Reply To: The kona electric delivery time thread and general Kona EV discussion

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    Yes, I got the colour I ordered, white. I must say the car is absolutely amazing, the tech it comes loaded with is just ridiculously good. With active cruise control & automatic lane keeping, on the motorway it practically drives itself! The regenerative braking, when set at 3, really helps maximising the range.

    Good news on getting the right colour and glad you are liking the car, unfortunately I just can’t can’t grow to trust the tech, brakes too late and bounces down the lane or hugs the left, which is why I posted, maybe I have a dud. And I forgot to mention the phantom braking, you can be driving down the motorway fine, then all of a sudden it decides it is going to slow down or brake slightly, and I have to press the accelerator to push it along, happened half a dozen times on my trip, that is when I really notice the cruise/SCC cut the most, it just doesn’t gently feed in as I am used to, it is a binary control rather than blended. I think regen is a personal preference, I like to change it for the situation, increasing when in more traffic or busy areas, on fast roads, auto takes care of the regen.

    on the topic of phantom braking I’ve driven my car 12,000 miles since June and I’ve figured out what causes it to slow down when on cruise control. Basically if you have the following distance set to the maximum it looks so far ahead that if the car in front in the same lane is doing for instance 60-65mph then it’ll slow down to avoid rear-ending it. It’s actually pretty smart but also annoying, I have my car set to the minimum following distance via the button highlighted below and have almost eliminated phantom braking(although I still get the occasional event caused by me not paying attention) 

    Current car 2022 Hyundai Kona premium in Jungle green.