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Yike! I guess I'm glad mine is holding around 70% SOH and seems to have flattened out in its deterioration, so the car is still usable. Is yours the white one sitting outside at Kia of Puyallup?

OK....then I just need to get an appointment and get the official measurement done again. As it's been warm the last week or so for winter in Seattle the GOM range estimate has improved a bit more to as much as 55 miles. I need to do another SoulSpy readout as well. I really want it to be at...

In the past year the estimated range of our 2016 Soul EV has dropped from the mid 80-mile range where it had been for three years or so to around 50 (or even as low as 47 after a really chilly night). Back in the fall, after I was able to get the BMS to recalibrate after the parking brake and...

I did get my dealer to follow that service bulletin before doing the BMS management update and the parking brake recall a few months ago. Fortunately the US warranty is 100k miles/10 years as I'm at 53k miles and six and a half years and my battery SOH, as reported by Soul Spy, sank to just...

It's not just 2015s. It affects 2016s as well. Basically when my free five years of myUVO was over (September 15th, 2021), it stopped working and when I inquired I got the "3G modem" story. The gist of my conversation with UVO support on the phone was "we knew it we were going to stop supporting...

I have had a Clipper Creek EVSE fail and they were very gracious about it. The error indication appeared on the EVSE itself. But this sounds like an OBC (on-board charger) failure. Can you charge the car with the Level 1 EVSE that came with the car? If you can, then get back to Clipper Creek...

I wonder what it would take to get a 2020 in Vancouver and import it to the US. Probably a crazy idea..... Current plan is to buy out the lease and then hang on for another year to two....by which time the Tesla model Y, the 2021 Soul EV, the Ford Mustang Mach E and other choices should be...

NO - the OBC error prevents charging via any means except DC fast charging. Check your Clipper Creek EVSE for error indications. If there are, note the blink pattern and contact Clipper Creek. We just went through that a couple of months ago (after doing the OBC in May). Clipper Creek is aware...

:( I just was on the US Kia site and saw the same thing - 2021 Soul EV coming to select dealers in the US in 2021. Well, that puts me in a spot. We extended the lease on the 2016 by six months already (and have been told we can only do that once) so in March 2020 we will have to either buy...

I expect you will have to call and ask that.

Interesting seeing what’s inside. We got our Soul EV back this afternoon - so repair diagnosed, OBC acquired by the dealer and installed from Thursday afternoon to Monday afternoon. I saw the service invoice....the OBC was priced at something like $2290. They also performed a couple of other...

Well, our Soul EV is at Kia of Puyallup and I have a 2017 gas base Soul in the driveway as a loaner. While they didn't explicitly confirm that their testing was the OBC, they did tell me that due to the cost of the part they believe they need they have to do some calling tomorrow. That, to me...

I’m not surprised you got it at Lee Johnson. There were over a dozen 2015 and 2016 Soul EVs on the used car lot down in front of the Chevy store when I was up there yesterday. That along with at least four new Niro EVs and probably at least two dozen new Chevy Bolts and that was the most EVs...

I saw a Niro EV (actually three of them) at a local dealer yesterday. They are definitely CCS type 1. So they are “in the wild” now. Also, the “Electrify America” charging stations that are going in around here (part of the Volkswagen diesel cheating settlement) are predominately CCS1. Most...

Well....an update: When I called the dealer I leased from this morning (Kia of Puyallup). I got offered a service slot late NEXT week for diagnosis. I told them that was not acceptable as the car was essentially useless to me and I was told a service advisor would call me back. So far (this has...

There’s another large thread here about the onboard charger failing.....though in that case the car typically won’t charge with level 1 chargers either. I will soon find out about this as our 2016 last night decided we couldn’t charge it any more (we’ve had it since September 2016). We have a...

Well, it looks like I’m joining the parade here. We have a 2016 which we leased in September of that year. It currently has a little under 31,000 miles on it. This morning my wife went to go to church and saw “charger error” on the dash display and “External Charger Error” on the infotainment...

I wonder if the switch/sensor that should lead to a dashboard warning doesn't need to be checked. I can't imagine they took that feature out between 2016 and 2018 models....

I sure hope that 2020 version with the 64 kWh battery is available by next September 15th when my current 2016 Soul EV's lease is due. After some cursory looks at the alternatives, we would really like to keep the overall utility and fun of the Soul. I will have a look at the Hyundai Kona...

I hope that "Europe only" business is a misinterpretation or something. I would like nothing better than to get a 2020 MY Kia Soul EV with a significant range boost in September of 2019 when the lease is up on our current 2016 one. Adding some more range is about the only thing I'd really want...