@Elliot, what’s your range? I’ve had to adapt my driving a bit, and as a typically impatient middle aged man that was quite difficult.
The official range of the Kona is 300 miles, and like most manufacturers claims I wouldn’t get anywhere near that if I drove it like I did my old Kuga. But, as horrible as it feels at first just getting used to driving a bit slower extends range enormously, and appears to do so much more in an EV than ICE.
I’ve had as little as 180 miles from the Kona (actually recharged at 150 miles driven with 30 miles left in the battery) after absolutely caning it to London. But on the other hand, I went to Bristol on Friday, with a couple of minor detours en route. I set out 30 minutes earlier than Waze suggested, pegged the smart cruise control to the limit (not 5mph over) and for several very long stretches was happy to sit in the slipstream of an HGV or a Megabus (which are limited to 65mph) and managed to drive around 320 miles and still have nearly 40 miles left. Total journey time (there and back) was less than 30 minutes longer than Waze had predicted, but had I set the speed limiter at 80 (naughty, but that’s how I drove the Kuga) that would would have saved maybe 30 minutes on the road, but cost me at least an hour charging – and that’s assuming that whenever I rolled into a MSA there was an available, working charger.
At times, caning it up and down the M1, I’ve come perilously close to 0% SoC and had to queue for up to 2 hours before even being able to plugin, no choice, we couldn’t risk crawling to the next MSA (and might have had to wait there, too).