More range than expected

FWIW my range went up after my software update in January. I drive a 2021 Kona EV and this was the first update I had done. A nice surprise.

 

I recently took a 520km (return) road trip, 440 on a freeway, mostly rolling hills, 80 on a flat 80kph speed-limited rural arterial. Cool, sunny days, ambient temp 20-22C.

I drove to the speed limit - 110 on the freeway - and 80 where possible on the rural but there were many roundabouts, so a fair bit of slowing and regaining speed. I used smart cruise (SCC) most of the time.

In each direction at the end of the drive, when I added km driven to remaining GOM, the total was over 500km. Pretty happy with that.

We live in our state capital's outer suburbia, so ours is mostly suburban driving with the occasional freeway trip to the city and a very occasional long distance road trip. My long term average consumption over 16,000km of ownership is 13.2kWh/100km. Pretty happy with that, too.

 

It may not have gone dead, but for sure lost a lot of charge. It is a good idea to connect an external charger to recharge it to full again as soon as possible. Relying on the car to recharge it may not be enough.

 

Impressive. Here the current Kona 64 is rated at 14.7 kWh/100km WLPT, which presumably includes a margin for charging losses, so you’ve probably beat that.

 

This is the furthest I have ever driven on one charge. The GOM is blank, but I still had about 7-8% left, which would easily have given me another 20 miles or so. Before the GOM went blank, it was estimating that I could hit around 281 total miles of range. Not bad at all.


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