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Our very first EV was a 2021 Nissan Leaf SL plus 64 kWh that my grandpa leased, also in June 2021! We turned that in back in may, and he now has a 2023 EV6 Wind AWD after he saw how much my parents liked theirs. Thanks for the review!
I had the same Kona 64 kw basic model for 4 years and 65000 km, 0 problems. It's a great car but with 2 children it was too small for us. We changed a year ago for the Ioniq 5 77 kw partly because of your videos. Greetings from the north of Spain.
We still have a 2020 Soul EV limited just over 100K KM, it worked as a road tripper, even with 77KW charging to 63%, then it drops to 54KW till about 73%, so most of our road trips usually over 2700KM the charging speed was not an issue as charging only happen ever 2 to 2-1/2 hours where we need to stop to eat or go to the bathroom . Now with my Tesla model Y long Range AWD we have little time to go for bathroom break and eat!
Have had the 2020 Kona 64kwh premium for 2 years (with bluelink) and have been so happy with it! Perfect commuter! Main reason for changing is awd (snow during winter). Hope to get the 2025 Ioniq 5 in 1-2 weeks (Norway).
We just bought out the 3 year lease on our '21, we like the car that much. Right now we're getting a max range of about 330 miles and 5+ miles/kWh, the best yet. One downside to buying out a lease, it requires spending hours at the DMV because a new registration is required, including new plates and title. Nobody warned us about that aspect of the end of lease process. A couple of observations, in comparison with this video: Ours is the Ultimate, comes with adaptive cruise and sunroof. Like the basic, the road noise on the highway is high. While not as roomy as the I5, I find the driver's seat quite comfortable for my 6'2" body. Forget about the back seats, they're not designed for the human species. As to spinning the front wheels, we don't find that to be an issue at all, even in Sport mode, maybe we've just adjusted out driving techniques, and we don't skimp on acceleration when desired. Agreed that fast charging is not up to snuff for a road trip, so we use the I5 for that.
Bought this 2021 SEL from carvana last week. Got the 4K fed credit as well.....seems to be a good basic commuter car. Battery depletes quickly when outside temp is 95F plus
I really like what the 2024 Kona EV has to offer, and would highly recommend it. In my case, however, I wanted AWD, which it doesn't have, so… it was an Ioniq 5 for me.
Great to see this has been a good reliable car! It's also good to see how much Hyundai has improved their EVs in a relatively short time. Very proud of the South Koreans and Hyundai for what they are contributing to the EV world!!
I'm in California and have been looking into buying one of these used - figured with the tax credit and some additional local incentives I can get a good deal and hopefully upgrade to a better EV in a few years. Glad to see it's reliable, that's really all I need from a car, especially coming from a 2001 VW Passat that is about to die. The smallish trunk bothered me more than the backseat, which seems big enough to at least fit my daughter. I tried out a Chevy Bolt EUV too and this seemed way more comfortable. The one thing is that I haven't seen deals as good as what you put up - at least around here most dealerships are advertising the prices "with the tax credit included", so they'll list it at around $18K but their "sales price" is actually $22K. Carvana doesn't do that but then their prices are higher. One other thing I saw that seems like a great deal is that it looks like Hyundai's Certified Pre-Owned EVs get a fresh warranty on the battery pack, so you're getting the full 10 years/100K miles on it again, rather then just whatever is left from the original warranty. But I've had no luck finding a Hyundai dealership that sells CPO EVs AND does the tax credit, which is baffling.
Did you find the car? Some helpful suggestions I’m searching for the same, I’m finding that if I just buy a non-CPO from a Hyundai dealer, I can negotiate the Hyundai vehicle service plan down to about $1900 for adding five years or more to the warranty bumper-to-bumper. Some dealers still don’t disclose how much they can sell you, the number of years. I’ve gotten different max months offers for exact car at different dealers! Try different deal their website websites some will show you exactly what you can add to a car. Winner Hyundai in Dover, Delaware does this. For their used Kona I’m looking at a couple there right now. You can always contact the CPO warranty department of Hyundai in Florida. Just google Hyundai finance contact us in Google and in the list you see a box for the Protection plans, The number for Hyundai Protection Plan Customer Service line is there. . That way you can find out exactly what a dealer Can sell from year mileage cars. The battery / powertrain warranty stays the same 10 years/100,000 miles For any owner, they do not reduce that. I’ve looked at Hyundai’s website websites that shows the second owner has a reduced set of warranties, they break out the parts of the power train and the battery and showed that those are covered by 100,000 miles a little sneaky sleazy marketing but if you look at what the powertrain contains, it’s everything listed. So if you want to extend the bumper-to-bumper warranty by any car non-CPO from a Hyundai dealer and you can negotiate that down sometimes I’ve had them offer a friends and family discount that they could get to even lower the price further which I’m working on at a dealer in Baltimore right now. Hope some of these options help you or somebody else.
No heat pump for the US, but these appear to have lots of issues with the LG batteries. Was going to buy one, but one user said his battery was replaced, but then couldn't charge via ac, which the fix was another battery replacement. Which is probably why Hyundai ditched LG altogether. But they can't swap LG for SKI in theirs for whatever reason. Hyundai though probably messed up on the BMS though.
Had our 2020 Kona EV for over 2.5 years and 78,000km. Great range, little interior room, had tons of problems in the first year, relatively slow DC charging. Upgraded to Ioniq 5 and subsequently to a GV60, much better EVs.
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I had this car also for three years. I Was really satisfied with the Kona 64 kwh.Very efficient, cheap und handy with a big range.
Our very first EV was a 2021 Nissan Leaf SL plus 64 kWh that my grandpa leased, also in June 2021!
We turned that in back in may, and he now has a 2023 EV6 Wind AWD after he saw how much my parents liked theirs.
