2600 mile road trip to the South of France in the Kona 64kWh 

Thanks, you might like to check out my video from this year's France trip, using mostly open Tesla supercharger sites.

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.

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. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CxLWu9Kvoiw.htmlsi=XHEtiuMluLct-S5G

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.

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: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q3XF-Yncy_s.html

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.