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Driving the Kandi K23
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- Опубліковано 10 сер 2020
- This video was sponsored by Kandi America.
Kandi America hired me to film a video driving the new Kandi K23, which they claim will be the least expensive all-electric vehicle sold in North America. The K23 is set to be released in late 2020.
Update: Kandi never released the K23, but instead released a Neighborhood Electric Vehicle version called the NEV-K23 that is limited to 25 mph.
The K23 looks like a PeterBilt had a premature baby.
More like an abortion
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Although the styling is just ok, I’m impressed with the K23. Great video!
Buy kndi stock..its DIRT cheap
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The Kandi K23 front hood looks like a car ANUS, or what one would look like on a vehicle. 😆 Having said that, I’m an EV fan and I like oddly shaped cars. I have an iMieV. I’m waiting for the Aptera. 😍
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Looks interesting ... I dig boxy cars since they generally provide lots of space.
It really is surprisingly roomy, the trunk is massive.
111 miles of range is small
Very impressive.
I hope you get a chance to review the K27 as well.
Hoping to see it next week
That back road spin was super-quiet...
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@2:32 it was good to hear the motor, a highlight of the vid.
It does have a motor
1) is that quoted range based on NEDC, WLTP, or EPA standards?
2) what's the available charging on this? Does it offer DC fast charging?
The quoted range is from Kandi and their internal testing here in the US.
Kandi doesn't currently support Fast Charging only Level II
@@TheGentlemanRacer thanks for the clarification. This brings a follow-up question: you mention that the range can let you do a trip to Austin or Houston, charge, then come back. If you're limited to level 2 charging, you're probably only getting 25-30 miles an hour back on the battery. So I gotta ask: how much would that trip be for you in distance and how much time would you anticipate you would be charging at the destination?
@@Necrotron So it will fully recharge in around 7 hours, on Level II charging, so you would need to plan to spend a day in Austin. But it is doable, unlike say the original Fiat 500e which would only go 84 miles fully charged, it wouldn't even give you the option of driving to Austin or Houston from where I live.
@@TheGentlemanRacer thank you for the clarification
Kandi’s web-site states that the Kandi K23 is a neighborhood car with only a 25-35 mph speed & an 80 mile range. ???????? It does not match what he is saying in this video. ?????
Ok so now the K23 is only being offered as a NEV, but originally it was going to be offered as a full electric car that could go on the highway. After they had some issues, they switched to the NEV model and don't sell this one in the US. If you read the updated description I say "Kandi never released the K23, but instead released a Neighborhood Electric Vehicle version called the NEV-K23 that is limited to 25 mph."
Looks like a Nice car for a good. price. Only $17,999 or less after Fed and State(CA) tax Rebates.
Yeah, I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised by it.
@@TheGentlemanRacer Do you plan to publish extended video with more details once it is unveiled. Any plans to review K27
@@ravimenta9368 I am going to be up at the launch event next week and will be driving the K27, I don't know if I will have a lot of time for a full review as we have some other event stuff happening. But I will be watching both models closely and hope to do some more stories with them. You can see more photos and my write up on www.thegentlemanracer.com
It's interesting that these cars fits US safety norms
Guess they didn’t….
I live in AZ. how good is the AC?
It worked good on this car, however, I don’t think they ever ended up bringing this version to market. They are only offering the Neighborhood Electric Version. This one would so 65-70 mph the NEV only does 25 mph
Unless you are going to owe the government $7500 then it's not worth it. Honestly I would buy one if say the K23 was around the $20,000 price tag. 4 year 50,000 mile warranty and then 62,000 8 year battery seems like the car will last around 3-6 years before it/the battery dies out if you don't live in a city scene. Which again is okay if the batteries are an easy swap out and affordable. The K27 looks like it could be a great car and is a little more realistic on the price and would only need to be around the $15,000. I would drive the K23 for GrubHub hitting around 80-100 miles a day and between $.75-$1.25 a mile is pretty dang good ROI . You're a lucky man to be able to test drive one. I highly doubt they would let me test drive and make a review of one. Cheers though and great review.