Thanks for the review!
I had the same Kona 64 kw basic model for 4 years and 65000 km, 0 problems. It's a great car but with 2 children it was too small for us. We changed a year ago for the Ioniq 5 77 kw partly because of your videos. Greetings from the north of Spain.
Cheers!
We still have a 2020 Soul EV limited just over 100K KM, it worked as a road tripper, even with 77KW charging to 63%, then it drops to 54KW till about 73%, so most of our road trips usually over 2700KM the charging speed was not an issue as charging only happen ever 2 to 2-1/2 hours where we need to stop to eat or go to the bathroom . Now with my Tesla model Y long Range AWD we have little time to go for bathroom break and eat!
Have had the 2020 Kona 64kwh premium for 2 years (with bluelink) and have been so happy with it! Perfect commuter! Main reason for changing is awd (snow during winter). Hope to get the 2025 Ioniq 5 in 1-2 weeks (Norway).
We had one before our Ioniq 6 and EV6 great little car. Emphasis on LITTLE..it's a two seater for larger adults
We just bought out the 3 year lease on our '21, we like the car that much. Right now we're getting a max range of about 330 miles and 5+ miles/kWh, the best yet. One downside to buying out a lease, it requires spending hours at the DMV because a new registration is required, including new plates and title. Nobody warned us about that aspect of the end of lease process.
A couple of observations, in comparison with this video: Ours is the Ultimate, comes with adaptive cruise and sunroof. Like the basic, the road noise on the highway is high. While not as roomy as the I5, I find the driver's seat quite comfortable for my 6'2" body. Forget about the back seats, they're not designed for the human species. As to spinning the front wheels, we don't find that to be an issue at all, even in Sport mode, maybe we've just adjusted out driving techniques, and we don't skimp on acceleration when desired. Agreed that fast charging is not up to snuff for a road trip, so we use the I5 for that.
Bought this 2021 SEL from carvana last week. Got the 4K fed credit as well.....seems to be a good basic commuter car. Battery depletes quickly when outside temp is 95F plus
I really like what the 2024 Kona EV has to offer, and would highly recommend it. In my case, however, I wanted AWD, which it doesn't have, so… it was an Ioniq 5 for me.
I started my 2 year lease on a 2024 Ioniq 5 last Friday 😀
Great to see this has been a good reliable car! It's also good to see how much Hyundai has improved their EVs in a relatively short time. Very proud of the South Koreans and Hyundai for what they are contributing to the EV world!!
More base model (affordable) EVs please!
I'm in California and have been looking into buying one of these used - figured with the tax credit and some additional local incentives I can get a good deal and hopefully upgrade to a better EV in a few years. Glad to see it's reliable, that's really all I need from a car, especially coming from a 2001 VW Passat that is about to die. The smallish trunk bothered me more than the backseat, which seems big enough to at least fit my daughter. I tried out a Chevy Bolt EUV too and this seemed way more comfortable. The one thing is that I haven't seen deals as good as what you put up - at least around here most dealerships are advertising the prices "with the tax credit included", so they'll list it at around $18K but their "sales price" is actually $22K. Carvana doesn't do that but then their prices are higher. One other thing I saw that seems like a great deal is that it looks like Hyundai's Certified Pre-Owned EVs get a fresh warranty on the battery pack, so you're getting the full 10 years/100K miles on it again, rather then just whatever is left from the original warranty. But I've had no luck finding a Hyundai dealership that sells CPO EVs AND does the tax credit, which is baffling.
Did you find the car? Some helpful suggestions I’m searching for the same, I’m finding that if I just buy a non-CPO from a Hyundai dealer, I can negotiate the Hyundai vehicle service plan down to about $1900 for adding five years or more to the warranty bumper-to-bumper.
Some dealers still don’t disclose how much they can sell you, the number of years. I’ve gotten different max months offers for exact car at different dealers! Try different deal their website websites some will show you exactly what you can add to a car. Winner Hyundai in Dover, Delaware does this. For their used Kona I’m looking at a couple there right now.
You can always contact the CPO warranty department of Hyundai in Florida. Just google Hyundai finance contact us in Google and in the list you see a box for the Protection plans, The number for Hyundai Protection Plan Customer Service line is there. . That way you can find out exactly what a dealer Can sell from year mileage cars.
The battery / powertrain warranty stays the same 10 years/100,000 miles For any owner, they do not reduce that. I’ve looked at Hyundai’s website websites that shows the second owner has a reduced set of warranties, they break out the parts of the power train and the battery and showed that those are covered by 100,000 miles a little sneaky sleazy marketing but if you look at what the powertrain contains, it’s everything listed.
So if you want to extend the bumper-to-bumper warranty by any car non-CPO from a Hyundai dealer and you can negotiate that down sometimes I’ve had them offer a friends and family discount that they could get to even lower the price further which I’m working on at a dealer in Baltimore right now.
Hope some of these options help you or somebody else.
No heat pump for the US, but these appear to have lots of issues with the LG batteries. Was going to buy one, but one user said his battery was replaced, but then couldn't charge via ac, which the fix was another battery replacement.
Which is probably why Hyundai ditched LG altogether. But they can't swap LG for SKI in theirs for whatever reason.
Hyundai though probably messed up on the BMS though.
Had our 2020 Kona EV for over 2.5 years and 78,000km. Great range, little interior room, had tons of problems in the first year, relatively slow DC charging. Upgraded to Ioniq 5 and subsequently to a GV60, much better EVs.
Our Niro EV is completely quiet on the highway, I guess it’s better insulated than sister Kona.
The unbalanced front tyre traction/chirping tyres/ issue has been 'sorted' in the new ones
Old tires of course make much more noise
Too small
We love ours. We're average 5.8 mi /KWh.