2023 Hyundai Ioniq 5

12/30/2023 at approximately 5:30pm I drove home with the iPedal engaged. The iPedal was installed as a download to the car in August 2023. My daughter was in the passenger seat. I began to back into my driveway but shifted to Drive to straighten out the car. The car began to roll forward I took my foot off the accelerator but the car did not stop in spite of the iPedal being engaged. I put my foot on the BRAKE PEDAL which went all the way to the floor to no avail. The car rolled slowly into an electrical pole which brought the car to a stop. I previously filed a complaint here but I have since learned that iPedal may disengage if the car is put into reverse. There is not warning light to alert the driver that iPedal is disengaged so the driver is not aware that the brakes may not work as expected. I believe this may have been the case with my accident. However, this does not address why using the foot pedal for the brakes did not stop the car. Have found many complaints about this on various forums and believe this aspect of iPedal needs to be addressed. It should not disengage unless the driver instructs the car to do so. I have not been able to find documentation of this functionality in the manual, but I have searched and will continue to do so.

The contact owns a 2023 Hyundai Ioniq 5. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, a Jeep veered into the driver’s path, and the Forward Collision Avoidance: Automatic Emergency Braking system failed to activate as designed. There were no warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer, who determined the vehicle was working as designed. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The vehicle was taken to another local dealer, Feldman Hyundai of New Hudson (30492 Lyon Center Dr., New Hudson, MI 48165), who stated the vehicle was working as intended. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure, but no assistance was provided. The failure mileage was approximately 15,000.

I heard a pop from the rear of the car and warnings came up on the dash. The vehicle was power limited and needed to be towed to the dealer. It was diagnosed as an ICCU failure and blown fuse. This was the problem supposedly addressed in Hyundai TSB 997 (NHTSA ID Number: 10240086). That service was performed on the vehicle in September 2023. We were lucky the incident occurred on a city street and not on a freeway or rural highway where the sudden loss of power could have been very dangerous. The software fix applied under Hyundai’s TSB clearly did not fix the issue.

12/30/2023 at approximately 5:30pm I drove home with the iPedal engaged. The iPedal was installed as a download to the car in August 2023. My daughter was in the passenger seat. I began to back into my driveway but shifted to Drive to straighten out the car. The car began to roll forward I took my foot off the accelerator but the car did not stop in spite of the iPedal being engaged. I put my foot on the BRAKE PEDAL which went all the way to the floor to no avail. The car rolled slowly into an electrical pole which brought the car to a stop. Neither iPedal nor the foot brake pedal had any effect on the car. I then put the car in reverse and backed the car into my driveway and the brakes worked as expected. When I then attempted to charge the vehicle, the charging port would not open. I could hear the motor working to open but it would not open. On 1/11/2024, I again attempted to open the charging port and this time it did open. So, TWO different electrical (including the brakes and the charging port) were not working properly. Inasmuch as the charging port again worked and the brakes again worked, there clearly was a malfunction that was random and unpredictable and also nearly impossible to reproduce but if this happened once, it could happen again. The brakes failed. Had we been traveling on a busy road, or at the top of a hill, we would have faced significant bodily harm, death to ourselves or others. This car had been driven locally, predominantly on local roads. The car is available for inspection and has only been driven on the dealer lot since the the incident. There were no warning lights or messages to indicate that any issues existed. The manufacturer has executed an inspected but has not reproduced the problem. The manufacturer and dealership claims the car is safe to drive without addressing the brake failure. I do not believe the car is safe to drive without a determination of how the bake failure happened or without a repair to that issue.

Driver was moving forward into a space in a parking garage between two other vehicles. Driver had pulled most of the way in and was slowly inching forward. As the car came to a stop, it suddenly lurched forward, hitting a concrete wall. The collision warning system did not alert, and auto-braking did not occur. The car was in Regen Level 3, and Auto Hold was not activated. In the months prior to this, the car twice had a similar situation when coming to a stop at an intersection with foot on the brake, then suddenly lurched forward, nearly rear-ending a car in front. There was no visible damage to the concrete wall, and a police report was not made. Hyundai says they want to inspect vehicle, but have not done so after a month. It is easy to believe that this was driver error, but it absolutely was not. Car lunged forward and accelerated into a wall with only the brake being applied. All of these events have occurred after the Hyundai Ioniq 5 software update was applied on 26 Sep 2023.

Driving the vehicle on the highway for longer than 60 miles at highway speeds the vehicle goes into “power limited” mode and a turtle pops up on the screen. You are unable to accelerate the car and once this happens you have to leave the car off for at least 5 minutes and then not drive above 65mph again or it will keep happening over and over. After taking it to the shop Hyundai Corporate said we need to drive the car again to see if they had fixed it. Approximately 65 miles into the trip it happened again and this time I was almost rear ended and cars were swerving around me on the shoulder to avoid crashing into me. Hyundai is saying that they cannot reproduce the issue but they are not driving the car on the highway for more than 60 miles. The safety of not only myself and my family is at risk as well as other people on the highway behind and next to us. The vehicle is currently at the dealership and they said there are no error codes so they don’t know what’s wrong. The only warning that popped up said “power limited” with a turtle.

I was waiting to charge up my EV when the dashboard started lighting up red. Stating to turn off vehicle due to battery failure and safety. And then all of the sudden the car just turned off. And would not come back on. So my husband had to go rent a vehicle at Avis so we wouldn’t be stranded so far from home. And to continue to go to work. So after 30 minutes my husband suggested that I try and restart the car and it did come on. We were stuck in the freezing elements due to the battery failure. Which seems to be an issue that they had back in 2022. That wasn’t correct or thought to have been. After I did some research yesterday 1/24/24. I called and made the local dealership aware of what I discovered that I took my car to. Because they couldn’t see if they would get same issue but they stated they didn’t.Also called into road side assistance on the day of the incident to have the car towed. But canceled after the vehicle started back up after 30 minutes with no response.

Driving on the freeway at approximately 70 mph, the car lost the ability to accelerate and started to lose speed. I had my foot on the gas but the speed was dropping. There were no warning lights, messages, or other alerts prior to the loss of acceleration. The screen remained on during the loss of acceleration but a phone call was lost. Safety at risk for obvious reasons. I was able to put hazards on and move to the left-hand shoulder. I turned the car off and on again and was able to speed up again to merge onto the freeway. For the remainder of the drive (approx 25 min), everything was fine. We have not taken the car in yet for inspection. The car charge was over 50%. I had driven the car on the freeway with no issues for an hour earlier in the morning, for 15 min in the city, and then for another 25 minutes on the freeway prior to the incident.

The Ioniq 5 has a serious problem with 12 volt battery drain. Three times, I have returned from vacation and found that the 12 v battery was completely dead. This is a huge issue if a consumer cannot rely on their vehicle to start in an emergency. I called a dealer in Renton, Washington about the issue and the technician responded, "This is a common issue in these types of vehicles." I am sorry, but that is not acceptable and is a vehicle defect. With electronic doors, you cannot get into the vehicle to jump start it, if the vehicle is locked, unless you can pull the manual key from the key fob and open it with the key. 12 v battery drain is killing the lifespan of the battery. Looking on the internet, other owners are complaining of the same issue. My vehicle sat for one week two times in December and I just returned form a two week vacation to find the battery completely dead. I only have 4484 miles on the vehicle and it is a 2023 car, so it is not an old battery. The car has a serious electrical defect.