u/yaleps

I picked it up Friday and absolutely love this car. Then Saturday things went south. I drove it before lunch for a short trip. Came back out to run some errands and the charge had dropped from 78 to 31%, just sitting there turned off. Called the dealer and they said that’s obviously odd and to bring it in Monday as they had no techs available on the weekend.

Drove it a little bit more and it was down to 28%. Put it on my level 2 charger and set it at 80% max charge. After less than 2 hours and 11kW it said it was at 80.

I drove 30k Sunday and it was down to 68%. I decided to charge it to 100 to see if it would relearn what a full charge was. It took less than 6kW and was at 100%. The dash said that I had 195km range.

The dealer has had it since Monday at noon and they are still diagnosing it. Waiting on Kia Canada techs apparently.

Anyone else have anything like this happen? I hope it’s a software issue because I highly doubt there are many parts in Canada and I want my car! lol

20 hours and it fails. Not confidence inspiring.

Has anyone actually bought one in Canada. I was supposed to pick mine up today but apparently the VIN is not in the system so they hadn’t register it with Kia finance and won’t be able to get me plates either? This is super odd to me.

Is it my car in particular? Has anyone else been able to register one? I would think so?

I happened to see one on the lot at our dealership (SW Ontario) on the weekend. I wasn’t even looking for an EV5 in particular, I was just driving through to see what they had. Today I drove it and I fell in love. They hadn’t even gotten it in their system with a stick number yet it was so fresh on the lot. I bought it an hour ago! First EV and first brand new car.