Living with the Kia E Niro - Is 2000 miles in an EV easy ?!

Hey guys, welcome to Petra, pet and welcome to another electric car, so behind me is a full Kia electric car in a row. I got the car from her for the next two weeks and the last time I tried to live with an electric car it didn't work out. very good and I got a lot of criticism in the comments so I've learned from my mistakes and hopefully over the next two weeks, first of all, I'm sure I'm going to put a lot of

miles

on this car on the first exit. I'm about to get on it and drive 300

miles

to Wales and it has a range of about 250-270 miles so I'll have to charge it on the way but I think this will be an interesting video.

This is how I live with an electric car, take two, okay, now we are on our way, let me give you an idea of ​​my plans for this video. The last time I lived with an Eevee was the Audi e-tron and I had some issues with charging. infrastructure and a lot of criticism, so I have this guillotine for the next two weeks for a variety of things, some of them I will put on YouTube Saab, which I can't do at the moment. I'm on my way to Wales. Fire rack and some jars. I need to pick up a couple of friends and shelters, and Giles and I have a 250 mile range and I know I'll probably have to stop at some point.

A couple of things I've done since last time. I lived with a number one Eevee thanks to all the suggestions. I've downloaded zap map on my smartphone which is great so I'll be able to find the charging stations and number two I think I've signed up to five different charging point companies. by downloading your app, signing up, entering my payment or credit card details, so I have a lot of different options for charging the car when I get to the charging stations, so I hope everything is fine now, let me go over a couple of basic rules on how.

I'm going to get closer to

living

with this car for the next two weeks. Number one. I'm going to use all the things in the car that I would normally use with an internal combustion engine car, so I have air conditioning on if it gets cold. Heated seats Heated steering wheel so I'll use all those things, the other thing is this car has three driving modes, normal eco and sport. In fact, I'll stay in normal mode and see how that affects my fuel economy, but this I really just want to finally see what it's like to get the right miles in a car that's all electric, none of this range extender or hybrid stuff that's going on.

It happens here, a completely electric car. I'm at the mercy of the cargo network, we've arrived. so meet Richard and Alex, let's go to Wales, you won't say anything because it's dark. Damn, I probably wouldn't use this footage because it's dark, but I've still gone 70 miles and still have 183 miles of range. It is brilliant. Ninety-four percent economically massive and probably, although not, it was actually doing reasonable speeds, so we have 183 miles of range left. Oh, one hundred and 96 miles to get there. I think we're going to need a burger stop along the way. Oh, true. Okay, we'll go, we'll get to Telford, yeah, because tell Fitz he's got 50 kilowatts.

Yes, I have a little zap map. You can use that map for me right now. See you when we get there. here we go, no, I have the app, how do I get moving? This isn't funny, this is really one night, what's going on mate, I'm telling you the apps aren't working, you're on Telford services, yeah, plug in your connector. I have, that is an initialization error, the load point fails because there has been an error, can we give it that other one? Yes, it's empty, no, yes, we're going to go to sleep, so this pump is just working.

It's shit, this electric thing, thanks for hooking up. your vehicle in the game again recharging the reload command turn on a song plays it worked fine so Helio Wharton all the vlogs I checked on that map and that charger actually has a fault that's why it didn't connect on the first place and we put a graph on it, but it basically disconnected after half an hour of charging while we were eating something, which is very, very annoying, and I came back out and said it was charging because it had only gotten to fifty. seven percent charge, which was really very annoying, so I'll have to go back in and have another coffee.

These are the things we're finding out, we're still not convinced, you know, okay, the questionnaire has been answered, so we've taken a look. Apparently these eco tricity charges run out after 45 minutes, it's the longest charge you can have, unfortunately we didn't have a lot of charge in the car so I had to plug it in for another 45 minutes, so I'm hoping to find out how much. We have 83% left that will, finally our overnight stop took a little longer to organize the plan because I hadn't realized it was a 50 kilowatt charger, much faster than even if you had a house. charger which would be seven kilowatts so I hadn't realized that I only had a maximum charge of 45 minutes on those eco tricity charging stations and the first charge which is actually 47 minutes and was 99lbs 99p , and then I came back again. plugged in for another half hour so it was six pounds 69p and in the end we think we got there with a range of 2530 miles, we left with just under two hundred miles of range and now we've arrived at our destination in Wales and I think We had about 150 miles of range on the car when we got here and I need a full charge tomorrow so we managed to find an external outlet, just put it on granny's charger to charge overnight, hopefully in the morning .

