Welcome to Tech in the car! this is the amazing brand new Kia EV6 I've got the GT Line and the
GT Line-S here and I'm going to show you around and talk about the differences in this video on
taking the car so on the left here we have the red gt line s and other side we have the blue gt line
now these cars are really really cool because they've got 800 volt technology which means you
can charge up to 62 miles in five minutes which is super super fast charging the ev6 has two
choices of power trade 226 or 321 horsepower the range of these is over 300 miles even on the gt9s
and there's a 577 horsepower gt as well which is coming i love the design we've got this new
tiger face design on the front here with these really cool sculpted led headlights these cars
are based on the new egmp platform this journey started with the kia soul eevee back in 2015
and as you see 11 new models of ev from Kia due by 2026. it's a big push towards electric from
kia and these cars are really revolutionary in their design and the features they have on them
in the uk these cars come with a 77.4 kilowatt hour battery which is good for over 300 miles
of range and they can charge up 10 to 80 percent in 18 minutes on a fast rapid charger these cars
come by standard with 19 inch wheels the gt can get up to 21 inches let's have a look at the back
of the car we have a really cool light bar design at the back welcome inside the ev6 so inside here
and we've got these two curved 12.3 inch displays which have android auto and apple carplay on them
and we've got this multi-mode display which lets you change between navigation and climate by
pressing a button and it's a screen which changes i really think this is a really clever idea i love
how the led light is integrated with these little dashes along here which matches the design of the
dashboard which is kind of angular with a cool graphic on the top of it which i really really
like the look of in the middle here this has got a different design to the ionic 5 which is a sister
we've got our center console here we've got a rotary dial for your gears we've got a big
start button right here in front of you and then our seat adjustment buttons here for the steering
wheel and the heated seats on the GT-Line s that also has ventilated seats and they're capacitive
on here they're actually physical buttons we've got two cup holders we've got a nice spacious
glove compartment there and we've got key charging on top here and then i can access the 360 camera
or the reversing camera depending on what stream you have with these buttons under here
the parking sensors and the auto hold so it's very very self-explanatory simple in here
i really like the design inside this car it's it's really really good the displays in
front of us like i said they're really clean they're really easy to see what's going on
this is very much the same as the ionic 5 with the design in the middle here but it's again simple to
use easy to understand it shows your range it shows you your speed so you've got some control
there i really like that down in the middle of the car we have two usbs we have a usb type c
and a usb type a which i'm plugged into here we've got also another usb type-c and a 12-volt charger
we've got a nice big tray here which i've got my phone plugged into with android auto and the bins
have got lots of space as well and i love again the led lighting inside the bins one thing i
really like about this car is the led lighting if you also have the gt9s you also get the meridian
sound system which has got 14 speakers and of course the panoramic glass sunroof as well as the
lane assist camera which pops off in front of you to let you know whether there's somebody in your
blind spot as well as a surround view 360 camera so this is a really really nice interior and of
course we must forget this has got the relaxation seats where you can with one press of the button
push it back and have a nap and then you can put it back again and it will bring me back to my
original position so again really cool especially if you're charging like we are now with grid serve
to have that one touch button to adjust the seats is a really cool thing right let's
have a look at space in the back now and see how much space there is back there so how much space
is there in the back of the kia ev6 so i have a ton of space just like the hyundai there's a ton
of space in front of my knee i've got good head room we've got these cool vents on the
side of the doors and just like the hyundai i can adjust these backwards and forwards
like that so there's a lot of space back here really really comfortable these seats have a
really interesting design i think that's really cool and there are two usbz on the side here of
the seats which i think is also very clever really comfortable space in here let's have a
look now in the boot and then in the boot there's 490 liters of space which is enough space to fit
in all your filming equipment and there's a cover that you can pull across here as well
lots of space this model of the gt9s also has a automatic tailgate which goes down
like that welcome to the inside of the kia ev6 this is the gt line edition there's also the
gt line s which i'm going to drive a bit later so this car has 226 horsepower it's rear-wheel drive
just like all the models of the kia v6 including the air they all have rangers starting at 300
miles with a 77.4 kilowatt hour battery so these have got one battery type as standard which means
across the range is really really simple you're basically just looking at the trim levels air gt
line or gt9s or obviously the 577 horsepower gt when that's available if you want to go for that
and then you just have to think about whether you want all-wheel drive or rear-wheel drive
the air is only available rear-wheel drive but the gt9 and gt9s are both available as all-wheel
drive or real-world drive obviously the all-wheel drive has slightly faster zero to 60 times because
it's got a motor at the front and the back whereas the other models only have the motor at the back
so this car to drive first of all interesting comparison with the hyundai ioniq 5 because i
think that's what a lot of people are maybe cross shopping this car with and they're looking at the
hyundai or the kia ev6 so i really really like the kia ev6 and i really really like the ioniq
5. there are some differences though first of all the ride on this car is a bit stiffer a bit firmer
i actually slightly prefer that it seems to be slightly less bouncy than the ioniq five obviously
some people prefer the feel of the ionic five over this but i prefer this i also if i might prefer
the screens on this car they've got a slight curve two 12.3 inch screens they've got a slight curve
to them which looks a bit cooler to me and it's a very different design philosophy whereas the ionic
5 feels a bit more like your relaxing favorite lounge with the white colors this car feels more
like a modern lounge this is this feels like the kind of lounge where you have cool mood lighting
and because this car has cool mode lighting now obviously on the top spec of the ioniq 5 you also
