Thanks notfred - I think you are right, and given the number of EV-specific components (many of those you listed I hadn’t thought of), it seems like a bad buy this far away from the nearest dealer in Georgia.
I have another EV that’s 6 years old and showing no signs of battery trouble, so I...
Update: apparently you can’t even lease a used car (duh), so forget the last paragraph of my prior post.
Maybe most service or repair could be done by a non-EV dealer? Does anything other than service to the battery require an EV Kia dealer?
Owner forums have been essential to my ownership of other cars, and I’m hoping to get help now with a potential Kia Soul EV purchase.
The threshold question: should I even consider buying if I live in Florida, a state with NO Kia EV dealerships. Because wouldn’t this mean: (1) I can’t even get...