Kia EV6 in-depth review | Before you order, watch this!

this is the brand new kev6 it's fresh onto the market in fact as soon as k got these cars they had to give them to people like me to get the words out there that they're here you may even in fact have already seen this car this exact car on the channel a couple of videos back but this is a more thorough in-depth review of the car i've lived with it for a week now and together i'll bring you through the things i think are cool some things that are a little bit strange and overall should this be on a really tight short list of electric vehicles if you're in the market for one i'll save you the time of watching the whole video and say it's really really good but please do stick with me and if you haven't subscribed yet to the channel please do and there's ways to support us on patreon from five euro per month if you want to click on the description down below so what is it it's key is offering as a competitor to something like the tesla model y i mean that's a bold statement to make but in many ways this car can put it up to the tesla this thing can charge at over 200 kilowatts and it'll do to 80 percent in 20 minutes if you get that right charger much like the model y it's quite a big car now it's a lot more of a coupe a stance about it but there's plenty of space in it and really you have to see in the flesh for it to fully do it justice so you have a really really big big boot in the back just like a tesla it's got a large battery so this is a 77 kilowatt hour battery usable about 74. that can deliver a range of over 500 kilometers the weather at the moment is 9 degrees so fully charged from this when i plugged it out it was a bit 370 kilometers this car has a frunk which means you can store cables and it's just handy for for items that you can chuck in you know there's no engine there's a motor so you don't need all the space that would normally come with a traditional petrol or diesel engine car so a bit of extra storage in here for cables is always welcome and the front nose is so sharp really sleek the headlights are very unusual and really bright and because kia have refreshed their logo in the last 12 months it has had people saying to me what is that down here is a plate for your radar gutted cruise control which comes on the gt spec of this car sitting on 20-inch alloy wheels really really big but handling the car not compromised more about that later on in the video big chunky side mirrors which can have little grooves in them uh the door handles pop out just to make it easier to get into the car and this car is keyless so you just have the key in your pocket you walk up to it they'll pop out in your jump in ireland anyway we're not going to guess the dual motors all-wheel drive almost 600 brake horsepower version of this car a couple of reasons one i'd imagine it would be close to 70 000 euro and i just don't know how many people are going to buy that and then the grants in ireland now cap off at 60 000 euros so after grants of 5 000 euro this car is just under 55 like 5 euro and the earth model starts at 50. and i think anything more than that and even at this these are very expensive cars i'm not sure people would part for that and do you need an all-wheel drive electric car with almost 600 brake horsepower i don't know it'd be fun but i don't know [Music] i've deliberately left the lights on to show you this massive strip that comes across here it's so unique and i get it splits opinion love it hate us let me know in the comments below gt version of the car will get an automatic boot so it's about 50 liters up front with that frunk and then 490 here then you have handles where you can drop the boot down you've got a flexible parcel shelf and what i love about it yeah you can put your cables in the front but also there's a false floor here in the boot we can actually store cables drop down a little bit of extra space if you need it there's tethering hooks you know a lot of thought has gone into the boot there's a 12-volt charger in here and lights as well and then there's a tire mobility kit two levels down below so there's actually loads of little spaces where you can hide things in the boot of this and uh it's it's a nice wide opening to get things into there's no lip so to speak so getting pets and hauling stuff out a lot easier because you don't have that big huge lip drop that's there there is a handle you're not really going to use it though because again with the gt version you have your automatic tailgate which definitely makes life a bit easier i also love this spoiler it's kind of got a centerpiece into it that folds down and then two extra winglets you might think it's a bit batmobile it certainly sticks out at the side of the car over here as well but i like it so you're going to charge your ev6 here you press the door sometimes once they're open sometimes it doesn't there's a button where you can close it but obviously you have there's no button stick on the outside of the car that'd be a bit weird so your charging port your type 2 cable something like your wall box your public on the street charger just goes in here now i spoke to a guy recently he was in a peugeot e208 and this thing he had no idea what that was for so that comes out and that's your ccs charging that's much faster charging and in the kia if you find something like an ionic charger you'll get over 200 kilowatts charging which is really really super fast that is competing with tesla in that space now using that charger i had an issue and if you want to watch the video of what happened click the link or wait till the end of the video i'll pop it in there but that's how you access your charging port and when it's charging these white lights just keep going up and down give an idea of how far charged your car is just by having look at it straight out through the window of your house or whatever like that that's it simple oh and vehicle to load is an option that's standard on the gt line again it's like a little device thing that you can that's a bit temperamental that you can hook in here and then you can actually put power back out of the vehicle charge something else a device a fridge uh a beach a beach