Welcome to Tech in the Car! today we're going to test the range on the Kia e-Niro this is a 64
kilowatt hour battery version it's got a range of about 280 miles and we're going to compare
it to Clive's beautiful model 3 long range which has a range of 310 miles we're going to go about
170 miles up to rugby grid serve and we'll see how far we go give me a like if you find it useful and
subscribe for more let's get on with it so what are the rules for this drive so the first thing is
really really important this is in eco mode i've got the regen braking at max the tesla doesn't
have an eco mode but it's in its most energy saving mode as well so we've got very similar
settings in the car i have a feeling that both these cars will end up pretty similarly matched
when it comes to overall range of performance and we will give Clive a call in a minute and see how
his tesla is doing so quick update on our journey 14 miles driven 4.5 miles per kilowatt hour
and we've been driving about half an hour we have 95 battery and 260 miles of range so let's give
Clive a call and see how his car is doing hello hello so we've been driving about half an hour how
is your range and your um economy looking right at the moment it says it's eight minutes past 11
we've done 14.8 miles yep and an average of 252 watt hours per mile okay
okay so on my car it shows uh 4.5 miles per kilowatt hour so it's showing in a
different amount but obviously i've got the same distance as you what is your range showing now
so 267 so i've got 260 miles of range so we're very
very closely matched it'll be very interesting yeah terrible yeah okay
so 15.15.3 miles which is the same as you i'm guessing like i said 4.5 miles per kilowatt hour
34 minutes driven 95 percent and 259 miles has gone down slightly now so we're at cobham services
now and i have 75 battery left and i've driven 73.3 miles average out four miles per kilowatt
hour we drive one hour and 39 minutes clive how is your car looking what's your range going on your
economy uh well my battery is 74 and i have 210 mile of range so i have 208 i forgot to mention
that i got two or eight so we're very very close okay yeah and uh i've got 236 watch outs per mile
so we're at the services now carbon we're going to have a little break and then we're going to carry
on to rugby like i said 208 miles left for me 210 for Clive we'll see what we end up with welcome to
the tesla model 3 long range so i'm carrying on in this car we've swapped cars for a little bit
the range on the tesla is 209 miles we've got 50 miles to go to oxford services where we're gonna
do another swap over it says that'll take one hour and 16 minutes so yeah 209 miles when we
came into services they were very similar the kia had 207 miles of range left and the tesla
model 3 long range had 210 so there was slightly a tiny bit more range this would be really
interesting to see on this next stretch how it is and how it performs so i'm here in a tesla we're
on the m25 heading towards the next stop at rugby services the tesla's telling me i've got 199 miles
of range left and we've got to our next stop which isn't rugby but the next stop is about
39 miles away it's 199 in total what about you Clive in the kia what's going on there
uh the Kia e-Niro is telling me 192 miles we've done 84.8 miles at four miles per kilowatt hour
again quite similar there's about five miles difference in range
be very interesting to see if that difference gets wider or stays the same or maybe gets smaller
as we get further into the batteries let's check in now on our progress 188 miles of range left on
the tesla in a second we'll check in with the kia but i thought i'd share my thoughts on the tesla
because i haven't been driving tesla on this channel before so i'll be using the autopilot and
you know what i love the fact that it stays in the middle of the lane i was having this
conversation with Clive about how other cars have talks here definitely don't feel that in a tesla
it's really really stays where it is i do find the indicator is one of those not pressing down
fully kind of indicators i don't like that that is a very very minor thing it's a very very
easy car to drive also i waved at somebody in a tesla i was told there
was things the other way back at me so i didn't know that was the thing so that was
that was a lot of fun so yeah so but the question is how is the range doing so let's give
let's give Clive a call so update from the tesla this car's gone 97.4 miles and uh is averaging 235
watt hours per mile we've got 184 miles of range left what is the situation in the kia cClive
the kia is 99.5 miles it's just kicked over to 4.1 miles per kilowatt hour and 178 miles of range
so it looks like maybe yeah because i mean i left my my place and came to
meet you so i've done a couple more miles and actually that would suggest that maybe
they're pretty much pretty much identical so what did you say the range remaining was
uh the range is 178 miles and this is showing 183 so very interesting okay all right well
let's let's keep an eye on it and we'll see when we get to the next stop how are we doing
so we are now about halfway between london and rugby in total we've done 163.3
miles average at 3.8 miles per kilowatt and we've been driving for four hours and 11 minutes
and the battery on this car is currently at 38 and we've got 99 miles left to go time for an
update on your tesla so my car is telling me i've got 99 miles left to go of range and i'm at 38
a battery 30 yeah that's right what is your car telling you
