Hyundai’s latest drop of its highly sought-after Ioniq electric vehicles has caused a stir, with reports that the company’s website crashed within minutes of the cars being made available on Wednesday afternoon. Despite the interest from tens of thousands of prospective customers, Hyundai was only able to offer a small supply of its multi-award winning Ioniq 5 electric SUV, and chose to do so through a series of monthly “drops” – a first come, first serve scramble on its website that has been likened to buying tickets for the Rolling Stones.
At 1pm on Wednesday, the biggest drop ever was proposed, including 300 of the newly released Ioniq 6 electric sedans and another 170 of the Ioniq 5s. However, problems quickly arose and reports of the website crashing started to emerge just two minutes past the opening. One perspective buyer took to a popular online forum to report that the frenzy of Hyundai’s Ioniq electric model hopefuls had crashed the ordering page.
The Driven team also experienced a similar error notice when they tried the website just before 2 pm. Frustrated by the rush of visitors to the website and it crashing initially, some buyers were lucky enough to get through and found the process a bit confusing, with the website taking buyers back to the start page just as they were about to order online.
The demand for the 470 electric vehicles on offer was so high that even those lucky enough to get through found the process a bit confusing. One buyer shared his feedback on why the biggest drop at the same time was not such a good idea: “Doing the Ioniq 6 release at the same time as the Ioniq 5 was an extremely dumb move”.
The Ioniq 6 drop consisted of 300 sedans split across three variants: 229 Dynamiq 2WD, 36 Techniq AWD and 35 Epiq AWD. The Ioniq 5 drop was slightly smaller than a bigger one where 250 EVs were on offer in January, which sold out in only 15 minutes.
The Driven has reached out to Hyundai to find out more about the sales results and web problems. It is anticipated that the next batches of EVs will be dropped in both March and April.
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