Porsche initially scoffed at the theHyundai Ioniq 5 N’s simulated gear shifts, questioning why anyone would make an EV “worse” by imitating a combustion powertrain. This was in 2024, when development driver Lars Kern drove the Ioniq 5 N – complete with its N e-Shift system – and said that his company would not follow that approach. Yet just two years later, Stuttgart did a complete about-face.
