About 70 to 80% of braking force is done by the front wheels. To have effective regenerative breaking you need front wheel drive.

I have seen many Kona EV videos (and read their user's manual), and some of the quirks you listed were still new to me. Good job!

Nice info about oddities of Kona Electric. Cool.

Great review of the Kona’s weird stuff!

Hi from Ireland. I am aTesla. model three reservationist and have been since the 31st of April 2016. The configurator for the right-hand drive M3 has only recently opened up and I have configured and placed my order. Hoping to get delivery very soon. Anyway in this video you asked What would be a good reason for not using the wireless charging. I currently have Hyundai Ioniq which as I’m sure you are aware a lot of the tech that’s in the Kona was first introduced in the Ioniq. Anyway one day while on a road trip I was charging my iPhone X in the wireless charger driving along minding my own business enjoying the scenery and just totally relaxed and having fun on the road trip. When all of a sudden the large 8 inch screen displayed all in red battery overheating warning. Which frightened the living SH I T out of me!! As you know the Hyundai Electric vehicles all have Apple CarPlay. In order to use Apple CarPlay you have to plug in the USB cable into your iPhone. So I always keep my phone in the wireless charging pocket with the USB cable connected to the iPhone which meant my iPhone was being charged boat from the wireless charger and from the USB cable. When I got the large red warning on the 8 inch infotainment screen I automatically assume that as I think many others would have that it was the traction battery for the car that was overheating never dawned on me that it was the battery in the iPhone that was actually overheating. I have never used the wireless charging dock since. That’s got to be a dam good reason as to why you should not use it. On another point I have to tell you I totally enjoy your videos as I have recently subscribed to your channel. Keep up the good work. Goodbye from Ireland for now. Regards Séamus

Love my Kona and yea the regen in traffic is amazing !

Thank you for nice straightforward, real-world reviews. My guess on the ability to disable wireless charging: If your phone doesn't need charging while you drive, but that's where you always put your phone when driving, then at least you get a few more yards of range by sparing the car's battery?

Ouch, all that wasted space under the hood hurts my soul! Love the capability of the Kona Electric but the nods to an ICE retrofit are unsettling. Thanks for showing all sides of the car - the good, the bad, and the quirky - in this series of videos.

Thanks! That was great! The cell phone charging feature can be disengaged if you want to store coins there...or some other metallic things. I go back and forth on using it: sometimes I just want to throw my non-sunglasses there b/c they have metal screws in them and I don't want to start a problem (fire?). I've used the cell phone inductive charging about 10 times in 19 months...

2:10 Looks like he missed the hood support feature... Just kidding. Great review and exposé of the car's features. Thanks for uploading.

I saw your update for the 2020 and I'm glad that some of the things you didn't like were corrected. It informed my decision to buy a Kona

Thanks for sharing this video! I can see an interesting difference to my Kona (2019, premium) at 10:35 - there is no "flexible" cupholder in my car, which is very annoying. Did you change the cupholder or is this the original one?

I've had a Kona Electric 2022 model in Australia for a few weeks clocking up about 800 klm - despite putting my foot down fairly hard on dry and wet roads I have never spun the front wheels perhaps because the car came as standard with very good grip tyres- Micheline Primacy. I understand early Kona Electric vehicles game with very poor grip Nexen tyres hence poor handling and wheel spinning/ The Micheline tyres provide a huge improvement in handling, breaking but come with shorter tyre life - personally I'll choose safe tyres every time. As an aside, "her in doors" and I love our Kona and because we very rarely do more than 30 K a day - we most days plug in at our garage standard home power point (240 V AC - 1.7 Kw H) and are recharged in 2 or 3 hours free from our roof top solar voltaic on our roof - life is good.

It is ev small SUV. I drive this Kona mainly in ecodrive and with adaptive cruisecontrole on. if you drive it as a sports car, the wheels will spin. Sportmode is fun to try, but not very comfortable to drive. You feel every movement in your feet in de speed. For me it is a great car with an impressive range!

Didn't know about the trick for making the sunroof open 100 by lowering the back windows. Very cool. Also to any new blue link users , just figured this out myself. Even though the app might send you a climate start failed message, the reality is the climate start feature does work. I tested it out today, the vehicle receives the request and the system turns on in about 5 seconds.

Very good

I believe the option to turn off wireless charging is to ensure we can place the phone on the wireless pad while android auto or apple car play is running (which needs a physical wired connection and will charge the phone as well). You probably do not want to charge the phone both via cable and wireless charging at the same time. I may be wrong here but I haven't tried charging a phone hardwired while placing it on a active wireless charging pad.

Great video with a ton of info! Is the level 1 charger included a normal 120 V plug?. My garage has GFI outlets that DON"T have the T shaped slot indicating that the 120-volt receptacle is rated for 20-amps. Regular wall receptacles with a pair of vertical slots are rated for only 15-amps. Would this level 1 Hyundai charger for the Kona on my 15 amp circuit?

Thanks for the videos! I read in the users' manual NOT to put coins in the wireless charging area, as it's a fire risk. I'd be sure the reason for the 'turn off' option is because old habits from new owners: that charging area seems like the best place to throw change after the toll booth or drive thru! Question: Would wider aftermarket front tires help traction?

you can fit a 24 inch dishwasher in the box in the back with the seats down. just barely vertically. plenty of room depth and width wise. just FYI

That intro made me do a double take and look around for Doug DeMuro.

