This Hyundai Ioniq 5 Owner Managed 413,991 Miles In Under Four Years, With One Big Catch

Electric vehicles, though they are rapidly improving, are not exactly the ideal long-range road-trip vehicle sort of choice if you’re going the distance, mostly because of all the downtime you’ll spend recharging the car. That didn’t stop one South Korean owner from sending his Hyundai Ioniq 5 to the moon and back just about, figuratively, of course. There’s just one catch: not all the pieces of the car would have survived the entire journey if he had gone lunar.

Around The World Again And Again And…

Images posted to Facebook appear to show a Korean-market Ioniq 5 of some unconfirmed spec with a whopping 666,255 kilometers, or more than 413,000 miles on the clock. That’s enough to drive around the circumference of the Earth at least 16 times, and you’d already be halfway through your 17th round at that point. It’s a truly astronomical figure that few cars ever manage to hit, and definitely not as quickly as this if they do.

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This 2023 Ioniq 5 was picked up in 2022 and has endured at least three years and four months of constant driving, it would seem. If you do the math, it comes out to roughly 340 miles per day over that span of time. So, what’s the catch?

Well, Hyundai’s electric crossover held up well, but not perfect over those hundreds of thousands of miles. There’s no word on how much regular maintenance was required, how many dealer visits were made, how many dashboard errors were thrown, nor how many tires were spent to get that far. But we do know that the battery did have to be replaced at the 360,395-mile mark.

According to the post, the battery was replaced free of charge for the owner by Hyundai, which is nice. It’s not immediately clear why Hyundai decided to do that, as most warranties for the new EV cap out at 100,000 miles and require a catastrophic issue to qualify.

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It could be likely that Hyundai was aware of the wear and tear the rest of the car has endured, and likely figured it was best overall to keep that owner in that car going, rather than be wasteful in replacing or selling him another entire car. If everything else still works, why not keep this 5 alive and see if it can do another 360k?

Plus, we’re curious if Hyundai isn’t closely following this example of its EV, just to see how it fares under such strenuous and extensive conditions. We also wager the automaker wanted to keep the old battery for a post-mortem, and perhaps thereafter, future EVs could get even better warranty coverage.

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All being said, 413k is nothing to sneeze at, but we’ve seen more than a dozen examples of million-mile cars before, and the highest-mileage ride in the world is probably a Volvo claiming to have traversed 3.2 million miles total. We think the Hyundai can catch up.

H/T: Carscoops