2016 Kia Soul EV

A small addition to the family, I am cross posting this as it was posted to the Clarity sub-forum. I traded our 2017 Kia Niro Hybrid in on this. Since purchase I have found out it’s received a new 12v battery , traction battery, steering rack, in board charger and ac compressor.

 

AAAAAAAAND I might be getting another new pack... it's in the shop for crapping out on me with 14 miles and 16% left. Instead of going through the Low Battery --> Low Battery. Charge immediately --> Charge immediately Power limited --> Power limited (turtle), it put up the Power down warning light and flashed the Ready indicator light at me and coasted to a stop.


I pulled it up in SoulSpy and say cell 87 was very low. At the dealer he also noticed the low cell and took it down to less than 10% and charged it all night last night on 120v to bring it back up to 100%, I have not heard the results yet. I know typically pay has to be 70% or less and my is 95.8% SOH at the time of this mess up. So no stinkin clue...

 

Well I was trying to find out if one of the free CHAdeMO chargers were slow or if there was a problem with the car and I bought a Bluetooth OBD II reader and used SoulSPY to check into things and noted the low cell, but then went on to charge later at an EVGO with no apparent slowness so wrote it off. So I had doubts about overall health of what I understood was a recently replaced battery. I also had had the battery about that low in the past, but this day was different, I was having a bad day and went out driving and was driving a little more aggressively than normal.

 

Just heard back getting a new battery, so good news/bad news, she said as quick as a week or up to 6 months.

 

Oh and as noted in the Clarity has a friend thread I might drive this more than the Clarity, I do I stole it as primary car and the Clarity sits a bunch lol.

 

It is, it just sucks that it will be on pack number two south of 40k miles.
Also, I combined the story behind my path to plug-in electrification under Clarity, Soul and Solar

 

I did not suffer the impact from the first failures of the car, so I'll keep it for sure, for now. I am more concerned though about going past the 5/60 basic warranty and also concerned with the fact that the infotainment system was only covered by a 3/36 warranty as it is supposedly north of 2k to replace!

 

There are, and great ones at that. When I went to fully charge live I stopped at round rock Kia and test drove the Niro EV and like the Niro EX Hybrid we had before, it was a great car. That being said, I am trying to eliminate payments and 40k on a new ev is a big savings goal lol

 

If I wanted a GM EV I’d buy a new Honda lol
I will watch for what comes out for sure. I’ve also been watching and thinking about used Tesla’s after riding in a Model S

 

Well I dropped off the loaner car and the rental I am in a gas guzzling Toyota Corolla. I was able to look at the pack opened up so that was cool. Turns out cell 87 was 3.8v and all others were ~4.1v SOH was still 95.8%. The battery has been ordered so the wait begins.

 

From what I saw though in SoulSpy that didn't appear to have happened on mine for some reason:

 

I GOT IT BACK YESTERDAY!!!