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The energy required for seat heating and cooling is far less than for cabin heating or cooling, and a very good idea in an EV. Just be aware in the user manual it says to not run the seat cooling with out the cabin cooling on Thanks. I had not noticed that. I wonder why not. All I can think of is t...

... What the hell is a seat cooler? It sounds really, well, cool :| In the Highlander (posher) version of the Kona, the seat surface is porous and a fan blows air through it. It is remarkably good on a hot day. The energy consumption of the fan would be negligible. The energy required for seat heat...

Thanks. This 20kW Setec unit came up in an internet search, though not linked that I could see on the Setec site. It looks OK, not too bulky or heavy (40kg). I am thinking this might be left in the car all the time on an outback trip if adequately ventilated, not lifted out every time one wants to c...

Are these or similar available in Au? At a price that is not prohibitive? https://www.designwerk.com/en/fast-chargers/ 22kW from the relatively common three phase, 32A outlets into the DC input would bypass the limitations of on-board AC chargers for people travelling away from the big cities and ro...

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...At high speeds volt becomes a parallel hybrid Ie engine does run the wheels together with electric motor... Hence the asterisk in my text above. Yes, in unusual circumstances the engine does run the wheels but it happens so infrequently that it can be ignored for practical purposes of explaining...

We are downsizing to one car and moving on from petrol entirely. So, recently, we sold our iMiEV. The Kona electric we ordered is due to arrive soon, in late November 2019. So, soon it will be time to sell the Volt, a plug-in battery electric car with a petrol range-extending generator built-in. Ple...

I can now confirm that we are selling our Volt in early December. We are downsizing to one car and moving on from petrol entirely. So, recently, we sold our iMiEV. The Kona electric we ordered is due to arrive soon, in early December 2019. It still has over 2 years remaining of warranty on all its '...

... that's a saving of about $5000/year . Impressive! Still hard to justify the price difference to the ICE version if you are not an EV enthousiaste though... If you have the car for a decade, you save $50K, most of the purchase price. I reckon a new Kona EV is better than any new petrol car you c...

My friend with an original Leaf said he was told by Nissan that they are now making replacement batteries to order which is why they take some time to arrive. It was his speculation that this might mean they are all 'Lizard' batteries, since it would not make sense to make two sorts of cells when th...

I think the $10K Nissan replacement batteries are the more recent 'Lizard' chemistry, which supposedly lasts better in the heat than the original battery. We all wish this was true, and it would make so much sense. But Les Smith (@lesmando), who received one of the first (probably the actual first)...

I think the $10K Nissan replacement batteries are the more recent 'Lizard' chemistry, which supposedly lasts better in the heat than the original battery. So, if you got a used Leaf for (say) $10K and after a while found the battery had degraded to the point that it no longer covered your local trip...

T1 Terry wrote: ↑

Mon, 21 Oct 2019, 14:49

...I wonder if that is why the previous owner sold it?...
T1 Terry

Maybe. He seemed to be very straight about making sure I understood all about the car. The reason he gave was changed family circumstances meaning that he needed a bench back seat with three seat belts.

Hi, I just bought a second-hand MY13 Holden Volt. It is doing very nicely. It drives smoothly like an EV. I have only a couple of times noticed a very brief hesitation and wonder if that is one of the clutches in the Voltec arrangement doing its thing. It turned out that the 'hesitation' was the st...

...All my EV's vary from the average by 30% either side... Ditto. Another factor that might play a part is battery temperature. When the battery is cold, any real world cell behaves like an ideal cell with some resistance in series. That internal resistance is higher when it is cold, so, for the sa...

My Wall Charger has two settings, fast = 7.2kW & Eco=1.2kw. This may indicate 7.2/3.6/1.2 for Max/medium/minimun Thanks. I wonder if max/medium/minimum just means (say) 100%/75%/50% (or some other percentages) relative to whatever maximum the EVSE sets? Anyway, glad to know the car does something l...

If your byo 20A cable is type 2 compliant, the car will limit itself to the lesser of the cable or the evse current rating automatically. Thanks for that. I had not realised that cables also communicated their current limits like an EVSE. Hmm. Not sure if it has any such smarts in it, perhaps in th...

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Mon, 30 Sep 2019, 20:06

...some light reading...

Thanks. I'll do some reading.

Any EVSE set to a lower limit will be fine. I built my 3.6kW portable EVSE specifically for caravan park 15A outlets. Worked perfectly on the EV Long Weekend tour with my Kona. 😊 BTW, from memory the Kona itself can be set for lower charge rates if you want it to. Cheers Bryce Thanks. I realise the...

Any reason you want a slower charge rate? Its only a 7kw on board charger which is ~0.1c of the pack(64kwh), you're not going to shorten the life of the battery at the max AC charge rate Yes, I realise that. I have an cable that I could use at BYO cable public charging outlets but a sticker says it...

I have a Kona electric on order so I don't yet have an instruction book to read. I have a couple of charging questions. 1) If I am charging from (say) a 32A or greater EVSE, so the car could be AC charging as fast as it is capable of charging, is there an option inside the car to select a slower cha...

...So why do my first 2 calculations suggest 78kWh? Where is my error?... Perhaps you could ask your Hyundai dealer or Hyundai's national technical help line? No, sorry, only kidding! Obviously they wouldn't have a clue. My guess is that the battery management system (BMS) might still be learning w...

I'd be surprised if it didn't support single phase charging, particularly given the US market is nearly all single phase charging I am not suggesting that it would not support single phase charging. I expect the three phase charger would operate on one phase if it only found power applied to one in...

2020 EU Kona Ev to get onboard three-phase onboard charger with up to 11 kW (AC), Blue Link app and optional navigation system with a 10.25-inch centre display. https://insideevs.com/news/348727/hyundai-3-phase-charger-kona-europe/ I wonder if the 11kW 3-phase is actually three independent 15A char...

A bit of lateral thinking. Not sure the dealer would let me do that. The dealer should treat you like royalty since you spent many thousands of dollars with them. It costs them nothing to be helpful to you since they could not sell you the product you wanted. They should see it as in investment in ...