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2025 Hyundai IONIQ 5 towing capacity

The 2025 Hyundai IONIQ 5 is rated for 2,700 lbs in every configuration listed in the maker's guide.

✓ From 2025 Hyundai IONIQ 5 Owner's Manual, p. 616 ↗Checked 2026-09-2920262025202420232022

Hyundai IONIQ 5
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2,700
Max towing, lbs
2,700
Lowest rating, lbs
1
Configurations
220
Max tongue, lbs

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Will it pull your trailer?

Use the trailer's GVWR (on its VIN sticker) if you don't know what it weighs loaded — the dry weight leaves out water, propane and gear.

Yes, in every configuration

Across all 1 configurations in the maker's guide.

▲ top rating 2,700 lbs

  • Tongue weight ≈ 150 lbs — 10% of the loaded trailer, the figure Ford's towing guide uses (no more than 200 lbs up to 2,000 lbs). It counts against your payload, together with passengers and cargo.
  • ✓ up to 90% of the rating · ! 90–100% (little room for cargo, hills, wind — common advice, not a Hyundai rule) · ✕ over the rating.

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Why the numbers differ

  • Up 700 lbs from the 2024 model's top rating of 2,000 lbs.

In real life

What 2,700 lbs means in trailers

Ford's towing guide sorts trailers into four weight classes; the classes describe the trailer, so they apply to any tow vehicle. With the right configuration the IONIQ 5 reaches:

  1. Class I✓ Yes

    up to 2,000 lbs

    Small folding camping trailers and trailers for small boats, motorcycles and snowmobiles.

    2026 Ford RV & Trailer Towing Guide, p. 4 ↗

  2. Class IIUp to 2,700

    2,001–3,500 lbs

    Large folding camping trailers, single-axle, small- to medium-length (up to 18-ft.) trailers.

    2026 Ford RV & Trailer Towing Guide, p. 4 ↗

  3. Class III✕ No

    3,501–5,000 lbs

    Dual-axle or large single-axle travel trailers.

    2026 Ford RV & Trailer Towing Guide, p. 4 ↗

  4. Class IV✕ No

    over 5,000 lbs

    Largest travel and 5th-wheel trailers made for recreation.

    2026 Ford RV & Trailer Towing Guide, p. 4 ↗

Real trailers

Can the IONIQ 5 pull these?

11 heavier trailers the IONIQ 5 isn't rated for

Weights are what each trailer maker publishes (retrieved 2026-09-27). We compare the trailer's GVWR — the most it may weigh loaded — with each IONIQ 5 configuration's rating, and never a dry weight when a GVWR exists.

Fine print, made plain

What the rating assumes

Equipment

Hyundai's 2025 spec sheet lists "Not Recommended" for the RWD models and "XRT w/accessory hitch (POM) TBD lbs." for AWD; this page follows the 2025 owner's manual. Check your manual and door-jamb label.

2025 Hyundai IONIQ 5 Specifications & Features, p. 22 ↗

Tongue weight limit

Long Range, with trailer package

220 lbs tongue

Tongue weight should be between allowable 10-15%

2025 Hyundai IONIQ 5 Owner's Manual, p. 616 ↗

Every rating assumes a 150-lb driver and passenger and no other cargo. Add people, gear or accessories and the trailer you can tow goes down by the same amount.

New to towing?

The five weights, in one picture

Tongue weightLoaded trailer weightPayloadGVWR: the loaded truckGCWR: truck + trailer together
Loaded trailer weight — must stay under the towing rating
The rating “It assumes a towing vehicle with any mandatory options, no cargo, tongue load of 10% (conventional trailer) or king pin weight of 15% (5th-wheel trailer), and driver and passenger (150 lbs. each).” Weight of additional options, passengers, cargo and hitch must be deducted from this weight. p. 7 ↗
Tongue weight — the part of the trailer pressing on the hitch
“For trailers up to 2,000 lbs., tongue load not to exceed 200 lbs. For conventional trailers over 2,000 lbs., tongue load is 10% of loaded trailer weight. For 5th-wheel trailers, king pin weight is 15% of loaded trailer weight.” p. 7 ↗
Payload — people and cargo the truck can carry
“Payload is the combined maximum allowable weight of cargo and passengers that the vehicle is designed to carry. It is the Gross Vehicle Weight Rating minus the Base Curb Weight.” And: “When towing, trailer tongue load or king pin weight is also part of the Cargo Weight.” p. 6 ↗
GVWR and GCWR — the two ceilings
“Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) is the maximum allowable weight of the fully-loaded vehicle (including passengers and cargo).” “Gross Vehicle Weight PLUS Loaded Trailer Weight EQUALS Gross Combination Weight (GCW) GCW must not exceed GCWR.” Your GVWR is on the label on the driver's door jamb. p. 6 ↗

Towing it behind a motorhome?

Can you flat tow a 2025 Hyundai IONIQ 5? No

Hyundai says no — not with four wheels down.

Steps and conditions →

From the maker's table

All 1 configurations

Conventional towing:
EngineMax trailerGCWRSource
—2,70012not listedp. 616 ↗
  1. With trailer package
  2. Maximum trailer weight without trailer brakes: 1,653 lbs.

Weights in lbs. “Not listed” means the maker printed no GCWR for that configuration — we don't estimate one.

More Hyundai towing capacities

Questions people ask

What is the towing capacity of the 2025 Hyundai IONIQ 5?

2,700 lbs in every configuration Hyundai lists.

Does the 2025 Hyundai IONIQ 5 need a tow package?

Hyundai's 2025 spec sheet lists "Not Recommended" for the RWD models and "XRT w/accessory hitch (POM) TBD lbs." for AWD; this page follows the 2025 owner's manual. Check your manual and door-jamb label.

How much tongue weight can the 2025 Hyundai IONIQ 5 handle?

Long Range, with trailer package: 220 lbs.

Can you flat tow a 2025 Hyundai IONIQ 5?

No — Hyundai lists it as not towable with four wheels down.

Citing these numbers?

Can Tow That. "2025 Hyundai IONIQ 5 Towing Capacity." From 2025 Hyundai IONIQ 5 Owner's Manual, PDF modified 2024-09-25. https://cantowthat.com/hyundai/ioniq-5/2025

Source: 2025 Hyundai IONIQ 5 Owner's Manual (Hyundai Motor America, PDF modified 2024-09-25; retrieved 2026-09-29). Page links open the PDF at the page each number is printed on.

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