Love the car, but the options are a little misleading
Everything about the Kona Electric is great from the standpoint of your daily-use EV. I would love for Hyundai to add an automatic lift gate, but that's about it. You're not going to take this one on a 400-mile-plus freeway drive however, as the DC fast charging isn't quite as fast as a Tesla or an Ioniq 5. I love that it has physical buttons for climate control, etc. I hate having to do everything through a touch screen like on a Tesla. My mother can get in the Kona Electric and drive it like any other car--the turn signals, wipers, HVAC and everything are all where they should be. When she gets in a Tesla, she immediately gets out.
Hyundai had some misleading information online about the Limited trim, however. The Kona EV is specified as having "wireless Apple Carplay" but that's only for the ones with the smaller infotainment screen--the bigger one in the Limited trim model does not support wireless Apple Carplay--so you get the BEST version of the car and get a WORSE infotainment experience! The other thing too is that online you see everywhere that the Limited trim has a heads-up display. It does not--the heads-up display was an OPTION on the Limited models! So I was disappointed by those two things.
Nevertheless, I'm only docking one star for those little beefs. I love the car, it's wonderful, it's all the car most of us would ever need.
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