I'd never heard of Aptany tyres, so looked them up on tyre reviews. They came in last place when tested against 12 other tyres, with the comments mentioning long braking distances and poor handling both wet and dry! I can't comprehend fitting tyres like that to a banger, let alone a fairly new car!
If it's been on lease and been taken into Kwik Fit or Halfrauds, I'll bet the lease company tells them to lob on any old crap. My other half is on the Motability scheme and they have a habit of doing just this. Lots of members moan about their worn Michelins getting replaced with iffy ditch finders. Rightly so in my opinion. No substitute for decent tyres.
2:04 think those are the Korean badges for Kia, a few owners on the forums I follow put those on. Not really my taste but hey Liquorice Allsorts. And also less than 9,000 miles (100,000 or 7 years) left on the warranty, still least it's been serviced regularly which is good.
Great video Matt, This is the only EV I'd buy with my own money, test drove one a couple years back and really liked it..true range on the dash, nippy and not a bad looking car and that warranty is a winner..👍
I'm sure you've made the right decision. I've owned one from new since March 2019, so coming up 5 years. It has been faultless, only two minor bits of warranty work needed, a window switch and a mirror that wouldn't fold in. Now done 97,000 km (we live in France)...just smooth, quiet and trouble free motoring that costs virtually nothing to run...last year the solar panels on my roof covered all our 21,000 km of driving. Enjoy!
You shouldn’t leave an EV plugged into a CCS overnight. They charge up rapidly on these and EV etiquette is move your car off a CCS as soon as its charged (even better etiquette is to charge to 80%). Forgiven as you are a beginner but something to note for the future.
That’s one of the reasons I got rid of my EV. Vehicles left overnight fully charged on rapid chargers. Also one of the reasons to go for a Tesla as that that’s rarely a problem with their charging network.
I can see that is going to be issue right there....having an "EV etiquette" to only charge to 80%, where is that written down? I can see a lot of Charger Rage coming if that's what's going to be expected. I can put as little or as much fuel in my car as I want and nobody cares. Sorry but if you came up to me and said my cars charged to 80% the EV etiquette is to move off...the air is going to turn a bit blue.
@@Jackster4505it’s also not good for your battery life to repeatedly charge to 100% on CCS. Sadly the world is full of people with your mindset, so these arguments are already happening at EV chargers.
@@Jackster4505 EVs charge most quickly to 80% , then the last 20% takes longer. I wouldn't call the 80% etiquette, more practicality when charging on the road. Home charging, you can leave it on all night.
@@rurintojas A mark 7 and mark 8 golf. A mark 8 Fiesta ST Line. A mark 8 Focus ST (did have a dodgy gearbox though). A mark 5 Renault Clio. A hybrid Hyundai Ioniq. A hybrid Niro. A fully electric Niro. And a mark 2 Nissan Leaf.
Will be worth £1,500 at age 7 if lucky. Plus the solid state batteries are coming in making these old lithium- ion outdated and obselote within 3 - 4 years. I would only ever lease a current EV, i dont want the problem of getting rid of a purchased car. Matt, have you looked into offering a used lease service?.
I have the sister car to the Niro, the Ioniq (self-charging hybrid), and it's been tremendous. Smooth, quiet and reliable. That said, I'm 60 and don't understand EVs at all!
Regarding the charging price, be aware, most public chargers charge a blocking fee, a cost of around 9p a minute, so people will be charged if using the space when the car is not charging / charged - blocks the charger for other users. Most public DC chargers allow 90 mins stay and AC chargers (up to 22kw) 4 hours. CCS is Combined Charging System, which means you can use both AC / DC chargers.
Great to see you again dip your toes in the waters of the EV's. Drove a Kia niro hybrid for 2 years before switching to a full Kia Niro EV in the same trim like the one you had. Great car, except when you want to go on a long trip (abroad of the Netherlands) or go on holliday with 4 adults (just not big enough). But for living in the Netherlands, that's smaller in size then GB and has more charging points, a great choise with still no road tax.
@@TheAdamRBell Thank you, I did for my Kia Niro (20% more trunk space) and also put a frunk in the front. Last year I bought the Skoda Enyaq IV, now I've enough room 😉.
Should have left them on as they are more exclusive than the standard ones. Also the 3D plates aren't really that bad and the new owner might like them!
I did 120k in my e-Niro before I swopped for a Niro EV, for charity I did a max range test around the city of Nottingham. On a full charge I did 407 miles, could have pushed it further but challenge was 400 miles and `I was tired. Yes, boring, but absolutely a brilliant car. And that was with 117k on the clock so no battery deterioration at all.
Loving that you're trying out more EV's. I didn't laugh when you where trying to suss out the charger. It's something me and my connections on LinkedIn have been discussing; a lot of dealers have little or no experience of using or living with an EV. It's then difficult to then share that knowledge with your buyers. At least you're gaining more experience. There will come a time when at least 50% of your stock will be an EV. Incidentally, a friend of mine has an E-Niro and often manages 300 miles in the summer and 250 miles in the winter. Another one (TH-cam channel Mr EV) bought a used one from auction recently. His experience with his is worth a watch.
Yet another interesting and enjoyable video. My brother from Dorset, bought a Kia Niro EV - think he bought it new around 18 months ago and swears by it. He has a home charger and admittedly it's primarily used for school and shopping runs but he regularly takes holidays in your neck of the woods (Peak District, Lake District, York) and only once has he had to move on to an alternative charging site - no spaces I seem to recall. If only Volvo produced a fully electric V90 estate I would make the switch from my trusty 17 year old V70 2.4D. Hope you swiftly find a new owner for the Kia.
I've had heavy vehicles with long lasting tyres and I had a lightweight ( by modern standards) mk 1 gti which ate tyres. So im not convinced the weight has that much to do with tread wear.....hard acceleration and wheelspin would cause wear though. So would alignment and suspension issues.
If you do semi regularly have EVs would be worth getting a charging point at your forecourt would cost you less thank a 1/4 of what you are paying at the fast charger. Keep up the good work
Regarding EVs I had a totally new experience today . Range anxiety by proxy . I got on an electric bus . No sooner had I sat down then the driver got a low charge warning and told everyone to get off . Range anxiety by proxy
For me, EV guy, that was fun lol 🤣 "I hate technology" that was something for car guy like you 😁 But seriously, thanks for video. Such a mileage on this Niro! Im slowly healing after decades of ICE cars, where 90k miles is death sentence for many cars, but EV is different beast isnt?
I’d always be put off buying a car that’s only had 1 new tyre as it makes it seem like the car was run on a shoestring. Bit different with an ev as there isn’t really any oily bits to service. Always replace them in pairs unless the other side is only 1 or 2mm worn.
Please only charge to 80% unless you need it! The battery will last much longer if you don't constantly keep it at 100% SoC. Also, if the charger says it'll be charged in an hour, come back in an hour. It's like me parking my car at a fuel pump and heading to do a full grocery shop, just blocks the charger if anyone else were to need it.
Shouldn't leave ev on rapid for couple hours your meant to only use them to top up lots chargers companies fine you leaving your car on for more than 90 minutes
I’ve got a MK1 MG ZS EV. lol no one normal does that many miles in an EZ he said! . I done 27k last year. Just coming to replace tyres on 53k. Breaks are barely worn 5% front 15% rear. Can’t wait to ditch it! The inconvenience of charging with long trips is too much. With public charging it’s now more expensive than my precious 4 cars. I love driving them, just awesome. With a better range, better charging speed, charger availability and reliability I’d then go back. You can’t beat how quickly these things heat up in the winter. Just sucks that it costs your range!
