![]() ![]() Your smartphone is far more demanding than that. That said, with an easy real-world range of 200 miles, many owners will only need to plug in overnight once or twice a week. The UK’s EV charging infrastructure is improving all the time, but faulty chargers are still occasionally a thing and could scupper a long drive if you fail to plan ahead and locate an alternative. This has the effect of braking when you lift the accelerator, and at its strongest can almost entirely replace your use of the brake pedal.Īll in all, the e-Niro is an easy car to drive and live with – just so long as you have a charger fitted at home, and know where others are located on longer journeys. As we said, stick to normal, or dip into Eco if you’re on a longer run and don’t mind a slightly soft pedal when pulling out of junctions.ĭriving modes are toggled between with a button on the central console between the front seats, which also houses a dial for rotating from reverse and neutral to drive, along with the electronic handbrake and heated seat controls.Įach of the drive modes also adjusts the aggressiveness of the Kia e-Niro’s regenerative braking system, which, like on all other EVs, feeds kinetic energy lost while coasting or braking back into the battery. The sensitivity is so extreme that you look like a learner struggling with the clutch instead of commanding anything remotely sporty. This may sound appealing for when you fancy a more spirited drive, but it’s not. Sport mode, on the other hand, turns the digital instrument cluster red (of course it does) and morphs the accelerator pedal into a hair trigger, giving what feels like full power with the slightly touch. Eco+, accessed only via a long press of the drive mode button, turns off the climate control, limits top speed to well below the speed limit, and puts a lot of artificial squidge into the acceleration. But it won’t surprise you to hear that Eco or Normal are all you ever need. There are four driving modes to pick from: Eco+, Eco, Normal and Sport. Sure, the e-Niro doesn’t have the rampant accelerative performance of any Tesla, hauling itself to 60mph in modest 7.5 seconds, but this is still perfectly adequate for a midsize crossover weighing 1,812 kg (of which 457kg is the floor-mounted battery). For perhaps the first time, we drove this electric car without ever thinking about how much range was left, or what we should do to conserve it.
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