The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. What if I told you that you already
are a half cyborg? I mean, think about it, your best friend is your phone. Your most
favourite colleague is really your laptop and your most favourite restaurant, that probably
is an app. Think about it, are you really a human being? Because well you're sitting out there and
you're listening to me via a microphone, and you're watching me on your screens,
all of this is actually happening today, all of this is happening now. But what is tomorrow like? Tomorrow,
Tomorrow looks like that.
Tomorrow looks like a Kia EV6.
Kia has become a household name and is a case study in half the MBA schools across the country.
And that's because they know more than a thing or two when it comes to making cars
that for the first time today, they have made an electric
car and they have done what they do best. They have set a benchmark once again.
It's the first non-Tesla electric car that I've properly lusted for.
But then this one the Kia EV6, it's also accessible. So would you buy it? Let's find out.
For your cyborg self, a car really has to appeal to you in different ways to stay relevant in your
life. Does the EV6 do that? Well, it certainly forces you to think differently about cars.
Now technically, the car here it doesn't even have a name.
EV, it's just what it is electric vehicle and six, that's just a number.
It's got a seat fabric that is made out of recycled materials, over 100 plus plastic bottles,
and it also acts the whole car acts as a giant portable power bank for any of your other devices.
It further turns into a bed by going into zero gravity mode where you feel
weightless and are supposed to see improved blood circulation. And its exhaust note sounds like
it sounds like like this
I don't know how to explain this, but it sounds like, like this! And the best part is or the
worst part is that you can actually get into the settings and make it sound different, you can
make it more cyborgish.
When you press on to the left paddle
shifter here, the car actually starts to brake and will do so until you come to a standstill. It
doesn't downshift naturally with the left paddle shifter because there is no gearbox. And with the
right paddle shifter here you can adjust the level of engine braking that you want. The level
of regenerative braking because there is also no engine. So much so that you can go to a
level where the car literally coasts without any resistance or friction once you go off the gas.
By the way it has a good practical 178mm of ground clearance, ventilated seats, you can choose
the car from five different available colour options. All in all, the EV6 is your portal
to the future and it is a portal that will cost you about Rs. 65 lakh, but it will promise you
all kinds of good experiences. And this particular one is a bright future, by the way 800 volt
bright because that's the architecture that allows this car to charge from 10% to 80%
in about 18 minutes. That's about 100 kilometres worth of charge under five minutes.
In short, the charging speeds on this one are as fast as the ones on Porsche Tycan.
It's based on the electric global modular platform, which is the EGMP skateboard platform,
which essentially means that you're going to have lots of legroom out here and of
course a flat floor without any transmission tunnels would also mean that the third person
can sit here. Of course, the headroom is slightly tight because of the coupe like lines,
but have you noticed? Look around, you're now inside the EV6.
The dash of an electric vehicle has to be one of its striking features. The EV6 gets that
right with the right materials. There is also a double decker like centre armrest, and an on-off
button to remind you of the T1000 in you. Wireless charging for your phone and other useful sundry
things like cubby holes, a two-spoke or no-spoke steering wheel with driving mode button on it,
because in the future, performance is not to be joked with. In the sport mode, the EV6 will do
0 to 100 in about five seconds. In eco mode, it will go anywhere between 300 to 500 kilometres.
So the EV6 goes as fast as it looks and as far as you've asked it for.
The brakes in this car are competent, the steering wheel when you're sitting at it, you will feel
confident and if you're not listening to any soundtrack from the 14 speaker Meridian
sound system, then well, you will be listening to a whole lot of this sound which sounds like
a wormhole portal formation sound
or you can also call it the sound of 1000 printers, printing something all at once.
That really is the sound of 1000 printers printing away to glory,
in the parabola here at the Buddh International Circuit.
After an hour of feeling like an astronaut piloting a rocket ship, it was time to conclude.
All right, so let's summarise then, the EV6 gets 325hp, a scalar quantity that is hardly going to be
relevant to you or I in the future, because we'll all EVs are plenty fast. This one here, it carries
the GT Line badge which means the 600Nm+ of torque, that's going to be distributed
amongst all four wheels, but even that's not going to matter, the torque number is not going to matter
what's going to matter is that your EV6 or your electric vehicle comes with a 75kWh-ish
large battery pack to go the distance and what's going to matter is that it gets
the ADAS suite for safety. And what's really going to matter is that you understand that it's
no longer a question of if you are going to be buying an electric vehicle, but more of a question
of when you will buy your electric car now. Will it be tomorrow or will you buy an EV6 today?
I'm buying it.
Okay, I want to show you something, I want to show you something which I'm not allowed to I'm just,
just stopping for two seconds, not for long. Check this out the torque off the line is insane. Oh
70, 80, 90, 100, oh my god, the car picks on speed
so fast, all the EVs are just absolutely fast, we're doing
150 and we are going to be nearing 192 kilometres per hour, which is where this car is locked to.