I had an early one and got the full discount, £3500 from MG and £3500 from the government, mine was 20 reg and only worth 10K now, but loved the car, currently leasing an Ora funky cat until technology catches up
doesn't cost you much range, no difference to an ice, its just not as obvious in an ice. wait for Sainsbury's and asda to launch their own charging networks, should make a dent in the cost
UK isn't part of EU, but EU comes with a new law that will prohibit rip of at public chargers. You can pay anyway you like, such as apps or plastic/mobile. The price will still varie between 50/75/150/300 kWh, but "theft at the pump" should be over.
@@robertdemeny251 That's right, I live in France and have owned an EV since 2019. For the first couple of years the public charging situation was chaotic but since 2022 it has been brilliant. France is a big place and we have family in the UK and Switzerland so long hauls are normal for us. The price has come down since Tesla opened their network and I can get €0.43/kWh there and around €0.50 at Ionity/Total/Engie etc. On a recent trip down to Spain I never even bothered to use the app to plan the trip as every services has at least half a dozen chargers...South west France where we live to Zurich is the next big trip as another grandchild is due to turn up soon..😊
Just bought a 2011 2.0 Kia sportage 167k miles (but seems like it’s been well looked after) for £2.2k - I know you said you sell them a lot Matt so I thought they must be alright. Been very impressed with it so far! Seems like an amazing amount of car for the money
Great review thanks 👍👍 Wow, £52 for 200ish miles. That's nearly double the mileage cost of a similar diesel car. Yes, home charging is cheap, but think of all those homes that don't have off street parking/charging
I used I run an Evo IV, 2.0 turbo charged 4WD, could only be run on 99 Octane fuel which was not easy to come by. It had a small tank & a big thirst, barely managing 200 miles on a tank. This EV essentially has similar running costs & range as a very thirsty performance car. This to me isn't progress.
Only 30% of UK households don't have off street parking. Of this 30% how many have access to charging at work? For balance my 10,000 EV miles on home charger cost me £40 last year due to free at work charging.
@@mumbles87 I'm sorry but the 30% figure sounds far too low to me, and of the 30% how many people actually have a useable driveway, especially with multi car households,and how many have a home charger? It's the same with garages. Friend of mine has a new build, tiny driveway & the garage would struggle to fit a VW Up nevermind his fairly small A3. Your situation isn't everyone's situation, don't be surprised if the free at work charging ends when your workplace figures out how much you're costing them.
@mumbles87 I get your point but only 30% thats over 8 million households without access. The uk isn't ready for ev yet. Hopefully things will change otherwise parts of the country will be like Havana with 40 year old cars.
Looks like a late 1st Edition or a 4+. The colour will be Midnight Blue or something like that. In bright sunlight, it’ll appear to be metallic navy and on a cloudy day, it’ll appear black. I reckon the odd decals, were a Canadian fad. It’ll have a 7kW converter, Type-2 slow charging at apx. 6.4kW and CCS fast charging at a max. 73kW.
Charge at home is the only way - if you can’t, then electric cars are not for you yet. 😊 In my opinion, electric cars are not for people that do many miles in a day. If your commute is less than 150 miles (i hope it is) and if you have a driveway, than you are the perfect person to own an EV. In the long run, it will be cheaper than a petrol (btw this is if you are now looking to swap for another car, if you aren’t, then don’t go out spending money on a newer car as it it will still be more expensive than just keeping what you have) . If you do a lot of miles and you must own an EV - get a tesla - cheaper charging, better infrastructure (in the UK and US!
All night plugged into a DC charger, the ICE equivalent of those people who park on a petrol pump buy a basket full of groceries and don’t buy any fuel whilst you’re sat waiting ages for them to come out..Cheers Matt 😆
The reason why there are so many Niro EVs as Ubers or other Private Hire vehicles is because they were offered on a REALLY cheap lease deal on them including a high mileage allowance. No brainer really when many Uber drivers were whizzing around in older diesel Toyotas that no longer meet the ULEZ standards and saves them from paying £21.50 in ULEZ and Congestion Charge zones, plus the savings in fuel as well.
@@MyRealName...but not in Britain, the letters and numbers are flat on the style of plate we know today and it's been like that for years. Raised characters look really tacky and 'chavvy' (Google that if you don't know what it means). There's no need to spend a single penny on getting a licence plate with raised characters unless you want people to know you're a knob. You can also in Britain get cut down plates that are shorter than standard, they too give people an indication that you're a helmet.
@@chrisguest778 I know what chavvy means and I guess in that context it makes sense. But the way Brits talk about it, it's like having a massive spoiler and a huge fartcan tailpipe on a 90s Civic, it can't be THAT bad right?
Yep, have the newer Niro EV and a new E Up on order. Its arriving next week. Love the KIA. 30000 km per year at 260 euro per year. Hard to argue with the numbers, but they're not for everyone.
These are fantastic cars. I rented one and I was incredibly impressed. I particularly loved the paddle shifter type regenerative breaking paddles on the steering wheel. I currently have a Polestar 2 That does not have that and it’s absolutely absurd. I was Getting excellent efficiency, they are actually rather quick six seconds to 60 and even an Eco mode you could spin the tires like a madman.. The major problem I had was the 12 V battery on my rental kept dying if I left the doors open for like a minute without without putting it in utility mode. Apparently this is an extremely common problem and the 12 V battery is tiny.
You may have seen Vauxhall owners in the UK swap the badge out for an Opel one, like it makes the car look better. That's exactly what those badges are for Kia.
Obviously not proud to be a Kia owner. Should have put genesis ones on it. No one is being fooled. It's still a Kia. I once put ST badges on my 1.6 focus. God only knows why. Swapped them back before selling.
I've been driving EVs for a decade indeed your first charging experience was hilarious taking me back when things were even more challenging :) However, if you are lucky enough to have a garage, will it fit? One of the biggest challenge as UK is the garage-unfriendly width of newer cars and the Niro EV at 1805 mm wide is surprisingly narrower than many of its contemporaries with the 2039 mm BMW i3 1945 mm Renault Zoe 1900 mm Fiat 500e , 1960 mm Vauxhall Corsa-e and 1928 mm mini
Thanks for the video. I was intrigued by your adding the electric charging cost in your summary as I don't ever recall your listing petrol or diesel in summaries for other cars. Apart from holdouts in the niche Japanese EV sector, everybody uses a CCS charger and there should be no issue plugging into a charger that has more capacity than your car can handle. The car will draw down just what it can take.
Should be around £20-25(fast chargers) and £16-20(slow chargers)for a full charge. I'm sure most chargers have a 70 minute limit. And if you go over you pay a fine of £10-20, depending where you are...
A car I bought recently had a full set of Aptanys. The following weekend I had them changed for Bridgestones! It bugs me when people put budgets on an SUV/Family car.
Is it just me or is this the 3rd time it’s been the first time you’ve visited the EV charger haha. I hope there’s a really interesting old petrol or diesel car coming to the channel to join the ML after all this electric stuff lately!!!
