Hyundai Kona, a game changer? | Fully Charged

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upload. My name is Johnny Smith. This is the Hyundai Kona. The reason we are going to take a good look at this car starting on a train is because we are not going to do a single trip or GAD. I'll be doing a full road trip that will last about five and a half days. I'm going to cover a thousand miles so we can really get under the skin of what is less than 30,300 miles. Evi has had a lot of I'm interested, it's amazing to look down and see that you don't even have a full charge, like a little over three quarters of a charge, and he shows me 212 miles on the range graph.

It's amazing that you can get into a 25,000 pound electric Kona and that includes all four and with half a big government subsidy they give you, twenty four nine nine five gets you a thirty nine kilowatt hour Kona and its range is apparently of one hundred and ninety-three miles, which is more than Neagle's quota, more than Magnus and Leif, but this Kona sixty-four kilowatt hour starts at twenty-nine thousand five hundred pounds with the government subsidy has a range of 300 miles and part of this road trip, aren't you going to see if that's really believable now that there are steerable puddles? on the

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and these are for your three levels of brake regeneration, it seems a little contradictory to me because with a shift car or a paddle shift car you have the right paddle that shifts up and the left pedal that shifts down again In this one the left paddle makes the region more aggressive; the right, that makes the region less aggressive.

You have three stages of recuperative braking, but the Kona has automatic brake recuperation and apparently uses the radar in the front, the radar cruise control, that was me. blind spot warning you can turn it off there is a button down on my right I need to turn off that audible warning if it bores you and the auto recovery uses the radar in the front for the adaptive cruise control and even when you're not using the actual cruise control it uses to decide how hard or soft to regenerate the braking, so it's very, very clever, let's give it a shot Chad, lovely emo boy, while we take a break, we have, you know, 40 odd minutes to kill, just let's take a look at it, this is not the soul cone you can buy, it's not irrelevant,

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loaded, but you can buy a petrol one and you can buy a diesel one, they just bought the diesel one, the electric one came out before the diesel . one, but that's less relevant, how do you know that this is the electric owner, it has the blanket on the grill here, but this little patent, which is pretty cool, has active air fins, obviously, to allow the entry of air when you want air to come in, you have these great ones. little ER, well all the cones have this kind of cactus face Citroen c4 which is a good model buy Citroen it has these Aero wheels like a lot of the green cars we are seeing like the ioniq actually It has a flatter profile.

These gray arches look like they're going to be a little rough to the touch, but they're not that soft. It has some pretty small wrinkles. It's actually a pretty strong body with cute little arches and stuff. I think it's a good proportion, strangely it looks bigger than the Nissan Leaf but it's actually smaller than the Leaf. The one we have is the 30 gram SE premium, so it is the top of the range. It comes with heated and cooled seats. Leather covered seats. Two tone paint. comes with the 64 kilowatt hour battery pack it's good it's good 204 PS 0 to 62 in 7.6 seconds feels pretty quick and responsive but I mean it's effortless in its range like I said before 190 miles we've done Good temperature today, I admit, but on the highway, which is not ideal for Vs, we still have 80 miles left in the tank, which indicates that it is electric, which I think is quite cheap.

That badge, I'd probably rip a badge off the bumper, is a little different from the petrol Kona. different, but I would say the paint finish is not very nice, it's a little dirty on the back. I don't particularly like the kind of peeling orange paint finish that will have been applied by a robot, those are the kind of telltale signs where I think the quality isn't all that great, the Volkswagen Eagle vote would say, but it's a car really very good, we are on a road trip so now I have my bag inside. The trunk is smaller than the Nissan Leaf, but it's a flat entry point into it. the boot and it's actually quite square, the blade is a deeper boot so it depends on what floats in your boat.

It's also like an organizer here that could function as a part of the cutlery drawer, so even though it's smaller, it has a better reach than what it has. better acceleration than that, the price is very close and obviously you can buy one with a lower range than this sixty four kilowatt hours, you can buy a 39 kilauea one that apparently has a range of 195 miles, but this is strange because it is so simple he just sort of goes about his business evie doesn't brag he doesn't try to look very different in fact I quite like him the fact is he's just an honest and smooth guy Roda hasn't tried very hard and at the same time he's not that heavy considering the range, this one can hold 16 hundred and eighty five kilos which is lighter than many piston cars, if I was at home with my 7 kilowatt wall charger the Kona would take 9 hours and 35 minutes as it is here .

