WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.080 You guys keep on asking us to cover less expensive EVs, 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:10.960 so here it is, the new Keanuero EV, and it is, it's, it's, uh, it doesn't look too bad. 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:15.960 With the limited edition, you get this gray C-pillar here that has actual venting, 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:19.960 I don't know if it's functional, and I've had so many people coming up to me on the street 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:24.880 being like, is that the new R, right? Jokes aside though, I do think it looks good, 00:00:24.880 --> 00:00:29.640 kind of like a rally car from the 80s that's just gotten a little bit bigger. 00:00:29.680 --> 00:00:34.300 I particularly like the DRLs that they have here. It sort of looks like a little heartbeat. 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:38.560 Let's see if it has a little bit of a frunk here. 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:44.440 Oh, okay, that's not too bad. In here we have enough space to store like a couple valuables, 00:00:44.440 --> 00:00:49.160 maybe your drugs, but not a whole lot. Coppers can't get my Advil now. 00:00:49.160 --> 00:00:52.520 Down under the car, we have a 64.8 kilowatt hour battery 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:55.800 that Kia says is good for 407 kilometers of range, 00:00:55.800 --> 00:00:58.800 and if you want to charge it up, you can do so right here. 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:05.040 Here we've got up to 350 kilowatt fast charging, which will take you from 10 to 80% in 43 minutes, 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:08.840 which I have no clue what the charging curve this looks like, 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:12.040 but you can go from 10 to 80% in 45 minutes 00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:17.480 with 100 kilowatt charging. So the math doesn't really math. 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:23.560 That said though, I've had very little trouble. This is a much smaller battery than we see in a lot of EVs, 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:26.800 and it is just an efficient little car. So even with level two, 00:01:26.800 --> 00:01:31.760 I have not had much trouble taking this all the way to 100% daily. 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:35.680 Around the side, we've got 17 inch aero rims that are diamond cut 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:40.560 that look like every single other diamond cut rim that you can buy in 2023, 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:44.360 as well as winter tires. Kia Canada, what were you thinking? 00:01:44.360 --> 00:01:48.840 Like I know there's snow on the top of that mountain, but that doesn't mean that we're gonna go there. 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:52.800 These poor things, geez. This video was filmed back in July 00:01:52.800 --> 00:01:58.080 when winter tires weren't necessary. We've also just got normal everyday door handles, 00:01:58.080 --> 00:02:01.560 very nice. The design of this makes me just really think 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:05.720 that your cool gym teacher is the person that would want it, and the space back here 00:02:05.720 --> 00:02:10.360 means they will want it even more. So many EVs and hybrids will just give you 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:14.320 so little trunk space as they try and just cram batteries wherever. 00:02:14.320 --> 00:02:18.240 Here that is not a problem. You can throw your volleyball, your pylons, 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:22.440 your baseball bats, whatever you want back here. It is excellent for the segment. 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:29.600 Hopping into the rear seat, it's really quite good back here. 00:02:29.600 --> 00:02:34.200 There's enough room for real adults, I'm six feet and can easily fit behind myself. 00:02:34.200 --> 00:02:38.240 There's plenty of headroom. This armrest here feels excellent. 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:45.400 We've also got heated seats on this trim, USB-C charging, and a little spot to rest your other ARM too. 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:49.320 Hopping into the driver's seat, this is sadly where things start to fall apart. 00:02:49.320 --> 00:02:54.240 The materials in here, like guys, Kia, what were you thinking? 00:02:54.320 --> 00:02:58.960 There is piano black all up along the door, all along the front. 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:05.600 There's just so much piano black in here and all of it is in places that you're going to touch. 