I have been in Almeria since early January and most evenings I have been checking out EVs good points bad point etc and the most common faults apart from clowns endeavoring to slag them of with tails of woe and doom ladened stories about battery degradation, range, etc. I've read/watched so much I feel I'm something of an expert ( more than Matt anyway 😂) so this particular car WILL do 230 miles on a full charge. It's battery is warranted for 120,000 miles, Kia will replace it it's efficiency drops to 70% and that particular car is 5 star rated. So for me a simple retired pensioner who's annual milage is 3800 miles. So that is 15 charges per year. 1 kwl/hour @ 18p x 64 = 12 quid for me personally it's a no brainier electric for me
@@goldieandblackie Thanks for the reminder. How the government are to replace the income they now enjoy from the motorists has yet to be revealed. They need £25bn from somewhere.
If you'd waited with the car for half an hour, you'd have got 150 miles of range into it, no need to leave it any longer than that, especially on a rapid. Oh, and it'll definitely do the 240 miles it said it would. Kia and Hyundai EVs are the most honest there are in that regard. It's all a learning curve, and not a difficult one ;-)
@@iboswell You don't want to wait, don't get an electric car. Most EV drivers don't spend any time waiting. They got home at night, plug it in, and go inside their house. Zero time spent waiting.
When you tested the Kia soul ,I suggested the Kia Nero is better ,so now you know. Got to have home charging because using public chargers is expensive. Kia is a good electric car and 7 year warranty.
CCS- Combined charging system. It's the combination of the Type 2 port (which you'd use to AC charge at home) and the two big pins at the bottom for a DC connection straight to the battery The 50kW and 150kW designation on the chargers are for the max charge rate they can output. The car should/can work on any of them, there was probably just some kind of error with the 150kW you tried. With that being said, the e-niro can only accept a max of ~75kW, so plugging into anything more than a 100kW unit is entirely useless, you're just blocking up a faster charger for a car that can accept it. We have an epidemic here in the US of Chevy Bolts that can only charge at 50kW plugging into 350kW chargers and sitting there for ages. DC/Rapid chargers are really only meant for topping up during a trip, or if you need a little juice to make it somewhere. They're *really* not meant for parking the car up at overnight, that's what AC/home charging is for. DC Charging is meant to charge up really quickly to ~80%, then you move on. 100% DC charging takes ages, you should really only do it if you *really* need it to make it somewhere (really only a problem on older short range EV's like early Leafs), and a lot chargers have idle fees specifically to stop people from parking there overnight or for hours at a time and blocking them (which might explain the cost of your charge if you left it overnight) You should probably install a cheap EVSE at your forecourt. Better than dealing with public chargers, can have them topped off if someone wants to test drive it, or etc. Even a cheap portable EVSE would be better than nothing. EV Cable Shop UK sells 20 Meter long Type 2 AC cables so you don't even have to move cars around to plug in. And it would save you money in the long-run if you keep buying EV's On a lot of EV's, you can check the reported battery health with a bluetooth OBD2 reader and a specific app for that vehicle. The Leaf (and maybe a few others) have a direct battery health readout in the display, and on Teslas you can enter service mode and do a battery health test if you leave it on a Level 2 (home AC) charger for 24 hours.
He probably did, but the car loses around 1 percent every 3-4 days, because it is permanently online for a few days and then goes to sleep, but the electronics will still slightly drain it over time.
From what I could see, it wasn't your fault with the charger. It should have worked, but unfortunately some chargers don't work consistently. There's a lot of complications - the numerous combinations of cars and chargers. Some cars just flat out refuse to work with some makes of chargers. As you've discovered rapid charging in 2024 is very expensive - if you're leaving it overnight, then you should leave it charging at work or home (although if you're using the 3pin plug that will take ages). The e-niro is an excellent car and the 3 version was my first foray into electric motoring. I now have the top spec 4+. The 3 doesn't come with the heat pump which can reduce its winter range slightly. The 4+ can do 250 in winter and both can do 280-300 in summer. It's fascinating to see you discover EVs and how to charge them etc when you've done no research before getting in one.
Like that. I love a good quality high miler. It’s the value they offer. Bought myself a near mint 18 plate Alfa Giulia diesel with 115k on the clock for £10k a month ago. Looks nothing like its mileage, and doesn’t drive like it either. Plan to run it for 2 years and will probably add another 30-40k in that time.
@@pawefiett2468not necessarily, most dealerships aren’t touching used EVs with a barge pole, hence why Matt got a used 3 year old SUV for £12k. Petrol cars of that age are far more expensive
@@reececollison5101there's actually a big market for used EVs and lower prices are a good thing for the consumer, another plus point for dealers selling them on they need little to no work doing as theres very little to go wrong ( even on high mileage lease vehicles ) so it's a quick turnaround, get a high mileage fossil fuel car and you can be looking at a variety of issues. As someone who's had plenty of fossil fuel cars and the last 5 years a EV I can tell you EVs are far cheaper to maintain and far less stress than the fossil fuel cars I've had in the past !
@@Brian-om2hh it won’t happen, it just won’t. They can say 2035 all they want, the infrastructure is woeful and at least 40+ years away from being even remotely ready
There were no diesel eNiro's Matt. There were standard hybrid, plug-in hybrid and full electric... The blue accents denote the car as being the full electric version Matt. The hybrid versions don't have the blue accents. It might be a good idea to carry out a battery check via the car's diagnostic socket, using an OBD device. This means you can then get a print-out of the battery's SOH (state of health ) in percentage terms. Even at 90k miles, it may still show 90% state of health. It'll be a good selling point, as potential buyers may well ask about the battery..... Just seconds after the charge began, the car was charging at 39kw, which is almost 6 times quicker than a 7kw home charger. This is a much better proposition than the Soul you have/had..... You'd get 200 miles on a full charge every time Matt. In warmer weather it will be 10 to 20 miles more, no problem..... A good buy for someone, as this Kia still has around 3 year's warranty left on it..... Those public chargers won't be the cheapest to use Matt. The cheapest way by far, is to charge at home on an off-peak tariff. Charging my eNiro usually costs me around £6 to £7 at 7.5p per kwh, and that often does me well over a week. British Gas have just introduced a new off-peak tariff, priced at 4.5p per kwh, which would reduce charging costs even further....If I stuck with charging at home exclusively (which I try to do) I could cover 1000 miles of general town and country driving for less than £40......
Kia is a very popular car across Asia. The badge you don't like is the Asian Kia logo. The 7y warranty expires at 100k miles. When the main battery level falls below 15% it stops maintaining the 12v battery. One of the reasons you hear of complaints of 12v failures.
I'm the perfect potential customer for an EV. I do low mileage, mostly local journeys. I have a drive and providing a charger would be so easy. I'm very lucky and could easily afford one of those city cars. The only thing is I'll never ever buy one. They are an environmental disaster waiting to happen. A Hybrid would be a consideration but it seems the powers that be would frown on those. And, before anyone considers calling me an enviromentalist, I'm petrol and diesel all the way until a proper alternative arrives. 500 miles in a diesel as you know would take about 5 minutes and be cheaper at a filling station. No need to send a young child mining Lithium with all the horrors that entails. Lithium is a finite resource and will become incredibly expensive especially when the countries who control it, and ultimately have your worse interests at heart, start manipulating the cost. God help the National Grid in the UK who struggle to provide electric when Coronation Street finishes and everyone fancies a cup of tea. Your channel is fantastic I never miss an episode and apologies for the rant!
