It is indeed annoying it won't "stick" as on, at least per profile.

 

I also enjoy 1 pedal mode whenever I am driving around town. In the early days of owning the EV6 I had the same issue. It will become second nature after a while... you will get in the car, start driving, and pull on the left paddle to engage 1 pedal... I have seen many people posting (hoping) that Kia should change this feature. Doubt it will ever happen.

 

Practice using ipedal by just holding left paddle, especially for highway driving where i keep regen at 0. Hold for ipedal and release to coast.

 

I've driven my EV9 17,000 miles. Agree on holding left paddle on higway but... 1) carefull on approaching exits, where you'll probably have to turn right or left while beginning to brake and eventually stop: as you begin to turn the steering wheel, the left paddle gets out of your hand or becomes very uncomfortable to press and you have to be ready to break the old fashion way, not good! 2) before approaching the highway exit I prefer to switch from LV0 or LV1 to I-Pedal MAX (quickly pressing and releasing the left paddle four times takes about one second) WHILE gently accellerating or decelerating to gradually override or engage I-Pedal MAX at will, and knowing that I am fully prepared to stop if needed, and with the two hands firmly grabbing the steering wheel. We face the same situation at every corner of the city when turning either way while braking. I use 24/7 I-Pedal MAX in the city: totally useful on the streets and fantastic driving across busy-stop-and-go parking lots. Any way, we always must be willing and ready to press the break pedal in an emergency and stop cold turkey: I-Pedal MAX or holding left paddle are not substitute for a break pedal to get an instant and violent stop.

 

I'd be interested to see some statistics regarding accident rates for vehicles operating in one-pedal mode. I would not be surprised to find them higher than for conventional two-pedal driving.

 

Yeah my concern is really switching from the car that has it to the one that doesn’t and when I forget to turn it on in the EV6. Thinking about just staying at lvl3

 

First post by new owner:

My son, who has two EV's (a Tesla and a Bolt EUV) won't get an EV unless it can lock into and always be in single pedal mode. He liked the EV6/Ioniq 5 for his significant other; however, was fearful he would get into her car, expecting single pedal driving, and make a mistake and get into an accident. She liked the Bolt (all local driving for her and it was quite less expensive, too) and he was pleased that the single pedal mode would stay on (he taught her to drive his Tesla using single pedal all the time). I, on the other hand, as a retired accident reconstructionist, saw too many accidents caused by muscle memory kicking in during emergency maneuvers that aided in causing said accident (or made it worse) because drivers reverted to what they knew and were in an unfamiliar vehicle, which is the norm. Wife and I looked at a very nice, competitively priced, late year Model S and loved the way it accelerated and drove. In addition, however, to the one pedal driving staying on, it had a switch on the steering wheel to activate the turn signals. These were red flags for me because of 50+ years of driving using a turn signal stalk and no deceleration in the way that single pedal works might compromise me and/or my wife, in an emergency maneuver. I'm sure that, if I were younger, I would be able to learn it well, like my son; however, we decided to err on the side of safety. JMHO.

For now, we decided to purchase a new EV6 Wind AWD to enjoy an EV with a little more convention on the inside and out, including conventional turn signals and no i-pedal unless we choose to turn it on (not to mention that the insurance on the S would have been 3+x more than the EV6, amongst other factors, too). Delivery will be 12/26.

Excited to be here and learn from all of the other members.

 

My car defaults to L3 iPedal when I start it, so there's still a lot of it if I forget to set it to MAX. I think I set it up on my setup screen.

 

FYI, "Level 3" regen and "i-Pedal" are two different things. The i-Pedal term is exclusive to the max regen setting.

 

"L3 iPedal"? What--you can manually adjust/specify the amount of regen in iPedal mode? And that when turning on the vehicle it can default to iPedal mode? Or to put it another way--I wasn't aware that there were different levels of iPedal one can specify when in iPedal mode...

Based on everything I've read here and elsewhere, I don't believe there is a such a thing as different levels of iPedal, let alone a setting where one can select the level for iPedal, as well as getting the car to start up in iPedal mode by default.

 

After I pull out of the driveway, I let up momentarily on the throttle. If the car doesn't slow down drastically, and immediately, I know I forgot to turn the iPedal on.