My First 2025 Kona Limited Road Trip

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I had to go from an area 35 miles West of Twin Falls, ID to Salt Lake City over a weekend to have my wife visit with a specialist eye clinic there on a Monday appointment. We stayed at a nice downtown hotel. The overall mileage was about 325mi. I used ABetterRouthPlanner initially to get a feel for what to expect. As it was my first time driving longer distance I decided to stop for a short bit at a Electrify America in a small town about an hour from home on that way just for the heck of it. I spent about 20 minutes charging as I started out at 100%. At 80mph I was averaging about 3.0kph power usage so I wasn't unhappy with that. I know driving below 65 or 60mph gets me closer to 4.0. So I stopped then at the mid point and charged up to 90%. I got to Salt Lake City at 35% which I was very pleased with. I dropped my wife off at the doctor office and headed to a Electrify America and spent over an hour taking it back to 100%. This time on the way home that next morning I only stopped one time, at that mid point in Snowville Utah which was a large well known truck stop that had 4 of the new GM based charging units that were 350kw rated. Ironically my car would only suck up at 52kw and as it went over 80% dropped down to 25kw. Strangely enough getting to 90% really didn't take all that long as I arrived with about 30%. I only spent about a half hour and was at 90% so drove home with that arriving home with 30%. All in all there was no need to have range anxiety. There certainl were plenty of charge options as after all, this was I-84 a rather main interstate. There were at least 4 decent options in Salt Lake but I chose the most obvious one at a Sam's Club. I must admit however, when my lease is up I'm more aimed at a Ioniq 5 with it's 800kw architecture and 20 minute 20-80% charge times. We shall see. But I'll sure say this. My Kona Limited was whisper quiet at 83mph on the interstate so we could hold a normal conversation with no raised voices and hear music easily (with it's Bose system). All in all the seat comfort was excellent as well and I have a bad back so that's saying a lot. My wife even commented on the comfort of the seats. It was a good experience. I can see no reason why one could not road trip on an interstate with this car that's for sure.

 

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Glad that it worked out well for you. Trips in my 2025 Limited have been equally comfortable. You mention considering an Ioniq 5 as your next car. I traded in a 2023 Ioniq 6 for the Kona. The 6 (and the 5) are much bigger cars and I could barely fit the 6 in my garage. Parking the larger car was also more difficult. Great car otherwise.