00:03:05.600 --> 00:03:11.080 It's frankly unforgivable. Speaking of unforgivable, these seats, 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:14.240 they're, I don't like them at all. 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:20.520 I've had a couple of people try them out and they've rated them from fine to absolutely horrendous 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:25.600 and I'm sadly in the later of those. I have a lot of trouble getting comfortable 00:03:25.600 --> 00:03:31.880 because it feels like they're made for kind of being up in that SUV sort of seating position 00:03:31.880 --> 00:03:36.440 but then your arms don't hit the armrests so instead you kind of have to go down 00:03:36.440 --> 00:03:39.480 and the lumbar support feels weird and there is adjustment for that 00:03:39.480 --> 00:03:42.720 but even all the way in it feels like there's too much. 00:03:42.720 --> 00:03:46.960 I just don't like them at all. I doesn't say that everything in here is bad. 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:51.040 There's lots that's great actually. These seats are heated and ventilated. 00:03:51.040 --> 00:03:54.160 The armrests are nice and squishy and very comfortable 00:03:54.160 --> 00:03:58.720 even if I wish this one did come out a bit. The steering wheel is really good 00:03:58.720 --> 00:04:01.920 and even though the buttons are piano black, they're at least real buttons 00:04:01.920 --> 00:04:05.160 and we have nice little toggle switches for volume and such. 00:04:05.160 --> 00:04:08.680 There's also plenty of stuff that's pretty medium tier in here. 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:13.920 Like we do have actual climate controls. They're just hidden behind the media controls 00:04:13.920 --> 00:04:18.560 so you can only see one at a time. This touchscreen's a little bit of a reach 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:22.040 but at the same time it's Kia and Hyundai's basic system 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:27.760 and it works well enough. You're not gonna complain and we do have Android Auto and Apple CarPlay 00:04:27.760 --> 00:04:31.240 but you do need to plug in. No wireless available. 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:36.440 Rounding out the media mesh quality stuff in here is the storage and here's the only spot 00:04:36.440 --> 00:04:40.800 that you can put your glasses. There's no like dedicated spot for them. 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:43.840 The cup holders are kind of weird, kind of fun. 00:04:43.840 --> 00:04:47.840 They can fit a water bottle from lttstore.com. Only the little one. 00:04:47.880 --> 00:04:51.240 And that's about it. You have a glove box, I guess. 00:04:52.200 --> 00:04:56.360 Can't take it off or granted. All right, let's torture some winter tires. 00:04:59.960 --> 00:05:04.440 We have traction control all the way off and it is clearly still intervening 00:05:04.440 --> 00:05:08.560 because good God, this thing drags ass. 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:13.800 Like I realized that it will be improved if you have actual summer tires on this 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:17.160 instead of the winters that we have for some reason. 00:05:17.280 --> 00:05:22.840 But God, it is slow. We have 200 horsepower, 188 foot-pounds of torque 00:05:22.840 --> 00:05:26.560 which should be pretty reasonable in a 3,800 pound car 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:31.560 but it can just not put any of that down whatsoever. 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:33.400 It is disgusting. 00:05:36.640 --> 00:05:40.240 Now I wasn't able to find an official zero to 60 time from Kia. 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:43.760 It seems to range from about six and a half to 7.8 seconds 00:05:43.760 --> 00:05:48.880 but what I do know is that I was at a red light yesterday beside a last gen Kona EV 00:05:48.880 --> 00:05:52.520 and that thing destroyed me. I could not keep up at all. 00:05:52.520 --> 00:05:56.100 Also getting destroyed. These poor tires in any corner. 00:05:58.080 --> 00:06:03.720 Oh! There is no limited slip differential in this thing 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:07.160 and you go into a corner, you hit the gas 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:12.160 and that inside tire is just getting punished. 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:16.220 Oh my God, this thing does not handle very well. 00:06:16.220 --> 00:06:20.260 There are three versions of this car, gas, hybrid and electric 00:06:20.260 --> 00:06:24.740 and it really feels like that the suspension was tuned around the gas version. 