Lol! The Kate singing countdown timer killed me dead 😂
@shanefiddle2 жыл бұрын
Loved this! Deeply satisfying video, and the algorithm really got loose there at the end - two colors even! And a satisfying review - I love to hear of electric vehicles that are just working really well, and all the details about what to watch out for. Thanks for all you do!
@transportevolved2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I didn't check the latches on the containment chamber properly. My fault... ;) And thanks! ^Kate
@shanefiddle2 жыл бұрын
@@transportevolved lol! 😂
@matpat26362 жыл бұрын
Kate has the best collection of T-shirts on KZbin. Suitability geeky earrings too.
@rsandersonline2 жыл бұрын
Love these videos - thank you!
@markbader49422 жыл бұрын
I get those oil change reminders from Kia too. Hilarious. Also, let’s not forget the damning evidence that EVs also cause more pollution from the premature wearing of tires. Thank you for your rebuttal video on that, btw. Hearing my laughing at it caused the family Shouty Bob to jeter over to his cobalt schtick. Sigh. It’s exhausting honestly.
@nickschultz12442 жыл бұрын
My E Niro has 42K miles and still at 100% SOH. I do check it from time to time just to see if it still has at least 64Kwh of useable energy and so far, yep it does! Very much enjoy this car :)
@kiae-nirodiariesencore42702 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this interesting long term review, lots of detail which is much appreciated. Looks like we have the same vintage, as you they are branded e-Niro in Europe. We got ours in March 2019, first batch to come into France. We are retired and the e-Niro is our only car. We’ve done 64,000 km and our average efficiency over the year is 14.5 kWh/100 km...but we never tow anything.. We have done trips from our home in south west France to UK (twice), Switzerland and Frankfurt...a 2,200 km round trip in mid-winter that was a bit of a charging challenge! I see you’ve had the same 12v battery problems as us...the factory fit is basically crap..am replacing mine this very day with a Bosch 52 Ah if Amazon make the delivery as promised. The only fault we’ve had was the passenger wing mirror failed to fold back on locking..the adjustment worked OK so it was a minor inconvenience...replaced under warranty. The car seems well built and suggests it will last many years and reach a high mileage without problems. We’ll see!
@gerrypower94332 жыл бұрын
Kate, never change!
@Knightairman12 жыл бұрын
So hopefully Nikki and Kate don't take this the wrong way. I've always felt Kate's videos were great information. I just felt that Kate wasn't into it. Recently however, Kate seems to have found some passion in her commentary. Could it be from driving the Taycan. Hmm. Wherever you found it, hold on to it.
@gordknox50482 жыл бұрын
Great report! SO MANY ADS!!!
@patrickfavier43102 жыл бұрын
82k km on my E-Niro. Recent trip of 430km still doable, mostly high-way in trafic on averge 80km/h. Sadly EU version has no towing option, but very efficient and usable car. (17.2 kwh/100km average overall)
@SteveRowe2 жыл бұрын
Yay Risc-V!
@tjs1142 жыл бұрын
I think the reason Kia doesn't let you activate the seat heaters via the app is because they are using basic, mechanical switched seat heaters that do not interface with the car's computer.
@contraplano31573 ай бұрын
Risc-v, the future of "free" processores
@dacoz2 жыл бұрын
good info as I'm looking at the kia Soul EV as my next car. and it is on the same platform.
@Hans-gb4mv2 жыл бұрын
wasn't that build on a different platform? I know Hyundai/Kia has had 2 platforms on which they build their hybrid/BEV cars. If I'm not mistaken the Soul is built on the same platform as the Hyundai Kona while the Niro is built on a different platform. They do probably share a lot of the drive train.
@dacoz2 жыл бұрын
@@Hans-gb4mvunless I'm mistaken, between 2019 and 2022, the Kona, Soul, and Niro are all the same platform. The 2023 Niro looks like it is borrowing the EV6 platform but modified and with slightly less performance. No word yet on the 2023 Soul or Kona. And prior to 2019 the Soul and Niro used a different (but afaik same as each other) platform.
@Hans-gb4mv2 жыл бұрын
@@dacoz So, I had to go and look it up. The original Niro was built on an adaptation of the J platform, just as the original Ioniq. The original Soul was built on the J5 platform, another variant of the same. The Kona on the other hand is built on the B-SUV platform, one of the variants of the Small Automobile platform. The new Niro is built on the K3 platform
@contraplano31573 ай бұрын
Soul is like Kona, more shorter
@Krylle2 жыл бұрын
Not Niro EV! That's the new one from 2022, soon to arrive. The old one is called e-Niro.
