12:27 nice Teddy! Mine daughter is 13 now, dont want any teddy anymore :( Enjoy while it last, man... Planing this year get Kona 64, excited about this car.
My diesel would have been £300/350 that would be 3/4 stops for fuel so a total fueling time of 20 mins max exluding queues qhich can happen. Have done the south of France a few times but mostly been the south west of France due to the fact i bought a house there and spent all my spare time rebuilding it. So my piorty was to gat there as quick as possible work for.whatever time i spent there and get back quick to start.earning money to pay for it all. House is finished now soon to be retired. Your video has inspired me to think about an ev on a trip like that Reminded me of some great times on France thank you good luck
Hi, unfortunately I didn't record my efficacy during the trip and I am kicking myself for it. When we hit France and switched to kilometres the efficiency readout switched to kilometres to the kilowatt which I wasn't comprehending that so kind of gave up. But what I will say is that better route planner's default efficiency for the Kona was far to pessimistic. I amended the setting to 4 miles to the kilowatt at 65mph which made the estimate much more accurate between stops. Since getting the car in Feb the efficiency overall is at 4.1 miles to the kilowatt over the 8600 miles. It was 4.2 but the France trip of large amounts of 130kph/81mph dropped it down to the 4.1 miles to the kilowatt. Hope that's of some help.
@@Hell-Hound1 on the longest day of this trip between frejus and Paris was 523miles. The max we did between stops was 125 miles. Dosnt sound great but it was alway over 2 hours. And we didn't start the day fully charged. we were doing 80%-20% legs but that was at 80+ mph and is not the full range of the battery really. The closest I have done to using all the battery range and not more was between Nottingham and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire and back in one day. That's 243 miles I ended up stopping and putting in 5% on the way back as I wasn't confident enough and needed the loo. But i arrived home with 10% so I would have been fine. That was in summer. I'd say 250mile max in summer 200 worst in winter on uk motorways If you tend to stick to the speed limit.
Hi there, I’m planning a trip to the south of France too, and have a similar battery to yours. I was wondering if you found it very inconvenient or how you felt overall over the amount of charges you had to make. Thanks.
I think it depends on what you are travelling for. We weren't in a rush as we were on holiday and we had expected our travel days to take up the full day. We didn't find the stops inconvenient as we felt ready to stop and stretch our legs by the time the car needed charging. The charging time takes slightly longer than the time we need to use the facilities. If I was to by another car I'd not feel the need to increase range but increase rapid charge speed. But honestly the family are fine with the pace of the trips. We are doing another trip to germay this summer. The Kona has a flat tyre right now and had to use the petrol this weekend for a 125mile motorway trip south and I hated every minute.
Hello, thank you for the great video. I wanted to ask you if the units on the speedometer changed to km after entering France? Did you change them from miles to km?
Pleased you liked it 🙂 unfortunately the Kona doesn't automatically switch to kph when GPS recognises you're are in France. That would be great. It's in the general settings on the centre display. Pretty easy to find at least
@@MikeHarEV Hey Mike, thanks for sharing it. I have updated software with USB stick so it looks like yours. But I am unable to see Units option. I am not sure why is that. My Kona is from 2020, perhaps it has older system. Even the speedometer looks different than yours. Thanks for finding time and trying to help me.
It was worth a go. Last thing i can think of is I think the 2020 Kona had a very similar speedo to my old Ioniq. Maybe try this video. It is very well hidden. th-cam.com/video/CxLWu9Kvoiw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=XHEtiuMluLct-S5G
Hi yeah thanks it's about schedule charging and schedule climate control. I think with the climate control all what I need to do is set to departure time for 08:30 Monday to Friday then click what temperature I want it then because I'm on 62% do I need select on my AC charger (home charger) to 60% so it won't charge? I only want it to pre heat the cabin not charge. Then I know I need to remember to after the pre conditioning I know I need to turn the AC charger bk to 100%. And with my charging I'm not on a EV tarrif I pay to same rate day and night so I can plug it in on charge when ever no matter what time of day or night. But if my car was charging and I want to pre condition the car when I'm charging to 100% how would I do that? I don't have no off peak tariffs priority or off peak tarrif only. It be gd if you could cover a video on this for people who do and don't a EV tarrif in place. Many thanks
That's an interesting problem. I'll have a look at doing a video but I will struggle to recreate your exact scenario as I do not have home charging. I just send BlueLink remote commands to precondition a few minutes before leaving the house and just use a bit of battery. I assume you would like to have it plugged in, not charge but use mains power to run the preconditioning, so no energy is added to the battery or taken out of it. I think you would need set a lower state of charge limit in the car, not on your smart charger. If you set the lower limit on the smart charger, your preconditioning would run but your charger will not supply power at all unless the state of charge dropped lower than what is set. I'd be tempted to trial just scheduling your departure and precondition settings. And if you don't need to charge, leave the car unplugged. Yes it will use the battery but just see if you notice the battery % drop between uses because honestly I don't notice preconditioning uses much.
