Hyundai Kona hypermiling 830 km/516 mi 

Who da heck dared to dislike this video? I stayed awake for 39 hours (except for the 1 hour nap) to finish this! Whoever did that should like my video right away :P

Bjørn, sure hope Hyundai appreciates all positive vibes your coverage creates for the Kona. Love all the things you do for the EV community. Thank you!

I really admire your patience and persistence. If that was me, I would have fallen asleep after the 5th hour. I dont know who will drive 800 or even 300 km with 40 km/h, no radio, navi, AC, sudden accelerations, etc. Brilliant experiment anyways.

Interesting to see all the 'pieces to camera' that we saw Bjorn do live during the marathon epic drive. Hundreds of fellow Bjorn fans spent hours of their day/night watching this 25+ hour pan out.

I like that you do these test yourself and not trust manufacturers. That makes you a rare RU-vidr! Cheers from the USA!

Bjørn is an EVeast!!! The only one making real tests!! Cant imagine evs without you truly testing em. A must for everyone into it.

Just got my Kona delivery date confirmed for 3 days time!! :-) and Hyundai have confirmed the 10 year battery warranty with unlimited KM Wow, match that Tesla/Nissan etc!!

Maaaan Bjørn, you are a trooper!! Huge thank you for testing this for all of us!

WoW ! Very nice Bjorn !! I have never s’en this vidéo and you have all my respect !!

I literally live in a small city/town with so much traffic, so much start stop traffic and always wanted to know what’s the actual real life range in town, at town speeds. Hate watching 120kmph, 0-100kmph tests and all that. Who’s actually doing this stuff in real life. Bjørn, you legend. Must have been so hard to do a video like this but it’s really really needed for whom it may concern, we’re niche but we are here. So with my 50km MAX per day WITH ac, I could EASILY get a week without charging. Thank you so much Bjørn, you’re invaluable to the community

At du gidder! Haha, men takk! Du gjorde valget av min "nye" 2020 Kona mye enklere for meg med dine videoer! Har kjørt en 2014 Zoe siden 2015 som det nå var på tide å pensjonere etter 193 000 km

Very good video, Bjorn. I was looking for this for so long. (I know this has +2 years already, I missed it)

very good job Mr Bjorn ... thanks a lot ... and Hyundai is always fantastic

Thanks for doing this, Bjørn. Other than the lack of stop signs, this emulates my typical driving quite well. My average daily drive is about 200-250 Kms and my average speed is somewhere around 30 Km/h. Without any DC charging in my area, this makes the Kona EV very attractive - even if I lost 50% of range during the winter.

Stumbled back onto this here in 2020, what a great effort and effective car. (Yep, bought one that year.)

This is not usually what they mean when they say 'Track day', each to his own, Bjørn! :)

Excellent job Bjorn you’re the best 👍

Awesome job Bjorn, thank you!

I swear I spent two and a half hours today just watching this dude drive. And 55k other people did the same thing. Internet, man.

Respect, Bjorn, for reaching 830 kms under bad weather conditions. I would most probbly reach only 300 and then say "F%*@ it with that bloddy test, I can't stand 40 km/h any longer!| :D Best regards from the french riviera

Magnificent effort. That took a lot of stamina. Pity about the bends on the circuit but 516 mile range is impressive.

thats fantastic! Thx Björn!

Congratulations Bjørn. Well done. Awesome. 🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒 But you are crazy. 😉

This car is so nice, i drive the leaf with 24 kwh... wich i have a 60kwh battery

Excellent job Bjørn! Made me tired watching you live stream the other day!! Give me a call if you need a co-pilot when (if) you repeat with the i-Pace 😉

Thank you Bjørn for your devotion for humanity!💪 Already this consumption is equal to Model 3 at ideal weather only with autopilot astronaut...! Hyundai = efficiency masters! Tesla: awesomeness masters though😎

Everything you do is very useful, thank you! :)

Even at 500 km or say 6-7 hours battery capabilty, i'm a buyer for sure. Thank you so much for sharing this.

Man, your Kona videos are really making me reconsider pulling the trigger on a Bolt. Incentives for my state are almost gone; unsure if Kona EV will make it to the US in time for me to claim that sweet, sweet rebate..

Hi Bjørn, great job!!. Maybe Model 3 is more efficient than Kona in 0,3kW/h sure, but Kona is cheaper too... :)

With a smooth track, no curves, good weather and on autopilot, i agree, 1000km should be possible. For those who don't know, Model 3 is more efficient on "Autopilot", then on manual drive, 1001km Hypermile did show that. I expect the same from Kona.

