When we came out of the Superstore with the cart of grocery bags today, I liked how the sun was hiding behind the clouds. I snapped a picture of my EV as its colour called, Lake Silver, matched the scene.
I love driving the Hyundai Kona Electric. As we're gone for at least five months a year, the experience seems fresh when we return from winters away. Electric motors have instant torque. Yes, I can spin the tires at the stoplight if I press the 'sports mode' button.
We got it during the first spring of COVID and for that summer and the next, travel was discouraged. As well, we never go to the US anymore, so I'm pretty sure it only went into Washington state once.
The adaptive cruise control makes highway driving a joy. It's not like we do much of it, though. The majority of the kilometers were added going uptown and to the Coquitlam Superstore. Last summer, for my birthday week, we took a road trip to Jasper, Alberta and down the beautiful Icefields Parkway to Lake Louise on my birthday! That was the farthest it has ever been from home.
I was surprised when I realized the car is nowhere near being new. One cannot argue with simple arithmetic: 2026 - 2019 = 7. Although Kimchi is now seven years old, she has just a bit over 15,000 km on the odometer. That is around 9320 miles. So it is still a pretty new old vehicle.