chill box uh electric bike whatever you like if it needs a plug and then inside there's something else as well which is clever for charging i'll get to that in just a second [Music] totally flat floor because it's an ev makes life a lot easier again gt model and some people ask me is it worth the extra jump compared to the ionic 5 premium there's a lot of spec in this augmented heads-up displays glass roof there's lots of clever things and i think it is so there's a plug down here and you can use that for obviously charging whatever you like i don't want to say you definitely fit a human between two child seats but it's not bad and that flat floor definitely makes it a bit easier now at first glance you look at this center column and you go no there's no vents they're here and the charging there is on the side of the seats key i've done that with a good few models now and i happen to like it you get an armrest you get access to the rear through just a smaller flap they've obviously decided no one does use these things for skiing but they might use them for bits of wood so little door that opens there and it does make life easier sunroof as nice as it is it doesn't come in here so one that's a positive doesn't impact on your headspace but this black cabin which is all right like uh but it is you know it's it's brighter up front when you have even the the blind open but i think people are well served here again the gt version of this gets rear heated seats for your passengers to keep their backsides warm so they'll be happy out with that and i think generally leg room everyone will be happy these heavily tinted rear privacy glass windows well first of all you have to hold it down that's a bit annoying but they go all the way down and some kids love that and it drives them mad at so many modern cars now it doesn't happen do you actually have to hold that button it seems like you do right i'll dock in the mark for that but apart from that thing's deadly you have memory seats that obviously adjust to your position when you start the car it moves you and there is a starter button as such a lot of keys allow you to put on your rear view camera even when you're driving same with this it's just a button here we have wireless charging you can also charge maybe your air pods down here huge big storage space for uh under the armrest like really really massive some people have asked me do you guess radar cruise yes you do button here and it sinks up everything you touch is vegan anything that feels leather is actually vegan even on the earth model you will get a floral collision avoidance blind spot lenky persists loads of different things that are standard for safety and that's what it's one benefit of kia kind of simplifying the whole thing there's two models earth gt line same battery same output same rear wheel drive system everything's the same it's just a difference of trim usb down here loads of options 12 volts usbc standard usb big bucket of space if you like storing water and stuff just rubbish my only fear is that's going to accumulate a lot of crap down there and places for glasses and keys and all different kinds of things shortcuts to your seats are here i love the way you can toggle between the two menus so one button gives you shortcuts to your climate the other gives you shortcuts to your media and nav and then obviously you can use your screen as well now um a couple of things for in terms of electric uh so your regen paddles are here there's four levels of regen the fourth is really severe it gives you pretty much one pedal driving there's no doubt about that and something i can't get my head around is when you plug in uh your car you can time it that it'll come on in the morning it'll pre-heat the car your heated seats will be on your heated steering wheel i think as well if you want and that's all lovely but unless you have the car plugged in even if you have 90 battery it won't come on now something like the id3 from volkswagen will do that if it has enough charge without any cables so it means you're constantly plugging your car in to do that from what i can see anyway because i tried it like four mornings in a row whereas you know if you're if you load the charge in your battery in my experience this car for example was i was needing to charge it once a week uh you're not going to want to plug the car in every time so that's kind of annoying you can determine how much power leaves your car if you're using vehicle to load but you don't seem to be able to cap how much charge goes in if you're using that anyway it would be deadly if you could pre-heat the car in the mornings without needing the cable plugged in that's a bit of a weird disadvantage i like the jog wheel for selecting reverse neutral drive i mean i think they've got the mix of screens and buttons fairly spot on and does it feel like a 55 000 euro car in the same way an audi may it's not quite there but it's definitely interior quality-wise one of the best electric vehicles that you can get in the market right now so um the build quality you know will be better than tesla's and the fact that this car comes with a seven year warranty including the battery i think they're kind of standing over it you know the fact that the car has a heat pump as standard you could argue that maybe in ireland it's not cold enough to justify that but people get really annoyed that something like the skoda eniac doesn't come without a standard so i i think you're better off looking at it than looking for it you know and i think the heat pump being standard is a really good selling point i'm on a brand new road surface right now and it's so smooth it's so quiet you can't hear a thing and it's actually when you have the comparison of smooth roads and rough roads back to back you realize a lot of the time actually it's not the tires it's the bloody road surface most of my driving this week i've just left it in normal mode there is an eco and a sport sport everything goes red and you get a little bit more urgency when you put the boot down but to be honest with you i find the normal mode more than adequate for everyday driving and the type of power you're going to need so i just leave it alone currently driving