Completed 14,000 km on my KIA e-Niro EV: Energy consumption & range

I charge my electric vehicle often when electricity is the cheapest.

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The car has done 14,400 km so far and I will have the first service done on Friday this week. I pay a fixed sum every month to KIA for service, about ,025 euro cents a kilometer.

The total cost of electricity has come to about 150 Euros. I drive a total of 130 km to work and back every day. 7000 km of this distance has been work-related. I am paid 40 Euro cents a kilometer to drive to work and back.

I never pay more than 7 Euro cents a kWh. Looking at the chart, I charge often when electricity is the cheapest.

Here are my charging details from April when I bought the car.

I did a long trip this summer. I drove on cruise control and regenerated when possible. The car did very well. 10,84 kWh/100 km. Total use for 466 km one way was 50,55kWh which should have given me a range of 600 km. With normal driving, I get between 450 and 480 km on 1 charge.

This is the range shown with a full charge. The meter is quite accurate in the summer.

The one thing that irritates me with the car is all the beeping sounds it makes when driving. I never know why sometimes it is not possible to deactivate all of them.

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