The Kia e-Niro has now been on the market for three years, and this year a completely new model range is ready. But before that crossover comes on the market, we’ll take a look at the range of the current type, under different circumstances.
More difficult conditions are not conceivable for an electric car. In the first comparative test of the Kia e-Niro it was 2 degrees Celsius, there was snow and there was a strong wind. Disastrous for the consumption of an EV, and therefore for the range. The e-Niro with 64 kWh package still came 365 kilometers on a charge in February 2019, with which it did slightly better than the Hyundai Kona Electric with the same battery package, against which we tested it.
15 degrees, 413 kilometers
The Kia e-Niro got a second chance in the autumn of 2019, at a temperature of 15 degrees the electric Kia reached 413 kilometers on a battery charge. The energy consumption in that week was 16.2 kWh/100 km. A year later, the e-Niro showed up again and we noted an identical range and consumption under the same conditions. At the beginning of 2021, we saw the range again at just over 360 kilometers in winter cold. The energy consumption in that test was 17.7 kWh per 100 kilometers.
What are the users saying?
There are many user reviews of the Kia e-Niro. No fewer than 22 e-Niro drivers share their findings with the AutoWeek Community. A summer consumption under ideal conditions, so between 15 and 25 degrees, even yields 450 kilometers of range for this reviewer. The Hyundai Kona Electric, leaning on the same technical basis, also shows similar values ​​in the summer.
An e-Niro driver who went abroad several times and thereby considerably increased the speed on the autobahn reports that more than 20 kWh/100 kilometers does not occur even then.
Like the Hyundai Kona Electric, which we recently described for ‘Coming this far’, the Kia e-Niro 64 kWh is an efficient EV. There are no reviews of the e-Niro with 39 kWh battery pack, the majority of buyers go for the variant with 64 kWh.
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