I can do 85% charge in 75 minutes using this 50 kilowatt fast charger, so that's great now. I like to have the magazine at the front and tip, just like the blade started. I think it's great because you don't have to think about what. side the car is on, but and this is a very wise thing that some fully loaded viewers have said, these are vulnerable. What is the first thing that gets damaged when you have a faucet in a car? Generally it is a front or rear bumper if hitting the front bumper even at low speed does that mean it gets deformed and you can no longer load it even though the cars are practically intact?

That will worry me too. I'm going to use this little brake to get a little chicken under the hood. of the cone because I haven't seen what it looks like. I'm always intrigued to see how these things are packaged. They are always only on suction cups. That's what it really looks like. A 356-volt, 150-kilowatt electric motor capable of delivering 204 horsepower and 291 lbs. feet of torque 39 kilowatt hours Kona, which is cheaper by about 5,000 pounds, is still pretty good in terms of range and pretty good in terms of performance, it's just a really good car, would you like this one?

Robert. I mean, it surprised me when I saw it. from there I wasn't concentrating, I was texting, yeah Tripp, next organizer, but it seemed empty, there's no when you open the hood, even the electric cars are stuck, well look, there's plenty of room down there, yeah, I mean, it's okay. I got you a really compact transmission, isn't that a really compact system? But then I didn't know you had raised this. I put it on right, are you sure it's meant to come out, yes no, they're just attached and with rubber suspended suction cups. they sit on a pedestal the confidence you have just to tear off a huge piece well I know it's just a lining this is just a superhero it's a superhero it's a huge fly it's a huge fly exactly it's just rubbish this is the question I want to know it's how they make this car so incredibly fuel efficient when, you know, in the larger scheme of things, I mean, if this was a delivery van that weighed three and a half tons, yes, yes, of course , but it is indeed a car of the same size, yes.

I advanced the density of the chemistry in the cells, it's kind of divine things, there we go, what punk numbers, those three. I'll give you a little, so we've done about 700 miles now, yeah, in the Kona and it's been a pretty nice 700. I actually say yeah, pretty effortless I must say I do, it seems very unchosen to me Rick in terms of the fact that I have actually forgotten several moments in time, can I drive an Eevee right at that moment? a good way, it's fantastic, like it's not really like that, the battery seems to be so good or maybe it's the regeneration or whatever, you just don't want to lose the cake.

I know some electric guys seem to lose yes faster than you feel. they should, this seems to hold its range so well it's just amazing when I say I've been getting a good 270 miles, yeah come on, but I haven't done many hundred percent charges like we're going to do now. 80 percent charge, yeah, I mean, considering this is the edition with all the bells and whistles and it's 31 grand, it's 31. I think this is the most expensive thing you can do. Wow, a Kona. I mean, here you come with the CONUS 16 piston and a little bit grand, but since they start at twenty-four thousand five hundred pounds, this is the 39 kilowatt, oh yes, this is a

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-changing electric car, it really is yes, extraordinary, well, I say my first impression, Johnny, it's very comfortable, I'm very confident, you know, this is not rewriting the rule books.

A guy who was at the charging point with us this morning and who has a BMW i3, craned his neck because he had heard about autonomy and said in Holland they have been trying to contact them for years and the waiting list is ridiculous, yes, and the first thing you said was strange, yes, yes. I don't think much about it and I said, well that's funny, she said, I think it's perfectly acceptable for the price, however, you're a little sporty with the i3 because your I 3, so focus, yeah, yeah, and everyone the main materials that haven't gone to town material-wise, no, they haven't broken any conventions, it seems.

Nice could be a wide range of piston cars. Good news. Very similar interior. Yes, but there is a lot of use. You have your two cup holders. Everyone loves this little cubicle and even more so with all your cargo. I have cargo cabins in it and then they are. one second, always a chance, those are sub-areas that you have, you have two charges, tons of storage right there, but because this is the premium se model, you have an eight-inch Krell touchscreen, this premium audio and speaker system Krell that is not. well yeah called three stage, very easy to find it's just there yeah three stage ask the heaters and it heats up it's working fine so all the stuff you get in the Jag I pay for it yeah yeah , there's no way to tell it costs more than twice as much, so it's a different beast, yeah, I also quite like the fact that they've combined a bit of touch screen, but also real world, okay, so you can do it okay, so when I'm driving and I want you to know quick things, yes, I have rotary buttons for the requirement.

