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Ah, that's great to hear IanL! I was kind of hoping they'd replace it with the slightly larger 2018 battery pack (30KWH instead of 27KWH), but either way I'll be happy to be seeing 100-ish miles of range. Wow, 4 years old and still holding at 100%? That's great! I will definitely be taking extra...

UPDATE: Amazing coincidence, but on my way to work today I got a call from Kia Consumer Relations telling me that my battery is FINALLY leaving Korea and that it will hit the California port on April 25th. After being sent to one of Kia's parts warehouses and then to my actual dealership it will...

Exactly my thoughts, biffidum: I will be charging to 80% most of the time with the occasional 100% charge only because I hear that it helps to calibrate the battery if it is fully charged approximately once every 10 cycles or so. I've now been waiting 4 months and about 12 days, but I SHOULD be...

Yep. Twelve more days and it will be 4 months that I've been waiting for a battery. I have been assured that it is being manufactured and then being shipped, but it seems that even Kia Consumer Affairs can't get much more info than that. At least the dealership gave me a loaner car - a gas 2021...

My navigation unit is working fine, but I was wondering if anyone has had any luck installing an aftermarket unit for better UI performance. I've seen installation videos on YouTube for such a thing, but they are for the ICE version and so they have no battery info integration. Any ideas?

It's certainly possible but I don't think the Kia Soul EV market is big enough for the outside investment (both time and $$$) to create such a thing. The first generation Nissan Leaf has a much better battery replacement community simply because there were far more of them sold (and also because...

My 2016 Kia Soul EV has been at my local Kia dealer since November 26, 2021 waiting for the replacement battery to arrive. Luckily, a) it's covered under warranty and b) they have supplied me with a loaner car, a 2021 Hyundai Sonata. Nice car, but every day I am reminded why I miss my EV! So...

I've not had a single message from the car complaining about the dual parallel lithium 12V battery setup so far. I guess if it's pretty close to the specs of the original the car doesn't mind (same voltage and similar amp hours, etc). Mine is currently 12V (well, it tests at 13.3V, which is...

Came across this article recently on LED headlights or, more specifically, LED replacement bulbs for existing headlight enclosures. It seems that the way LED bulbs are aimed (in comparison to halogen bulbs) is part of the problem and why factory LED headlights do so much better...

I'm here in Florida so the coldest it gets is in the mid to upper 30's (Fahrenheit) for only a few days out of the year. Still, lithium tends to do better in temperature extremes than lead acid. But better yet, lithium can hold its charge for a long time so if you don't drive it for a month or...

https://youtu.be/X_0lFn9YFNg No issues whatsoever in the year or so since I first installed this setup! And I do like the additional peace of mind: I've been stranded on the side of the road because of a dead lead acid battery way too many times in my life back in the old ICE days... As for...

Speaking of batteries... Just wanted to give an update on my 2016 Soul EV+. It's been a great car for about a year, but a few months ago I started noticing that the range was dropping by one mile almost every time I charged at home. I chalked it up to the weather at the time (in Florida) being...

I know this is an old thread, but I just wanted to say (in case it might help someone) that I was having lots of problems connecting, etc until I went into the Soul's all apps->settings->device connections and deleted my paired phone from the list. Then it worked perfectly. Then it was a simple...

Well, not a buffer reserve per se, but it should be possible to get a "jump" from another car (including an ICE car) just enough to connect the traction battery relay and allow driving. Then the DC to DC charging system would provide power to the accessories, even if the 12V battery was kaput...

Heh heh, can you imagine actually getting 99.9 km/kwh? That would be awesome. Maybe some day? ;)

I will reset the not-quite-correctly-named "energy consumption" display just to see how it changes (if at all). Your display is showing 8.1 km per kwh which translates to about 5 miles/kwh, which is quite a bit more than what mine is showing (usually around 4.0 to 4.1). Hopefully this will...

I have SoulEVSpy and the dongle (the one recommended by the author is no longer available it seems but I found one that other people seem to be using with success). I guess I should get around to hooking it up and seeing what's what. It's a 2016 and I've just hit 25000 miles so I can't imagine...

How do I reset the GOM? Is this something I can do myself or would a dealer have to do it? Also, that GOM has never shown an estimated range higher than about 86 miles. I figured since the advertised range for this vehicle is 93 miles that the GOM range is just reducing the estimated range...

I have a couple of questions about the guess-o-meter. If I go into the history of my driving I see that the miles per kilowatt hour has actually gone up a tiny bit since I first got my vehicle yet my guess o meter has gone down because of a recent trip of about 90 miles. For a long time it was...

Ah, good to know. Could come in handy. I needed an in-depth manual recently because I needed to remove the front bumper cover (some ***** backed into my Soul at a car wash. Luckily he was going slowly and also luckily he had a trailer hitch so 95% of the damage was concentrated in a small...