r/KonaEV

My wife was determined that gasoline will no longer be available and wanted an EV. Couldn't find a used one locally so we ended up going to Victory Motors in Kansas City, Kansas. They had a 2022 Kona EV with 33,000 miles for $15,000. Nice car, drove nice, new tires, excellent inside and out. Mike told us it was a company buy back and I wasn't sure what that was. He said there was an issue with the battery. No big deal. Everything was supposedly fixed and we bought the car with full warranty he said. It wasn't until 3 weeks later when I got the title from them that I found it was a Lemon Law Buyback. Branded Title. Not happy about that. Should have done some homework.

Never drove an EV or charged one so the 195 miles back to Des Moines was kind of a leap of faith. Made it with 60 miles left on the battery. Tried to use the charger at the Hyundai dealer and was told it was for customers only. I guess they don't want me as a customer. The next week I put a Level 2 charger in the garage for about $1,900. Should have done some homework on that.

The charger is pretty high tech and I'm not. So, in the instructions it said that I can plug it in and start charging and I did and it did. Charged it to 100% several times. Now I see that might not be the best thing for the car's battery.

So, since there are no controls on the charger how do I limit the charge to 80%? I thought the manual was pretty vague. Also, how do I stop the charge early whether at home or a public charger? I've just pulled out the charging cable a couple times but I'm thinking that might not be a good thing to do. Is it not?

Aside from some things mentioned above we love the car. It's a blast to drive and is nimble and powerful and we're learning about it as we go.

All help is appreciated. Thanks.

Have a 2026 Kona EV. It's my first EV so I really just want to make sure I don't wreck it or do anything wrong. I'm located in a warm coastal area of Canada. Coldest we typivally get is - 5C in the winter.

1. I see battery conditioning has a toggle in bluelink. How/when do you do it if so? Is it bad to leave this on all the time?

2. Is it bad to run ​​the AUX systems while the car is charging? If I want to play the stereo while charging?

3. Our use case is about 30-40km of daily driving. We don't have the ability to get a level 2 charger, so I bought a 15amp Lectron​ Nema5-15 level 1 charging cable. Is there anything I need to know about level 1 charging other than I'll only get 5-6km/hr? The plug and wiring are both relatively new on that circuit but I'm uncertain about leaving it plugged in for up to 10hrs ac charging at a time.

4. Any tips for the regen braking system? I've got it at level 2 and am so surprised how much less one uses the brakes with these systems. I've read and heard stories about brakes​​/rotors seizing from lack of use. Is it best practice to try and do some hard braking from time to time to clean them up?

5. Any other setup or operating tips would be appreciated for a EV newbie.

Hey fellow Kona Kommunity, I'm needing to replace my tires already which seems a bit faster than anticipated. This is my 1st EV and I love it. I just hit 32K and owned this fresh off the trailer and just wanted to know is this normal wear on tires and should I anticipate this every few years?

For insight:

I drive 20 miles to work daily (40 miles each way), I have my Kona in ECO mode with I-Pedal to the max for max regenerative braking.

Wife and I just got our first EV super excited just wanted to kno cool features and tips and tricks thank you been charging at stations cuz our apartment does not have plugs outside but it doesn’t seem to be a problem for us :)

I'm getting mixed signals on this depending on where I read. I would really like to be able to see the vehicle charge on my phone. In Canada do you have to pay the $200/year fee to do this? Or is Bluelink still free?

I set my charge limit to 80% for overnight charging (AC level one) and was surprised it charged to 245 miles. Guessing it’s a BMS issue, but curious if the newer batteries have greater capacity. I just bought this car in February—loving it so far!

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Just tried it for first time on my 2024 Kona limited. This is with provided official adapter. Sadly charging speed only went up to 35KW steady state while occasionally spiking to 44KW. This was v4 super charger and I own a model y as well so I know these can go much further. Is this normal ? Battery was 50% charged at the start. Should this go to 100 KW?

After doubling the mileage on my 2024 EV so it's now done just over 3k miles I did a 100% charge at home following a recommendation here. Ambient temperature was about 14 degC.

At the end the car told me the range was 310 miles which is close to the quoted range. Is this realistic? The car must have adapted to my driving style I assume and I am getting anything between 4.3 and 5 miles per kWh.

I only intend to charge to 100% once per month or for longer journeys and will be sticking to 80% most of the time.

Sooo I bought a used 2023 Kona (1st gen, 39kWh) this week and tried charging it at work for the first time. It took 10 hours so I thought that might not be normal and contacted the seller's maintenance services just to hear that "without pre-heating to exactly 20 degrees Celsius, the AC charging will be limited at 2.6kW". He also said the only way to "unlock" higher speeds is to use the in-car navigation pre-warming, which obviously isn't possible for a private workplace station.

This sounds like total BS but wanted to ask from more experienced Kona users. Is it really true that AC charging is limited to 2.6kW without pre-warming which cannot practically be activated for private stations? Or is the dealer trying to sell a faulty relay or broken cable able to pull only 1-phase as a feature?

As background:

My car has the 10.5kW 3-phase onboard charger, 32A 3-phase Mennekes cable, and my workplace we have a 22kW station. We're in Finland and while it can get freezing here, right now it's about 15-20 degrees. A colleague's car on the identical station right next to me gets a constant 8kW, but my Kona is stuck at 2.6kW with an occasional jump to about double that. I've verified that the AC limit is set to 100% and there's no charging schedule active.