If you drive less than 120 miles on average per day and can charge where you sleep, I can see no reason why this car wouldn't work for most as a commuter car. I agree that I wouldn't rent an EV or take one on road trips unless I could meet those conditions or had a solid charging plan. It is fine to drive the car for its full range (200-240 miles) when needed, it's just that it's better for the battery in the long run to keep it within 20% to 80%. The battery has a 10-year warranty and most reports I've seen show that it ages quite well. I live in Minnesota and my family of four loves our Niro EV. We have the cold weather package with the heat pump and it makes it nicer to drive in the winter than our gas car. Seems like most critiques in this video are solved by charging when you sleep.
You’re correct, and as I said, this doesn’t knock the car itself. People that have done the research what they’re getting into. It’s just a lot of dealerships are up selling it as just an additional model. When purchasing electric car, there’s much more that should be thought and talked about then when buying a gasoline or hybrid car. A lot of people, including in the comments, love to say that it should take 20 to 30 minutes top to charge this car and that is just not the facts in the field that I’ve experienced. When people talk about pricing, they love to say that it’s very cheap but nobody adds. That’s only if you charge at home. I just feel like there’s a lot that’s brushed under the carpet and again I watch a lot of UA-cam videos and I thought that this was going to be a lot of fun and pretty easy because nobody stated otherwise, an electric car is not just another model. It is a whole different product.
@RVGuyss Other comments are probably thinking of other EVs that do charge more fully in 30min. Tesla has faster tech. The point is the Niro would get you enough range to get you home in that time which, most of the time, is all you need. Road trips require more planning with EVs. How did you end up with one for a rental? Definitely seems like a poor fit. You make it sound so difficult in your video but driving an EV is easy and economical. Charge at home for a fraction of the cost of gas. It's also a blast to drive. So much instant power!
@@EGGoodx every time I go on short vacations I like to rent a car to try something new and they offered it to me for a good deal and said that it had 250 mile range, I was kind of excited to try it out because I do watch a lot of different car UA-camrs that have done road trips with electric vehicles that they owned and for some reason the cost or the amount of time it requires to charge in different charging stations wasn’t a big subject. After all the videos, usually the conclusion is that it was cheaper and didn’t add much time to their trip
Besides the fact that it’s a nice car, but I’ve never thought that the charting station would be so problematic, expensive and I only started to realize how many people I’ve met in my life that wouldn’t be able to own a car that they can’t drive on E
This video is very misleading this person has no clue we have had 3 neros there are three models the plug in the hybrid and the gas our hybrid got an average of 63 miles to the gallon on a 5000 mile road trip it's very comfortable and I am a big guy 6'3 250lbs I tell people all the time kia Nero is the best hybrid on the market in its class by far
I appreciate your response, but I don’t think you saw the video. The video is only talking about the full EV electric. And all I’m trying to say is it might be better to get the gasoline or hybrid model, and if you’re thinking of getting just the electric model here’s a few points to think about.
La recharge n'est certes pas rapide ( 40 mn pour 40 kWh )...Mais c'est largement suffisant pour 90 % des utilisateurs ! Je fais de temps à Autre 650 km hors Autoroute, je précise, et je n'ai rechargé que 45 minutes sur tout le parcours pour arriver à destination avec 20 % de batterie! Super confortable et la version premium n'a pas à rougir face à l'EV 3 qui vient de sortir! Voiture bradée à 37 000 € il y a 3 mois !
Er.. That's not a fast charger. That's just wall box (7 - 11 kWh). Fast chargers do 20-80% in 20-30 minutes. You may not think your aircon and heater used your gasoline, but it eats thru just as much energy that you put in the tank as an EV. Additionally, 75% of the money you spend on gas is burned up ( wasted ) due to ICE being so inefficient. Sure it may not work for you, but it's still 85 - 95 efficient versus 20 - 30% for gas engines.