If you plan to use public chargers a lot, then it's as well to take out a subscription to the network. This can save you anything from 20 to 40% on the cost.....
@@rdl1972 Correct. The best (and cheapest) time to charge is through the night on an off-peak tariff, because you won't ever need your car while you sleep...
Good job on replacing those number plates, but you should re-make new ones with a green strip for extra benefits, like usage of a bus lane, free entry to emissions free zones and free parking.
Hi Matt, I live in Canada, the really cold bit, Saskatchewan, minus 40 some times. EVs will NEVER be trusted here, one could easily freeze to death. Everyone I speak to are of same opinion, not city folk granted, but even so, with current government being such crap 😭🤬 the power grid will not cope.
I own a 2022 hybrid and it's a fantastic car. I think you are wrong about a diesel, I'm pretty sure they didn't make one. It wasn't pulling to the left, it's the active lane assist
I'm curious about the replacement tyre. My stepson has a Polestar EV and the tyres used on it are different because they are designed to produce less noise. I just wondered if this is the case for all EV's?
I nearly bought this car but will wait until I’ve sold mine now as it’s easier. The takeaway from this is the number of miles it’s travelled and how little needed to be done to it for a sale. Other than the tires it’s very low maintenance. I suspect there will be more EV vids coming.
I ran one for 2 years, a 2022 model on a business lease. They eat tyres on the front. From new I'd get around 300 miles in warm weather but be prepared to lose around 30% of your range in cold weather. Mileage indicator can be particularly unreliable in freezing conditions, which caught me out twice, dropping from around 45miles to showing zero miles in seconds. Would I have another one... Err, no!
Hi Team, Thank you for reply in the past you always have but not the last 2 or 3 about the Clio. Just to tell you we have double the worth of the car by having the Timing belt done. Thanks Again.
I can't believe you don't like 3D number plates. Mine have extra pink glitter and they look great. I'm sure you'll come round to them at some point. They are definitely the future.
It looks cool not gonna lie, and always reminds me of Robert De Niro 100% of the time xD Great video and work as always Matt! :D I quite like the indicator sound!
Funnily enough contrary to the UK in my country (The Netherlands) 3d regplates are considered posh and upmarket. Having no 3d regplates is often correlated with "peasantry"
The latest version is much better looking. I do 12000 miles a year in my VW ID3 and with a home charger it's only costing me about £550 a year in electricity
You can use any CCS charger. The Niro isn't really going to benefit from anything over 50kW but it should work on bigger ones without an issue. Really, you only needed to stay for a few minutes and put in enough power to get you to a 13A plug that you could leave it on for several hours. Better still, borrow someone's home charger that's on an EV tariff as that's a fraction of the price. It's often ten times more expensive to charge at a public charger than at home on an EV tariff.
You don’t use a DC charger for a couple of hrs ! 1 hr max or you’ll get overstay fee, DC only to 80% for speed
This is why sometimes I can’t charge since some fully charged ev stays there hours.
I'd never heard of Aptany tyres, so looked them up on tyre reviews. They came in last place when tested against 12 other tyres, with the comments mentioning long braking distances and poor handling both wet and dry! I can't comprehend fitting tyres like that to a banger, let alone a fairly new car!
I would think EV have hard noisy tyres, so perf. will suffer.
Have they been on the car from new? Strange to have crap-tastic tyres from new
We have a load of hybrid and electric Nero's at my work. Most of them are on Michelins and I think that's what they came with new.
@@Mute_Nostril_Agonyno. Not with 90,000 miles on the car that's for sure.
If it's been on lease and been taken into Kwik Fit or Halfrauds, I'll bet the lease company tells them to lob on any old crap. My other half is on the Motability scheme and they have a habit of doing just this. Lots of members moan about their worn Michelins getting replaced with iffy ditch finders. Rightly so in my opinion. No substitute for decent tyres.
Those emblems are actually the Kia logo but the ones used in Korea.
@--Warlord--can’t be, it’s right hand drive
@--Warlord--Would’ve shown on car vertical if it was an import
@--Warlord-- Considering there were international kia badges in the trunk, I doubt it.
@--Warlord-- Why didnt it show on the 'vehicle checker' ?
Some Kias here in the States also uses that very same emblems
0:29 No Kia Niro diesel by the way, only full EV, hybrid and plug-in hybrid
2:04 think those are the Korean badges for Kia, a few owners on the forums I follow put those on. Not really my taste but hey Liquorice Allsorts.
And also less than 9,000 miles (100,000 or 7 years) left on the warranty, still least it's been serviced regularly which is good.
Great video Matt, This is the only EV I'd buy with my own money, test drove one a couple years back and really liked it..true range on the dash, nippy and not a bad looking car and that warranty is a winner..👍
I'm sure you've made the right decision. I've owned one from new since March 2019, so coming up 5 years. It has been faultless, only two minor bits of warranty work needed, a window switch and a mirror that wouldn't fold in. Now done 97,000 km (we live in France)...just smooth, quiet and trouble free motoring that costs virtually nothing to run...last year the solar panels on my roof covered all our 21,000 km of driving. Enjoy!
You shouldn’t leave an EV plugged into a CCS overnight. They charge up rapidly on these and EV etiquette is move your car off a CCS as soon as its charged (even better etiquette is to charge to 80%). Forgiven as you are a beginner but something to note for the future.
That’s one of the reasons I got rid of my EV. Vehicles left overnight fully charged on rapid chargers. Also one of the reasons to go for a Tesla as that that’s rarely a problem with their charging network.
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I can see that is going to be issue right there....having an "EV etiquette" to only charge to 80%, where is that written down? I can see a lot of Charger Rage coming if that's what's going to be expected. I can put as little or as much fuel in my car as I want and nobody cares. Sorry but if you came up to me and said my cars charged to 80% the EV etiquette is to move off...the air is going to turn a bit blue.
@@Jackster4505it’s also not good for your battery life to repeatedly charge to 100% on CCS. Sadly the world is full of people with your mindset, so these arguments are already happening at EV chargers.
@@Jackster4505 EVs charge most quickly to 80% , then the last 20% takes longer. I wouldn't call the 80% etiquette, more practicality when charging on the road. Home charging, you can leave it on all night.
Hiya Matt. CCS stands for combined charging system. AC +DC.
I love the Niro, one of the best cars I've ever driven, driven the hybrid and several of the EV's. VERY quick off the line in sport mode
The eNiro is a comfortable motorway car.....
I would love to see what cars have you driven because this is a strong statement.
You don’t get out much so by the sounds of it
@@rurintojas A mark 7 and mark 8 golf. A mark 8 Fiesta ST Line. A mark 8 Focus ST (did have a dodgy gearbox though). A mark 5 Renault Clio. A hybrid Hyundai Ioniq. A hybrid Niro. A fully electric Niro. And a mark 2 Nissan Leaf.
Another person that has helped to destroy the UK car manufacturing sector and put the UK into recession.
I might be wrong but according to Kia website EV battery is guaranteed for 7 years
or 100k miles.
unlimited miles up to 36 months then 100,000 from 37 to 84 months, but providing you only charge from 20% to 80 % it will last many years
Correct.. 👍👍 and it won't suddenly stop working at 7 years and one day old, as some might have you believe.....
It’ll be fine!