with a an outside temperature of 9 degrees celsius that's heading towards the the cooler side for batteries this car has a heat pump as standard which means you're not using your battery range to heat the car and pre-condition the battery and get that ready for operation so fully charged this morning 368 kilometers is what's indicated on the range and that's taking in all those factors such as the outside temperature it was interesting to notice yesterday it was about 15 degrees and the consumption straight away dropped down to about 17 kilowatt hours per 100 kilometers motorway driving when i took this car on the m1 yesterday at about 120 kilometers now using the radar guided cruise control which is on this gt version of it that's a standard it was an indicated 22 kilowatt hours per 100 kilometers which is generally what you will get with an ev i've had the same uh performance figures in the skoda enyak volkswagen 94 by d3 all very similar you put an electric car at a sustained 120 kilometers and it's going to use a bit more energy same as a petrol or diesel car will use a bit more fuel at a type of speed so a lot of people have replied to other videos including my own one of the ev6 and handling ride quality i've now driven the car for a week 20 inch wheels ride quality is really excellent well there's certainly a bit of feedback through the steering wheel and you can feel lumps and bumps that you're going over in a kind of you know there's a sense of you're driving a car away it's never uncomfortable uh it's never sort of imposing on passengers i'm not winston going over bumps or speed ramps even with 20-inch wheels they're so big these visors and i have my seat on the floor if i fully drop this down you can't see at the windscreen so just be careful the first time you lift that down because it's huge another thing that happens with this car a lot is people are looking at you in traffic it's obviously a brand new model it looks quite radical and with the change of the care badge as well it just all adds to a combination of people saying what is that when you tell them what's ikea they really are they're like wow basically what i'm saying is people would be checking out your car's arse as you drive by them especially with an artist that looks like this you know you flip it into sport mode it's punchy enough to give you a nice shove in the back you know this car has something on on paper performance figures wise not far off a mark 7 golf gti they're the things that if you're if you've never driven an electric car before you add in a decent chunk of brake horsepower you know i know the 500 almost 600 brake horsepower version of the ev6 won't be coming to ireland but this one at almost 240. i think it's enough also i saw on the easy go up today um just the two charges were in the deer park hotel car park and i was like really what so just spun up here use the easy go charger an app really simple to use ev6 is charging fine again because whatever issues going on it's it's not a slower charging issue and two charges here there was somebody not plugged in and blocking one of these spaces it was a 530e so it had the capability to charge just wasn't charging here but i say hats off to them because we need to normalize this kind of stuff there needs to be more places you can just see these chargers you can plug in you can have a game of golf whatever it is we need these in more spaces it will make people watching you could be watching this right now wondering can i go electric and i'm sure it fills you with confidence but it's only one very very small example around dublin where someone has actually taken the initiative um to just say yeah let's get some charges in so it's really positive to see this and um well done this is what i'm saying they haven't asked me to say this but well done deer park would i recommend the kia ev6 to someone looking for an electric car i really would i love the design i really enjoy driving it it's smooth it's refined it's quick it's got really fast charging capabilities i will allow care the fact that all so far cars on the electric market have had some sort of teething problems including the id3 id4 there were software issues at the start the software in this car does not seem to have any sort of glitches in terms of speed uh but it is disappointing that the fast charging didn't get going now some people have suggested if i disconnected the 12 volt battery for 10 minutes reset the ecu that's all well and good when it's your car it's not mine so i'm not going to do that but it is disappointing to see that happen um and i'm kind of surprised if that issue wasn't there i would be saying to you this car is pretty much flawless and at a 55 000 50 for the earth model it's it is expensive but i would just keep going back to the fact that look at what you get in the spec of this car for that money look at some of the competitors on the market there's going to be badge things you know some people would be more comfortable paying that money for an audi q4 or e-tron maybe maybe not so much this but i think the roof the augmented heads-up display the faster charge the vehicle to load there's so many things that this car has and i think value from money if that's if you can say it that way when it comes to irish cars uh after the grant and stuff they need to get rid of vrt on electric cars if they're 100 000 a year they have to get rid of ert just just get rid of it um i know that's easier said than done but it would help you know and for every liter of fuel that you buy which isn't going into one of these nearly a euro that's going to the government so they're losing that as well but like it's either that i get fined from europe year after year after year so disappointing about the fast charging i'm sure it's something that will be ironed out quickly it doesn't seem to be a common problem and i think this is a fantastic car everything else considered and would i buy it over an ionic 5 even though it's the same car underneath spec for spec like for like i think i would thank you very much for watching

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Length: 19min 59sec (1199 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 14 2021