Welcome to tech in the car i am oliver in this video we're going to start off here at the ionity
charging point here in milton keynes this is one of the really fast chargers we have here in the uk
350 kilowatts and in this video i'm going to talk about the new cooper ball and we're going to see
how does it drive is it like an electric gti or is it just a really really sporty cooper now let's
talk about charging which is the reason we're here starting the video with the charging because
charging really important in my other videos i've talked a bit about some of the pains of charging
this ionity charging here is one of the fastest you can get 350 kilowatts of charging power
going through here which means that if you have one of the new 800 volt cars like the two ioniq
fives to the left of me here then you can charge that potentially very very very quickly in fact
60 miles in five minutes was just like stopping at a normal petrol station welcome to the cooper
born perhaps the most exciting sporty hatchback that you can get right now on the market and is
this car it's a really good question an electric performance car a hot hatch or is this car just
a really really cool more fancy better version of the vw id3 we are going to go to richmond park now
we're in an ev and evs are all about the environment but evs are also very fast and
this car has 204 horsepower it can be 0 to 60 in 7.3 seconds and this is the kind of middle price
point in the cooper born range this is a about 39 000 pounds on the road it's got a 58 kilowatt
hour battery there's also 77 kilowatt hour battery coming soon but this is the fastest version of the
cooper boy there's also a smaller battery pack version coming as well but this is the fastest
version and this version is the one which most people cooper think will buy because it's got
everything in it and this car is in aurora blue which in all the press materials looks amazing
although my personal preference now in the car would be maybe it's a bit dark
but again that's personal preference but evs are all about being good for the environment
not sacrificing that performance and definitely having amazing efficiency
but also being fast people think of evs as being fast well where can you take a sporty car and see
if it disturbs the wildlife well why not a park full of wildlife richmond park in south london
but there are a lot of wildlife there and there is wild deer in richmond park so what are my initial
impressions of this car so i've been driving around for about a week now i've got a full
in-depth video of this car on my channel where i go into it which i borrowed from cooper in oxford
what better test of a car's ability to drive than in london traffic in the evening when it's busy
on a hot day where it's 26 degrees outside right now we're in comfort mode in this car and there
are four actual options on here we've got range which will give us this range we've got comfort
which we're in now we've got performance mode which will let me unlock that potential of that
faster at 60 times 204 horsepower and then we got individual which lets you adjust it
to whatever you want it to be unless you adjust the separate settings so steering an engine engine
it's not an engine but anyway it says engine the adapter cruise control and the air conditioning
and it lets you change them to whatever you want so those are the options right now in comfort
because comfort seems like the best mode to be driving around in because well you wanted to be
comfortable especially in the city in london driving around so that's an important part of
it so let's take a moment to just look around the cooper ball and we've got the cool unique design
we've got this light bar along the back here which looks really cool it lights up and it's 3d kind
of does a zed at the side we've got this really aggressive diffuser i haven't seen electric cars
with a diffuser like this it's kind of almost got a split design here going this looks more
aggressive than the diffuser on an rs audi in lots of cases and then you've got these copper accents
too i love the design of the cooper born if we move to the side we see these 20 inch wheels
these are massive massive alloys and they've got really wide tyres wider than you get on the vw id3
which means this car has better handling and performance on the road as well and it's same
with the front here down the side we have these little flicks down here on the side skirts again
more reminiscent of a performance car than an ev and then the front is much the same as well at the
front of the cooper born like i said before this is a much more aggressive looking than the id3
we've got this steep bonnet which comes straight down here and it's got a very short bonnet
no front by the way this is all technical stuff required for the cooling of the car and then
we've got our really cool inset led lights which have the space here towards them and
then we've got the big vents at the bottom here with the copper accents it's just super super
super aggressive but you know this is just a really attractive looking car and it's very
as i said unique in the car world of evs there's nothing that's like it exactly out there right now
one of the things we're driving through city is there's no doubt that you get lots of fumes from
petrol cars from diesel cars and so electric cars remove that and it's very easy to see a
situation when in 10 years when no more ice cars are being sold throughout the world where it's
only used cars on the market that driving through a city driving through a village is going to be
a lot more peaceful and a lot better for your health because you're not going to be inhaling
all those fumes so that is one of the benefits of an electric car now there are disadvantages
first of all electric cars use more carbon to be produced in traditional ice cars because they
have to produce the batteries as well as all the other parts of the car and so actually it takes a
long time for an electric car right now to be net neutral carbon in production which means that you
will be driving a car for a long time before it actually ends up being as environmentally good
as an ice car despite the ice helping out all those emissions and all those fumes
now this will change obviously as electric car manufacturers get more efficient as new technology
is developed to repurpose and reuse battery something which polstar is working on and i'm sure
everyone else is doing volkswagen that own the cooper van are doing this actually in germany with
their audi charging stations they're repurposing old electric batteries from previous generations
of evs and they're using those to store the power in these electric charging stations so let's talk
about driving this car so first of all suspension this car is very comfortable to drive it's got 20
