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Kia Mayıs 2026 listesi geldi. EV9’a 250 bin TL, Niro EV’ye 200 bin TL destek. Picanto 1.33 milyon TL oldu. Liste 31 Mayıs’a kadar geçerli. #Kia #EV9 #NiroEV https://teknohaberi.net/kia-fiyat-listesi/
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https://www.europesays.com/no/151240/ Kia Niro EV gjør comeback i Norge #bagasjerom #Business #Economy #Elbil #garanti #kia #KiaNiro #Næringsliv #NiroEv #NO #Norge #Norway #Nyheter #rekkevidde
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So, an interesting observation from the battery change on my car. The 12V charging system is using 14V instead of 15V now.
Is it possible to detect the chemistry just through the output terminals?
I guess you could fingerprint based on known chemistry behavior. This was something I was not expecting. It wasn’t instantaneous, mind you. Looks like it took a day to change.
Will have to keep logging data and watching.
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12V battery is replaced.
There is not an exact replacement SAE sized battery to the H5. Group 47 is close enough. It’s slightly tall, but fits the second generation Niro EV…snuggly. It’s slightly tall.
We shall see if this solves this problem once and for all.
A bit pricy to go AGM but it’s properly rated for the application, particularly with the 15V charging system.
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Got the car up and running again. Confirmed it received 5+ hours of charging during the HV battery charging cycle. Logging shows it faded from around 12.8V to 12.1V over a few hours, then sunk to around 5V.
I was not planning on dealing with this today but here we are.
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Got the car up and running again. Confirmed it received 5+ hours of charging during the HV battery charging cycle. Logging shows it faded from around 12.8V to 12.1V over a few hours, then sunk to around 5V.
I was not planning on dealing with this today but here we are.
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Got the car up and running again. Confirmed it received 5+ hours of charging during the HV battery charging cycle. Logging shows it faded from around 12.8V to 12.1V over a few hours, then sunk to around 5V.
I was not planning on dealing with this today but here we are.
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Got the car up and running again. Confirmed it received 5+ hours of charging during the HV battery charging cycle. Logging shows it faded from around 12.8V to 12.1V over a few hours, then sunk to around 5V.
I was not planning on dealing with this today but here we are.
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Got the car up and running again. Confirmed it received 5+ hours of charging during the HV battery charging cycle. Logging shows it faded from around 12.8V to 12.1V over a few hours, then sunk to around 5V.
I was not planning on dealing with this today but here we are.
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Something is fucky with my car. The 12V battery keeps fast draining. It started on the day that it was announced Kia had a vulnerability which they patched and I’m wondering if it’s related in some weird way.
I charged to 100% last night, which engages 12V charging as well. And the 12V battery is already flat while parked.
What the fuck is going on?
Edit to add: Battery has been replaced.
Update: This seems solved with the new battery.
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It's weird that people don't see that the Kia EV3 is just a 3rd generation Kia Niro EV, and when it's basically pointed out, whether in this way, or as “EV3 will replace the Niro EV”, they refuse to accept it.
They're literally the same car. With the EV3 being slightly upgraded, with the newer dash and upgraded battery. You know...like a generational change.
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You’d think as a life-long Texan I’d have visited Buc-ee’s by now.
Today was the first time. Was driving home with my sister after visiting family. Figured why not, it’s on the way, let’s charge my car while we’re there.
Yup, I charged my car at a Buc-ee’s.
Expensive AF, though.
Also, is it just me or do their chargers require using the app to stop charging and disconnect? WTF? Could not get the session to stop at the handle like others.
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I did the math, and apparently, were I still fueling my Outback XT today, it'd cost about 10 cents per mile. My Niro EV? 4 cents per mile.
This aligns with my prior estimates as to how much I was spending on "fueling”.
The price of the vehicle were around the same.
I also have less maintenance overhead on the Niro EV.
So, overall, the Niro EV is cheaper.
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Look, it's okay to admit when you're wrong. I can respect a person who course corrects when presented with factual data supporting one thing over another.
Redditor spreads misinformation about #Kia #NiroEV features and insists everyone else is wrong. When presented with screenshots from Kia’s own website proving him wrong, they blocked me.
The deal has been sealed that I will just find this person to be an idiot in perpetuity.
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Took a drive and confirmed that the charging system does keep the recombination voltage during the drive.
So that basically confirms my feeling that the previous behavior was a flaw.
I might still need a new battery though because it might have some damage. It passed Kia’s test, but it definitely doesn’t have anywhere close to the capacity it should. As of now, battery maintenance looks more aggressive so it should be fine until then.
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With #OVMS back in place, I'm observing an undocumented change with the VCU update: The car might finally be sending an appropriate charge to the accessory battery in drive mode. Previously, it was only sending around 13.2v, and only supplying the 14.8v needed for recombination during charging sessions.
So they may not have only updated the brake light behavior.
I need to drive a bit to confirm though.
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Just scheduled a service appointment for my #Kia #NiroEV.
Start of the conversation:
<me> Hi, yeah I'd like to schedule the 1 year service for my 2023 Niro EV and I need to know how long the service takes before I can schedule it.
<kia person> You mean like an oil change?
<me> ...there's no oil…
~~ silent pause ~~
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So there’s an interesting flaw in how Kia handles regen braking when the battery is at nearly full capacity.
Understandably, regen braking is disabled when state of charge is too high. It’s a protection thing.
The flaw is they do nothing else.
Why is this a flaw? Normally, with regen braking, lifting the accelerator slows the car. My body prepares for this. But with regen off, my body responds to lifting the pedal still but the car doesn’t decelerate.