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@@TheGentlemanRacer how do you feel knowing that you were probably one of the few that got to actually drive a kandi? I don't think the actual car is ever going to come out since they couldn't get road safety.
@@BrandonsFLUR So when they hired me to do their launch I sat down with them and they told me they had all the DOT stuff pending and that the car was going to be coming out. The car they dropped off for me to test was a pre-production car and honestly, for a first car, it was put together pretty well. But shortly after the launch, all the stuff came out and they switched it to a NEV. It would have been a good cheap city car, the other model which was a copy of a Dahatisu was better looking in my opinion, and I got to drive one of those as well at their location near Dallas. It was really fun to drive and pretty quick, but battery life was only like 50 miles.
@@TheGentlemanRacer I was so excited to buy one as well. Looked really nice, then I bought a bunch of stock hoping that it was going to take off. Now it's a worthless company and lost a lot of money. Lesson learned now I'm excited for Atlis motors.
@@BrandonsFLURyeah, they had a lot of people excited, but it seems like it was mostly all promotion and nothing ever came of it, now they are selling a little OHV truck that looks pretty cool, but I think a lot of people were disappointed the cars never happened. You should be sure to check out Electrify Expo, it is traveling the country this year.
I am getting one.
Cool
I'm in sonoma ca how where can I see buy the k23
So they now are only offering it as a NEV, which means it is limited to 25mph in most states. They are also offering a little electric truck as well called the K32 which is off-road only and not street legal. www.kandiamerica.com/
What is the actual range of the car? You said drive down to Austin. From where?
The range is around 188 miles, like I say in the video I am in Bryan/College Station it is just around 106 miles to Austin.
@@TheGentlemanRacer The range changed from 188 to 111. When you were driving the 106 miles how much battery did you have left?
@@BrandonsFLUR The Kandi I was driving was a pre-production car and perhaps it has a different battery pack, but the literature and everything gave me at the time of filming was all 188 range. I still had around 67 miles of range left after my drive according to the gauge. Obviously with EVs there is a lot that can affect the range.
kewl kar ...
but I got a feeling I'll toss 30K Elon's way
in 5 years for a cheap TSLA instead
Ok you follow the herd then. Original.
Kndi market cap is 600 million = 1/1000th of tsla valution...lol for every
Owing tesla stock right now is like owning a 1687$ investment and getting 1 dollar a year for that investment. I dont care if you like tsla better.. Tesla isnt going to 100x from here..KNDI will..i say 36 months or less. Its 8 bucks a share today by march it will be 25, 30 bucks
Good bet
I thought that the SSangyong Rodius Mk1 was not really nice looking but this is just ... Talking about aquired tastes on design. Probably very roomy (just like the Rodius) but you rarely see a car where the back end is as bad as the front.
It will stand out, that is for sure.
@@TheGentlemanRacer Isn't the linked one (Inmax M2) it's sister car ? , if not , i would lean more favorably toward this model on design : ua-cam.com/video/XDJeEsPMOdc/v-deo.html
Range in cold weather?
I only had the car for a few days, wish I could get it for a long term test.
Is Max speed only 65 mph ? That's what they say on Kandi's website.
So I was told it was 65, but I was able to get up to 72mph while driving on the highway.
Actually the Kandi site says 70mph but glad to hear TGR got it up to 72.
@@TheGentlemanRacer That's a nice surprise since highways in AZ and some other states let you go up to 75 mph
@@Nuggets_Of_Dino Yeah they do on most major roads here in Texas.
Any data on safety?
Since this video, the company has backtracked on its rollout and has started pushing it as a NEV. I don't know when or if they will share any safety or crash test data. According to CNN "However, despite guidance from Kandi America, CNN reporters in China were unable to find any records of crash tests of the K23, K27, or other Kandi models in China. Kandi also did not share its own documentation of crash tests based on either Chinese or US testing standards despite repeated requests from CNN."