Has Hyundai offered you a job yet? Haha! Your a hero Bjorn!

I lovethis car

This feeling you see in his face at 36:38 min :D

amazon job! thanks, Bjørn!

Would love to see the Bolt / Ampera E with its true efficient tires tested in the same environment! Thanks for the hard work once again, Bjorn!

Putting in the hours for our entertainment and information. 'Bjorning' EVs so we know everything good, bad and ugly...and lapskaus.

Fantastic milage

Our Viking Ninja Turtle ❤️ such a great effort! For everyone watching that missed the stream: we calculated the real distance being 5,15% greater than what the trip meter shows. So he actually drove 872,75km but since there is no actual proof for it to show the camera Bjørn sticks to saying 830km.

Love your work. Thanks

Like for the stamina and bladder control

Great summary of that 24 h hypermiling race against the battery. :-) Yet I can't go without a little bit of backseating. ;-) At 1:37 it clearly shows that the A/C was turned off (LED not lit, A/C grayed out on screen) while connected to the charger. So it was blasting the car full power with moist air from the rainy outside instead of drying it using the A/C compressor. That moist then fogged the windscreen, when driving cooled it further down. For the driving itself it is most efficient to direct the airflow at the windscreen (by pushing the second button from the left in the bottom row) using the second lowest ventilation setting (right dial), which just lets headwind into the car. If it still fogs, you still don't need A/C. A small amount of heat from the drive train (left dial) is enough to keep it clear. Same goes for getting rid of sun heat: Left dial all the way to left and you only get fresh outside air. It won't cool down the car unless you push the AUTO or A/C button. The additional energy consumption of all these measures is zero. Energy-intensive air-conditioning is only needed if you have to cool down the car to lower temperatures than on the outside. You can get much more range in general (not only for hypermiling) by keeping A/C off and use ventilation/heating only. I don't know if a Tesla can do manual climate, but a conventional EV (like this car) surely can.

If there is option to circulate outside air with blower only in Kona then we can do it. It helps a bit

There is an app for rooted Android called Battery Charge Limit. You can set the percentage where your phone will stop charging and where it will resume. This way you can leave it plugged it but it will not overheat because it has a cooling period between charges (80 - 20%).

Hi Bjorn, happen to stumbled upon your videos and have been enjoying them very much since. I've subscribed too! Anyway, just wondering if you have link to a good specs for kona? I'd like to if it has similar cameras and similar features as the Tesla?

The only way to eliminate moisture entering the cabin is to stop breathing... Which is not recommended by the way :-). Great video. Cheers.

After this you could race these tracks since you know them by heart.

The thing is to drive at the constant power output f.e. in this case 3.3kW independent od the road situation but not over the avg. speed so there are no defieciencies on the electric side of the whole system.

Wow. Great job. With this speed it would be interesting to see what you could do in an I3 120ah

Bless Bjorn for doing this nice one mate

Why is the screen not utilizing the whole screen area?

Where is the fast lap Björn??, you are a beast, driving a car 20 hours, what a EVheroe

I love this kind of thing, I hope you add these results to your range test spreadsheet even as a different tab. Range tests at 90km/h aren't that useful for drivers who spend most of the time on city roads It also highlights how bad the range estimates are. At 6:50 it estimates 448km left when really it was 780.5km. Even doing a simple calculation of (49.5/6)*94 gives 775.5km remaining which would have been an underestimate of 5km/0.6% which is more than acceptable. I wonder if any manufacturers will use this method for range calculation The record distance in a Kona was 1026km/637.5miles (at speeds of 29-31km/h on a test track) so your prediction was very close

Hi Bjorn, the best bit was 450 people watching your fan, how silly can we people get.

Can you tow testing this model, ideally with a caravan or similar weight ? I'm curious if it's still the best range choice. I'm looking for options as full time traveler. Thank you !

Now you should do the same hypermiling with OP! :D

How many times or kilometers do you have to revise the Kona? What price do they have?

now Hyundai only has to work out that they can deliver

brother of the other mother, how to buy a cheap new tesla? via the internet or in a store? Are there any $ 1000 vouchers and free recharges?

WOW!

Lapskaus in the best food for Björn. Greetings from Frank from Germany/Cologne

When you spend more time with the Kona than with kona ;)

So which one to buy Kona or model 3, 90% city driving?

I can be your big fan.

Is that a turtle icon at 35:29? Does traction control change consumption?

Hey. Could you do a range test in norway on the nissan evalia 40kw. At mabye 80-90kmt?