All the Chargers I went to were level 3 chargers including this one in the video I will add the address so you can see, (2005 N Ocean Blvd, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577, USA) at no point throughout this trip did any of the chargers take between 20 to 30 minutes to got to 80% all of them took between 40 minutes to an hour. Obviously in a regular car there is additional consumption of gasoline when using air conditioning or heat. Still on the long drives I had to charge before leaving to %80 and had to stop three more times on the way, I did make it back home 350 mil with 50% but now I need to go charge it to 80% before I return it to the rental service. each time I stopped to charge the car it averaged about $20 per charge. I did meet another two people at fast Chargers that had the same Kia and they also said that their numbers that they were told were completely wrong and that it never takes 20 to 30 minutes to charge. You might be living in a different area with better Chargers and maybe also something's wrong with the consumption of this car but at the end of the day the numbers are very poor and financially it seems like a rip-off.
Kia is adding an adapter in early 2025 so Tesla fast chargers can be used on this car. I have this car in the Wave model and it's not an entry level EV. It's loaded with bells and whistles. I frequently let the car drive itself.
I really appreciate your response, after watching a lot of electric car videos I really thought I was going to have such a positive experience with this car. When it comes to these entry level electric cars, it really feels like the videos are just a pyramid scheme where people already have fallen into it and convincing themselves and others that it's the best thing in the world, sadly the numbers just don't add up.
We have owned a Kia Niro for over 3 years and we love it. Yes there is a learning curve to understand the different chargers and you need to plan your trip and nowhere fast chargers are. To save money you have to have a level 2 charger at home. The car comes with a really nice app to follow your charging so you know how much time's left. With planning we drove from Wichita Kansas to Galveston Texas with no problems at all. We will typically drive a 200 mi at a time before charging. We also installed solar panels to our home so we're getting even more savings. These cars are getting better all the time. There are sold state batteries that will be coming out that will have over 600 mi range You need to live with this car for a while before making any statements about it.
It's easy for you to say if you got plenty money this guy is telling the average poor person not to buy this car and he is right, and I've owned the kia Niro.
I actually own a 2019 Kia NIRO Touring edition. This is a hybrid, no plug in charging. I don’t understand why at this time of ever changing technology, someone would buy a plug in, unless they just go to and from work and have a charger at home. We got the Touring edition for only $17,000 after a trade in of a five year old Subaru Forrester. The NIRO gets a minimum of 52MPG, on local or highway. We have reached an amazing 68.9 MPG, on a 50mile mostly highway trip. The car rides like a dream, has enough power for highways and to keep away from all the speeders. I would never deal with all the unpredictable next generation fads; solid state batteries, hydrogen powered, water powered, etc. The car has been flawless.
I appreciate your comment. I really think the hybrid is the way to go unless as you said this is a second or third car in the house and it goes from a to B and charges at home. I feel like the full EV is not a real car, It is a golf cart with so many limitations. Hopefully in the future, it will be different.
Buy tesla instead or year old polestar, don’t buy this trash. I rented all of them. Tesla can charge at 180 kWh 10% to 100 in 35 mins. And 2022 + also supports ccs , polestar 2 buy only 300 kWh version, it’s awd charges 10 to 90 in 40 mins. And it drives like Mercedes they nailed it. Kia takes 10 to 80 1 hr. And yes charging at home is cheap outside only e go is cheap at certain times with their max plan, electrifying america is 42 cents with plan. Tesla at 36 cents per kWh , if you want to spend 35 k in ev New tesla 3 standard range Rwd ,2023 polestar 2 300 kWh awd or get a gas Corolla . If you drive less. And I own Germans only and I bought polestar 2. Kia ev is $40000 usd charges at 60 kWh max blinks 77 kWh for 1 min after 60% drops at 40 ,80%27,90 % 17 it’s trash .
I own a 2023 Kia Niro EV it's a awesome car great on range. Don't knock it till you try it.
