Kia EV6 Air Long Range winter range test

[@chris-adams-tas]

Gavin is both entertaining and informative IMHO. As for the car, it's great. Buy one.

[@useless1903]

one of the best videos i have seen about EV6.. i lol'ed at PSC moment.. great job mate, ty!

[@mirnivoznik8536]

Mate! Great review of what it seems like a great car. Thanx Gavin! Because of you I am actually actively looking for an electric car now ... Your reviews help a lot! :)

[@QALibrary]

holy sausages the most typical Gav saying ever

[@REV-EV]

Great review Gavin

[@jeremyfk]

Great review as always!

[@ObiePaddles]

Be great if you did a standard long trip a la Bjorn’s 1000km. Maybe the trip you are doing today or add another 100km. See what the time and efficiency is.

[@MasterChief37]

There isn’t the rapid charging infrastructure in NZ like Norway and Sweden have, with those stupid 50kWh fast chargers in a lot of NZ station it would take way to long.

[@ObiePaddles]

@@MasterChief37 so make it shorter. Standard route is the main thing with hopefully 2 but maybe 1 charge

[@jeffreylebowski3216]

To me, as a Swede, it is downright upsetting to see you wearing shorts and t-shirt in the middle of winter. I know life isn't meant to be fair but that's more unfair than necessary.

[@waynesilva2296]

Lol us kiwis love wear shorts 🩳

[@MiniLuv-1984]

I tried, but just can't get ecotricity in Australia. When, when, when?

[@lcmortensen]

As soon as we find a 2200km extension cable. /s

[@MiniLuv-1984]

@@lcmortensen Hell, we are spending almost $400B on subs, you reckon they can't run a cable across the pond?

[@MasterChief37]

It’s actually BS, if you have Ecotricity and your neighbour has another supplier how are you getting 100% renewable and they aren’t? They won’t answer that question.

[@MiniLuv-1984]

@@MasterChief37 I know it looks like that, all electricity is the same in the wires. What they mean is that the source of some of that electricity comes from renewable sources and mixed in the cables with electricity from other sources. Since you can't differentiate between the different sources, if you buy from a renewable only supplier, the higher the percentage of clean, renewable electricity is in the wires. It all helps the generations that will come after us.

[@MasterChief37]

@@MiniLuv-1984 I understand that, but that’s not how they sell it to consumers, it’s all smoke and mirrors. More hydro and Lake Onslow Pumped Storage is the answer to our energy needs. Wind is not the long term answer.

[@Jackster596]

Winter in New Zealand. Stands outside wearing shorts... 😆

[@dylanadams1455]

came here to say the same thing lol. There will always be one nut in NZ wearing shorts and a T shirt in the middle of winter. It was 5C degrees the other day (41F) and my workmate shows up in shorts and a T

[@peeble99]

All levels of the aussie versions miss out on a heat pump, whereas I understand the top line NZ models did get them. Pity, as it makes them quite thirsty on energy on cold Victorian days.

[@masterofthepinkside]

that's pretty good... I wonder how it'd do in the cold... which auckland doesn't have. Anyone from the south island know?

[@berdugosocials9854]

Looks like Gavin turned off the persistent dings of Kia cars during this test

[@JJ-nq4sy]

Winter ?? Temperature ? Where is snow ?

[@MarkThomas2]

I feel like you were a bit uncritical of that drag coefficient thing. 0.28 is a bit pants compared to the Ioniq 6 at 0.21 or the Teslas at 0.23. That's quite a big difference

[@ObiePaddles]

We get 14.8 kwh/100km in tesla Y. Kia is pretty inefficient overall in comparison which it needs such a big battery.

[@nkzag555]

The design looks much better than crap MG.

[@examinerian]

Ahh, the EV6 - I'd rather have the Ioniq 6, although KbackwardsN does put the gear selector in a much better place IMO, because Hyundai's column-mounted twisty thing is not as obvious or convenient...

[@FilmScape4K]

Disagree combustion cannot have flat rear floor. The Lexus Rx450h for the last 15 years have flat floors and it’s AWD

[@olcpuhh]

Winter test? I need to move to NZ

[@paulcockerton4158]

You do know that it’s really only Japanese cars that have their indicator stalks on the right hand side. so debatable whether that is “the correct side”

[@steffenfrkjr1424]

Well the EV6 has one small problem.. the amount of place between the seat and headliner...

[@KiwiShoot]

Suprised at the amount of fogging inside ! @6'17"

[@4dshow]

I see that there’s water on the centre console, so maybe he let a bit of the rain whenever he was filming or similar. Probably not the cars fault.

[@NAY2GAS]

I think you should make a video of just pronouncing city names.

[@EPoel-vg8ci]

its winter in newzeeland, look at him in his shortie. Thats summer style in Netherland. You drive like a grandma, 17kwh/100km is then easy. But most of the people didnt drive like an grandma.

[@JoshuaMcTackett]

My brother has this car. Honestly I don’t know who this car is for. It seems to absolutely drink electricity, and inside it has space not any better than a Model 3 or Atto 3. It costs double the Atto 3 (seriously it’s so overpriced it’s silly) but misses more and more standard features like sunroof. The range of the “long range”version is worse than my LFP Tesla RWD model 3, is slower, while being the worse chemistry of lithium turnery. (Better if it provides better performance, but it doesn’t) It has a bigger battery than Tesla but it means lower efficiency while getting less range. So again - Who did Kia actually make this car for?

[@mmmmwwwwYT2]

So, this is what you call winter? 😂

[@dylanadams1455]

it rarely gets below 0 in Auckland. No snow, but cold enough for hail, fog and the odd frost. It's pretty humid here too, so it's always a damp sort of cold...

[@MrBesmir7]

For ev car it like be in paradise compared in -30celsus is like frozen hell. Car ask what are sins condem here😅😅😅

[@deedinky1]

No heat pump is a deal breaker for me.

[@Jackster596]

In Europe it is optionally available. I ordered my EV6 air with one. Should arrive any day now! ☺

[@MrBesmir7]

For ev car it like be in paradise compared in -30celsus is like frozen hell. Car ask what are sins condem here😅😅😅

[@Espakho]

Too expensive for an EV without a heatpump.

[@MrBesmir7]

For ev car it like be in paradise compared in -30celsus is like frozen hell. Car ask what are sins condem here😅😅😅

[@martinhill389]

🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔

[@rcosnett]

Far too expensive

[@123gtt]

Winter? Shorts and t Shirt. Not reallllly Winter like the rest of the world

[@EcotricityNZ]

Thank heavens for that! :-) Done a few European winters and I'll gladly take kiwi winters now. -Gav

[@MrBesmir7]

For ev car it like be in paradise compared in -30celsus is like frozen hell. Car ask what are sins condem here😅😅😅

[@P-Bee]

Too big (on the outside), too expensive, too slow, at least for the energy it sucks down and misses out on a lot of features unless you spend a lot more for the higher spec models. Looks aren't too bad but no thanks.