Peter Vranjkovic
New Member
We recently completed a 8 day trip to small islands off Vancouver Island and the trip coincided with the one year anniversary of our Kona and we reached 10,000km on the odometer. Our Kona is a 2021 model and luckily we have not had any problems. It worked hard on the trip because we took our bikes with us, plus food, a tent, sleeping bags, and mats, folding chairs, a standup paddleboard, an inflatable kayak, paddles, life jackets, etc, etc.
We charged to 100% at a BC Hydro fast charger and headed to Port McNeil with 500km range showing, but after driving 200km, our range was down to 200 because we were driving at an average speed of 95kmph and the bike rack and bikes were a big drag.
I saw many more Kona's on this trip than other EV's, probably because the Kona has better range than most other EV's on the road and drivers of short range ev's feel challenged getting their vehicles charged up on the small islands.
The latest EV sales data for BC are interesting. Around 10% of all cars sold in BC this year are full EV's and Tesla accounts for half the EV sales, followed by the Bolt, the Leaf and the Kona in 4th place.
We charged to 100% at a BC Hydro fast charger and headed to Port McNeil with 500km range showing, but after driving 200km, our range was down to 200 because we were driving at an average speed of 95kmph and the bike rack and bikes were a big drag.
I saw many more Kona's on this trip than other EV's, probably because the Kona has better range than most other EV's on the road and drivers of short range ev's feel challenged getting their vehicles charged up on the small islands.
The latest EV sales data for BC are interesting. Around 10% of all cars sold in BC this year are full EV's and Tesla accounts for half the EV sales, followed by the Bolt, the Leaf and the Kona in 4th place.