Through sunny skies, slushy snow, and stormy rain, we put the refreshed-for-2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 through its paces in Palm Springs and the San Jacinto Mountains to see how it copes when life throws weather and winding roads in its way.

Inside, the XRT enjoys all the updates for the 2025 model year and features seats with H-Tex synthetic leather and an embossed XRT logo on the front seat backs. The XRT logo also appears on the doors and the all-weather floor mats.

Major upgrades and new features lift the 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 compact SUV into the front rank of electric SUVs. The new off-road-styled XRT model shares the updates, but the racy 2025 Ioniq 5 N didn’t get them,