Excellent review Glos. My head is all over the place withe the scenic and Tucson. I’ve two questions 1. Is the powered tail gate hands free? 2. Is there preconditioning? I believe the preconditioning may decide that I go with the scenic as I spent an hour and more reading reviews on both and I like both. I swore id never go back to ICE but the way I look at it is three years ain’t that long and I can go back to EV then and probably get something special.
There is indeed a powered tailgate you can operate from either the fob, via a switch inside the cabin or you can set it to open automatically when you are close to the tailgate. There is also a switch on the taigate to close it afterwards.
Unfortunately there is no preconditioning, due to it have an ICE.
If preconditioning is important and you are looking at the mid spec Scenic, bite the bullet and go with the Kona. Hyundai have one of the best regen brake setups and you get the all important V2L. Also from memory the Scenic goes no further than the Kona according to ev database.