Biggest issue with Ariya was range loss at highway speed, I could only get about 180 miles out of a full charge, in perfect weather conditions. The comparative slower charging speed compounded with the range loss extended long road trips.
Where-as it was a great city commuter car. My wife loved using to for her trips into NYC, and we didn’t have to really worry about where we parked it. Very zippy for dealing with traffic conditions.
It’s the cheapest EV I’ve owned (payment wise) and it contends with the other vehicles on this list which are much more upscale or luxury oriented. I think it’s perfect as a first car for a college student or something like that.
There are deals to be had. A client of mine (owns a Buick, Chevy, GMC dealership) has described the month of September as “total ass” in regard to sales.
Well my fuse box wasn’t enough for new lvl 2 charger as all its breaker spots were already used, 200amp 40 breakers, so have to get additional fuse box for 100 amp to put in my 50amp breaker
@forbs it has natural gas but only for chimney and outside
@trism so I picked it up Sunday and drive it 6 hours home and charged it once in between when I got home it has 13% charge, then charged it with lvl 1 over 2 nights+ and now it’s sits at 51%, for my use case I don’t think lvl 1 is good enough. I drive 50miles each way 4 times a week so to use it as my daily driver it will be an issue, also lvl 3 charger that I can use for free don’t yet exist in my route but 2 are being built by walmart and should be don in early 2025.
The house upgrade is future proofing me as every one will move to ev anyway, so today 1 ev tomorrow 3 ev.
Piggybacking on this, if it’s about amperage and not breaker space, a 20amp 240v is also a good option, charges most modern EV’s from nothing to 100 in 24 hours. If you’re not draining the battery daily it will likely work as an overnight charger.
Charge point /electrify America with my Benz for 2 years. 30 minute free sessions. A 150kwh one in sweet water charged me up real nice in 30mins, the new one they building are 350kwh. I got one in my out of way 20 minute extra drive home at Royce city haven’t tried it yet.
I’m not sure if anything above 150kwh is free or not but I assumed as long as it’s chargepoint/electrify America it’s free for 30mins.
So they removed a 30amp breaker that was taking 4 regular breaker spots and putting a 100amp breaker in then creating a new fuse box for me and then putting a 50amp breaker in it for my chargepoint wall charger and putting the old 30amp in there as well, should also have lots of room for new breaker if needed.
I didn’t see it posted but All Kias (EV6 and EV9) purchased after Sept 4 (Does it include the 4th?) will get a free NACS adapter and will be able to use the Tesla superchargers starting Jan 15th.
Forgot to mention this, was at an EVGateway 7.2Kwh charger at the Anaheim train station and look at the rates they are charging for slow charging, $1.50 per KWh Plus 25c Access fee. And here I was thinking EA’s 56c per KWh was bad
I decided to go with plug cus this way I can upgrade the charger in the future vs having an electrician come out everytime, I know hardwired is little cheaper $550 vs $600 for plug version and it charges like 20% to 30% faster 9.9kwh vs full 12kwh but a full charge on 9.9kwh should only take 14 hours vs 12 hours so it ain’t bad. Way better then me plugging my eqs in lvl 1 on Sunday night at 14% and being told it will be full Friday night