If you drive less than 120 miles on average per day and can charge where you sleep, I can see no reason why this car wouldn't work for most as a commuter car. I agree that I wouldn't rent an EV or take one on road trips unless I could meet those conditions or had a solid charging plan. It is fine to drive the car for its full range (200-240 miles) when needed, it's just that it's better for the battery in the long run to keep it within 20% to 80%. The battery has a 10-year warranty and most reports I've seen show that it ages quite well.
I live in Minnesota and my family of four loves our Niro EV. We have the cold weather package with the heat pump and it makes it nicer to drive in the winter than our gas car. Seems like most critiques in this video are solved by charging when you sleep.
You’re correct, and as I said, this doesn’t knock the car itself. People that have done the research what they’re getting into. It’s just a lot of dealerships are up selling it as just an additional model. When purchasing electric car, there’s much more that should be thought and talked about then when buying a gasoline or hybrid car.
A lot of people, including in the comments, love to say that it should take 20 to 30 minutes top to charge this car and that is just not the facts in the field that I’ve experienced.
When people talk about pricing, they love to say that it’s very cheap but nobody adds. That’s only if you charge at home.
I just feel like there’s a lot that’s brushed under the carpet and again I watch a lot of UA-cam videos and I thought that this was going to be a lot of fun and pretty easy because nobody stated otherwise, an electric car is not just another model. It is a whole different product.
@RVGuyss Other comments are probably thinking of other EVs that do charge more fully in 30min. Tesla has faster tech. The point is the Niro would get you enough range to get you home in that time which, most of the time, is all you need. Road trips require more planning with EVs.
How did you end up with one for a rental? Definitely seems like a poor fit. You make it sound so difficult in your video but driving an EV is easy and economical. Charge at home for a fraction of the cost of gas. It's also a blast to drive. So much instant power!
@@EGGoodx every time I go on short vacations I like to rent a car to try something new and they offered it to me for a good deal and said that it had 250 mile range, I was kind of excited to try it out because I do watch a lot of different car UA-camrs that have done road trips with electric vehicles that they owned and for some reason the cost or the amount of time it requires to charge in different charging stations wasn’t a big subject.
After all the videos, usually the conclusion is that it was cheaper and didn’t add much time to their trip
Besides the fact that it’s a nice car, but I’ve never thought that the charting station would be so problematic, expensive and I only started to realize how many people I’ve met in my life that wouldn’t be able to own a car that they can’t drive on E
This video is very misleading this person has no clue we have had 3 neros there are three models the plug in the hybrid and the gas our hybrid got an average of 63 miles to the gallon on a 5000 mile road trip it's very comfortable and I am a big guy 6'3 250lbs I tell people all the time kia Nero is the best hybrid on the market in its class by far
I appreciate your response, but I don’t think you saw the video. The video is only talking about the full EV electric. And all I’m trying to say is it might be better to get the gasoline or hybrid model, and if you’re thinking of getting just the electric model here’s a few points to think about.
La recharge n'est certes pas rapide ( 40 mn pour 40 kWh )...Mais c'est largement suffisant pour 90 % des utilisateurs !
Je fais de temps à Autre 650 km hors Autoroute, je précise, et je n'ai rechargé que 45 minutes sur tout le parcours pour arriver à destination avec 20 % de batterie!
Super confortable et la version premium n'a pas à rougir face à l'EV 3 qui vient de sortir!
Voiture bradée à 37 000 € il y a 3 mois !
Er.. That's not a fast charger. That's just wall box (7 - 11 kWh). Fast chargers do 20-80% in 20-30 minutes. You may not think your aircon and heater used your gasoline, but it eats thru just as much energy that you put in the tank as an EV. Additionally, 75% of the money you spend on gas is burned up ( wasted ) due to ICE being so inefficient. Sure it may not work for you, but it's still 85 - 95 efficient versus 20 - 30% for gas engines.
