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Written by Paul Horrell
Just been driving the Hyundai Kona Electric. It"s a step-change in the argument for electric cars in Britain. To see why, draw yourself a mental EV Venn diagram. One oval is labelled long range". That"s occupied by the Teslas S and X, and the Jaguar I Pace, and very soon the Mercedes EQ and Audi E Tron. In the second oval, the affordable EVs. That"s the Leaf, Zoe, e-Golf, the i3. The third oval, often forgotten, is fast-chargeable. Which is all the above except the Zoe, which has only an AC charger (which takes 43kW but that"s rarely available) and doesn"t accept high-kilowattage DC. Now, in a country denied the Chevy Bolt permanently and the base-model Tesla Model 3 for a long time to come, only one car sits in the Venn intersection. The Kona. Road-trippable, tick. Chargeable, tick. Affordable, tick. And because it"s a crossover, you could even call it fashionable.
Date written: 4 Sep 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13184
Just been driving the Hyundai Kona Electric. It"s a step-change in the argument for electric cars in Britain. To see why, draw yourself a mental EV Venn diagram. One oval is labelled long range". That"s occupied by the Teslas S and X, and the Jaguar I Pace, and very soon the Mercedes EQ and Audi E Tron. In the second oval, the affordable EVs. That"s the Leaf, Zoe, e-Golf, the i3. The third oval, often forgotten, is fast-chargeable. Which is all the above except the Zoe, which has only an AC charger (which takes 43kW but that"s rarely available) and doesn"t accept high-kilowattage DC. Now, in a country denied the Chevy Bolt permanently and the base-model Tesla Model 3 for a long time to come, only one car sits in the Venn intersection. The Kona. Road-trippable, tick. Chargeable, tick. Affordable, tick. And because it"s a crossover, you could even call it fashionable.
Date written: 4 Sep 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13184
