One of the things I love about Engineering Explained is that Jason does a great job of making technical and mathematical engineering concepts accessible to people like me, a person who can assemble and understand automotive parts, but who doesn’t design or engineer them. So, when I saw that he was going to cover Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 N , I knew it was something I’d be sharing with readers!
That might sound silly to Apple gadgetheads who became Tesla fanatics, but we have to keep in mind that not everyone is going to think by number the way investors and people who camp outside of Apple stores do. In a world where we need to get most people to drive an EV, we need to appeal to differing audiences, even if some of us will find those audiences hard to understand and agree with.
The N Race Mode has two options: Sprint and Endurance. In Sprint, you get maximum power, even if this comes at the cost of extra heat that would be bad for a long track session. This would be useful for short events like drag racing or small rural tracks you’re only taking a few laps around. The other mode, Endurance, focuses on sacrificing some short-term performance for more ability to take long, punishing sessions at the track.