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- I got a recall notice today for my white Soul EV today. This is a Model Year 2015 27kWh car with a replacement E400 high-voltage battery. see :- Analysis of a replacement battery. My blue car, a 2015 Soul EV still has the original E375 high-voltage battery. It is not recalled. Details of the...

- A news article by Reuters : Hyundai Motor to recall Kona EV in South Korea over concern of fire risk Am hearing the recall will be a software fix to reduce charging speeds. Will update when I know more. This follows a previous discussion about the problem with Kona EV battery cells here. -...

- Good news for some outside Korea, the free navigation downloader is available for US and Canada. You can choose your country and language. and then choose which car to update - If you want info about the Korean map updates look here Upgrading the Korean Map -

- Firstly wishing good health and bright future to all those effected by the Corona Virus. Especially those currently in lockdown. Here in South Korea things are calm. We had a scary peak a few weeks ago but things have quietened since. I recommend the Korean government's approach to beating...

- I have a 2015 Soul EV that got a replacement battery under warranty. This thread is for analysis of that battery. In late July 2019 I bought a second 2015 Soul EV.The initial reading was 84.8% SOH. It had done 75,000km. By October 2019 the SOH on that car had dipped below 70% and a...

- My recommendation for the summer. Keep cool by parking in the shade. Especially if you need to charge.

- A friend of mine here in Korea recently sold his 2014 Soul EV to a Jordanian dealer. Good news for my friend because the used price has gone up substantially since the Jordanians began purchasing. In fact the used price is similar to what he actually paid for the car four years ago, because...

- The list of emergency manuals for Kia's Electric Vehicles is here - : Kia Emergency Response Guides And for Hyundai - : Hyundai Emergency Response Guides These have a lot of useful details about the car. I am pairing off the cars I think have the same batteries. In order of newest cars first...

- The new 30kWh version of the Soul EV has been out for a year now. The stated capacity is usable capacity. The total capacity has never been officially announced. Can we now find it using our Torque battery data, or at least disprove some of the speculations. Note: Kia has officially stated...

Opening a thread to talk about the next generation Soul EV. We don't really know anything about this car yet, other than it has the codename SK EV. InsideEVs has published some rumours - New Kia Soul EV To Ride On Kona Platform, Go 186 Miles Per Charge But these seem to based on a...

- Currently both Kia EVs (Ray and Soul) use Chademo for fast charging. I expect Kia EVs to change to CCS next year. In preparation the latest update to the Navi software allows you to filter fast ch argers depending on which system your car uses.

- I took my 2015 car in for 40,000km service yesterday. Got an EPB upgrade. The parking brake now automatically comes on when you turn off the car. This feature is now the same as in the 2018 Soul EV and the I oniq Electric. Edit - I changed the title from upgrade to firmware update to...

- I've started following the Soul EV auctions on copart.com. I'm curious to see how much people will pay for these wrecks. It's also interesting to see how our car performs in crashes.

- I am currently driving a 2012 Kia Ray EV with about 56,000km on the odometer. Here are some photos taken on a recent range test. I am using the same torque codes to read the BMS as we use on the Soul EV. I charged to 100%, drove 100km until the battery was below 10% and then recharged to...

- The 4th Jeju EV Expo is opening tomorrow. It's being held in Yeomiji Botanical Gardens.

- There's a YouTube video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci8kHAb6iVw In the video at 1 min 03secs they state - the Soul EV battery has the highest energy density of any EV battery pack. There's also a write up on the DIY Electric Car Forum - Tesla Powered Cobra Race Car

The 'B' mode setting on the Soul EV gear stick is an awful design decision, so I was wondering why they did it. I think I found the answer while on vacation in Japan. I just spent a week driving a Toyota Aqua. In the US this car is known as the Prius C. Here is the gear stick. On the Prius...

. It's not happening on this forum, but on the many related little used myEVforum pages on this same website, it seems a spambot is being used to generate fake traffic. What do people think about using such a tactic to increase the likelihood that this website will attract more active users...

The Navigation system on my car comes with a choice of two languages. English and Korean. In both there is a spoken female voice that gives directions. In Korean only I have voice recognition software, which I have briefly tested and found to be fairly useless. I tend not to use the navigation...

. For those occasions when you need a longer L2 cable. The connector box was built with a 3D printer! More details - http://m.blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=ecoev&logNo=220886441051