The EV for your family? Kia EV6 2023 GT-Line AWD review

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The EV for your family? Kia EV6 2023 GT-Line AWD review

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In the market for an electric car for your family? Considering whether the Kia EV6 might be the right EV for your needs? You need to watch this.
In this family review, Emily Agar spent a week with the fully electric (BEV) Kia EV6 GT-Line AWD, which is the current top-spec sporty version of the range.
It is a larger car than most, with a huge back seat and decent boot space, good practicality and a properly good real-world electric driving range.
It worked for her family of three - will it be suitable for your family? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
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00:00 Intro
00:44 Driving
02:29 Range and charging
04:28 Practicality
09:09 Design
10:02 Price and features
10:46 Safety
11:25 Ownership
00:00 Verdict
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@coldude2559 Жыл бұрын

Can't wait to take delivery of mine in about 5 years!!!

@GODISTHEGREATEST4EVA Жыл бұрын

😄😄😄😄😄

@GudieveNing Жыл бұрын

Great review! Having been for a test drive in one, can concur with all your observations. One of my fav EVs.

@brendasnow8255 4 ай бұрын

I bought one, and love it. I feel a little guilty that I’m not using the big rear seats, which are heated or cooled. This car has everything. Really, really fun to drive! One feature of EVs that I hadn’t known was that, when driving down steep hills, there’s no need to brake, because it doesn’t freewheel downhill (because your foot has to be on the accelerator to keep moving). Living in a very hilly area with lots of curves, that’s nice. I plug mine in to my household current, but there are fast chargers not far from me, along I-81. I just charge at home overnight; sometimes I plug it in whenever I get home and just leave it until I need it, but I’ve set it to charge to 90%. It was easy to connect my phone to the car, and I just lay it on the charging plate while I drive.

@DutchAussieProductions Жыл бұрын

Thanks for a great review, Emily. Nice to see an Australian review of this car. Have a nice day.

@mikenorsa5193 Жыл бұрын

Could be a sweet car to drive but it's sad that Kia can only allocate a few hundred per year to Oz. Hopefully production can ramp up more and Australia can become a more inviting country for EV makers to send their cars to. Teslas are excellent but we definitely need variety and good competition. Ones more than a handful of people can buy.

@brendasnow8255 4 ай бұрын

In the U.S., I paid $52,000 after negotiating, because Kia gave me the $7500 discount that is available in the U.S., but not to EVs made outside the U.S.

@VH-gw3qi Жыл бұрын

Another great review, you gave us all the highlights / important information without the waffle that some car reviewers love, thank you ! 😊

@thabangtlou9325 Жыл бұрын

Excellent review.

@elrebelde4610 Жыл бұрын

Still waiting for ours since march. Official Kia car calculator says $96 209 drive away ...... and dealer will probably charge you more on top. There has also been an increase of $4k in last couple of months sadly.

@Fechual Жыл бұрын

El where can I get access to the Kia Car Calculator? That price seems insanely high for the EV6 GT. Not sure how they can justify $96K+ for this car? If you are going to drop that much, there sure are a lot of other EV's to take a hard look at.

@elrebelde4610 Жыл бұрын

@@Fechual It is on official Kia Australia calculator - build/order. I know, pricing of EVs in Australia is ridiculous. We are thinking about cancelling the order and getting our deposit back.

@sambale9527 Жыл бұрын

Love evs

@Reddylion Жыл бұрын

Kia 👍

@Jonse70 2 ай бұрын

I thought the GT Line had 19" wheels. 🤔

@djizzah Жыл бұрын

straightforward review, range anxiety is a killer though, hybrid of some type seems better

@chefgav1 Жыл бұрын

Hybrids are a good stop gap .infrastructure is no where near ready or reliable

@Clove_Parma Жыл бұрын

For those that are still predisposed to anxiety, there's the Niro hybrid - range anxiety is a problem most common for ICE car owners, not those already using EVs

@keriddunk1520 Жыл бұрын

Kia Sportage phev is better

@zero11010 Жыл бұрын

3:20 you say it’s easy to charge …. You barely used the car by your own account. How many different charging stations did you go to? An issue in America is how often the stations just don’t work. This is hard to anticipate and it further frustrates the experience. I’m not a fan of Tesla, but their charging network is fantastic.

@claudiocorleone7856 4 ай бұрын

If you charge at charging stations you defeat the purpose of these cars. I am buying one to save money at the pump and tired of being hostage to big oil. It costs me 400$ a month in gas. I don’t plan to spend 400$ in charging stations as I will be charging overnight at home. This car is great for city driving and I wouldn’t take long distance drives .

@zero11010 4 ай бұрын

@@claudiocorleone7856 no. It doesn’t defeat the purpose of the cars. Seems like you should look into people’s experiences as electric car owners. The car needs to function on longer car trips as well as basic around town driving. I’m not sure if you’re familiar with public charging stations … they’re everywhere. They’re everywhere because they’re needed. They’re needed because people cannot only charge at home. The time to charge. The distance people can travel on a charge. The state of public charging stations …. These things are all huge issues for electric car owners.

@kelvpoon Жыл бұрын

Did you talk about the price?!

@chefgav1 Жыл бұрын

Near 100k

@kelvpoon Жыл бұрын

@@chefgav1 ok model Y it is then…

@kman4310 Жыл бұрын

How much does it cost to charge ?

@tc88888888 Жыл бұрын

I have a tesla 3, it costs about 10 dollars at home and 30 at a charger.

@zero11010 Жыл бұрын

2:50 so, you drove some distance out of a city. And that plus a week in driving was a total of about 130 miles of range? A lot of people do that in a single day. It doesn’t seem like you really explored the car much in a week. That’s unfortunate and it makes me question your opinion of the car if it amounts to about 2 hours of total time behind the wheel.

@bigalsbash Жыл бұрын

With half of the battery used 💁‍♂️

@Batobalani1989 Жыл бұрын

1st

@stevenlee7195 Жыл бұрын

whats the point of reviewing this if the car is not available to the public?

@bigalsbash Жыл бұрын

Mine will be here this month 👍

@michellelin643 6 ай бұрын

People watch KZfaq can afford $75K EV ?

@scollyutube Жыл бұрын

Handles like a large SUV i.e badly, except its not a large car, and the realistic range in real life usage was under 400kms, in summer even, when I demoed it. Anybody over 6ft, your head will touch the sun roof, and you can't see the dashboard i.e speed through the steering wheel. At 1.4 times the cost of a Tiguen R or Kodiaq VRS or even the top Kia Sorento, nope.

@HotYogaDoctor Жыл бұрын

I don't agree! 1. Handles superbly. 2. Range is between 450 and 480 and likely to drop with airco use over summer to 430. 3. Have had far taller people than 6 foot comfortably occupy any seat. 4. Adjust the steering wheel slightly to keep the essentials visible for tall and short drivers. We found a very happy medium where dash and head up are optimally placed for all drivers.

@verygoodbrother Жыл бұрын

what's kms?

@HatlessChimp1 Жыл бұрын

They expect upto 30% degradation of the battery at 7 years.

@HotYogaDoctor Жыл бұрын

@@HatlessChimp1that's not strictly correct. The figure you appear to quote is where most manufacturers allow their guarantee to kick in. Only IF the battery degrades by 30% will they replace the battery at their expense. The expectation therefore is that it will degrade (and there will be some degradation) that would under normal circumstances not even approach that figure. It's a commercial calculation that minimises their exposure (and allows for extraordinary circumstance). It is not an admission or a confession of battery life.