We'll have as much charge as possible because tomorrow we need as much charge as we can in the car because I have a very long trip tomorrow, but for now I'm absolutely exhausted, so I'm going to sleep well. In the morning, everyone, well, overnight on grandma's cable we managed to get up to 88% charge, which is disappointing but understandable, the more I learn about electric cars, 80% of the charge is in Evi companies quote charging times of up to 80% because my last step is the kind of step that takes a little time, so now I have the car with a 7 kilowatt charger at the destination.

I'm away so I hope we can. We're getting the full load today because we need it because we're going on a road trip, but I won't be able to film it, but next time you see this car in this vlog I'll let you know how I got along, fast forward four days. I'm back in the Kia Narrow in this vlog, which isn't to say I haven't driven it around, in fact the last three days I've spent a huge amount of time on it. car since I bought this car and started this vlog, I have actually put 1,500 miles on it.

I've been sitting in this seat for 35 hours for another porch project and I can't share it with you. I have been using this car for a long time. a lot and, therefore, I have learned a lot about owning, driving and

living

with an electric vehicle. Sitrep where we are at the moment. Now I'm on my way to stay with some friends tonight. Now I can't get to the end. to your house with the current charge, my current state of charge is 68 miles, so I am going to stop at a shell charging station that I found on the SAP map and that is 55 miles away, so I have a bit of anxiety because I'm probably going to get there with about 15 miles of range left, but I'm just trying to maximize my charge, but what I would say is that over the last 4 days I've had very good experiences driving an electric car and a couple. of the not so good ones, like arriving at a charging station where I have very little charge and finding out it wasn't working and then driving another 10km to find a charging station and finding out there was a car plugged in, so those are sometimes the things that can go wrong, but in general they are very, very good, and the rest, this pop.

I just want to take them on the trip that I couldn't take in the last three or four days and with my Kia Hero fabric. so after the week I've had this car I'm getting pretty good at the old range anxiety but I have to say I might be pushing my luck right now because I only have positive Delta around 12 miles so I just pushed the car in Kiko plus mode so it has normal and sport eco and honestly this week I drove on the highway in Eco mode most of the time and now the highest mileage possible and it has done really very well and I just put in eco plus mode and what it does is it limits the top speed of the car to 60 miles per hour and it turns off some of the other auxiliary systems that are likely to drain the charge, so things like the air conditioning and such, I'll just get even more mileage , so I'll run it for 40 miles to get to the next map station and 50 miles in range, so I couldn't see.

I'll do what I like to take it to the The advantage in terms of range in the next box is that you change the way you drive the car so that I can adjust the regenerative braking of the car with some paddles behind the steering wheel so obviously you try to minimize use the accelerator and accelerate smoothly, but when you are entering corners or when you need to just back off if you put the braking zone at a reasonably high level at one of these higher settings while you lift the car's throttle quickly and regain some power to For example, if you're coming off a freeway and you're going to be close to, say, 60 and you use the regenerative braking tip to basically slow the car down on the freeway exit or exiting the freeway, you can make up a half mile or one mile of range just by doing that you end up becoming a real range nerd so that's my take on the e Niro, well the answer is very simple, now I understand why this car is currently receiving so many awards. and applause from the people, it is really very, very good in terms of reach.

I think the daily range is realistic - you're looking at 250 miles from this on a full charge and you know you can drive it pretty normally to be honest, yeah at the moment I mean. You go more but I've been driving it in eco or normal, you can see on a highway at 70 miles an hour, you put the adaptive cruise control on and you can chew up some miles, like I said, I've done a lot. of miles on the car it is very comfortable it is very refined all the things you want in this car in terms of gadgets and technology the touch screen is really

easy

to navigate the satnav works very well you can stream music very easily your smartphone has apple CarPlay if you want, although I haven't actually used it.

As for the interior, I think it looks very good in places. The main board. I think it looks very small. The part that disappoints it for me is just the use. some of the plastics are the best and I guess from a price point of view these cars like the 36 mark or something like that and you know that's a really good price for the car if you compare it to some of the other V's if If you want this kind of range and practicality, you know you need to spend a little more than that semblance of performance.

It won't set your world on fire from a performance standpoint. He is agile if you put him in the sport. It really is very Mindy. I think it's the equivalent of a couple hundred horsepower then or 260 times it's not going to set the world on fire, but you're certainly not going to be left behind a set of lights, so I'm doing pretty well, in fact, I have things from Claude back. I had a positive Delta of 10 miles when I went into Eco plus mode and I have just under 8 miles to go to the charging station and 23 miles of range, so EcoPlus works.

