My 2016 Soul EV's OBC failed unexpectedly about a month ago. Had enough juice in the battery to take it to the local dealership and after diagnosis they confirmed the OBC had failed and put replacement in to Kia Canada for warranty replacement authorization. It was covered but the story doesn't end ...

My 2016 Kia Soul went through pretty much the same dramatic drop in range about a year ago reporting 100% SOH then suddenly dropping to 55% SOH or about 80km range; Fortunately the dealership did the testing before resetting the battery management system and got Kia Canada approval for the replaceme...

I've had my replacement battery for a couple of months now on my 2016 Soul EV. Took 7 months to arrive but now it's here I've been monitoring the battery over 10 full cycle battery charge discharge cycles from 100% down to about 20% and back up to 100%; First cycle gave me a range of 189km compared ...

Hey, just got my EV back from the dealership and the replacement was 37510E4250R. They didn't seem to know if it was refurbished or new despite my asking directly. I understand the "R" implies refurbished. Got to get it fully charged and drive a bit to see how it is performing. At pick up ...

Ran into battery degradation with my Gen I 2016 Kia Soul last fall - down to less than 50% range and very quickly from 160km until summer 2021; Local dealer in Ontario checked it out and quickly got approval for the warranty replacement (10th November 2021. After a very very long wait and many varie...