I really want my next car to be an EV, but I am finding incredibly difficult to justify spending 35k on a car that has ~480 km range (effectively 400km as charging to 100% takes way too long).<p>I do understand the arguments about 90% of the driving is done within 200kms, but the obly reason for me to own a car is the long distance trips. Most of the Europeans are in the similar situation.
We tried the Kia Nero EV, and it's navigation voice, while having decent pronunciation, had such a weird rhythm and intonation when speaking that I had significant trouble understanding what it said.<p>I've never come across that with any artificial voice before.<p>And I'm fairly good at understanding both Swedish and Danish in addition to my native Norwegian, so used to variety.<p>The price drove us away, but had it been cheaper we'd likely not gotten it due to that poor voice, given the other options on the market. It just wasn't usable.
Please tell me I'm not the only person that thinks this thing is unfathomably ugly.<p>There is am amazing wealth of design language that could be used for electric cars, but for some reason, most manufacturers seem to land between "metabolic syndrome power ranger" and "criminally battered emoji".
the vehicle is 1.8T (~ 4000lbs), we don't "need more like this"<p>it can be electric all it wants, it's still way oversized and that has a terrible environmental cost
Reminder that Kia allegedly shares customer data with data brokers and also uses your location and driving habits to deny warranty claims. I wouldn’t take a chance with a company abusing my privacy that way.