can get cool mood lighting but every model in the range on the kia ev6 has the cool lighting i
prefer the look of this but there are many many similarities including these screens which are
the same the infotainment system is the same it runs exactly the same system and you know it's a
really good system with android auto with apple carplay with a really really simple easy to use
system so you're not going to get confused you're not going to get over complicated of course you
can check out my infotainment guide on the ioniq 5 which is exactly the same as this car internally
as far as the graphics go and everything in the operation so have a look at that there are some
other changes here i really like the multi-modal display it swaps when you press a button between
climate controls and your media controls and the little knobs let you adjust either the temperature
or the volume and skip the tracks i think that's really really clever i really like that and then
you know you've got a different design in the middle here the interior is slightly different
if i'm honest with you this is probably more to my liking than the ionic five but again down to taste
going back to the driving you know they're exactly the same in terms of driving position you can see
very clearly the bonnet on the ev6 is much more raked down which they call a tiger face design
previously key had the tiger nose design so this is a tiger face design the difference
between these models between the gt line the gt line s the air there's very very little in terms
of the driving feel obviously with the gt line s because you've got the all-wheel drive you've got
321 horsepower instead of 226 there's definitely more more grunt there's definitely more
shelf because you would expect that because it's got more power and it's got more torque
but like i would say the main benefits here are and i would personally go for the top trim
the gt line s because of the interior extras in terms of technology that you get which you don't
get on the other trim models i think having the vehicle to load 360 cameras around your camera
having the head-up display having the sunroof they're all things which just add a bit to
the car which make it a bit more special you know as far as the regen braking goes so you know again
just like the ioniq 5 you have several versions of regen braking you can adjust the level by pressing
the paddle on the left hand side but you can also have something called ipedal which automatically
uses the cameras and adjust how much regen you breaking you're getting so that's really easy
to use and of course if you don't like the regen braking you can just turn it off go back to zero
level zero and then you can just drive like a normal car i like one pedal driving but it's
fair to say that when i started driving evs maybe one pedal driving wasn't my favorite thing to do
but i've got used to it and i think it's definitely a benefit for evs driving the gt line s
so this is the top model you can currently get and it's got around 100 horsepower more than the
gt line so it's got 321 horsepower compared to 226 horsepower which means and also it's
all-wheel drive so it's much much faster feeling it's got better acceleration and better torque now
let's be honest 226 horsepower is faster than most hot hatches so the gt line is already faster than
most cars that people buy when they want a hot car a performance version this car at 321 horsepower
is more powerful than avw golf r it's more powerful than lots of other cars and because
it's electric it has more torque so you can really really feel it and we put this car
and the gt line next to each other earlier and we had a little go to see what the acceleration was
like and and the gt9s is definitely faster in real world comparing them side by side which is really
really to be expected so you're paying for better performance but you're also paying for some new
cool technology so you've got a lane assist assistant which flashes up onto the screen so you
can see what is in your left or right side when you indicate to change lanes which is a really
really good thing to have you've got that surround view camera you've got the automatic parking which
as you pull forward and pull backward and lets you show the car moving in and out of spaces
which means that if you're parking in a space where there isn't much room you don't have to
worry about having to squeeze in the car so you've got lots of extra little conveniences and bits of
technology which are on this car which are not on the gt line and not on the air which i really
like and as i said we're driving the gt line i would really recommend the one negative of this
is a slightly less range and i do see slightly less range to about 20 miles
less range and i think obviously if you put your foot down you're probably gonna have even even
less range if you're driving the car in sport mode because obviously it's going to go faster
because you've got more power and it's going to use more energy and more electricity but you
know what i think if you pay for for the higher performance version the top spec model the gt9s
then you get you know you expect that maybe when you buy the car but just keep that in mind
but the other conveniences are all really really worth it and one thing i really like about kia is
it's really really easy to configure these cars all you literally need to do is choose a paint
option there are six pane options including on the top specs you can get a matte paint
and that's it you just choose the paint everything else is included based on the trim
so you don't have to select to have the 360 surround camera you don't have to select to have
the remote parking all that stuff just is there with that trim level so it makes it really really
easy to choose the trim level that you're going for and i think that's a really good thing from
kia i think people can sometimes get confused about what trims to get and when to get them i
think that's a really beneficial thing for this car and i you know i love it i love both these
cars to be fair i love the gadgets i'm a gadget guy and i love having all the other stuff on the
gt lioness which this car is but you know i can't complain about having a gt line or an
air because they're both you know they feel the same to drive it's important to know that the air
feels exactly the same to drive as the gt light there is no difference in how it drives it just is
minus a few things which the gt line has over it like the gt9s has a few tech things over the gt9
that is it obviously if you want to go top range when the gt is available you've got 577 horsepower
and over 700 newton meters of torque and there's actually a short video of the gt racing some
literally supercars as a short on my channel which you can check out if you want to see it what do i
think of the ev6 i think these are fantastic cars they look amazing they're great to drive they're
really well loaded all the latest technology driver assist technology on the top lines you
get head up display as well and loads of other cool bits i really like this cast please give this
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