Will be worth £1,500 at age 7 if lucky. Plus the solid state batteries are coming in making these old lithium- ion outdated and obselote within 3 - 4 years. I would only ever lease a current EV, i dont want the problem of getting rid of a purchased car. Matt, have you looked into offering a used lease service?.
@@Brian-om2hhBut will have much reduced range. Potential 100 miles max.
I have the sister car to the Niro, the Ioniq (self-charging hybrid), and it's been tremendous. Smooth, quiet and reliable. That said, I'm 60 and don't understand EVs at all!
I have driven a Niro, it was effortless! Although, i'm still to be sold on electric vehicles! Another fab video. Best wishes!
Regarding the charging price, be aware, most public chargers charge a blocking fee, a cost of around 9p a minute, so people will be charged if using the space when the car is not charging / charged - blocks the charger for other users. Most public DC chargers allow 90 mins stay and AC chargers (up to 22kw) 4 hours. CCS is Combined Charging System, which means you can use both AC / DC chargers.
Great to see you again dip your toes in the waters of the EV's. Drove a Kia niro hybrid for 2 years before switching to a full Kia Niro EV in the same trim like the one you had. Great car, except when you want to go on a long trip (abroad of the Netherlands) or go on holliday with 4 adults (just not big enough). But for living in the Netherlands, that's smaller in size then GB and has more charging points, a great choise with still no road tax.
Try taking all the false floors and foam/polystyrene parts out of the boot. It's massive
@@TheAdamRBell Thank you, I did for my Kia Niro (20% more trunk space) and also put a frunk in the front. Last year I bought the Skoda Enyaq IV, now I've enough room 😉.
those badges are I think Korean "Kia" in the domestic market if I remember
Looks like the badge on the newer models like the EV6.
I thought they looked nice then the standard one
Should have left them on as they are more exclusive than the standard ones. Also the 3D plates aren't really that bad and the new owner might like them!
I did 120k in my e-Niro before I swopped for a Niro EV, for charity I did a max range test around the city of Nottingham. On a full charge I did 407 miles, could have pushed it further but challenge was 400 miles and `I was tired. Yes, boring, but absolutely a brilliant car. And that was with 117k on the clock so no battery deterioration at all.
Loving that you're trying out more EV's. I didn't laugh when you where trying to suss out the charger. It's something me and my connections on LinkedIn have been discussing; a lot of dealers have little or no experience of using or living with an EV. It's then difficult to then share that knowledge with your buyers. At least you're gaining more experience. There will come a time when at least 50% of your stock will be an EV.
Incidentally, a friend of mine has an E-Niro and often manages 300 miles in the summer and 250 miles in the winter. Another one (TH-cam channel Mr EV) bought a used one from auction recently. His experience with his is worth a watch.
Could you repeat that it wasn't long enough..nobody read
Yet another interesting and enjoyable video.
My brother from Dorset, bought a Kia Niro EV - think he bought it new around 18 months ago and swears by it. He has a home charger and admittedly it's primarily used for school and shopping runs but he regularly takes holidays in your neck of the woods (Peak District, Lake District, York) and only once has he had to move on to an alternative charging site - no spaces I seem to recall.
If only Volvo produced a fully electric V90 estate I would make the switch from my trusty 17 year old V70 2.4D.
Hope you swiftly find a new owner for the Kia.
Volvo are stopping manufacturing of all estates and are sticking with SUV's.
id stick with your diesel
Just swapped mine for a Jag I_pace, Kia a good car, great EV but not a patch on the Jag. Forget the heavy tyre wear, it's a myth.
I've had heavy vehicles with long lasting tyres and I had a lightweight ( by modern standards) mk 1 gti which ate tyres.
So im not convinced the weight has that much to do with tread wear.....hard acceleration and wheelspin would cause wear though. So would alignment and suspension issues.
If you do semi regularly have EVs would be worth getting a charging point at your forecourt would cost you less thank a 1/4 of what you are paying at the fast charger. Keep up the good work
Regarding EVs I had a totally new experience today . Range anxiety by proxy . I got on an electric bus . No sooner had I sat down then the driver got a low charge warning and told everyone to get off . Range anxiety by proxy
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It's the future!
Had an E Niro for two years love it, you can plug into any CCS it will just take the power it needs. I’d say that charger was faulty.
Great video. Notice Mr WONDERGRIP is still STUCK to the car park surface.
For me, EV guy, that was fun lol 🤣 "I hate technology" that was something for car guy like you 😁
But seriously, thanks for video. Such a mileage on this Niro!
Im slowly healing after decades of ICE cars, where 90k miles is death sentence for many cars, but EV is different beast isnt?
I do 33000 miles a year on my commute. Swapping my diesel A3 for a Kona electric on Friday as there is free charging at work.
We had a 2020 Niro hybrid as a rental car. All I can remember is it was very slow (11 seconds 0-60) but the back seats were rather comfortable
I’d always be put off buying a car that’s only had 1 new tyre as it makes it seem like the car was run on a shoestring. Bit different with an ev as there isn’t really any oily bits to service. Always replace them in pairs unless the other side is only 1 or 2mm worn.
Please only charge to 80% unless you need it! The battery will last much longer if you don't constantly keep it at 100% SoC. Also, if the charger says it'll be charged in an hour, come back in an hour. It's like me parking my car at a fuel pump and heading to do a full grocery shop, just blocks the charger if anyone else were to need it.
Shouldn't leave ev on rapid for couple hours your meant to only use them to top up lots chargers companies fine you leaving your car on for more than 90 minutes
£12 grand for the best EV on the market, may not look the most up to date but a brilliant bit of kit.
I’ve got a MK1 MG ZS EV.
lol no one normal does that many miles in an EZ he said! . I done 27k last year. Just coming to replace tyres on 53k. Breaks are barely worn 5% front 15% rear.
Can’t wait to ditch it! The inconvenience of charging with long trips is too much. With public charging it’s now more expensive than my precious 4 cars.
I love driving them, just awesome.
With a better range, better charging speed, charger availability and reliability I’d then go back.
You can’t beat how quickly these things heat up in the winter. Just sucks that it costs your range!
I had an early one and got the full discount, £3500 from MG and £3500 from the government, mine was 20 reg and only worth 10K now, but loved the car, currently leasing an Ora funky cat until technology catches up
Maybe you should get a Tesla then
doesn't cost you much range, no difference to an ice, its just not as obvious in an ice. wait for Sainsbury's and asda to launch their own charging networks, should make a dent in the cost
UK isn't part of EU, but EU comes with a new law that will prohibit rip of at public chargers. You can pay anyway you like, such as apps or plastic/mobile. The price will still varie between 50/75/150/300 kWh, but "theft at the pump" should be over.
@@robertdemeny251 That's right, I live in France and have owned an EV since 2019. For the first couple of years the public charging situation was chaotic but since 2022 it has been brilliant. France is a big place and we have family in the UK and Switzerland so long hauls are normal for us. The price has come down since Tesla opened their network and I can get €0.43/kWh there and around €0.50 at Ionity/Total/Engie etc. On a recent trip down to Spain I never even bothered to use the app to plan the trip as every services has at least half a dozen chargers...South west France where we live to Zurich is the next big trip as another grandchild is due to turn up soon..😊
Just bought a 2011 2.0 Kia sportage 167k miles (but seems like it’s been well looked after) for £2.2k - I know you said you sell them a lot Matt so I thought they must be alright. Been very impressed with it so far! Seems like an amazing amount of car for the money
Thank goodness you kept your hand in with the number plate, but sadly no gearbox to service.