The market cap is so undervalued that this is a potential , truly, for 100x your money
How did that work out?
Did you know that these cars have not been crash tested? Are you okay with people driving cars that are not crash tested? A lot of comments on forums after CNN pointed out that they have been trying to get information about crash testing, but they can't get any.
Dean Oura from what I have been told they are undergoing that process in the US now. Obviously they can’t sell them in the US until they have all their federal certifications.
@@TheGentlemanRacer You would think that KNDI would mention they would be going through the process of crash testing to CNN in the most recent interview, but they did not say it.
As far as certification, this is from the CNN article: "NHTSA does not certify companies or cars. Manufacturers themselves must "certify that their products comply with all applicable Federal motor vehicle safety standards and must ensure they are free of safety-related defects," according to a statement from NHTSA.
NHTSA does not proactively test cars before they go on sale in the US, although the agency may check them afterward to ensure compliance, said Coleman Sachs, an auto industry consultant."
Here's the CNN article: www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/success/kandi-10000-electric-car-china/index.html
@@dino8109 I read that story, from what I was told they are getting crash test ratings. What that means and when it will be released, I can't tell you.
What’s the price
Who knows at this point.
Man, you didn't even show the dashboard and the interior
Couldn’t it was “pre-production”
This is the EV investment for 2021.. There is insane, obscene upside potential
So you know now that Kandi is not an EV company, right? I mean they finally admitted that they don't manufacture cars or have a car factory since they don't have a car manufacturing license. Kandi doesn't have any EV technology. They use the technology of the companies they buy it from. It's just golf cart technology anyway. This company is slowly exposing all its fraud. How much have you lost so far on this scam?
Doesn’t look like it panned out as a carmaker
I'd rock it if I win the contest, but these things are going to be dead on arrival once they actually go to market. At $20K - $30K in a market that shuns small (ugly) (Chinese) cars, enough people are not going to buy these to make them relevant. It's all nice and well touting tax credits, but what many people do not understand is that the credit is not magically taken off of the sticker price at purchase (which I think it should like many foreign countries do) and not everyone is entitled to them. If you have no tax liability at the end of the tax year, you won't see a dime of the credit - they simply negate your tax liability. Even if you did get a check for $7500, unless you pay that towards the principle balance of the car, you still paid full price which is why I hate it when companies try to make you think you are getting an EV for such a "low" price. You also have to look at what else is available in the marketplace for that price range. You can get a base Tesla Model 3 for $39K and many other EVs currently available hover in that range as well.Then you have the used market - that kind of money buys you a lot of EV. I'm seeing late model Bolts, i3, Leaf, and even Tesla Model S cars for $20K - $35K on the secondary market. I own and drive an EV and they are awesome, but this is the wrong car at the wrong price at the wrong time in the U.S.
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If I needed a new commuter car, I'd definitely consider this.
It would be a great commuter car
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How did that work out?
Why would somebody buy this car instead of Chevy bolt?
The 2020 Chevy Bolt has a starting MSRP of $36,620. It is a great car but the still around $9,000 less even if you don't use the federal tax credit. I think it is always good to give people more options and let them make the choice.
Battery fires. I don't know this one will happen to the 🍬.
That this is fugly, I just don’t get why most ev’s are so ugly. But at least the vanderhall Edison 2 exists.
Not the prettiest car for sure
That's all fine. But if it's made in China they can keep it!!!
Lots of people feel that way
@@TheGentlemanRacer Good. I'm glad of it. Nothing against the people, mind you. I refrain from buying Chinese goods whenever possible as so much of the money they take in goes directly to the CCP and the military. They steal western intellectual property, and the Virus has killed over 4 MILLION people worldwide, with untold misery for millions more for years to come. I don't think they should be rewarded. And the government is bent on world domination so, NO.
Cheers!