Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record
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Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record
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Re: Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record
#2I’m sure there will be rotation in the leader place.
I’m just glad there are now other brands matching the performance of Teslas. Their marketing and brand image, so popular with many people, are total anathema to me. I’m not in the market now but can’t see myself getting a Tesla.
Re: Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record
#3The EV6 has a lot of things equivalent Teslas don’t offer - cooled seats, 360 view cameras, Apple Carplay/Android Auto and it offers similar performance.
Re: Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record
#4The EV6 has a lot of things equivalent Teslas don’t offer - cooled seats, 360 view cameras, Apple Carplay/Android Auto and it offers similar performance.
Not a big fan of the styling of the car but I am interested. No price listed anywhere I can find so we will see how that all pans out. If someone would make an electric car with the space inside of a minivan, I would be very interested. Instead the market is all about giant SUVs, which are big but not a lot of space inside.
Re: Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record
#5The EV6 has a lot of things equivalent Teslas don’t offer - cooled seats, 360 view cameras, Apple Carplay/Android Auto and it offers similar performance.
The vehicle to load capability is nice too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AlfsRk21TU
It's a feature of Hyundai's E-GMP platform cars (Kia EV6, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Genesis GV60).
Re: Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record
#6It would be very surprising that this represent real world experience.
Tesla supercharger are everywhere and work well across the board, that is not the same experience with most fast DC charger.
I think the the real world experience is the inverse of what the article suggest.
Kia and Hyundai will make good competition on the low end
Re: Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record
#7The EV6 has a lot of things equivalent Teslas don’t offer - cooled seats, 360 view cameras, Apple Carplay/Android Auto and it offers similar performance.
The world is such an odd and funny place now. My 2007 Toyota Avalon Touring drives pretty well with none of those 'trinkets'. The utilitarian value of a car seems to be an outlier to a lot of people these days.
I wonder if we'll be able to get back to the place where products we manufacture will span decades and commands good value.
Electric cars in my opinion should have fewer points of failure but here we are, hankering for adornments.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Re: Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record
#8The EV6 has a lot of things equivalent Teslas don’t offer - cooled seats, 360 view cameras, Apple Carplay/Android Auto and it offers similar performance.
Not a big fan of the styling of the car but I am interested. No price listed anywhere I can find so we will see how that all pans out. If someone would make an electric car with the space inside of a minivan, I would be very interested. Instead the market is all about giant SUVs, which are big but not a lot of space inside.
It will be around $40-45k. The fully loaded limited edition ones are $58,500.
Re: Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record
#9The EV6 has a lot of things equivalent Teslas don’t offer - cooled seats, 360 view cameras, Apple Carplay/Android Auto and it offers similar performance.
The vehicle to load capability is nice too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AlfsRk21TU It's a feature of Hyundai's E-GMP platform cars (Kia EV6, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Genesis GV60).
I put my eyes on the Ioniq 5 but I think its aerodynamics are worse than the EV6 (but I have no numbers and I'm not an expert). Anyway this record is about charging time, not energy usage. E-GMP supports fast load with 350kW chargers, and I'm pretty sure that, being a benchmark, they used all the tricks up in their sleeves.
Re: Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record
#10The EV6 has a lot of things equivalent Teslas don’t offer - cooled seats, 360 view cameras, Apple Carplay/Android Auto and it offers similar performance.
Not a big fan of the styling of the car but I am interested. No price listed anywhere I can find so we will see how that all pans out. If someone would make an electric car with the space inside of a minivan, I would be very interested. Instead the market is all about giant SUVs, which are big but not a lot of space inside.
It looks a lot better in real life - the only issue is that it's too small for us... but then so is the Model 3 and this is a Model 3 competitor.