Good clause. I achieved 11 miles of range. I stayed, but I'm not going to reload Shell now. I haven't actually used one of these before, but the best thing about this charging network is that you can use a normal contactless payment card, no need to have an RFID token or an app. on your phone you can pay with a contactless payment card apparently we are going to find out that it is also a ccs connector and charges 50 kilowatts, which is exactly what I want now. I'm pretty low on old battery right now, so I only have four percent battery charge, which isn't the best right now.

One of the things I've learned in the last few days is that you really want to charge the battery when it gets to 20 percent and not let it go any lower because it takes quite a while. It takes a long time to get to 20 percent, so fast charging is quite effective and ranges from 20 to 80 percent. Now I'm going to see if I can sit here and carry as much as possible because I don't think I can. I'm going to be able to charge the car again, but yeah, I'm going to start working and get the graphics on the car, which is a total and absolute, mega

easy

result.

Now everyone should be like this because now on my phone I downloaded it and got it. A lot of shots when I did my Audi e-tron video and I knew that then I was basically learning in front of the camera, which is never good, so I did a lot ofpreparation for this. I downloaded the zap map but I also have apps for eco tricity Ayana t e on polar + polar plus it is a challenge because I need to get an rfid token send it to me and I didn't have a chance to do it before I had the scam you can't pay. that through the app there are a couple of others that you can only pay through a web interface.

It's too complicated. To me, this car is amazing. That map is great for helping you find 50 kilowatt loads like that, which is really what you want. I don't want to use a 7 kilowatt charger because it would basically take forever to charge this car, but then you find a 50 kilowatt charge and then you have to figure out if you have the right app so you know, I think. the average evie owner probably has five different apps registered with money and you know, registering credit card data, that's too complicated, doing it like that, just using your payment card or having some kind of common purpose, you have an app that you can use on all of them, is too fragmented at the moment and I think for me maybe that's where Tesla has achieved it because one of the things that I really liked about Tesla is that when you have a big satnav screen and You can find the nearest supercharging stations, you can see how many charging stations there are which are busy which are working It's very easy: you plug a destination into the satnav and if you don't have the range to get there it automatically directs you via a super charging station.

It's so easy that sat nav on this, if I have one complaint about this car, the sat nav on this, the sat navs are great but the part that finds the charging stations really isn't great at all and I really find it What you want is to connect a destination and it means you don't have enough rain to get there, let me explain this: that will activate the nearest station and optimize the fast charging stations, that would be great, but in a way it doesn't do that, so that these are the things. I'm learning, but we have a 50 kilowatt load.

I'm already at 7%, which is great now. So my car tells me I have 49 minutes at 80% and one hour and 39 minutes to have a full charge. Battery at 100% now I have enough time to spend an hour here. In fact, I'm going to do some editing, so I'm going to go grab a coffee and leave the car charged and hopefully we'll come back and have a Now, where I'm staying tonight with some friends, it's just a few miles up the road, so which should be very easy to get there, so I'm going to have a coffee, so Costa with a Snickers, you see, not just a clamshell scope it's very easy to get your money, put the connector in the car and start charging, but it's also charging this car 72 kilowatts which is the fastest charge I've had since I've had the car and that means I'm already at 24% and I've only been connected for less than 10 minutes so super fast see I'm enormously in love with you, recharged enormously in love, now the toys are youtubers.

I have a video to edit. It has to be available tomorrow night, so leave me like this, I'm busy, I'll even get myself, get me the specs, you know, it's serious, when they gave me the specs, now, there you go, full charge, 100% charge, let's see How many miles do I have? 259 miles of range, 100 percent charged, it's very realistic what you'll get, so it's not my overnight destination. Curiously, big boots bother a lot of things. I'm not going to plug in the car overnight. I know it's ABC, I'm always charging, but my friend's house is there, there's a big long patch of grass, there's no way I can run a cable through it, plus I've only driven 20 miles since I put one in.

It charges 100% there, so ideally it would be on trickle charge overnight. I have a Granny cable in the car just in case, but I'm not doing that and tomorrow I'm going to a meeting that's not too far for me, about 20 miles from here. on my way to a day meeting with my proper job so last night a client I have in this part of the world we didn't go out in the car to go get Indian takeout so we took a few miles out of reach I didn't charge it during the night, like I said, about two hundred and thirty miles range, it's only about 20 miles to get to the clients offices and then this afternoon, after I'd done that, I would have driven to Nottingham to go and visit mum, petrol pet , and now, oddly enough, I'm not sure I can charge it during the day because I need to park the car in a parking lot and it's not the kind of meeting I can get away from.

