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My article on towing with the Kona is here: https://thedriven.io/2020/03/25/tow-sto ... tric-kona/

Drove from Canberra to Narooma on the NSW south coast today on our first try towing a Jayco Flite camper trailer with a Kona electric. 225km and arrived with 95km range remaining, so 320km range, down from over 400km normally without a trailer. I drove at 90kph when the limit was 100. Otherwise up ...

Drove from Canberra to Narooma on the NSW south coast today on our first try towing a Jayco Flite camper trailer with a Kona electric. 225km and arrived with 95km range remaining, so 320km range, down from over 400km normally without a trailer. I drove at 90kph when the limit was 100. Otherwise up t...

I have just ordered one of these frunk/froots for myself and one for a friend. Postage was 65 Euro whether one or two was sent, so we shared the shipping cost. Total was about $340 each after conversion. I was reassured by the seller having bothered to do some checking on temperature rise with and w...

...my experience of Lane Keep Assist, having driven a Kona electric for nearly 18,000km now, is that it is truly awful. It ping-pongs between lane markings and desperately tries to steer me through potholes on country roads.... Really? I like it. I find it quite subtle and progressive. I just drive...

I've been told by the dealer that only the EU will get the 11kW charger. Apparently, we're still getting the 7.2kW as before. Cheers, Phil That makes sense. In Europe there is more 3 phase AC charging all the way along streets, so 3 phase at 15A is both a bit more useful to the driver and won't ris...

... still to check if its charges any faster than 7kw... I think you would need to go to a type 2 charge outlet that has three phase for sure to test it with a type 2 to type 2 cable that connects all three phases. The rumour was that they might do 32A on all three phases for 22kW (7kW still on a s...

I reset the trip computer in Blackheath, and took the picture below in Penrith, just under 55 kms distance, and approximately 1020 metres drop in elevation. I have not done this trip in our Kona but in our previous Holden Volt, we left Leura nominally fully charged with an EV range of about 65km sh...

Hyundai replied to me: "Thank you for contacting Hyundai Customer Care and providing us an opportunity to respond. Unfortunately, our AutoLink App can only show the battery percentage after the vehicle is charged and not while charging. If you have any other questions please don't hesitate to respo...

Hyundai replied to me: "Thank you for contacting Hyundai Customer Care and providing us an opportunity to respond. Unfortunately, our AutoLink App can only show the battery percentage after the vehicle is charged and not while charging. If you have any other questions please don't hesitate to respon...

Can you get what you need from the charger's app while you wait for Hyundai to fix it? I'm asking because I expect I'll have the same problem in about 8 weeks. Cheers, Phil Some public chargers have apps that will tell you the state of charge while you are logged in and charging. However, I am rare...

It would be helpful if a way could be found to have more accuracy on battery state of charge. If the battery is reading at 50% is that 50.4% or 49.6%.... When do we need to be shown more than two significant figures? I don't care if the car is at 49.6% or 50.4%. All I need to know is that is it abo...

If everyone reports it to Hyundai, they might lean on the app developer to fix it.

I think there is a bug in the AutoLink app. When my Kona electric is charging, the app reports what the state of charge of the battery was before charging commenced as if that were the current state of charge. Only after charging has stopped and the car has been driven does the app report the actual...

Oh ... I thought I had read 100kW ... is that AC at 100kW and DC at 70kW and onboard at 7.2kw? AC is 7kW (32A at 240V). DC is 75kW. The Hyundai sales literature is honest but perhaps a bit misleading. The say how long it takes to charge to 80% at a 50kW charger and at a 100KW charger. The latter is...

... the boot will not close properly unless it is slammed hard... ...two bags of dynamic lifter and three 25 litre bags of potting mix maxes out the boot space pretty quick! I wonder if the various doors are a bit tight now because the rubber seals will squash over time. The removable floor in the ...

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...