I presume the ability to charge to a max. of 10%, is a throwback to shipping & delivery transport. So the vehicle is kept and transported with a minimal charge and it’s not taxing, to decide what % to charge the vehicle to at the point of leaving the factory. And also, the vehicles are not being transport with fully charged packs, plus Hyundai aren’t paying for excess electricity they’ll never use.

On an EV is there a percentage of the battery to charge up to to extend battery life? Is it better to keep the battery charged between certain numbers for extended battery life?

I shut off the wireless phone charger after I noticed my wallet got really hot in there on top of it...could it possibly be cause of a chip-credit card? Not sure but I use a corded rapid charger for my phone anyway. I LOVE my Kona Electric. Im at about 5500 miles since early May. Left my Civic hatchback sport in the gassy dust 😉

In Android Auto mode only half of the screen is available for apps. Waze/Google maps won't stretch to full screen ☹

Did you notice any range changes once you were in hot Southwest Florida? I'm considering getting a Kona up north and road tripping it to my home in Fort Myers.

Funny how language evolves. I've never heard anyone use the word "stout" like this before. How did that come about?

Why 76kW is a problem for Electrify America? What video do you dig into that issue?

weird thing is a big fella in a small car, making car even smaller.

Can it handle steep mountain climbing? Of course in either asphalt or cemented road.

2:03 IDK how I feel about how that looks. It looks like they were trying hard to make it look like an ICE with that cover. Why not take the opportunity to distinguish the EV with something different?

6:18 why is that? I've had several different people all saying different things on this topic. Some people say it doesn't matter if you drive it to near-empty and charge it to 100% all the time, while others say you should keep it between 20 and 80% as much as possible. Even my dealer said it's no problem to just charge it to 100% and drive it to near-empty. Very confusing. The actual battery of the car is bigger than advertised/used, right? So it would never literally get to 100% if you would charge it that far.

7:58 because the phone gets quite hot when it's kept in that compartment for a while. I have turned it off for that reason.

When its on 3rd level and uses motor power to stop, brake lights are on! That is actually what annoyes me a little because driver behind me who knows nothing about EV probably think that I am very nervous pressing brake all the time, when I actually just release gas pedal.

THAT is the advantage of front-wheel-drive for an EV : regen. It's one reason it regens better than those rear-wheel-drive EVs. The weight transfer on braking makes the regen much more efficient. So that FWD EV feature has a good reason.

Were the headlights on during this video? They looked like they were flickering. Or is the flickering a camera phenomenon.

911 good in snow ? , front wheel drive not the problem Hyundai problem , front wheel drive Renault Zoe neither torque steers or skids

CCS1? Weird... All Konas in other markets are CCS2 / Type 2 charging.

Are you able to run a/c while charging? Are you able to run a/c overnight while sleeping in car?

The only reason i'm looking at this because we can't get Honda E in the USA.

Nice review. You do really need to live with a car for a while to notice everything. One-day journalist reviews aren't actually that useful. My question is does it have to be plugged in in order to turn on climate control from the phone app? My Kia Soul EV did need to be plugged in, which was annoying. The Leaf doesn't.

150 kW regen? Wow! Shame the cars are not available for sale.

Does the Ultimate have dual climate control? Didn't look like it.

Kyle. Today /17/2020 I test drove a 2019 Kona limited... the power on acceleration did not seem impressive and a very strange, albeit dangerous thing happened when I ACCELERATED onto a highway and then attempted to pass a bus in the slow lane. The car suddenly lost power and went from the initial 60mph quickly down to 35 mph and stayed there despite pressure on the accelerator!!! I moved over behind the bus and immediately took an exit. The dash lit up with a RED little turtle light and it said that power loss occurred and attempts to continue could damage the electrical system!!! I pulled off onto the shoulder and stopped and the sales agent looked in the manual which described the warning without explanation. It then disappeared and the car was able to be driven on local roads back to the dealership. The range remaining during this episode was about 29 miles. Any ideas? Any similar experiences??? I was not a “happy camper”.

My neighbor kona explode Last week in ile bizard Montréal

Wireless charging is not efficient. It is about 39 percent of wired charging. I would not use it at home or in a car.

so its a plug in hybrid?

The "9/11 Effect"? What's that??

Very informative, but the truth is it could have had a frunk...Frunk Hyundai Kona EV kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zq2CqbaD0dfYkpc.html So ppl should stop using the false meme that flexible platforms (ie that can use different power sources) necessarily have a less efficient layout when used as a BEV then BEV only platform... BTW Tesla is able to fit in a frunk... since its been able to reduce the number and size of the parts needed.... so there is more room for a frunk... and it has little to do with the fact it's a BEV only platform...

FWD is so much better than RWD. I don't understand people that actually want RWD, much harder to control, usually the car weights much less in the back, it's just wrong.

All my cars have been FWD since 2000. Kwit yor bitchin'! As far as slowing the car, you let cruise control and one pedal driving stop your car. Most of my EV charging planning is done online which is best since most chargers start with smart phone apps. What idiot drives around with a noisy sun roof open?! Auto hold is the best to use. Why didn't you praise the HUD? Makes for safe driving. The horns works and is loud, are you one of those agressive drivers always on their horn? Kwit yor bitchin!

Tesla is superior in every way.. no? hey how about you hit a tree with kona @ 100 miles/h and tell me how osom it is with the ENGINE STUCK IN YOUR RIBCASE. pff 0-60 in 7.6s wtf lol. Model x does this in 3.2s also what about battery degradation? 3 years and replace the battery? in Tesla its 20+ yo

Bad car, Tesla is the best.