New Generation Kona EV

Bruce M. said:
To owners of the new Kona, what's your energy consumption? This article lists the 2024 Kona at 3.4 mi/kWh. In my 2020 Kona I averaged 4.6 when I lived in San Francisco and 5.1 in the 2 years I've been in Hawaii. It looks like the EPA rated my car at 3.7, so even based on official numbers, this seems like a pretty unfortunate drop in efficiency. What are folks getting in the real world?
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Hi Bruce, here is a real world report which confirms your suspicion. We have had our 2024 Kona for about a week, and have just delivered our 2019 Kona to a family member in another city. So we had two Konas travelling in convoy formation. Distance was 165 km over a combination of two and four lane highways and about 10 km of stop and go traffic through a small town. Both Konas had the Climate system set to "Auto", Driver side only, and 22° Celsius. Ambient temperature was 6° C. Both were set to Level 3 regeneration. My wife drove the 2019 and I drove the new 2024, both with easy normal driving and no high speed bursts or heavy throttle overtaking. Here are the results:

The 2019 started with a 96% SOC and arrived at the 165 km destination with an SOC of 59%. Consumption for the trip was 16.1 kWh/100km.

The 2024 started with a 98% SOC and finished the the same distance with 52% SOC. Consumption was 5.8 kWh/km. (Different default settings, but converts to 17.2 kWh/100km)

So, there is a big (and disappointing) difference, not withstanding any EPA figures.

I would be interested to hear back from others to corroborate (or not) these findings.
 
R P said:
A new EV car might not be at its most efficient until fully broken in, after maybe 10K kms. I know new ICE cars don't get their best fuel mileage when new.
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Could be a good point. The 2024 Kona was showing just a bit over 500 km on the odometer.
 
Anyone yet have the chance to use the manual battery preconditioning button?
Supposedly don't have to use Nav to activate.
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It is in the user manual (~ page 110 infotainment-manual)-to be included with the new gen 2024 Kona EV. Or is this another "not included in N.A. market"
Just curious as the Ioniq 5 is also supposed to have one, just wanted to verify it is a working function in the Kona EV
 
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electriceddy said:
Anyone yet have the chance to use the manual battery preconditioning button?
Supposedly don't have to use Nav to activate.
BH7XYmJ.png

It is in the user manual (~ page 110 infotainment-manual)-to be included with the new gen 2024 Kona EV. Or is this another "not included in N.A. market"
Just curious as the Ioniq 5 is also supposed to have one, just wanted to verify it is a working function in the Kona EV
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I haven't used it as I don't fast charge on public chargers but can confirm it's a working option on the touch screen.
 
Rickker said:
Hi Bruce, here is a real world report which confirms your suspicion. We have had our 2024 Kona for about a week, and have just delivered our 2019 Kona to a family member in another city. So we had two Konas travelling in convoy formation. Distance was 165 km over a combination of two and four lane highways and about 10 km of stop and go traffic through a small town. Both Konas had the Climate system set to "Auto", Driver side only, and 22° Celsius. Ambient temperature was 6° C. Both were set to Level 3 regeneration. My wife drove the 2019 and I drove the new 2024, both with easy normal driving and no high speed bursts or heavy throttle overtaking. Here are the results:

The 2019 started with a 96% SOC and arrived at the 165 km destination with an SOC of 59%. Consumption for the trip was 16.1 kWh/100km.

The 2024 started with a 98% SOC and finished the the same distance with 52% SOC. Consumption was 5.8 kWh/km. (Different default settings, but converts to 17.2 kWh/100km)

So, there is a big (and disappointing) difference, not withstanding any EPA figures.

I would be interested to hear back from others to corroborate (or not) these findings.
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Congratulations on the new car! Keep an eye open for any charging anomalies and let me know if you see it under-charging or drifting downward.
 
Wildeyed said:
I haven't used it as I don't fast charge on public chargers but can confirm it's a working option on the touch screen.
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Thanks for confirming. I was also interested to know how it is displayed as being active (maybe a red element like Ioniq 5 on the display?) and kW consumption - probably displayed on the electricity use screen.
I am also a bit bewildered that Hyundia includes this feature while not giving an indication of the actual pack temperature. Even a dummy gauge showing hot - warm - cool - cold would make sense. More or less a basic visual guide to allow the user best time to enable.
Oh well, one thing at a time I guess.
 
Yes, EVs should show battery/coolant temps just like ICE cars show oil and coolant temps.
 
I continue to have this weird charging behaviour where the car will not maintain an 80% charge despite being plugged in at all times. Heck, it sometimes won't even achieve the 80% preset and stops at 79%.

So far it always hits 100% when going for a full charge but, since I don't charge to 100% and leave it sitting for days I can't say whether it would also drift downward from there.

No other owners have reported this so I may be on my own here. I think I'm going to report it to my dealer in a hail Mary attempt at an answer.
 
R P said:
My Ioniq 6 always says 79% after L2 charging completion. Who cares about 1%?
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Well, me, I guess... ;)

But it's interesting to hear that it's happened to others. To my mind it's a software issue. I'd just like to see it addressed.
 
The apparent 1% drop is explainable in that it’s a truncated 79.99% but not the approx 5% you reported a number of posts back. Is that still happening?
You could try asking on reddit as there quite a few 2024 owners there.
 
KiwiME said:
The apparent 1% drop is explainable in that it’s a truncated 79.99% but not the approx 5% you reported a number of posts back. Is that still happening?
You could try asking on reddit as there quite a few 2024 owners there.
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It's been plugged in and undriven since Monday. The initial 79% is now 76%.
 
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