I get dings from the car and a notice on the dash that regen braking is disabled.
Kia could simulate this with application of the actual brakes. There could also be a full time indicator when this condition is active. They made the decision not to do any of this.
(note: I still love my car, just annoyed at this condition I rarely have to deal with)
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So I learned a behavior of my car. I had previously observed it but wasn't sure what was going on entirely.
Yeah, after owning it a year.
It appears to start preparing the battery for use when I approach it with the key fob on me in temperature extremes, anticipating a need to use the car.
This morning I walked past it without my fob and I got curious. The approach light didn't come on or anything. I grabbed the fob and walked near it, and it came alive.
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With the OVMS removed from my car, I can't use it to request my total charge amount for the year. This is something that does get reported via ODB-II, how the OVMS module talks to the car, but Kia does not offer this data anywhere else in their own reporting.
I'm curious if my $600 EVSE has paid for itself, yet, versus paying for public charging.
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With my 12v battery becoming a problem in my Niro EV, I’ve removed the OVMS module. No more logging of what’s been going on, but should ensure Kia can’t point to that as the source of the fault when I go in for maintenance.
Given the highly limited capability and lack of development, I’m not sure I’ll put it back in, to be honest.
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Kia’s engineering for 12v battery management in the Niro EV is baffling.
I’m curious if similar problems exist for the EV6 and the Hyundai and Genesis equivalents.
It has 2 different voltages it’ll charge the battery at. It doesn’t maintain charge based on battery charge level when parked (not really sure what criteria it uses tbh).
I need a new 12v battery but I have no idea how to address this based on my own habits because of these decisions.
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Better yet, why can’t Kia figure out 12v battery maintenance…
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Better yet, why can’t Kia figure out 12v battery maintenance…
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Better yet, why can’t Kia figure out 12v battery maintenance…
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Better yet, why can’t Kia figure out 12v battery maintenance…
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Better yet, why can’t Kia figure out 12v battery maintenance…
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It looks like a local Tesla Supercharger near me has been upgraded with the CCS1 retrofit. This Supercharger is way closer to me than the nearest Electrify America.
I might check it out this weekend. Though I likely won’t need a charge so will probably leave the stations alone.
Given there’s already people complaining about cheaper EVs using high power chargers, I expect to catch grief when I do use it.
#EV #ElectricVehicles #Tesla #Supercharger #CCS #Retrofit #Kia #NiroEV #KiaNiroEV
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After a weekend of driving fairly long day trips, I’m once again reaffirmed an EV is good for me. Also, it shows that deploying more public chargers would be a huge benefit.
Yesterday, my car actually reached 100% charge while far away from home. All free charging.
Today, no interstitial charging because no public chargers were conveniently located. But that’s fine, ended the trip with 69%, so plenty of range.
Home charging covered the gaps.
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I got my Kia EV in January and it came with 3 years to use 500kWh of free Electrify America usage. Because the nearest station to me is 14 miles away, and there’s not much else, I hadn’t been using this.
So it’s September, now, and I used my first EA charger while I was in Denton. Also my first ever DCFC session.
9 months to finally get around to this. Was it needed? No. I used it because it was there and free to me.
#Kia #NiroEV #KiaNiroEV #EV #ElectricVehicles #ElectrifyAmerica
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Haven’t charged in 2 weeks. Should be well within my new energy contract that brings the cost way down.
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Finally figured out how to use the manual key on my car. After over 6 months of owning it.
And confirmed I can use it to lock up the car while it runs utility mode.
This effectively gives me a “dog mode” though I have no intentions of doing this. But this running mode with the doors locked may be useful in the future.
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If you have a Kia or Hyundai with that little orange light on the dash that everyone calls the aux battery maintenance indicator, it appears to indicate a lot more than that. This pops on while the cooling system triggers when the car is off and not charging.
It also appears to vary in intensity.
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There's a file that contains metadata for the update which correctly names the new file, so I suspect this won't have any impact on the update process.
Currently in the process of getting the update onto a USB flash drive. All 36GB of it.
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I'm pretty sure I found evidence Kia's car software build process may not be entirely automated. They have a couple of files prefixed with "extra_package_" but in the latest release, one of them is now "extra_pkg_". An automated process would not have suddenly changed that.
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This console used to be glossy. This is the sun hitting it. Imagine this being mirror reflective with that same sun hitting it. This is why I spent $300 on interior matte coating. I had other glossy surfaces coated to match.
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Today I drove 118 miles. I used my first public EV charger. It happened to be free to use and provided 7kW of level 2 charging. It was there for about an hour. I got home with 54% battery remaining.
I’ll admit, that’s pretty great and makes me feel a lot better about range issues. While not the 250+ miles range I’m told to expect, it’s still completely usable in a major metropolitan area.
I even drove home with a drum kit.
Also the car is already back to 80%.
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So it appears the rain sensor possibly runs on 5V. Not a good rail for me as I need 12V. I was tapping off the GPS apparently, which had constant 12V available.
The vision module (camera, compute, etc) has 12V and some other rails. The 12V is only on when the car is on. I tapped off of this.
Hopefully the vision module doesn't mind an extra 300mA or being sipped.
But this does mean no more parking mode.
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Well, I've confirmed my dashcam is the major drain on the aux battery in my car. Looks like I have to give up parking mode since Kia's aux battery management is basically non-existent.
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At this point I think it’s best for the health of the battery in my phone to disable wireless charging in my car and not use it. And since I have to wire up anyway, I’ll just pull my Wireless CarPlay adapter out. It sucks, but that’s how it goes, I guess.