@transportevolved2 жыл бұрын
In the US it was sold as the Niro EV. ^Kate
@Banyan3142 жыл бұрын
The new Niro EV in the UK is a big disappointment. Just seems a little tacky with all that hideous paint black exterior trim and the inside design is just not that clever. We wanted to like it so we could justify trading in our present E Niro, but that is highly unlikely ! Smart #1 has now moved to the top of the list and we are quite happy to keep our present E Niro until next year.
@Krylle2 жыл бұрын
@@transportevolved - Oh, I see. Pretty confusing and strange, that they don't call the vehilcles the same names 😀
@uactedstupidly2 жыл бұрын
I recently purchased this car in the premium model, I am getting 4.6 MPKH, but I drive like an old lady on purpose to achieve that level. One thing I really hate about it is that when the sun is overhead, it reflects on the chrome at the lower portion of the dash and blinds me while driving, have to hold my hand up to block it. It also needs to be driven with 2 hands to properly maximize the paddle shifters for regen, so its not a good choice for a one-armed person :)
@daninpdx33892 жыл бұрын
my 2020 does the same thing and really hate that. Otherwise it's a great car and love it!
@anahatamelodeon2 жыл бұрын
I vinyl-wrapped the shiny bits of my dashboard and it's much better now! Many others have done the same.
@kaboombox15812 жыл бұрын
I’d advise new Kia/Hyundai owners to go the PPF (Paint Protection Film) route with maybe Ceramic coating after as the PPF will add chip and minor dent resistance.
@lorrainehinchliffe53712 жыл бұрын
Interesting, my dealership advised against wasting my money on the paint protection package since I was parking in a garage.
@seabream2 жыл бұрын
@@lorrainehinchliffe5371 I mean, that'll help for some things, but it also matters what kind of driving conditions you'll be subjecting your car to. I guess that being indoors will help reduce paint deterioration from UV exposure, bird droppings, and (if you're coastal) salt exposure, but if you're driving a lot on roads with dust and other debris, road salt/sand, and insects, your paint is still probably going to last longer with at least a frontal PPF. Whether it is enough of a difference to matter to you is a personal choice of course. Then of course there's the other stuff. I only got frontal PPF and a bit around the door edges and then got a scrape down the side, possibly from someone's handbag in a parking lot. Getting PPF on the whole width of the doors would have cost less than getting such a long scratch properly fixed, so I'm kind of regretting not getting it now. I intend to keep my car for at least eight years, maybe more, so for me, it would probably have been worth it to put on PPF at least once when I first got it. Would it would have been worth redoing it when it came time, probably, but not necessarily. At any rate, the PPF I have has been holding up well, so I'm happy with that.
@wilkimist2 жыл бұрын
I've had my 2019 Niro for 2 years with 30,000. Only issue I've had is the stock tires wore out quickly due to bad alignment from the dealer when I bought it.
@Hyfly132 жыл бұрын
We don't pay any data connectivity fee in the UK. Also there's a dash setting for the 12v battery to be topped up by the drive battery.
@transportevolved2 жыл бұрын
Yup, have that set - it's a pretty common problem with the Niro - and in fact it continued through onto the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and the EV6. In those Kia released a firmware update which allows it to top up the battery more frequently which seems to have solved it. ^Kate
@patdee51242 жыл бұрын
I love my 2021 Niro EV.
@be2362 жыл бұрын
I also have Kia Niro EV 2019 (bought in 2020)... so in the two years of driving, I have 20k miles on it... Two major issues is (1) the wheel-of-fortune sound at low speeds (recently had the motor mount replaced, seems fixed so far... and (2) low 12-volt battery causing weird system error occasionally when cold temps... But other than those, great EV... great range... wish charging speed was faster.... driver seats too firm on my back, prefer soft Nissan LEAF seats.
@skyemalcolm2 жыл бұрын
Sounds of nature, Forrest Creatures channel is literally my favorite channel on my Kia EV6. Korean Zen, if that’s thing, helps me to drive within posted speed limits, allegedly.
@phathutshedzotshikosi52892 жыл бұрын
Lols...Kate's robotic singing nearly got me choked from laughing while drinking coffee
@seabream2 жыл бұрын
8:41 Not allowing preheating to turn on the seat heaters remotely at all seems a strange choice. Like, it's not hard to let the driver decide whether or not they prefer more energy for the drive vs. the heating for themselves. As you may know, that's what Nissan did. In my LEAF, the seat heater(s) go(es) on when you pre-heat if the switch(s) is/are in that position, and not if it/they is/are n't. Granted, you don't get a choice about the heated steering wheel, that just turns on regardless, but that also draws less energy. And that's the way it works for both my old one with the 24 kWh battery, and my current 40 kWh model, both of which have less energy to play with than the Niro EV.