00:06:24.740 --> 00:06:29.020 The electric one, you're gonna have those batteries going all the way back, adding weight 00:06:29.020 --> 00:06:32.580 to the rear of the car and it kind of just bounces around. 00:06:32.580 --> 00:06:36.380 Like you go over bumps and you can feel the rear of the car bouncing up and down 00:06:36.380 --> 00:06:40.860 sort of like the rear dampers are shot. It's strange and disconcerting. 00:06:40.860 --> 00:06:45.820 Actually the steering overall is just kind of disconcerting. You don't really get a whole lot of feel 00:06:45.820 --> 00:06:51.660 through the steering wheel, even though like if you go over some sort of like uneven spots in the road 00:06:51.660 --> 00:06:54.780 it'll sort of want to pull to one side or the other. 00:06:54.780 --> 00:07:01.340 Once you're about about 80 kilometers per hour if there's any sort of large undulations or bumps 00:07:01.340 --> 00:07:07.060 it sort of just does whatever it wants and the suspension cannot handle the weight at all. 00:07:07.060 --> 00:07:12.860 It is not a satisfying car to drive. All of that said though, this is not intended 00:07:12.860 --> 00:07:16.780 to be a driver's car and it is if nothing else 00:07:16.780 --> 00:07:20.940 pretty quiet in here and relatively simple to drive 00:07:22.100 --> 00:07:25.220 even if, yeah, it kind of sucks. 00:07:26.900 --> 00:07:31.700 Of course, this being a Korean car we do have Hyundai slash Kia's safety systems 00:07:31.700 --> 00:07:36.980 and they are fantastic. This is some of the best adaptive cruise on the market 00:07:36.980 --> 00:07:42.980 and the lane centering is okay-ish but really quite good if you're into that sort of a thing. 00:07:42.980 --> 00:07:45.980 Also, you're able to fully disable the safety systems 00:07:45.980 --> 00:07:49.500 that you don't want to be there so if any of them start annoying you 00:07:49.500 --> 00:07:52.380 just give them the chomp. Play Crab Rave. 00:07:53.380 --> 00:07:59.300 Crab Rave by NoiseStore, sure. One thing they did get right though is the sound system. 00:07:59.300 --> 00:08:04.220 In here we have the seven speaker system from Harman Kardon, so woof for tweeter center 00:08:04.220 --> 00:08:08.020 and two in the back and it is really quite good. 00:08:08.020 --> 00:08:12.220 It goes down to about 30 firsts which is really quite good for a system 00:08:12.220 --> 00:08:16.020 that doesn't have a subwoofer and there isn't really anything 00:08:16.020 --> 00:08:23.060 that is exceptionally strange about it. Like there's a bit of a peak around 40, 50, that's fine. 00:08:23.060 --> 00:08:28.620 Bit of a dip around 100, who cares? Overall, I think it's really quite great. 00:08:32.740 --> 00:08:36.860 Well, that was fun but this final bit will not be for you at least Kia. 00:08:39.020 --> 00:08:44.020 Oh, Kia, why did you give us winter tires in the summer? 00:08:45.420 --> 00:08:50.060 And why did you not think through who actually wants to buy this thing? 00:08:50.060 --> 00:08:56.180 Like this is an excellent car for someone that just wants a not very expensive EV 00:08:56.180 --> 00:08:59.380 that they can cheaply take to and from work 00:08:59.380 --> 00:09:04.500 that just simply gets the job done. But what it seems like Kia's gone for here 00:09:04.540 --> 00:09:07.540 is just trying to make it cool 00:09:07.540 --> 00:09:10.620 in the same sort of way as when your band teacher's like, 00:09:10.620 --> 00:09:14.980 today we can play Beverly Hills and you're like, this is cringe. 00:09:14.980 --> 00:09:20.820 If they had just very simply pulled it back a bit made the materials in here less fancy looking 00:09:20.820 --> 00:09:25.020 and more so just kid resistant and taken the time to have these seats 00:09:25.020 --> 00:09:29.060 be actually comfortable then I think this could be a real winner 00:09:29.060 --> 00:09:32.620 compared to like the Bolt EUV or the Toyota Prius. 00:09:32.660 --> 00:09:36.540 It has way more room in the back and the boot. 00:09:36.540 --> 00:09:40.380 Just, it's not comfortable. 00:09:41.460 --> 00:09:45.300 With a starting price that's a bit below 50 grand Canadian 00:09:45.300 --> 00:09:49.340 and with the heat pump a bit above 50 grand Canadian 00:09:49.340 --> 00:09:52.940 it's a pretty tough sell. Depending on your province or state 00:09:52.940 --> 00:09:56.340 you will have EV rebates that will bring that down 00:09:56.340 --> 00:10:00.460 but it is getting dangerously close to the Tesla Model 3 00:10:00.500 --> 00:10:04.220 especially this 55 grand limited trim that we have 00:10:04.220 --> 00:10:09.220 and like I just want the Prius. That really achieves what this car is going for 00:10:09.220 --> 00:10:13.260 but just so much better. And this right here, I don't know guys 00:10:13.260 --> 00:10:16.860 it needs better seats. Oh, huge thanks for watching. 00:10:16.860 --> 00:10:20.940 Hit like, get subscribed and just have a great old day 00:10:20.940 --> 00:10:23.740 and maybe treat yourself to a little bit of a stretch.