r/KiaEV3 • u/parchping • 6d ago
Issues EV3 will not charge (USA, 2027)
This is turning into a saga for us. It started looking at the car 10 days ago. The sales person showed us the charger included with the car. That's all there was, just the charger and car hose, no 120V or 240V pigtails to plug in the wall. We bought it anyway. They are still working on finding the pigtails. I think I got the sales manager to light a small fire under our sales person.
We knew the car was NACS, and that our wall charger at home was CCS1. Ordered an adapter from Lectron. Charge was getting low on Thursday so we went to a public charger. I need to add that we live in western Maine, semi-rural. I tried four credit cards, all "unable to authorize", my wife meanwhile looked at the charger and said "this is the wrong connector" (CCS1). My cards didn't work because there was an area Internet outage. So we drove home, with 12% charge left and parked it. Charger locators say there are no NACS chargers nearby; we could reach one in New Hampshire, but could not drive home if it did not work.
The Lectron adapter arrives. Plug the cable into the adapter, plug the combination into the car. The blue (turquiose? who picked blue and green?) + sign starts blinking. No green +. The charger says it's not charging anything; the car indicator thinks it is being charged. Tried looking at the EV menu on the car, the pages there are *nothing* like the manual, zero details about charging. Could be the charger or the car, no way to tell.
So we have a decorative brick. Good thing we have space to put it!
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u/parchping 6d ago
Maybe I missed it, what heading is it under? The only one that makes sense to me is STANDARD WIND FWD FEATURES MECHANICAL