Kia Niro EV

Chassie number received and I have applied for home charger via Energia.

not sure if EO can be upgraded to solar compatible.

would it be worth considering purchasing Zappi or similar Solar PV compatible charger.

Perhaps I misunderstood your comment. The EO website and EO Support say it's solar compatible but I gave up trying after three Irish companies told me that it wasn't.

It's a long time since I looked into it, but IIRC the Pro models (I don't know if that's what Energia supply) can be made solar compatible by adding extra hardware modules.

Sitting waiting for AA to show up after leaving keys in car then locking remotely due to being nagged by UVO (I know, I should have retrieved key when nagged rather than using remote lock). The problem is that UVO now won’t unlock the car. Will let me do everything else - remote climate control, remote lock (again) but Unlock always returns the same message: ‘Fail. Cannot unlock door. Please check vehicle status’. I am feeling very foolish. Anyone ever had this happen and have a solution (beyond waiting 3 hrs for AA)?

Yes the car seems to have decided to override the keys being in range because it was locked with the app.

Kia Assist aka the AA sent out a locksmith who expertly used an airbag to prise the door enough to get a rod in and press the start button. Took 5 mins and no damage. No cost to me, beyond waiting nearly 4 hours. (The guy who came out was there in no time having been subcontracted by the official AA fella who was run off his feet apparently - that seemed to be the gist of it anyway.)

I'd been googling in the meantime of course and found this is a common problem. Bottom line, lesson learned and I will never lock the car with the app unless I am sure the key is not inside. (A key inside usually means then other key can't lock the car, or you can't lock via the door handle, but the UVO app does not seem to know this and will happily lock the car for you and then not let you back in.)

Amazed I'm only discovering this 2.5 years in. It's still a great car!

Yes, we have two keys but both were locked in car. Stupid I know.

I didn’t know you could lock with the app! But after your post I won’t ever do it. What a saga but at least you got sorted.

My dad picked up a Niro EV this year, both his first Kia and first EV, so he’s been figuring it all out since.

One issue that he had has me a bit stumped. He plugged into an eCars charger but started it using his EasyGo app (he got some free EG credit). However when he went to disconnect, the EG app was just freezing so no joy.

There’s a button to the right of the charge port but it doesn’t seem to force quit the charging. I had to call eCars for him to get the charger stopped and unlocked.

How do you force quit a Niro from charging? On my car the button near the charge port stops everything when pressed (and car is unlocked etc.).

Edit: I did have a look at his user manual and it’s not clear at all.

Thanks, I’ll let him know to try that.

The charger was basically uncontactable because of the EasyGo app just doing a spinning wheel. And obviously the eCars app had no connection because he didn’t use it.

Kia Waterford (Sheridans) are advertising 231 Niro's for immediate delivery..but I can't verify that!

Wow! I took this screenshot back in Aug 2022 (before I purchased my K4)...

To fix the buttons not working press the reset button near the volume. Small pen or tooth pick will do the trick

Guys, did I do something wrong? Plugged to an ESB 22 kW charger using standard Kia Type 2 cable and yet the car showed only 11 kW on the display. Any ideas?