This is the sort of car you should have used for your daily commute video. I'm sure it would have generated fewer comments though.
Great review thanks 👍👍 Wow, £52 for 200ish miles. That's nearly double the mileage cost of a similar diesel car. Yes, home charging is cheap, but think of all those homes that don't have off street parking/charging
Just did a 200 mile journey in a Hyundai hybrid rental car. Cost £20.00 in Unleaded to refill it.
I used I run an Evo IV, 2.0 turbo charged 4WD, could only be run on 99 Octane fuel which was not easy to come by.
It had a small tank & a big thirst, barely managing 200 miles on a tank.
This EV essentially has similar running costs & range as a very thirsty performance car.
This to me isn't progress.
Only 30% of UK households don't have off street parking. Of this 30% how many have access to charging at work?
For balance my 10,000 EV miles on home charger cost me £40 last year due to free at work charging.
@@mumbles87 I'm sorry but the 30% figure sounds far too low to me, and of the 30% how many people actually have a useable driveway, especially with multi car households,and how many have a home charger?
It's the same with garages.
Friend of mine has a new build, tiny driveway & the garage would struggle to fit a VW Up nevermind his fairly small A3.
Your situation isn't everyone's situation, don't be surprised if the free at work charging ends when your workplace figures out how much you're costing them.
@mumbles87 I get your point but only 30% thats over 8 million households without access.
The uk isn't ready for ev yet. Hopefully things will change otherwise parts of the country will be like Havana with 40 year old cars.
Looks like a late 1st Edition or a 4+. The colour will be Midnight Blue or something like that. In bright sunlight, it’ll appear to be metallic navy and on a cloudy day, it’ll appear black. I reckon the odd decals, were a Canadian fad. It’ll have a 7kW converter, Type-2 slow charging at apx. 6.4kW and CCS fast charging at a max. 73kW.
£52 for 200 miles means it's twice as expensive than a petrol model!
Charge at home is the only way - if you can’t, then electric cars are not for you yet. 😊 In my opinion, electric cars are not for people that do many miles in a day. If your commute is less than 150 miles (i hope it is) and if you have a driveway, than you are the perfect person to own an EV. In the long run, it will be cheaper than a petrol (btw this is if you are now looking to swap for another car, if you aren’t, then don’t go out spending money on a newer car as it it will still be more expensive than just keeping what you have) . If you do a lot of miles and you must own an EV - get a tesla - cheaper charging, better infrastructure (in the UK and US!
If you can't charge at home on a specific EV tariff it'll be more than a diesel and most petrols.
@@huwsparky175303all depends where you charge
😊😊😅@@1991Canyon
@@huwsparky175303 Unless you subscribe to a charging network. That can reduce charging costs by up to 50%, depending on the network....
Matt love your channel, fascinating insight into your business and love of cars.. Thanks for your efforts
All night plugged into a DC charger, the ICE equivalent of those people who park on a petrol pump buy a basket full of groceries and don’t buy any fuel whilst you’re sat waiting ages for them to come out..Cheers Matt 😆
So basically paid for the parking space 😂
If you do that in Ireland, you will get a very big charge from the charging company. You have a maximum of 35 mins to charge your car.
The reason why there are so many Niro EVs as Ubers or other Private Hire vehicles is because they were offered on a REALLY cheap lease deal on them including a high mileage allowance.
No brainer really when many Uber drivers were whizzing around in older diesel Toyotas that no longer meet the ULEZ standards and saves them from paying £21.50 in ULEZ and Congestion Charge zones, plus the savings in fuel as well.
“Braille Plates” 😂
I’m going to steal that one Matt.
Tickled my humour too and I concur with Matt on the taste aspect.
Haha Braille Plates 😂😂😂
What is it with British disdain with 3d plates? They are 3d in many countries and that's normal everywhere else..
@@MyRealName...but not in Britain, the letters and numbers are flat on the style of plate we know today and it's been like that for years. Raised characters look really tacky and 'chavvy' (Google that if you don't know what it means). There's no need to spend a single penny on getting a licence plate with raised characters unless you want people to know you're a knob. You can also in Britain get cut down plates that are shorter than standard, they too give people an indication that you're a helmet.
@@chrisguest778 I know what chavvy means and I guess in that context it makes sense. But the way Brits talk about it, it's like having a massive spoiler and a huge fartcan tailpipe on a 90s Civic, it can't be THAT bad right?
Yep, have the newer Niro EV and a new E Up on order. Its arriving next week. Love the KIA. 30000 km per year at 260 euro per year. Hard to argue with the numbers, but they're not for everyone.
As you're getting more EV's it would be worth getting a fast charger at your garage, then you can top up in a few hours at much lower cost.
Can you get cheap electric at commercial premises?
@@flybobbie1449 About 25p/kWh rather than 80p/kWh at the rapid chargers.
These are fantastic cars. I rented one and I was incredibly impressed. I particularly loved the paddle shifter type regenerative breaking paddles on the steering wheel. I currently have a Polestar 2 That does not have that and it’s absolutely absurd. I was Getting excellent efficiency, they are actually rather quick six seconds to 60 and even an Eco mode you could spin the tires like a madman..
The major problem I had was the 12 V battery on my rental kept dying if I left the doors open for like a minute without without putting it in utility mode. Apparently this is an extremely common problem and the 12 V battery is tiny.
You may have seen Vauxhall owners in the UK swap the badge out for an Opel one, like it makes the car look better. That's exactly what those badges are for Kia.
The same thing happens in Europe too, just reversed. Some people swap opel badges for Vauxhall
What brand is that then?
Obviously not proud to be a Kia owner. Should have put genesis ones on it. No one is being fooled. It's still a Kia. I once put ST badges on my 1.6 focus. God only knows why. Swapped them back before selling.
The Vauxhall badge looks shit and dated tho.
@@paultasker7788 .. subliminal programming...
I've been driving EVs for a decade indeed your first charging experience was hilarious taking me back when things were even more challenging :) However, if you are lucky enough to have a garage, will it fit? One of the biggest challenge as UK is the garage-unfriendly width of newer cars and the Niro EV at 1805 mm wide is surprisingly narrower than many of its contemporaries with the 2039 mm BMW i3 1945 mm Renault Zoe 1900 mm Fiat 500e , 1960 mm Vauxhall Corsa-e and 1928 mm mini
Thanks for the video. I was intrigued by your adding the electric charging cost in your summary as I don't ever recall your listing petrol or diesel in summaries for other cars. Apart from holdouts in the niche Japanese EV sector, everybody uses a CCS charger and there should be no issue plugging into a charger that has more capacity than your car can handle. The car will draw down just what it can take.
He does quite often list fuel he’s put in if he’s made a point of the car being empty when he’s acquired it in the final costings.
Should be around £20-25(fast chargers) and £16-20(slow chargers)for a full charge. I'm sure most chargers have a 70 minute limit. And if you go over you pay a fine of £10-20, depending where you are...
You seem to be making exactly the same comments you made in the Leaf video!
Please don’t buy another EV until you learn the plugs.
A car I bought recently had a full set of Aptanys. The following weekend I had them changed for Bridgestones! It bugs me when people put budgets on an SUV/Family car.
