Hey @pzin, that loud "pop" from the rear your wife heard sounds pretty scary, especially on the highway. Once she was pulled over safely, did any other warnings appear on the dash, or did you try restarting the car at all? Adding those details might help someone else here recognize if they've had the exact same thing happen.

 

Keep in mind, this is second-hand. She told me that the vehicle, immediately after the loud "pop" sound, showed a message on the screen that read "Stop vehicle and check power supply" along with some warning chimes. The vehicle seemed to self regulate and slow down as if in a "limp mode" where she could not go above 25 MPH. While not ideal, this allowed her to safely pull off the highway and drive a very short distance to a parking lot so she could call me.

Hope this info helps....

 

The pop is the big high voltage fuse blowing, other people with ICCU failures have reported it.

 

Welcome to the ICCU party, pal!

Kia has just given up on fixing the ICCU and will just dealt with repairs as they come about among stranded Kia EV owners. Corporate par for the course from Kia. The absolute worst car company when it comes to doing the right thing for owners, especially first time adopters. Send them a message that you will no longer recommend any HMG car to anyone. They don't care. They are still subsidizing their EV sales and will be willing to bleed money to try to establish market share. They'll learn eventually, but it won't help us first time adopters in the here and now.

 

Just an FYI, ForaFrank is a bot.

 

Oh yeah, I forgot that VerticalScope is now doing the useless AI across its forums. We already have a partial bot on this forum, if you know what I mean, and I think you do. Eventually we'll just have bots talking to each other.