 eDrive 2 - Our new car (3)
It always looks so great when testers show off a new car, first the exterior design, then the interior. Of course, manufacturers always provide fully equipped models.
Of course, as a normal customer you think that perhaps the sunroof or the great matrix headlights are probably not part of the basic equipment. But does this also apply to normal navigation?
We are a bit of a victim because we bought the (old) Kona electric and didn't pay attention to the navigation. Of course, we knew that this meant we would forego charging planning. We want to use the car primarily for short
journeys.
And there we know our ways. But it could be that this car will be sold at some point or passed on within the family, especially since it has such a nice big battery. Should we then update our old tomtom and give it along?
We have already grumbled that we still have to go for a service every year, whereas for newer models this is only possible every 30,000 km or two years. We were told then that this would require a software update.
Of course, we felt encouraged in our decision because then simple navigation would have been updated too. But forget it, there isn't even a button labeled 'Nav' anymore.
Of course, we should have studied the price list even better, but we thought that the navigation within the infotainment shown there was the complete one, similar to how there are air conditioning and automatic climate
control systems. We didn't think it was possible to have a car with a screen and no navigation at all.
The pricing was also quite ambitious. After all, we didn't take the cheapest equipment, but a higher one because of the large battery. Navigation would only have been available with the highest equipment, i.e. around 6,500
euros more.
Well, for a little less than €6,000 it would have been possible with the second highest equipment too. But when it comes to car testing, the base price is all too often revealed at the end. Vehicles are also very often compared
with one another on the basis of this, so €6,000 is already a lot.
And if you then look at the price list for the new Kona electric, navigation is suddenly included in the basic equipment, which suddenly brings our model and this one to the same high level. So if you're planning a new
purchase, pay attention to navigation.
And what do we do now if we ever need navigation or charging planning and want to avoid the additional Tomtom screen? Luckily, our car has Android Auto, and not everyone has it, for example certain Chinese cars don't.
In the past, when charging planning in electric cars was still far from optimal, many electric car drivers turned to 'A better route planner'. There you can enter your electric car, we certainly also our Kona, which is building for so
long, and we will get very useful charging planning even on the slightly smaller screen of our car.
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