The Kia EV6 shares the E-GMP platform with EVs from Hyundai and Genesis, but has a distinct character.
Now a year older, the Kia EV6 still feels like the future MSRP $50,025.00 Score Details DT Editors' Choice “Sporty, unique, and innovative, Kia's first purpose-built EV shows the rest of the industry how it's done.” Pros Cons Kia doesn’t have an illustrious heritage to look back on like some other automakers, but that also means it’s less encumbered by tradition. And that makes designing a new EV from the ground up a lot easier.
Kia settled on an interesting mix of automotive styling elements for the EV6. Its width and elevated ride height are SUV-like, but the long and low roof seems more appropriate for a station wagon. Short overhangs — particularly at the front — are a visual reminder that Kia didn’t have to package up an engine. The result is something that is neither entirely car or SUV.
Like the Kia Sportage, the EV6’s dual 12.3-inch screens are backed up to a touch control panel that sits below the central touchscreen. It includes two analog knobs for audio volume and tuning, but everything else is touch, allowing the panel to switch between audio and climate control functions rather than having hard buttons for both.
That means, for most buyers, the entry-level model will be the 77.4-kWh EV6 Wind, which is rated at 225 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque with its standard single-motor rear-wheel drive powertrain, or 320 hp and 446 lb-ft of torque with the optional dual-motor all-wheel drive powertrain. Kia estimates zero to 60 mph in 7.2 seconds with rear-wheel drive and 5.1 seconds with all-wheel drive.Those specs carry over to GT-Line models like our dual-motor test car.
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