Range - Charge Discrepancy

[Anthony Teso]

My 2017 Kia Soul EV shows 30 miles range when fully charged. The dealership says the battery pack is not degraded, What is going on?

 

[JejuSoul]

Before assuming the most likely option can you confirm how far the car can actually drive.

 

[FLKiaEV]

Before assuming the most likely option can you confirm how far the car can actually drive.

Could there be such a huge discrepancy between the GOM range and the actual range with no battery degradation? Could calibrating (charge to full and run down to a low % a few times) realign the two numbers?

p.s. Out of curiosity, how come you stopped advertising the Torque Pro codes (and are they still available somewhere)? Do they still work as far as you know?

 

[JejuSoul]

Info about Torque here - Setting up Torque to show BMS data

A comment from that post.

Testing an old car is best done by driving it, not by using an OBD.

 

[FLKiaEV]

Makes sense. I have made it a habit for a while now to reset the trip counter every time I fully charge the battery so I can compare it to what the GOM says. (I add the displayed remaining range to how many miles were actually driven and compare that to what the fully charged range was estimated to be.) So far it's reasonably accurate but I can see where it could be quite different as the battery degrades more. TBH, I kind of wish all EVs had the Nissan Leaf's on-dash display of battery SOH, assuming it's accurate of course.