Car and Model: Hyundai Kona
Year of Manufacture: 2019
Kilometers Driven: 32000
ARAI / Manufacturer Claimed Range: 452 kms
Real-World Range: 360 - 420
City Usage (%): 70%
Highway Usage (%): 30%
Home/Office Slow Charging (%): 70%
Outside Fast Charging (%): 30%
Battery Capacity: 39.2 kwh
I got the car a year back, pre owned, previous owner had driven 13k kms in 4 years. I have already done 19k kms in less than a year.
I get around 420 Kms of range in the city. Since I live in Bangalore the heavy traffic at times has a big impact on the efficiency, but I always get above 8 km/kwh.
On the highway, I drive like I used to drive my ICE car, no compromise, always in sports mode. I get around 7-8 kms/kwh(It has dropped to less than 7 at times). The maximum range I have got on highway is 448 kms, this was hypermiling without Ac, doing 70-80 kmph.
Heavy use of the paddle shifters, I love the feature, I dont think I would get another ev without Paddle shifters, extremely useful. The way the regen varies between the drive modes is also very well setup. I rarely use my breaks, unless I see a speed breaker, rest of the time the regen does the business.
In fact these days I sometimes drive around without regen just to familiarize myself with the conventional break.
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I have driven other evs as well, but find the Kona's regen to be very well calibrated. The more I drive the car the more I am impressed with what Hyundai managed back in 2019, how did they manage to make such a sorted Electric car. Would give anything to somehow get the 64kwh kona, I will buy it today, if they get it to India even with the outdated interiors.