A real variety of vehicles on the videos well done 👍👍
Is it just me or is this the 3rd time it’s been the first time you’ve visited the EV charger haha.
I hope there’s a really interesting old petrol or diesel car coming to the channel to join the ML after all this electric stuff lately!!!
I have been in Almeria since early January and most evenings I have been checking out EVs good points bad point etc and the most common faults apart from clowns endeavoring to slag them of with tails of woe and doom ladened stories about battery degradation, range, etc. I've read/watched so much I feel I'm something of an expert ( more than Matt anyway 😂) so this particular car WILL do 230 miles on a full charge. It's battery is warranted for 120,000 miles, Kia will replace it it's efficiency drops to 70% and that particular car is 5 star rated. So for me a simple retired pensioner who's annual milage is 3800 miles. So that is 15 charges per year. 1 kwl/hour @ 18p x 64 = 12 quid for me personally it's a no brainier electric for me
Braille plates 😂😂😂
My disdain for 3D plates, wind deflectors and tints is seldom matched.
Keep up the good work, Matt!
The charger you usd was a fast charger 30min would have been enough for it to have 80-90%. No need to leave it longer 🤗
Matt, for EVs you might want to add into your videos battery life check , especially for toasters around 100K miles behind the clock .
It still has a very decent range, so there's plenty of life left in it, and zero road-tax, adds to its appeal!
Until 2025 when all electric cars in the UK will have to pay road tax.
@@goldieandblackie Thanks for the reminder. How the government are to replace the income they now enjoy from the motorists has yet to be revealed. They need £25bn from somewhere.
Great to see you reviewing an EV with a longer range. Even though it's high miles, £13.5K shows that well spec'd EVs are becoming affordable?
If you'd waited with the car for half an hour, you'd have got 150 miles of range into it, no need to leave it any longer than that, especially on a rapid. Oh, and it'll definitely do the 240 miles it said it would. Kia and Hyundai EVs are the most honest there are in that regard.
It's all a learning curve, and not a difficult one ;-)
Why I want to wait, please just answer that?
@@iboswell
You don't want to wait, don't get an electric car.
Most EV drivers don't spend any time waiting. They got home at night, plug it in, and go inside their house. Zero time spent waiting.
When you tested the Kia soul ,I suggested the Kia Nero is better ,so now you know. Got to have home charging because using public chargers is expensive. Kia is a good electric car and 7 year warranty.
Public charging is cheaper if you subscribe to the network. But still nowhere close to being as cheap as home charging on an off-peak tariff.
CCS- Combined charging system. It's the combination of the Type 2 port (which you'd use to AC charge at home) and the two big pins at the bottom for a DC connection straight to the battery
The 50kW and 150kW designation on the chargers are for the max charge rate they can output. The car should/can work on any of them, there was probably just some kind of error with the 150kW you tried. With that being said, the e-niro can only accept a max of ~75kW, so plugging into anything more than a 100kW unit is entirely useless, you're just blocking up a faster charger for a car that can accept it. We have an epidemic here in the US of Chevy Bolts that can only charge at 50kW plugging into 350kW chargers and sitting there for ages.
DC/Rapid chargers are really only meant for topping up during a trip, or if you need a little juice to make it somewhere. They're *really* not meant for parking the car up at overnight, that's what AC/home charging is for. DC Charging is meant to charge up really quickly to ~80%, then you move on. 100% DC charging takes ages, you should really only do it if you *really* need it to make it somewhere (really only a problem on older short range EV's like early Leafs), and a lot chargers have idle fees specifically to stop people from parking there overnight or for hours at a time and blocking them (which might explain the cost of your charge if you left it overnight)
You should probably install a cheap EVSE at your forecourt. Better than dealing with public chargers, can have them topped off if someone wants to test drive it, or etc. Even a cheap portable EVSE would be better than nothing. EV Cable Shop UK sells 20 Meter long Type 2 AC cables so you don't even have to move cars around to plug in. And it would save you money in the long-run if you keep buying EV's
On a lot of EV's, you can check the reported battery health with a bluetooth OBD2 reader and a specific app for that vehicle. The Leaf (and maybe a few others) have a direct battery health readout in the display, and on Teslas you can enter service mode and do a battery health test if you leave it on a Level 2 (home AC) charger for 24 hours.
Lots of useful information there. I'm thinking of swapping to an electric car next year, so your post was very helpful 👌👏
The blue accents indicates its the full EV, the hybid and phev models didn't have them
The previous owner could have at least left a quarter of a tank of electricity for you.
He probably did, but the car loses around 1 percent every 3-4 days, because it is permanently online for a few days and then goes to sleep, but the electronics will still slightly drain it over time.
Charging cost should have been around18-23£..should only charge to 80% and stay with vehicle otherwise blocking fee which is clearly what happened
Seeing you cope with EV tech is like watching Grandad working a mobile phone 😂, thanks for the laughs oh and info
From what I could see, it wasn't your fault with the charger. It should have worked, but unfortunately some chargers don't work consistently. There's a lot of complications - the numerous combinations of cars and chargers. Some cars just flat out refuse to work with some makes of chargers. As you've discovered rapid charging in 2024 is very expensive - if you're leaving it overnight, then you should leave it charging at work or home (although if you're using the 3pin plug that will take ages).
The e-niro is an excellent car and the 3 version was my first foray into electric motoring. I now have the top spec 4+. The 3 doesn't come with the heat pump which can reduce its winter range slightly. The 4+ can do 250 in winter and both can do 280-300 in summer.
It's fascinating to see you discover EVs and how to charge them etc when you've done no research before getting in one.
Niro never had a diesel , only petrol hybrid 1.6 , PHEV and electric
Like that. I love a good quality high miler. It’s the value they offer.
Bought myself a near mint 18 plate Alfa Giulia diesel with 115k on the clock for £10k a month ago. Looks nothing like its mileage, and doesn’t drive like it either.
Plan to run it for 2 years and will probably add another 30-40k in that time.
So you're starting to get into the world of EV ;)
I guess if you are selling second hand cars for living, you better do that asap!
@@pawefiett2468not necessarily, most dealerships aren’t touching used EVs with a barge pole, hence why Matt got a used 3 year old SUV for £12k. Petrol cars of that age are far more expensive
@@reececollison5101there's actually a big market for used EVs and lower prices are a good thing for the consumer, another plus point for dealers selling them on they need little to no work doing as theres very little to go wrong ( even on high mileage lease vehicles ) so it's a quick turnaround, get a high mileage fossil fuel car and you can be looking at a variety of issues.
As someone who's had plenty of fossil fuel cars and the last 5 years a EV I can tell you EVs are far cheaper to maintain and far less stress than the fossil fuel cars I've had in the past !
@@reececollison5101 I wonder what these dealers plan to sell in another few years, once ICE cease being manufactured?
@@Brian-om2hh it won’t happen, it just won’t. They can say 2035 all they want, the infrastructure is woeful and at least 40+ years away from being even remotely ready
I hired a hybrid one of these in the UK for a month last year. Was very impressed with the car.
I wouldn’t do a full electric vehicle though.
The emblems are the Kia badges used in the Korean domestic market, I see lots of Kia’s with those here in the US
Matt you need to get an OBD adapter and start testing battery health before you buy any electric car. Think of it as your “oil check”
I was counting down the seconds until you commented on the plate 😂
The badges are as fitted to Korean domestic market vehicles and known as the flying K.
