Kia Affordable Electric SUV

Are you looking for an electric SUV, but the Tesla Model X is way out of your price range, well read on as Kia have released a treat.

The new Kia e-Niro can match the big boys in the current electric vehicles. It is solely powered by electricity and although this is quite common these days, the Kia manages it at a price which doesn’t make your eyes water..

There are electric vehicles which already come with the sensible price tags, like the Nissan Leaf or Renault Zoe, however these are small with low range, therefore would not be a sensible substitution for you standard family SUV.

The e-Niro seems to have then found a gap in the market, offering both a large range and platform alongside a sensible price, not a huge amount more that you would expect for the fossil fuel alternative.

The platform originated in the fossil fuel Niro, however the bodywork has been splashed with blue to differentiate it. All in all it doesn’t look as you would expect from an electric car, by this I mean that you would usually imagine an electric car to look like the BMW i3 or Tesla, but the e-Niro just looks like a car, and quite a good one at that.

It comes with a very spacious cabin, which could take 4 adults with ease for the 282 mile range of the vehicle. Elevated ride height due to the SUV nature of the vehicle, but it doesn’t cause the car to feel grotesquely large on UK roads.

Climate control, heated seats, heated steering wheel come as standard, but with a 29 hours plus to charge from 0-100%, you will still need to have a couple of cups of tea while you wait to leave after a long journey. Just on an overnight charge though the e-Niro should regain 20% about 50 miles, so more than enough for the morning school run for most. Of course these times are reduced it you have a charging station.

So all in all a pretty great electric vehicle and at less that 50% of the cost of Tesla Model X SUV alternative, a very competitive price.

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