical - about £192 a year either way, at 8,000 miles on an off-peak home tariff. Add 5 years of charging and the two land within £80 of each other - effectively the same to own. These figures cover list price and home charging only - insurance, servicing, tyres and depreciation will move the real total.

EVcarsguide estimates a real-world motorway range of about 232 miles for the Hyundai IONIQ 5 N and 252 miles for the Hyundai IONIQ 6 N - both below their WLTP figures, because sustained high speed is the hardest case for an EV. The Hyundai IONIQ 6 N goes roughly 21 miles further between charging stops. A rapid charge to 80% takes around 27 minutes in the Hyundai IONIQ 5 N and 18 in the Hyundai IONIQ 6 N, so the Hyundai IONIQ 6 N loses less time at each stop. That makes the Hyundai IONIQ 6 N the stronger long-distance car.

The two are within 0 mm on width, so neither is meaningfully easier to thread into a tight space. In a standard 2,400 mm bay that leaves about 460 mm of total clearance for the Hyundai IONIQ 5 N and about 460 mm of total clearance for the Hyundai IONIQ 6 N.

Over a 8-year ownership window EVcarsguide's degradation model projects roughly 89% battery health for the Hyundai IONIQ 5 N and 89% for the Hyundai IONIQ 6 N. That is close enough that capacity loss should not decide between them. Both use NMC-type cells, so for daily use keep the charge limit near 80% to slow degradation.