yeah mine says 38 and 109 miles okay so we got the same percentage battery and again it's about
it's about well it's 10 miles difference now so we have 22 miles left to go
so be very interesting to see what we end up when we get there at so about halfway between london
and birmingham on the way to where we're going to stop to charge up the cars i've driven 164.3 miles
3.9 miles per kilowatt hour so it says 4 hours 14 minutes of driving uh 100 miles now it says
on my car i said 99 a minute ago now it says 100 and i've got 38 percent of battery left so Clive
what is your situation your tesla please uh well my car says 162.7 miles um we've done 248 watt
hours per mile which is just over four miles per kilowatt and it says 107 miles remaining and 30
about 10 miles difference in our car ranges so be interesting to see what we end up with
so your car knows that we're on the way towards a supercharger right now is that correct clive
uh yes it knows we're off to the rugby services and so what does that mean for your car
my car is currently pre-conditioning the battery and so it's putting roughly seven kilowatts of
power through the motors so three and a half kilowatts to each which is heating the motor up
then that heat gets transferred using the cooling system and is put in battery point it's like
two centigrade and it's currently sitting at 41.8 and going up slowly so by the time we get to rugby
the battery should be at about 50 degrees centigrade okay so just to just uh repeat
that just in case that wasn't very clear or it come out your tesla is pre-heating its battery
so it charges faster and as a result is using some of its power some of its available battery power
to do the heating on the car yeah okay so that's really interesting so it'd be interesting to see
when we get there what the range is will it have affected the tesla range will it brought it down
to below the gear or will it stay above i guess we'll find out in about 20 miles when we get there
we are at the grid server electric charging here in rugby i've done 185.9 miles 77 miles of range
remaining i have little doubt that this car can do at least 260 miles out of that 280 range it
probably can get up to 280 especially in nice warm weather that's really really so we're going
to check up on the tesla now see how that's done and also see how kia charge works clear charge
is kia's new way of pulling together all of the different electric car charging companies and
all the different systems and allowing you to charge using one card it's a really clever idea
it makes things a lot easier and i really really like it so we're going to try that out
in a little bit now it's time to charge the kia e nero we've had a long drive time to top it up
top of that 64 kilowatt hour battery so i've got this kia have a new service called kia charge
it comes with an app and this charge card how does this benefit us well it means instead of having an
app for every single place you need to charge your car this one card and the one kia charge app can
do it all really really easily so let's try it out here and see how easy it is i'm going to run
you through the process so how does this work well as you would expect first of all to access
your charging port on your car we can open up here we've got our charging options on the front here
so we go for the ccs 50 kilowatt dc which this car can do we're connected up like this that's
all in there and then we come around to here we tap our kia charge on here and then we click on
the charging keyboard is plugged in and that's it how simple was that no setting up a kia charge app
also i don't need to use my contactless payment card because sometimes contactless payments don't
work and we're charging that's a really clever system that kia have come up with to have this one
service which brings everything together and at a discount and is able to give you access to all
of these services without needing different apps no other car manufacturer has done anything like
this yet and so it's a good move and it definitely makes owning the Kia e-Niro an even more enticing
and rewarding and easy and convenient experience so we're here at rugby services with the tesla
model 3 long range and the Kia e-Niro so how did they do so this car has 77 miles left of range
31 the tesla has 76 miles of range and about 30 30 what do you think it was 28 so 28 i've
got help from behind the camera as you can see 28 now like we discussed earlier in the video
the tesla was pre-heating the battery so it's used more power so when it's plugged into one of the
superchargers over there it will charge faster but i think what you can see is they have very
similar ranges and actually that's a huge step for electric cars to have a car like this come along
which has almost comparable or comparable as this is right now to the model 3 and admittedly there
are newer teslas with longer battery ranges but still it's a really really big step for kia and
i can't recommend this car enough if you're after a crossover electric
SUV as for the tesla i really love driving the tesla i love the autopilot i hated the indicators
if you're a tesla owner let me know what you think of the indicators down below
but the car's awesome to drive the autopilot is fantastic and you know tesla is the
standard setter for electric cars so the competition has come a long way and tesla
is continuing to innovate on that obviously with the new updated versions of the model 3
and the model s and indeed the model x as well so exciting for electric cars in the future i hope
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