Ian drives a Hyundai Kona Electric 64kWh 2022.

This is Ian’s first electric car, he’s owned the Hyundai Kona from new and drives 5,000-10,000 miles annually. The current mileage of the car is between 5,000-10,000 miles and he achieves 280 miles from a full charge.

Why did you choose the Hyundai Kona Electric?

The range, comfort, driving style & infotainment display.

Positives – List 3 or more reasons why you love this electric car

• It’s quick
• lovely to drive.

Negatives – List 3 or more things that you really don’t like about this electric car

• It had a charging problem from day 1 and was off the road for 5 months while they fixed it. All good now.

Have you experienced any faults with the car? If so, what have they been?

Charging issue – wouldn’t get above 79% capacity.

What are the standout technological features of the car?

The app that connects car to phone, such a useful thing I can even find its location in a car park.

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Surprise us! Tell us something people wouldn’t readily know about this electric car 

It has SPORT mode and can out run any supercar!

What electric car(s) are you interested in next and why?

Not sure yet but looking at MG & Skoda.

Home charging unit – outline both positive & negative elements

Pod Point 3 – great app too; you can schedule charging so it only charges overnight utilising the cheap tariff.

Please outline both positive & negative elements of your electricity supplier & tariff?

Now with Octopus Go and their overnight cheap rate tariff which is currently 9.5p per kWh & a day rate of 42p (looks like it will come down soon though).

Insurer – outline both positive & negative elements

esure – can’t complain, when we took on our EV, part way through a year of insurance, we expected they would ask for more but no, it stayed the same.

Please itemise where you’re saving money (or not) owning & running an electric car

Of course, the biggest cost is the lease of our EV. There’s no road tax though & now we are on a cheaper overnight tariff, charging is so much cheaper (approx. £12 for almost 300 miles). Luckily, we haven’t had to pay for a service yet as it was off the road for its first one so Hyundai serviced it while they had it.