Yup, I read this a while ago. The US warranty still exceeds that available in other countries.
Lucky for me and everyone else who bought the 2019 US Kona Electric..
Only things missing - VESS silence button and folding mirrors both of which should have been available as at least an option. (we have LTE instead of WIFI)
Hmm..that’s kind of a big deal. I was waiting for the U.S 2020 Kona electric mainly for the battery warmer and winter mode...now this makes me think I should go for the 2019 version ( which doesn’t have either of those)with lifetime warranty on the battery.
I have never read the fine print but you might find that it makes little difference particularly if you swap cars out every few years.
To be honest I was actually looking to purchase it out right so that’s why I worry you know?
I guess it depends on how long you want to keep the car. I was planning on keeping mine in my name for a long time.. Planning on giving it to my daughter when she turns 16 in 9 years. By that time, the car may have 300k miles and potentially time for a new battery..
I doubt that this will happen. In the US, starting in 2020, VESS is mandatory on all electric vehicles and therefore, they won't allow you to turn it off. I'm not sure about Canada but Canadian cars are usually built to fairly similar specs than the US cars and so it won't likely happen in Canada either.
So why don't Teslas have VESS? My son's M3 does not.
But if Canada required it in 2018, my son's M3 should already have it then.
Reference or link?
After six months I could not longer tolerate the VESS so I prepared to dismantle the nose section to get at it. I discovered after removing the screws across the top (under the hood) that I could warp/lever what appears to be a black trim strip "out" enough to visualize the VESS plug which I had tried to reach several times before. Now that I could see it, using a pair of long, needle-nose pliers I was able to reach the plug in the correct orientation to depress the release tab and pull it. The result: Instant silence! Now the car is whisper quiet without that annoying space-ship sound. The ding-ding backup sound is also disabled. I don't miss either. Granted, people can't hear the car coming up behind them in a parking area, but then, even with VESS on nobody ever acted like they heard it, and nobody ever got out of the way for it.
