Reply To: EV how’s your cold weather range?

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    Can’t you precondition your diesel van 10mins or so before going anywhere?

    We are not that kind of household, there is NEVER 10 minutes before only 10 minutes late. I also have a ‘bit of a thing’ for parked cars with their engine running.

    This is us with a teen and a five year old.

    I drove old transits for years and you described vans perfectly. Cold, damp and I’ll add mouldy. Depressing things.

    I couldn’t find your post about preheating, it’s a game changer and on the top of my must have list tbh. Also don’t underestimate the pre-cooling on hot days.

    Anyway back on topic. Where’s all the real world ranges as I know a few on here were getting 300+ from there konas?

    Also I think I had what some people call a Friday built car. My range was nowhere like what other folk got so I started looking and thinking and noticed that there was a big gap between bonnet and front of car, I also looked at other konas to compare and most were flush or very close, mine had about a 7-8mm gap. After a few Google’s I found that the bonnet could be adjusted to lower it and it now sits fairly flush. I also think this added about 30-40 miles range to a full charge.