@R Kurtz: ICE is not starting
@R Kurtz: ICE is not starting randomly. Basically the trigger is demand on power or heating. My observation is, that the EV is dynamic enough in city and can keep highway speed without problem (but drains battery much faster). Where it lacks is when you would like to get to the highway speed quickly - for example when joining highway. If you don't want to see ICE here, you need to be patient with acceleration, which could be bothering. For the heating - until some point, especially if I'm alone in car, I do most winter commute in EV mode using seat and steering wheel heating only. For longer journey, I use normal heating where heat comes from ICE. When ICE is started only due heating demand, it works like generator and charges your battery while in EV mode and not really using the ICE as power source for driving. So you still have better MPG, but yes, not without burning some gas. And what annoys me is when it kicks the ICE on on summer morning just because actual temperature is 2 degrees lower than the one I set on AC last day...
@Justin Hart: agree, there should be a bit more statistics provided by KIA. I would like to see average and total electric consumption for my rides. There is only graph in PHEV section - ECO driving - but is useless as for anything higher than 15kWh/100km shows just 15kWh (btw - in online manual for infotainment, I see screen where electric consumption per ride is displayed, in my case only fuel consumption visible there). As well in History there are no rides where only EV mode was in use. It waits for first sip of gasoline and then adds all the EV km's from past rides to new record. And last annoying bit is unpredictable behavior of planned charging. It get better with last software update, but still some times it ignores programmed schedule.
There was already several sw updates, each came with some improvements, so hopefully in next one this will be fixed :-) Otherwise the car is great and I'm happy I select it. Plenty of space, lot's of safety and comfort features, very ecological for my daily EV commute and when I need power to overtake on steep narrow roads, there is enough to do it safely.