@AnonymousFreakYT2 жыл бұрын
The BMW outage was odd - for me it wasn't "completely out," it was just _"extraordinarily slow to run the commands",_ and you had to leave the phone app actively running, making sure your phone didn't go to sleep, and not switching apps. Running the commands would take 5-10 minutes, and fail about 1/3 of the time (if you left the app active the whole time, if you left the app or let the phone screen sleep, it would fail 100% of the time.)
@uwucaffeineaddiction40232 жыл бұрын
Love the video. Could you do a video on Nicky‘s wife’s bolt that has really high miles, I would like to see how the car is holding up.
@ghost702 жыл бұрын
Great video and disspells alot of the mis information in the mainstream media. 1 correction should the title not be the 'e niro' as your car is not the latest Niro EV ;)
@transportevolved2 жыл бұрын
Except in the US, where it was called the Niro EV, unlike Europe where it was the e-niro… -Nikki
@mikesmith26822 жыл бұрын
This is an important review. The bottom half of the income scale don’t buy many new cars. Identifying used EVs that might meet people’s needs, at lower cost will help get ICE cars off the road.
@Hyfly132 жыл бұрын
I think I heard recently that if you navigate to a rapid charger using the in car GPS it does condition the battery but that might be the new model.
@transportevolved2 жыл бұрын
Yup, that's the 2023 version. Sadly not the 2019-2022 as yet, and not doubt Kia will implement it. ^Kate
@iangardner23112 жыл бұрын
Have created a video on towing? I would love to hear about any issues. Plus range changes.
@transportevolved2 жыл бұрын
We did this way back when we put the hitch on: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJjLgpehm7CWiqM - we get around 2 to 2.5 mi/kWh towing a 4x8 trailer with solid sides. ^Kate
@glenreynolds20792 жыл бұрын
Very interesting and informative as always! ANYONE HERE KNOW ABOUT TOWING RATING FOR 2019 & OR 2020 HYUNDAI IONIC ELECTRICS??
@IDann12 жыл бұрын
Cool 😎 music
@kj_H65f2 жыл бұрын
Oh, tainted love... Great now its stuck in my head
@chrisbailey50552 жыл бұрын
OK, I am a bit OCD, did the bird that crapped on your upper door frame eat a piece of foil? Is that some odd visual distortion I am seeing?
@transportevolved2 жыл бұрын
Whatever you're seeing there is distortion. It was just normal bird poo, although kinda stringy ;) I actually *meant* to do a loving slow slider shot of it then remove it, but ran out of time for filming B-roll on this one (hence the Kia supplied B-roll in some sections). And forgot when I was doing the interior stuff until I was too far through filming to get time to reshoot :-/ ^Kate
@jaymenolan70832 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this! I have been considering this Kia model. I did laugh, and shake my head, at the 99% of charge 35 minutes to 100%. GOOD GOD!!🙄
@anahatamelodeon2 жыл бұрын
That can happen when the battery cells need rebalancing as this is typically done at or close to 100%. One that's done, if you used some battery on a single trip, then charged to 100% again, it would probably reach 100% more quickly the second time.
@waynethefridgemanosborne89842 жыл бұрын
dam you make me laugh. keep smiling everyone
@contraplano31573 ай бұрын
The frunk it can be do it yourself with a transparent box or buy it on line and buy the an elevator.
@jeffreykyle85872 жыл бұрын
Still have no clue what song that w@s, lol.
@transportevolved2 жыл бұрын
At viewers request we have started adding the 'song' information in the description. Hth. ^Kate
@AnonymousFreakYT2 жыл бұрын
"Shall we say it's all driven at about the speed limit." - Knowing the freeway you're talking about, I don't believe this. If you were driving "about the speed limit," then triple-trailer semis would be passing you. :-D
@transportevolved2 жыл бұрын
The word "about" might be doing quite a lot of work in this sentence. ^Kate
@AnonymousFreakYT2 жыл бұрын
@@transportevolved .......and Shaquille O'Neal is "about" six feet tall... 🤣
@transportevolved2 жыл бұрын
About is a very useful word - Nikki
@Hyfly132 жыл бұрын
You can buy a Frunk. I just cable-tied a crate to the inverter cover! Then add some gas struts and you're laughing.
