Hi all – just joined forum – I ordered Kona ev ultimate Misty jungle (with light leather) end of October – so I was searching around trying to establish when it might ship from Ulsan and came across this forum. My current car with Motability was meant to swop last Tuesday – never expected it to happen. The latest I have heard from dealer (last Friday) it is built and waiting to ship – so was very interested to understand there is a shipment of kona Ultimates – I assume to Tilbury on its way. Any info will be gratefully received. Motability put in the charger Ohme last month – I currently have a Prius phev.
Welcome to the forum. We have all been searching for information, Hyundai UK and the dealers here have very limited knowledge of timescales and many dealers simply will not be drawn on dates.
What we “appear” to know is that during the week commencing 7th February production started on a number of Kona Ultimate’s and Highlander’s for the Aussie market. The RHD cars are built at Ulsan in South Korea and the timescale from when a car goes into production to delivery is around 10/11 weeks. The info suggests the production was for cars ordered between “6th November and some time in December”.
Other members here have identified a ship which is carrying a number of Kona’s which, if correct, is due to arrive at Tilbury on 29th March with the cars being transported to dealers on April 11th.
As you ordered at the end of October, then hopefully your car will be included in this batch? The ship has capacity for 000’s of cars and given Hyundai sold 7199 Kona Electrics last year, logically there is a good chance our cars will be aboard this vessel. I imagine logistically speaking, Hyundai will want to send a full boatload!
Similarly I was due to swap earlier this month, and like you never expected this to happen but was optimistic of an April delivery.
A question of waiting.
I am due to make contact with my dealer at the end of the month when I should know one way or another.