Hey there Bjorn. I've been watching for the past 2 years your videos and I finally managed to get my hands on a 64 kWh Kona. I want to ask you about how do you unplug the car after you attempt to start it while plugged? I had two occurences where I couldn't pull out the charging cable from the car because it was locked. First time I was on a public 22 kW DC charger, and I noticed that I had to keep pressing the the unlock button on my keyfob for 5 seconds, until the car would have a green flash around the charger, but at home on AC, I even unplugged from the wall and it didn't unlocked the car port. Eventually the car let go of the plug, but I want to know how to deal with these situations that aren't very well detailed in the owner's manual. Thank you

What is the point for hypermiling?

I would take it on a straight road at set speed of 100Km/h for a good distance to get a more accurate GPS speed reading and better idea of the variation, because the odo runs off the speedo and If the speedo is reading 10% over, then so is the odo, meaning not 830k but closer to 750.

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Did you really circle for 24 hours on this track? WOW :D

I Have a question. Can Kona charge from the blue or red industrial plugs 16A and 32A?

why your car meter shows 40 kmph when it's actually 36 kmph?

I completely admire what you do for the EV community this is just great stuff. And from what I saw from your videos, this car seems really in the very few best EVs, if it's not the best EV so far. Model 3 is still very expensive. However, let's face it, doing that kind of hypermiling test is totally useless, nobody will ever do that in real life. Great job man!

👍😊

Can you connect Kona with an app to check your battery status and start the climate control remotely?

No hills ?

👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍

why did you not ask someone to help you bjorn?

I think maybe the elevation change was good! You then use more power putting the motor in a spot where it has higher efficiency. The turns though is definitely bad. Have you ever tried pulse and glide? Up to 50 down to 30 and up again.

You should've drove the racing line which means you drive on the edge of the turn, and then turn in against the apex on the inside and then go wide again.

👍cool✌

When you use bigger tyres than spec traditional trip meter shows less kilometers than default/you have really done. Not sure how much overinflation can make difference in this case....

Did you use cruise control when going this little hill up? That would be rather inefficient. If there are hills you rather need to keep the position of your foot on the acceleration pedal than trying to keep the speed.

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Is there any benefit in this test? I don't see it for real-world circumstances. Does it show drive-train efficiency? Would driving at 100km/h also do that and be comparable between cars?

Good job, nice to see the same test doing 40/50 mph maybe do it with another person ??🚗

Seriously? 1000 kms with a factory Kona? now I want to buy this one..

Great effort.. Appreciate.. 🙌I assume the Kona u have is a 64kwh one.. Sadly in India they sell the 30kwh model.. Hope they upgrade here too.. Looking forward to get my hands on one.. Cheers

Can you do again hypermiling with optimus prime?

69% nice round number?

31:40 wait, those 2km/h less resulted in 1kWh/100km less? oO

OK so the jacket was wet :-)

enough about the jacket!!!

😃😃😃

My guess is that the increased tyre pressures increased your rolling circumference slightly so, if the odometer is accurate at standard pressures, you will have gone further than the indicated 830km. Given that the car is effectively running with taller gearing it would account for your apparently higher consumption because your real speed will have been >40km/hr. I guess this is true of your tests on the S so perhaps it balances out in the comparison. However, the wet track must have an effect. Water is 1000 times denser than air and has a significantly higher viscosity and you have been shifting water with the tyres for some reasonable fraction of the test. Such is the fun of doing field experiments! Of course, there is also the small matter of defining the distance travelled. Given that the front axle travels around all the turns at a larger radius than the rear axle the total distance travelled by the front tyres is greater than that travelled by the rear tyres. Which do you pick 8-)=

its electric car we need to focus more on battery. kona has LG battery LG has been making lithium ion battery for long time and has world best technology and now samsung is rising with graphene battery. electric battery is also very quiet. newly made japanese submarine is using samsung lithium ion battery for their engine

I love the way range in electric vehicles is perfectly inversely proportional to the driving speed. He did 800km while driving at 40km/h. That translates to the EPA rating of the car of 400km while driving at 80km/h. Edit -> In ICE vehicles halving your speed doesn't double your efficiency/range.

how many kw's do the windsheild wipers(on medium) use and the headlights?

Bjørn, wouldn't be easier to "rent" a garage with rolling stands and put the car in cruise-control on a rolling stand? that way, it's always stopped and only runs on the rolls ... no turns, no bumps, no anything :) ...just an idea... (rolling stand: those that help us know how much HP we have in our car, and used to test the breaks when we go to inspection, or portable as cheap as 848DKK www.ajengros.dk/shop/wheel-dolly-1394p.html )