All the Chargers I went to were level 3 chargers including this one in the video I will add the address so you can see, (2005 N Ocean Blvd, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577, USA) at no point throughout this trip did any of the chargers take between 20 to 30 minutes to got to 80% all of them took between 40 minutes to an hour. Obviously in a regular car there is additional consumption of gasoline when using air conditioning or heat.
Still on the long drives I had to charge before leaving to %80 and had to stop three more times on the way, I did make it back home 350 mil with 50% but now I need to go charge it to 80% before I return it to the rental service. each time I stopped to charge the car it averaged about $20 per charge. I did meet another two people at fast Chargers that had the same Kia and they also said that their numbers that they were told were completely wrong and that it never takes 20 to 30 minutes to charge. You might be living in a different area with better Chargers and maybe also something's wrong with the consumption of this car but at the end of the day the numbers are very poor and financially it seems like a rip-off.
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Kia is adding an adapter in early 2025 so Tesla fast chargers can be used on this car. I have this car in the Wave model and it's not an entry level EV. It's loaded with bells and whistles. I frequently let the car drive itself.
Thanks for making this point of view, the realest video I seen in a while
I really appreciate your response, after watching a lot of electric car videos I really thought I was going to have such a positive experience with this car.
When it comes to these entry level electric cars, it really feels like the videos are just a pyramid scheme where people already have fallen into it and convincing themselves and others that it's the best thing in the world, sadly the numbers just don't add up.
We have owned a Kia Niro for over 3 years and we love it. Yes there is a learning curve to understand the different chargers and you need to plan your trip and nowhere fast chargers are. To save money you have to have a level 2 charger at home. The car comes with a really nice app to follow your charging so you know how much time's left. With planning we drove from Wichita Kansas to Galveston Texas with no problems at all. We will typically drive a 200 mi at a time before charging.
We also installed solar panels to our home so we're getting even more savings.
These cars are getting better all the time. There are sold state batteries that will be coming out that will have over 600 mi range
You need to live with this car for a while before making any statements about it.
It's easy for you to say if you got plenty money this guy is telling the average poor person not to buy this car and he is right, and I've owned the kia Niro.
I actually own a 2019 Kia NIRO Touring edition. This is a hybrid, no plug in charging. I don’t understand why at this time of ever changing technology, someone would buy a plug in, unless they just go to and from work and have a charger at home. We got the Touring edition for only $17,000 after a trade in of a five year old Subaru Forrester. The NIRO gets a minimum of 52MPG, on local or highway. We have reached an amazing 68.9 MPG, on a 50mile mostly highway trip. The car rides like a dream, has enough power for highways and to keep away from all the speeders. I would never deal with all the unpredictable next generation fads; solid state batteries, hydrogen powered, water powered, etc. The car has been flawless.
I appreciate your comment. I really think the hybrid is the way to go unless as you said this is a second or third car in the house and it goes from a to B and charges at home. I feel like the full EV is not a real car, It is a golf cart with so many limitations. Hopefully in the future, it will be different.
Buy tesla instead or year old polestar, don’t buy this trash. I rented all of them. Tesla can charge at 180 kWh 10% to 100 in 35 mins. And 2022 + also supports ccs , polestar 2 buy only 300 kWh version, it’s awd charges 10 to 90 in 40 mins. And it drives like Mercedes they nailed it. Kia takes 10 to 80 1 hr. And yes charging at home is cheap outside only e go is cheap at certain times with their max plan, electrifying america is 42 cents with plan. Tesla at 36 cents per kWh , if you want to spend 35 k in ev
New tesla 3 standard range Rwd ,2023 polestar 2 300 kWh awd or get a gas Corolla . If you drive less.
And I own Germans only and I bought polestar 2.
Kia ev is $40000 usd charges at 60 kWh max blinks 77 kWh for 1 min after 60% drops at 40 ,80%27,90 % 17 it’s trash .