What conditions need to met for the Fastchargers to give me max KW Charging?

That's a bit OVER the maximum the car is supposedly able to ask for and accept. You got lucky.

_H*

 

Kona 2021 Ultimate here. We've been using the free-to-charge Chevron "on the run" network while they are in beta testing, and had varying charge rates.
These "Journey" DC chargers have a battery pack inside them that feeds the two stations per tower. I had the chance to speak with a maintenance tech and he explained that if somebody with a large battery has been charging before you and discharged the tower battery, your charge rate will be low.
Apparently Canada Post and Purolator are testing ev delivery vehicles that can empty the charger's battery. Most of the time, our Kona follows the oem charge curve that throttles the battery charge rate well before the 80% soc has been reached. If we need to charge to 100%, we use a dc fast charger to 80% and then top it off to 100% from the granny charger at home Btw, I am running the oem charger on 240volts, no issues.

 

Yup, had that happen to me many times. My car starts off at 103kw and a short time later drops to 15kw. I move on then. Goes into "Conservation" mode. Sometimes it just stops. And when I restart it is 15kw. Not very good...

 

So it illustrates the importance of paying for the energy you put into your battery pack, rather then the amount of time it takes to do so.

I've heard that our Canadian govt is having a look at the whole issue.

 

New 2025 Kona EV Preferred owner here. Live in southern Ontario near Toronto. Had the car for 2 months. Home charging works great. Been on 2 different longer trips recently requiring "fast" charging at public chargers. Used different chargers (Flo, Chargepoint, EV Connect) but never achieved more than 30 kW charge rate (and usually in 21 to 27 kW range). Charger capabilities were either 50 kW (or 62.5 kW in one case). Battery was conditioned to accept a charge but doesn't seem to matter.
Plan to try a 100 kW Flo charger in Peterborough to see if the issue is my car or the chargers I've used. Will let you know the result. Not a lot of choice in rural areas unless I have an adaptor for Tesla chargers.
Can anyone recommend a good CCS-to-NACS adaptor that's compatible with my Kona? Thanks in advance.

 

Wow! Tesla charge as much as 90c here for non Tesla. Good thing is we only need CCS2. Haven't yet succumbed to the North American penchant for ignoring internationally agreed standards. We also haven't lost a Mars lander because some one didn't convert imperial to metric.

 

Yesterday I charged my 2024 SEL on a new Flo 160kW charger here in Vermont. It was 29F degrees and I had preconditioned the battery for about the last 20 minutes of driving before reaching the charger. The car was at a 15% state of charge and got a max of 84kW right away. The rate fluctuated between 84kW and 68kW during my 20 minute session and I got a total of 23kWH into the battery.