Modifications and Tweaks

It may still work see pictures of my vehicle.

 

When you have a chance, can you measure from the side of the box to the inside wall on the passenger side.. when I receive mine at the end of August I will measure from the wall to the end of the heat pump to see if there is enough clearance

 

Here's my frunk: Got frunk envy, built mine today

 

I just moved the foam insert from the rear to the Froot (Aussie. we call it a boot here) as a temporary measure. With a piece of foam under it to sit on the inverter? cover underneath. Works quite well and gives more space in the rear.
In the long run I want something with a cover as we have massive dust problems in rural Oz.

 

Austrian Konas have the heatpump, so the frunk.at (made in Austria) will no doubt fit.

In this link look at the middle picture under Hyundai Kona: https://www.frunk.at/galerie_video/. It shows a frunk.at installed on a Kona with heatpump.

 

It's exactly 12 inches

 

That is the heat pump, yes. Apparently no American Kona’s have that just like we don’t get roof rails.

 

As I exited the highway on the way home today, I witnessed a flat bed tow truck delivering a Kona EV to the single 50kW Flo charger we have near Oromocto. I assume someone ran out of juice!

I had previously made up a simple chart up so that on a long trip, we could estimate how much more battery would be needed to drive the kilometers remaining, and this incident triggered me to share it.

The calculations show the percent of battery required to drive, a number which is directly viewable on the info screen, so its pretty easy to say “I need another 25% to get there, and my display says I only have 30% remaining…..Time to charge to leave a buffer.”

There are actually 2 charts, in km/kWh and kWh/100 km, depending on how you like to view your energy consumption. To use a chart, look up your consumption on the Y axis, and then the distance you still want to drive on the X axis. Where they meet is the percentage of battery needed (rounded off, and assuming a 64 kWh pack). No need to pull out a calculator and do math!

 

Downhill both ways and only to church on Sundays!

 

I get much the same due to our local 80 km/h speed limit and many construction zones.