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Yeah, and even better, the warranty covers not just the original owner but subsequent owners too. When I was researching which used EV to buy (because I couldn't afford a new one), that was the main point that made me go with Kia and I have not regretted that decision. But that was only 2015...

I had this same issue when i was having my 2016 towed a few years back. Luckily there's an easy fix: Just push down the EPB release and keep it held down as you turn off the vehicle. This will force it to stay released. Be sure to hold the EPB button down until it is completely shut down. Unless...

On the invoice I got from the dealer after my pack was replaced it listed the cost of the pack at just under $9000US. I thought it was new, but at that price maybe not. In any case, after it was replaced I had no issues with it (until the vehicle was totaled 5 months later in a crash on the...

When I had my battery replaced on my 2016 Soul EV the Kia Customer Care person (Linda. She was awesome) specifically told me that the new cell pack was being "built" in Korea and that once they accumulated a certain number of packs they would ship the whole lot to their warehouse in the US to be...

Leave it to American government to react the wrong way. An ICE car's gas tank can also be filled to only 80% capacity. I wonder why that one doesn't apply... It would be really nice if Kia/Hyundai did a firmware update to reintroduce the 80% option since it was rescinded (they came to their...

There's a timed charging option? It seems that when doing level 2 charging, the vehicle initiates everything and does not send charging status info to the EVSE, so unfortunately this means that even if you have a smart EVSE it can't know what your state of charge is. It just continues untuil the...

According to the actual warranty (at least in the US), if the SOH drops below 70% it is already eligible for replacement. I can't imagine why the dealer wants to wait since the battery is only going to get worse, unless he just doesn't want to deal with replacing the very expensive battery. I...

I always thought it would be useful for there to be a "long term storage" option in the settings so that you could plug in your vehicle and then it would monitor the whole system and charge when needed (including the 12V battery). When I got my 2016 Soul Ev the first thing I did was replace the...

Thanks for the info. I'll check it out! [edit: Over $2000 is bit more than what I wanted to pay, true, and the photos seem to be CG so that seems a little suspect too. I did find this Lectron Tesla-to-J1772 adapter for under $200 that could come in handy for some people. Here's the link...

I've heard from some engineers that doing a CHAdeMO to Tesla conversion is fairly straightforward, but going the other direction is more complicated. And I agree that the incentive to build such a thing is low, but I also know that many engineers love a challenge and we have things like...

My biggest concern is that CHAdeMO will go away because CCS and NACS (Tesla) are the two dominant standards now. And now that GM, Ford and Stellantis and some others have announced that they are also switching to NACS, that will make it even harder. I can't believe that someone hasn't invented a...

This makes no sense! Since most reviews of the 2015-2018 Soul EV criticized it for its bottom-of-the-list 50kw DC fast charging capability (as published by Kia themselves), why would they not say up front that it can do 100kw? They definitely dropped the ball on that one. Even if they made this...

All of the manufacturer mentions of the charging limits mention 50kw for fast charging. For example: https://www.kiamedia.com/us/en/models/soul-ev/2016/specifications (it's the 8th item under "charging"). I have a 2018 Soul EV now, but previously I had a 2016 one. At an Electrify America DCFC I...

To be honest, 50kw is perfectly fine for me, as I rarely need it. Like most EV owners I do 99% of my charging at home and on the rare occasion that I do need fast charging, it's only for a small number of miles so I charge to 80% or less. Just enough to get me to my destination. I do look...

I'm only talking about what the onboard DC fast charging is rated for. I wouldn't recommend pushing it beyond that limit. I'm sure my washing machine could handle quite a bit more than 110V, but I'm not about to test that.

Because I was there when it happened. The display on the EA charger shows how much energy it's putting in at any given time and I saw it go to 50kw quickly and then up to about 60kw for several seconds before ramping down and stopping. The Kia Soul EV can accept only 50kw of DC power, similar to...

Good to know! My 2018 was bought used with about 33,000 miles on it and currently has around 36,000 miles. Fully charged the GOM is showing 107-110 miles, which is right on par with the EPA rating of 111 miles, so you're probably right. It's been great so far and I hope it continues to be.

What year is your Soul EV? For the 2018 model year they increased the battery size from 27kwh usable to 30kwh usable. Most of a battery's range is lost at the beginning of its life and then flattens out. I had a 2016 Kia Soul EV and I was getting around 84 or 85 miles of range when I first...

Okay, so some background first: I had a 2016 Kia Soul EV+ (it was totaled in an accident - no injuries) and had updated the Navigation/Map software which added Android Auto and Apple Carplay among other things. One thing I noticed was that the overall experience of using the software was getting...

Hi, JejuSoul, you seem to have some pretty deep knowledge of the Soul EV so I was wondering if I could ask you one or two questions. Am I right in assuming that the vehicle will run fine without the headunit? I realize that I'd be missing some info and some UI features, but the headunit itself...