Friday afternoon, five o’clock. Computer off, the door of your workplace can close behind you, the weekend has started. On Autoreview.nl we look back on a week in which we could finally test the range of the Kia EV6 and the Dacia Spring turned out to be life-threatening. Good news, bad news. Top and flop.
+ Top – Finally we could test the range of the Kia EV6 in practice
We have tested the range of the Kia EV6 RWD with 77.4 kWh battery in practice, on the Dutch highway at 100 and 130 km/h. Does the Kia EV6 with one electric motor on the rear axle achieve the official driving range of 528 kilometers?
+ Top – At 53, the Morgan Plus 8 suddenly grows huge muscles
Morgan has also discovered the appeal of limited edition models to super-rich customers. So after the great Morgan Plus Four CX-T, this Morgan Plus 8 GTR follows: the strongest car that the English car maker has ever put on the road.
+ Top – Electric camping? This is possible with the Volkswagen ID. Buzz camper
Volkswagen has confirmed that there will be a camper variant of the electric ID. buzz. The model goes ID. California, but will not be launched on the market until 2025. Next year it will be the turn of the ID. buzz.
– Flop – Euro NCAP: ‘Dacia Spring and Renault Zoe are life-threatening’
You don’t often see (Electric) cars that receive only 1 star for crashworthiness from the Euro NCAP. So it is even more surprising that the renewed Renault Zoe does not get a single star. Concern mate Dacia Spring is hardly doing better and is given the predicate ‘downright problematic’ by the Euro NCAP.
– Flop – Lease drivers no longer want an electric car, now that the addition is higher
Why would you still lease an electric car if the addition benefit disappears? Business drivers struggle with that question. The low addition goes from 12 percent on the first 40,000 euros to 16 percent on the first 35,000 euros. And 82 percent of lease drivers no longer find that an incentive to opt for an EV.
– Flop – Elon Musk wants to get rid of the EV subsidies, which he himself has benefited from
US President Biden’s $2 trillion Build Back Better plan includes subsidies for electric cars. Surprisingly, Tesla boss Elon Musk — the man who has benefited from billions in government subsidies over the years — is strongly against it.