After reading Matt Haughey’s tale of buying an electric VW van in Texas, and driving it home to Oregon, it occurred to me that the 6th anniversary of my own EV purchase must be coming up.
Turns out that the date already passed: it was December 3, 2019.
Six years later, my Kia Soul EV is still on the road.
While I’ve taken it to New Brunswick half a dozen times, and to Halifax a couple of times, mostly I’ve driven the car within 10 miles of home, so range anxiety has only very rarely been a thing.
The Soul has needed regularly-expected maintenance—brakes, tires—and got its battery replaced under warranty last year, but otherwise, things are much as I reported a year after purchase:
As to the Soul itself, I’ve no complaints whatsoever: it just works.
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We've at over a year with…
We've at over a year with our Hyundai Kona EV have I have no regrets. The things I worried would be strange or a hassle (charging, range anxiety) are not issues at all in day-to-day use.
The Kona is small compared to our big ol' Honda minivan, but for day-to-day driving, that's a better fit anyhow.
Based on my *very* rough estimates, we've saved about $2,500 in fuel costs. We only have a short daily commute (plus loads of running around town). If we were driving 30+ minutes to work each day, the savings would be much more significant.
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