@mondotv42162 жыл бұрын
Vehicle BMS reporting of state of health is notoriously unreliable - and there is no way a 3 year old battery could lose just 1%. Calendar aging would account for more than that. To measure capacity you have to charge to 100% and use at least 50% of the battery capacity and charge it back to 100% and see what the car reports the battery accepting and you can work out capacity on a pro rata basis plus a few percent for efficiency.
@HeyItsJay242 жыл бұрын
I had an optima for 9 years. The paint is SOOOOOFT. my biggest complaint.
@robertgreig99362 жыл бұрын
❤or should that be tainted love 😁 👍
@DanFoxDavies2 жыл бұрын
Someone please tell KZbin to stop advertising fossil fuel cars
@neillgatley87702 жыл бұрын
So it's a good car to live with. No tainted love for the Kia.
@pinkelephants14212 жыл бұрын
Why not just buy a lithium ion battery as a replacement for the 12V one. They seem to last much longer.
@transportevolved2 жыл бұрын
Well... This country is moving towards it being unsafe for me to live here. We (my wife and I) are reluctant to spend that money on a car that we may be forced to sell if we decide we're going to move somewhere not engaging in genocide against trans and queer people. And yes, that's a very privileged attitude, that we world just up and leave. But I've read my history, and I'm quite definitely preparing for that being the most sensible option. As a wise person once said, the path to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting. ^Kate
@pinkelephants14212 жыл бұрын
@@transportevolved Fair enough. But if you do decide to go ahead with a lithium ion battery, might be worth checking out a USA company called Ohmmu. Rolf Lohr from Tesla Owners USA KZbin channel has had a couple of batteries from them for his cars and been very satisfied. Tesla looked at using their battery but sent one off to South Korea for a cheaper copy; I forget which company Tesla went with now to get their cheaper knock-off.
@ElectraFlarefire2 жыл бұрын
Shame KIA seem to be around anymore. They seem to have been replaced by a brand called 'KИ'. It's very odd. (I don't like their new logo. The kerning upsets me.)
@LewdCustomer2 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Later models should be much improved. Tesla drivers won't switch before they are. Still beats any ICEV, as your viewers know.
@Martinko_Pcik2 жыл бұрын
Quirky
@dswallrich2 жыл бұрын
I was thinking of an ev6, but if kia is wanting to charge me to use a car I've already paid for...well I would come to hate that car way faster than 3.8 0-60...wonder if Ford is ???
@hellcat19882 жыл бұрын
When you hear an automaker say there is no demand for a car, you need to take it with a mountain of salt. It usually means that internally, there isn't enough profit margin on the car for them to want to bring it to market. That's why sedans have been being phased out in favor of crossovers, despite the second best selling vehicle in the world is a sedan. You can't trust automakers to actually tell you the truth.
@johnmanderson20602 жыл бұрын
My god, the set is disastrous. Depressing…
@sanjuansteve2 жыл бұрын
#SwitchToSolarEndWars Let's put solar panels on every home, business and covered parking rooftop and switch to electric vehicles making nearly everything we do solar powered while completely decentralizing our power supply and empowering everyone as power generation owners. Solar power is CHEAPER and electric vehicles are soon to be CHEAPER to make and already are considerably CHEAPER to maintain and operate, especially if charged from your own solar power. A 3-5 year ROI (return on investment) for a solar array that will generate power for decades is a no-brainer and the panels can even be made locally too. #EndFossilFuels #EndNukes #SwitchToSolar #SwitchToElectric #GreenNewDeal #EmpowerEveryone #DEMEXIT #StillSandersPlatform #RepublicansAreNazis
@anahatamelodeon2 жыл бұрын
I've done that. 8kW of solar panels and 9.6kWh of battery → free electricity for the house and car for most of the year.
@sanjuansteve2 жыл бұрын
@@anahatamelodeon I congratulate and thank you my friend.
@williamlathan69322 жыл бұрын
Singing again. . . 😑
@transportevolved2 жыл бұрын
True, but I gave you a timer so you can hit mute ;) ^Kate
@chrisooi25462 жыл бұрын
Pls stop singing …. You don’t need it to help the channel
@transportevolved2 жыл бұрын
Thing is, we do. We are not a huge channel and need to grow. We tried not mentioning the like subscribe but, and we found growth was much slower, we tried just doing it straight and people commented that they hated it. This way at least we have a significant number of people who like it... ...Open to other suggestions though! ^Kate