inch wheels and it's got plenty of torque being an ev and going over the bumps in london it
feels very very comfortable this car is actually lower than the vw i83 which is based on the same
platform and this car is 15 millimeters low at the front 10 millimeters long at the back and in terms
of luggage capacity if we're going to talk about it for a second we've got 385 litres of space in
the back which is more than a seat leon which is about 380 liters even though this car is a very
different shaped car the cooper board just like the id3 is a bit of a higher car it's got a higher
roof and also the seating position of this car feels a lot higher now it's great for visibility
seeing where you're going and this has got all the latest assistance features it's got everything you
could want we got lane assisted cruise control and we've got this augmented reality head-up display
which i think is a very very cool feature which i really really like which works even when you're
not using the cartoon build navigation sure it will not give you turn-by-turn directions with
the augmented reality but it will still tell you when you get too close to the lane of front
or to the side of the road and it will pop up with little markings on the road and if
you do use the inbuilt navigation you will get that benefit as well
in terms of performance it's fast it's an eevee it does what it needs to do this car definitely feels
more sporty on the interior cooper make fantastic steering wheels i really love this steering wheel
in a time where i think lots of companies aren't making nice steering wheels
audi this is a fantastic steering wheel and it is really really cool flat bottom perforated leather
nice brand copper accent stitching which i really really like which is cooper's signature color
which is all over the car on the exterior too which looks amazing and which i'm really really
fond of but also we got a big 12 inch touch screen in the front here makes android water which is
wireless and carplay which is also wireless really easy to see what's going on we've got our small
driver cockpit here which moves on the steering wheel so it's always the same distance in front
of you and always really really clear to see what's going on on there i've driven this car
down from northampton down here to the south coast through london we've driven 174 miles
the car has about 54 miles of range so it's telling me therefore the actual range of
the sky is about 226 miles well the range when i filled it up like i said originally was 228 miles
so it's basically telling me that if this is accurate this is within a couple of miles of
what it told me so that is pretty accurate and i'm impressed with that because normally
what it says isn't necessarily what you actually get in real life the wltp range on this car with
the 58 kilowatt hour 204 horsepower is 264 miles so we've obviously got 226 miles of actual range
or it would be because it does seem to be pretty accurate like i mentioned so what that means
in the scheme of things is we're about 40 miles out between the wltp range and the actual range
and that's similar to what i saw with the polestar 2 that was having a wltp range of
about 280 miles and i was getting about 250 miles so it does seem like at least from my experience
that the wltv ranger seemed to be 40 to 50 miles less than the actual ranges currently there are
some exceptions to that some of the newer cars like the lucid air which is a very expensive car
over a hundred and sixty thousand dollars in the us has 500 miles of range and it says it's 500
miles of range so that might change his battery technology improves but overall i'm impressed
with the range i'm impressive performance i'm impressed with the driving of this car
it's a pretty nifty cool car it looks good it's eye-catching and i love the interior
the interior is a big step up from the id3 how are the brakes in this car well they are
pretty good you definitely feel them doing their job how is the steering the steering's
quite precise this is of course a rear motor rear wheel drive car which means it definitely gives
you a little kick especially when you put your foot down with that electric torque and it just
feels like a much higher quality interior than you get in the id3 it's much better in here it's more
comfortable it's more luxurious it's more it's just it's just more this is more than the ied3 is
and it's good for that so we're here at richmond park so let's talk about the cooper born here
this car is a really sporty looking car it's definitely more sporty looking the
id3 we've got a lower front and design we've got lots of copper accents we've got massive
20 inch wheels on this v3 version it's just all around a lot more exciting a lot more tempting and
if you go off if you're able to get the e-boost version which has got the 77 kilowatt-hour battery
then you're able to enjoy that boost and that's even cooler because you've got a little button
you can press to overtake now i'm sitting here in richmond park there are cyclists going past
all the time you can probably hear them behind the camera and i was driving between them and
they weren't bothered i didn't get anybody complaining i didn't get anybody asking me what
i was doing driving my loud fast car in the middle of the park it was just nice and quiet and silent
and the deer were walking alongside the road minding their own business quite happily and even
now they're all there but i get all of that from this really cool looking car now at 39 000 pounds
on the road is this the best value ev you can get no there are cheaper evs and they're also much
more expensive evs but this car is unique there's nothing else which has the looks the sporty looks
the sporty design the fantastic accents the interior details there's nothing else like it on
the market the cooper-born is a one-of-one car and right now if you want a sporty hatchback which is
an ev i would go for one of these there's no doubt about it obviously if you're looking for different
things like saloons or suvs or if you're in the us a truck then there are lots of other options
which are much much much more expensive and i've reviewed some of them on my channel
this is a unique car this is very very individual it's something which gets attention but also flies
under the radar at the same time it's an electric car which gives you a perfect balance of range and
performance and also makes you feel special when driving it and i think that's very unique and rare
in the electric car world in a world where there are thousands of teslas which all look identical
this stands out and that makes it something worth checking out please give me a like if you enjoyed
this video and check out my other videos including my full detailed review of the cooper born i'll
appear up here and my infotainment guide as well see you next video thank you very much