Did you look at using the Tesla network? We’re planning a Belgium to Paris trip and back in the same car! Nervous at the thought of running out of electric 😅
At the time there wasn't many open tesla locations on the route I wanted to take. But there are many more open in France and the UK now. We are planning another trip from to the dordogne area in France this summer. I'll be checking the open tesla locations against ionity and make a decision on what the costs work out like before signing up to another 12 months ionity membership. Better route planner, set it to preferred network like tesla or ionity and you won't run out. May be queues this summer but that's another matter.
We recently did another French roadtrip prodomananlty using the open Tesla Superchargers including one close to Paris. Feel free to check it out: th-cam.com/video/Q3XF-Yncy_s/w-d-xo.html
We did phone the helpline for these temperamental chargers. They rebooted them which helped. Ionity helpline where very good. Especially as it was a French support line and they switched to English for me with no hesitation.
Really appreciate the video. Good to see before considering doing a similar thing ourselves.
Thanks, you might like to check out my video from this year's France trip, using mostly open Tesla supercharger sites.
12:27 nice Teddy!
Mine daughter is 13 now, dont want any teddy anymore :( Enjoy while it last, man...
Planing this year get Kona 64, excited about this car.
My diesel would have been £300/350 that would be 3/4 stops for fuel so a total fueling time of 20 mins max exluding queues qhich can happen. Have done the south of France a few times but mostly been the south west of France due to the fact i bought a house there and spent all my spare time rebuilding it. So my piorty was to gat there as quick as possible work for.whatever time i spent there and get back quick to start.earning money to pay for it all. House is finished now soon to be retired. Your video has inspired me to think about an ev on a trip like that Reminded me of some great times on France thank you good luck
Hello and thank you for your informative video. Could you tell me what economy you were getting out of your Kona, please?
Hi, unfortunately I didn't record my efficacy during the trip and I am kicking myself for it. When we hit France and switched to kilometres the efficiency readout switched to kilometres to the kilowatt which I wasn't comprehending that so kind of gave up. But what I will say is that better route planner's default efficiency for the Kona was far to pessimistic. I amended the setting to 4 miles to the kilowatt at 65mph which made the estimate much more accurate between stops. Since getting the car in Feb the efficiency overall is at 4.1 miles to the kilowatt over the 8600 miles. It was 4.2 but the France trip of large amounts of 130kph/81mph dropped it down to the 4.1 miles to the kilowatt. Hope that's of some help.
@@MikeHarEV Thanks, that's really quite impressive. So, on average at motorway speeds what range are you getting between charges?
@@Hell-Hound1 on the longest day of this trip between frejus and Paris was 523miles. The max we did between stops was 125 miles. Dosnt sound great but it was alway over 2 hours. And we didn't start the day fully charged. we were doing 80%-20% legs but that was at 80+ mph and is not the full range of the battery really. The closest I have done to using all the battery range and not more was between Nottingham and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire and back in one day. That's 243 miles I ended up stopping and putting in 5% on the way back as I wasn't confident enough and needed the loo. But i arrived home with 10% so I would have been fine. That was in summer. I'd say 250mile max in summer 200 worst in winter on uk motorways If you tend to stick to the speed limit.
@@MikeHarEV Cheers, this is most helpful. Real life information like this is hard to find and once again, thank you and happy travels.
Hi there, I’m planning a trip to the south of France too, and have a similar battery to yours. I was wondering if you found it very inconvenient or how you felt overall over the amount of charges you had to make. Thanks.