There were no diesel eNiro's Matt. There were standard hybrid, plug-in hybrid and full electric... The blue accents denote the car as being the full electric version Matt. The hybrid versions don't have the blue accents. It might be a good idea to carry out a battery check via the car's diagnostic socket, using an OBD device. This means you can then get a print-out of the battery's SOH (state of health ) in percentage terms. Even at 90k miles, it may still show 90% state of health. It'll be a good selling point, as potential buyers may well ask about the battery..... Just seconds after the charge began, the car was charging at 39kw, which is almost 6 times quicker than a 7kw home charger. This is a much better proposition than the Soul you have/had..... You'd get 200 miles on a full charge every time Matt. In warmer weather it will be 10 to 20 miles more, no problem..... A good buy for someone, as this Kia still has around 3 year's warranty left on it..... Those public chargers won't be the cheapest to use Matt. The cheapest way by far, is to charge at home on an off-peak tariff. Charging my eNiro usually costs me around £6 to £7 at 7.5p per kwh, and that often does me well over a week. British Gas have just introduced a new off-peak tariff, priced at 4.5p per kwh, which would reduce charging costs even further....If I stuck with charging at home exclusively (which I try to do) I could cover 1000 miles of general town and country driving for less than £40......
Kia is a very popular car across Asia. The badge you don't like is the Asian Kia logo. The 7y warranty expires at 100k miles. When the main battery level falls below 15% it stops maintaining the 12v battery. One of the reasons you hear of complaints of 12v failures.
I'm the perfect potential customer for an EV. I do low mileage, mostly local journeys. I have a drive and providing a charger would be so easy. I'm very lucky and could easily afford one of those city cars. The only thing is I'll never ever buy one. They are an environmental disaster waiting to happen. A Hybrid would be a consideration but it seems the powers that be would frown on those. And, before anyone considers calling me an enviromentalist, I'm petrol and diesel all the way until a proper alternative arrives.
500 miles in a diesel as you know would take about 5 minutes and be cheaper at a filling station. No need to send a young child mining Lithium with all the horrors that entails. Lithium is a finite resource and will become incredibly expensive especially when the countries who control it, and ultimately have your worse interests at heart, start manipulating the cost. God help the National Grid in the UK who struggle to provide electric when Coronation Street finishes and everyone fancies a cup of tea. Your channel is fantastic I never miss an episode and apologies for the rant!
Should have kept the green stripe plate Matt, they will be used infuture to ID the car in London congestion zones , EV = £0.
52 quid for 200 odd miles is nothing short of scandalous, it's just not worth it 😮
Charge at home and 200 miles costs about £5
He might have gotten hit with over stay fees also as he left overnight instead of 30 to 40 mins which is the usual on these fast charge DC units
Which is why you charge at home overnight for less than £10 when your car is sat there doing nowt
If you plan to use public chargers a lot, then it's as well to take out a subscription to the network. This can save you anything from 20 to 40% on the cost.....
@@rdl1972 Correct. The best (and cheapest) time to charge is through the night on an off-peak tariff, because you won't ever need your car while you sleep...
Good job on replacing those number plates, but you should re-make new ones with a green strip for extra benefits, like usage of a bus lane, free entry to emissions free zones and free parking.
I love how clueless you are with EV’s lol. So funny
He'll soon pick it up. He's a car dealer remember.....this will all be second nature to him in 3 years time...
He doesn't like them very much....and I don't blame him.
Having just bought a Kia Sportage and joined a Kia owners group on Facebook, they sell those badges as Kia K-Line badges
Nice car . Dont blame the car for your learning curve.
Hi Matt, I live in Canada, the really cold bit, Saskatchewan, minus 40 some times. EVs will NEVER be trusted here, one could easily freeze to death. Everyone I speak to are of same opinion, not city folk granted, but even so, with current government being such crap 😭🤬 the power grid will not cope.
Nonsense. Over 80% of car sales in Norway are EV's so cold weather is no excuse.
freeze to death? a fully charged ev will keep you warmer much longer than an ice vehicle
It would have been the ideal vehicle to do your ev daily use test , it’s so cheap , you really could do with a proper type 2 charger for you’re garage
If I see 3d numberplate on the car I walk away.
I own a 2022 hybrid and it's a fantastic car. I think you are wrong about a diesel, I'm pretty sure they didn't make one. It wasn't pulling to the left, it's the active lane assist
Matt. You need to delete the word 'cheap'
Cheap doesn’t mean it’s costs nothing.
E.g. A new £200k Rolls Royce Spectre is cheap but is obviously still a lot of money.
@SDK2006b your missing the point it wasn't cheap for what it is. If retail is 13500 then 12000 is definitely not cheap. Its expensive
I'm curious about the replacement tyre. My stepson has a Polestar EV and the tyres used on it are different because they are designed to produce less noise. I just wondered if this is the case for all EV's?
£52 quid would fill up my Fiesta in, like, 10 minutes, including paying for it, and give me a range of about 450 miles.
EVs absolutely suck.
Yeah but you're still driving a Fiesta....
much rather the clean air than diesel or petrol fumes, do you enjoy gassing yourself to death?
Totally unrealistic cost
My mum pays around £5.50-£7 charging overnight at home. Would be around £20 on a public charger without overstay fee.
@@1maico1 not all have overstay fees, but tbf public rapids are for topping up for half hour, not filling, 7kwh destination ones are for filling
I nearly bought this car but will wait until I’ve sold mine now as it’s easier. The takeaway from this is the number of miles it’s travelled and how little needed to be done to it for a sale. Other than the tires it’s very low maintenance. I suspect there will be more EV vids coming.
Any electric car fans here?
*tumbleweed
Yes, but only really interested in an I Pace. To me most other EVs don't look like real cars - just toys!
Octane
Nope
No
I ran one for 2 years, a 2022 model on a business lease. They eat tyres on the front. From new I'd get around 300 miles in warm weather but be prepared to lose around 30% of your range in cold weather. Mileage indicator can be particularly unreliable in freezing conditions, which caught me out twice, dropping from around 45miles to showing zero miles in seconds. Would I have another one... Err, no!
One of the better looking EV's inside and out in my opinion.
Hi Team, Thank you for reply in the past you always have but not the last 2 or 3 about the Clio. Just to tell you we have double the worth of the car by having the Timing belt done. Thanks Again.
I can't believe you don't like 3D number plates. Mine have extra pink glitter and they look great. I'm sure you'll come round to them at some point. They are definitely the future.
It looks cool not gonna lie, and always reminds me of Robert De Niro 100% of the time xD
Great video and work as always Matt! :D
I quite like the indicator sound!
Funnily enough contrary to the UK in my country (The Netherlands) 3d regplates are considered posh and upmarket. Having no 3d regplates is often correlated with "peasantry"
The latest version is much better looking. I do 12000 miles a year in my VW ID3 and with a home charger it's only costing me about £550 a year in electricity
You can use any CCS charger. The Niro isn't really going to benefit from anything over 50kW but it should work on bigger ones without an issue. Really, you only needed to stay for a few minutes and put in enough power to get you to a 13A plug that you could leave it on for several hours. Better still, borrow someone's home charger that's on an EV tariff as that's a fraction of the price. It's often ten times more expensive to charge at a public charger than at home on an EV tariff.