This is your climate area and this is your entertainment area, so you have three vehicle configurations, you have echo and this is the most you've ever had. I've had it in eco-friendly motion because I got out of comfort mode. to Eco mode and I actually thought Eco is better because it has the regeneration set a little bit hard, it doesn't have that the same as on the ionic, yeah, a lot of ionic list, yeah, you have your three stage recovery on these paddles here, I have to say the rest is pretty easy to figure out. I have been deciding to join a lovely radio station from a foreign nation.

I found that it syncs with my phone very easily. I haven't worked with our Apple Carplay yet, to be honest, yes. I tried a lot, but I'm a little nervous because it's obviously what people should and can do. It makes a lot of sense that you have a really simple screen in the car and you just put your own phone in it and it has everything you need. There are things there, well, that makes a lot of sense. I think it's the most Fischer proof way, yeah, buy a couple of phones that are going to be updated and then you'll know and you only have one port, you plug it in or you know it has this has contactless charging why really and then in the right side underneath everything very well this this high end Scott model you know a lot of other things yeah privacy glass and Lane Lane Assist and how is that?

What is Lane Assist like? well it's pretty good you have Bo you have two things lane keeping and then you have lane assist I guess it keeps it between the lanes one of them and it actually starts turning the steering wheel for me I think it's That's right, I know what it is about cruise control that keeps you at the same distance. Russ, great, right? And it also has all the ones that I really like, that makes highway driving a lot easier, yeah, yeah, and the Kona has an automatic recovery mode, so when you do that, it uses the radar to decide how aggressive or Braking should not work depending on all the street furniture on the road and the car in front.

Wow or you can just manually configure it however you want and modify Road so it's actually pretty good. The driver's car and the way it is damped is comfortable and it doesn't seem to turn well so I have to say it's his position. A lot of thought has gone into it and I would like to drive the lower range car, yes, yes. to see thatIt happens, yeah, it's probably going to be impressive because well, I mean the statistics that really knocked me out is how many miles are you going in a kilowatt hour, it's like two days, it's been five point one miles per kilowatt hour, yeah, that's it.

It's for a car this size, that's notable, yeah, because those kind of stats were just one night. Now I just go, ah, yeah, what you know, understanding what that means, yeah, because you know, because at that moment I see what others. what the cars do and what you know what the leaf does what the i3 does what the eGolf does that's what's right at the top you know, the cars that are much smaller are more of a battery, more light yes, strawberry, because on the one hand I could look at this and say that; ok but not as cool as a BMW.via the BM during our carbon three with suicide doors so as a design fan you would want to go for that however everything is really good and very well equipped and the range is incredible.

I mean, I think I've been doing about 270 miles. There's nothing rubbish about it, well, it's not rubbish at all, it's effectively the same price as a sheet, if not cheaper, than some versions of it, and it literally goes twice as far. This is what I'm talking about, even if they literally aren't like I almost think they were. a 39 killer what was supposed to go 193 on my right and that's a 24,500 pound car okay start so I mean that's the bass yeah I have a display screen that's Yes, now I love the notice. I think the Tesla Model 3 should have it, yes it should be an option, yes nothing, they missed a trick, but what's so strange about this?

I have the seat, this is a high range model again, you have an electric lover, support the electric, I have the seat set to its lowest position and I am still a little tall for this. I have to bend over so it's not brilliant, but now I'm actually very impressed with it. I have put over a thousand miles on this car now and I have to say I am completely impressed by its competence. It's really comfortable. It is well evaluated. The range is splendid. It has fantastic technology. The price is really competitive. The biggest problem I have is making them fast enough for the people I have.

To say it and I hate to say it, yes, it could be a

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. You know, the word Kona in Hawaiian means a very strong wind that causes a storm. The word Kona in Norwegian means wife. I won't tell you what the word Kona is in Portuguese. means you can decide that, but the word Kona to me means a shiny and bloody electric car.