Taking the car off the charge, but I'm pretty okay with that because by the time I get there I'll have a couple hundred miles of range and I'll see you at the end of the day when we head to Mom's gas bed, well I'll tell you what's up With the weather this week anyway, I finished my work with my client and am now on my way to my trips from Cheltenham to Mum's petrol penthouse near Nottingham, just about a hundred miles. 200 miles of range on the car, so my plan is very simple. I want to get home to see my mom, so I'll drive there without bothering to charge and then put grandma's charger in which it plugs into. 3 pin plug in the wall overnight just to get some charge in and then tomorrow I have to drive from Nottingham home to Chichester and I know I'm going to have to charge but my plan for tomorrow is to find the 50 charger kilowatts about halfway, maybe 3/4 of the way because it should have about a hundred miles of range, welcome to the next day on my little vlog.

Now really interestingly I put this on trickle charging overnight at mom's house petrol Pitt in about a hundred miles range when I got there last night it was trickling charging overnight now it's three in the afternoon so It's been running slowly for quite a while, but I now have a 96 percent battery charge and 252 miles. of range, which Happy Days means I can go the 180 miles back home without having to stop for a load, which is great because it means I have to spend an extra hour on my butt and that makes me a very happy. I've been pretty involved in my journey, in fact I only have about 50 miles left to go, but something pretty interesting is happening, so two things are working against me on the number one range front.

I'm driving a little more aggressively than I am. What I've done so far with this car I'm really looking forward to getting home so I'm pushing a little bit and that's having a pretty interesting effect on my range and then the other thing is the temperatures have dropped quite a bit so it's all about eight degrees outside and that clearly has an impact on battery efficiency the colder it gets the less or less efficient the batteries are so what I bought in this car had a positive five mile Delta rate of 50/50 between range and distance to destination. that is now 13 miles just for the driving star, it is now exactly the same in a petrol and diesel car, if you drive a little further each night, torture, if you drive a little harder you will use more petrol or diesel and it is exactly the same thing in a movie, the hard drive or energy drains you, so as the light fades, I want to close this video by just giving you my final impressions, but it will shed light on a hero and my epic week with the car that I've done.

Just under 2,000 miles in a week on this all-electric Nero and was extremely impressed. The only negative things. I think some of the materials here are a little cheap, but when you look at the price of the car. 36 grand with the range and capability of the car 12 compared to some of its rivals, it is exceptional value, the satnav worked brilliantly, however what I would like it to do is integrate where the charging stations much more effectively. if you put a destination on the SAC map it will route your shots and it will also be optimized to route your fast charging stations and make it easier to find charging stations with that satnav.

I ended up using the SAP map instead of using Being a Satna car, so I don't care about that, so the last thing I won't care about about this car is that the headlights are not good at all and I think nowadays you get used to buying headlights xenon and LED, a beautiful white color. Bright, these are quite dull, orange in color and the low beam really isn't very good at all, so I have no idea if that's an option to make the poor guys energy efficient, but they just aren't. Good enough for me, but that's what you really know, the rest of the car.

I think it looks very good, could be a little more edgy but overall a very very impressive car, lovely to drive. Findings in terms of coexistence with the car. In such a long period of time, I have learned more about graphics infrastructure. I have more apps, etc. I have found it much easier to live with. Yes, you have to plan your stops. Yes, it's a pain, you have to stop. the law, especially if you have a charging station, backfires on you. You arrive at only one children's station and there is already a car there, which happened to me this week and is very annoying.

My main criticism is that it is too fragmented, there are too many different charging networks. companies and you have to have a card or an app for each one and it's a pain, it's necessary D, there has to be a lot more type of synergy between all of them and just put them all under one umbrella or just allow me to use my credit card or minimize my contactless payment, but I hope you enjoyed this video. I must thank Key UK for letting me have the car for a couple of weeks. I really enjoyed living with a car.

I'm getting there in terms of understanding that I own it every day. I don't think it would be there for me personally for my travel profile but if I was only doing local trips this is a brilliant car to drive but I would enjoy it but if I have done it please give me a thumbs up in the comment to next, you will always be welcome if you already have tons, subscribe to gasoline gasoline Puente for more content and I will see you in the next movie guys, but when you are careful, drive carefully.