I think it depends on what you are travelling for. We weren't in a rush as we were on holiday and we had expected our travel days to take up the full day. We didn't find the stops inconvenient as we felt ready to stop and stretch our legs by the time the car needed charging. The charging time takes slightly longer than the time we need to use the facilities. If I was to by another car I'd not feel the need to increase range but increase rapid charge speed. But honestly the family are fine with the pace of the trips. We are doing another trip to germay this summer. The Kona has a flat tyre right now and had to use the petrol this weekend for a 125mile motorway trip south and I hated every minute.
Hello, thank you for the great video. I wanted to ask you if the units on the speedometer changed to km after entering France? Did you change them from miles to km?
Pleased you liked it 🙂 unfortunately the Kona doesn't automatically switch to kph when GPS recognises you're are in France. That would be great. It's in the general settings on the centre display. Pretty easy to find at least
@@MikeHarEV Thank you for your reply. My model is 2020 and I am struggling to change speedometer from miles to km.
Hope this quick video walk through helps. photos.app.goo.gl/9pyDhzC4QXdpy8pi8
@@MikeHarEV Hey Mike, thanks for sharing it. I have updated software with USB stick so it looks like yours. But I am unable to see Units option. I am not sure why is that. My Kona is from 2020, perhaps it has older system. Even the speedometer looks different than yours. Thanks for finding time and trying to help me.
It was worth a go. Last thing i can think of is I think the 2020 Kona had a very similar speedo to my old Ioniq. Maybe try this video. It is very well hidden. th-cam.com/video/CxLWu9Kvoiw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=XHEtiuMluLct-S5G
Hi do you have a Facebook page? I've got a few questions about the Hyundai kona
Sorry I didn't see you comment at the time. I don't have a Facebook page but I'm always happy to answer questions if you still have any.
Hi yeah thanks it's about schedule charging and schedule climate control. I think with the climate control all what I need to do is set to departure time for 08:30 Monday to Friday then click what temperature I want it then because I'm on 62% do I need select on my AC charger (home charger) to 60% so it won't charge? I only want it to pre heat the cabin not charge. Then I know I need to remember to after the pre conditioning I know I need to turn the AC charger bk to 100%. And with my charging I'm not on a EV tarrif I pay to same rate day and night so I can plug it in on charge when ever no matter what time of day or night. But if my car was charging and I want to pre condition the car when I'm charging to 100% how would I do that? I don't have no off peak tariffs priority or off peak tarrif only. It be gd if you could cover a video on this for people who do and don't a EV tarrif in place. Many thanks
That's an interesting problem. I'll have a look at doing a video but I will struggle to recreate your exact scenario as I do not have home charging. I just send BlueLink remote commands to precondition a few minutes before leaving the house and just use a bit of battery. I assume you would like to have it plugged in, not charge but use mains power to run the preconditioning, so no energy is added to the battery or taken out of it.
I think you would need set a lower state of charge limit in the car, not on your smart charger. If you set the lower limit on the smart charger, your preconditioning would run but your charger will not supply power at all unless the state of charge dropped lower than what is set.
I'd be tempted to trial just scheduling your departure and precondition settings. And if you don't need to charge, leave the car unplugged. Yes it will use the battery but just see if you notice the battery % drop between uses because honestly I don't notice preconditioning uses much.
Did you look at using the Tesla network? We’re planning a Belgium to Paris trip and back in the same car! Nervous at the thought of running out of electric 😅
At the time there wasn't many open tesla locations on the route I wanted to take. But there are many more open in France and the UK now. We are planning another trip from to the dordogne area in France this summer. I'll be checking the open tesla locations against ionity and make a decision on what the costs work out like before signing up to another 12 months ionity membership. Better route planner, set it to preferred network like tesla or ionity and you won't run out. May be queues this summer but that's another matter.
We recently did another French roadtrip prodomananlty using the open Tesla Superchargers including one close to Paris. Feel free to check it out: th-cam.com/video/Q3XF-Yncy_s/w-d-xo.html
Broken charges,if everyone phoned the provider there might be less of them.
We did phone the helpline for these temperamental chargers. They rebooted them which helped. Ionity helpline where very good. Especially as it was a French support line and they switched to English for me with no hesitation.