Quietly, Kia and Hyundai have become forerunners in the electric car race. Does the EV6 have an identity that’s sufficiently distinct from the related Ioniq 5? Road test review
, these stablemates proved they had the talent and know-how, demonstrating that EVs with a decent range could look pretty normal, drive in a familiar fashion and needn’t be prohibitively expensive. As a result, while some other manufacturers struggled to shift their EVs, Kia and Hyundai amassed substantial waiting lists for theirs, even before the current supply chain issues started wreaking havoc.
Kia enters the electric age with a new logo and a bold design language. Thankfully, the latter doesn’t include too many fake grilles. This top one is ornamental, but the one lower on the valance actually does cool the battery.So far, though, these trailblazing Korean-built EVs haven’t been very exciting. They’ve looked like their conventional counterparts , they’ve left keen drivers a little cold and, other than in the broadest sense, they didn’t pioneer any new technology.
Hyundai-Kia is by no means the first automotive group to launch a dedicated EV platform. Of the volume car makers, theGroup beat them to it, but also demonstrated the pitfalls. The roll-out of its MEB-platform cars has been beset by software issues; and although those cars are reasonably distinct in how they drive, the shape of the design of many of them is rather samey.
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