If you have any additional questions about the electric cars for sale, feel free to contact our Kia dealership near Chambersburg online, or stop by Renn Kirby Kia today. That is why our Kia dealership near Chambersburg has put together a list of common questions about electric cars, so that you can feel more confident in your EV journey. When someone shopping for their first electric vehicle asks me where they should start, I direct them straight back to Hyundai-Kia each and every time.
Kia has been growing sales of its electric cars all year, and through April, it sold almost 8,000 of its EV6s. For the Kia Niro, which includes the EV model, sales nearly doubled.
The Kia Niro EV, redesigned for a 2023 model year, starts at $39,990 with a range of 239 miles of electricity from a single charge. The Hyundai Ioniq 5 starts at $44,000, and has an electric range of 303 miles on a single charge.
The Kias EV6 starts at $40,900, with a range of 310 miles on a single charge. The Bolt EV starts at $31,500, with a range of up to 259 miles of electricity on a full charge.
To stay in line with Kias all-wheel-drive Stinger analogy, it costs around $600 for this cool Kia EV6 to go 15k miles per year, as opposed to $4,300 a year for the gas-powered Stinger. Hyundai-Kia gives EV6 owners free charging at Electrify America for 3 years, but, for me, that costs $17, or $0.43/kWh.
Getting a quick recharge from my local Electrify America station took 37 minutes to fill up my EV6s batteries from 30% to 80%, putting that amazing Kia EV6 up to 210 miles of driving range. At 240 Volts, this car would recharge to 100% in less than 12 hours — overnight, in other words.
In the average electric vehicle, the 274 miles of range may fall off as much as 40% during colder winter months, but Hyundai-Kia says that the awesome Kia EV6s heat pumps will keep much of that driving range. Quick charging When using a public DC Fast Charge Station with 350kW in perfect conditions, Kia says that EV6 can add 217 miles of range in just 18 minutes, going from 10 percent down to 80 percent of the batterys capacity; this may not always be possible, though, depending on vehicle and environmental conditions.
A viable alternative to some higher-end EVs, like Teslas Model Y, the EV6 has fast-charging capability with Electrify Americas 350-kW chargers, which is not usually found on the most affordable electric cars. No Charging Hardware Included Unlike most all-electric cars, the EV6 does not include any sort of wiring or hardware for plugging it into an indoor outlet.
When your Kia EV runs low on juice, you can now schedule service to have a technician come by with the battery pack and recharge it for you. Kia EV owners now have the option of ordering an on-demand recharge from a human technician any time they need one.
Kia is working with Currently, a mobile EV charging on-demand app, to serve Kia customers in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Jose. If you are not a Kia customer and would like to order a charging, you can do so at no cost in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, or Dallas. If you are in a Kia, and currently have the plans described in the Kia press release, you will receive free charging, described up to three times per week.
The new service would be for up to three charging sessions a week for two months, at which point it appears that Currentlys regular rates would apply (assuming Kia does not provide any sort of rebate). The new mobile charging service, provided by the Currentlys app, is available for Kia drivers free until April 30. Kia has partnered with the mobile electric vehicle charging app Currentlys to provide service for their fleets of customers. Kias first EV PDV is set to launch in 2022, while Kia hopes to sell a million self-driving delivery vehicles by 2030, working with other companies on developing platforms for them.
The idea is to harness advances in artificial intelligence, robotics and information technology to build factories that are responsive to Kias new sustainable goals, its EVs, and the customization required by the PBVs. Using their E Skateboard electric car platform, which is made for PBVs, and sounds somewhat similar to Canoos own plans for EVs, the light-duty commercial self-driving EVs could be customized to meet customer needs in the PBV market. The plan is to have vehicles ready for delivery by 2025, eventually producing a production capacity of 150,000 units per year, on top of the eVs from Kia, such as the all-new Kia EV6. The first of these new, dedicated electric vehicles (teased above) is codenamed the CV, with the automaker targeting a range of 300 miles with 20 minutes partial charging.
Kia currently offers two electric versions of gasoline-powered vehicles, the Soul EV and the Niro EV, and it is now planning on adding another four vehicles that are derivatives of its existing line. Kia is set to introduce the GT version of the EV6 battery-electric car with 576 hp at the end of the year, giving it the race against the Tesla Model Ys highest-performance versions. With the all-new EV6 set for release in 2022, Kia has significantly stepped up its EV game. Kia is not new to the EV space, having quietly been selling the electric version of the Soul since 2014 model year, and the Niro EV since 2019.
