Used 2021 Kia Niro EV Consumer Reviews
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We have a limited number of reviews for the 2021 Niro EV, so we've included reviews for other years of the Niro EV since its last redesign.
Great Decision
Matthew Sonstein, 05/07/2021
2020 Kia Niro EV EX Premium 4dr SUV (electric DD)
16 of 16 people found this review helpful
14,000 and 14 months later, I still love this purchase. The car has been flawless in operation and a blast to drive when I want to be frisky. The estimated mileage has been continuously spot on. I’ve averaged around 285 per full charge and on long distance highway trips about 250 (10-15miles less with a/c on). Seating five in a pinch, carrying lumber or dogs, Stashing goods in the hidden compartments, this car got me out of my diesel and gas cars and I’m not looking back.
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The electric car I've been waiting for!
Pat in SFBay, 11/20/2019
2019 Kia Niro EV EX 4dr SUV (electric DD)
14 of 14 people found this review helpful
I love, love, love this car! I'd been waiting three years for a car manufacturer to produce a reasonably affordable, "normal looking" SUV-style electric car. This is it! We leased the Kia Niro EV standard version a month ago and are completely happy with it. This car is comfortable, fast and quiet. The car handles great and has amazing power, flying along seemingly effortlessly. There are a lot of hills in my neighborhood and the car glides up them no sweat, like it's not even an incline. The instrument panel and computer screen are pretty intuitive, even for oldsters like my husband and me. It seems to go forever on a charge. We are retired and mainly drive short trips around the East Bay (northern Calif). We drove it for 2 1/2 weeks without charging it. It has all the modern safety features, which is appreciated. The only drawback to owning this electric car is that there seems to be an insufficient number of reliably-functioning, fast-charging stations between Oakland and Seattle, which is a drive we would like to make. But that's not Kia's fault. Chargepoint and EVGo, please step up!
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Superb safety and tech featured EV away from Tesla
Paulk, 09/30/2019
2019 Kia Niro EV EX Premium 4dr SUV (electric DD)
22 of 23 people found this review helpful
This is fun to drive, flies off the line with plenty of wheel spins if you wanted to. But I felt that ECO mode driving was sufficient for me to use on daily commute. Its' 239 mile range is superb in these days in age for it's base trim, EX model starting at $ 38k here in the US and with the supplies becoming more available, we should expect some incentives to go along in the near future. This EV is very powerful off the line, therefore making it really fun to drive when maneuvering in and out of traffic. But I felt it has too much power for the size and weight of the car that I couldn't get a good launch off the line without having to spin the wheel and losing the control of the car altogether. This car is all about the tech! All the safety features you need are standard, which includes blind side monitor, lane keep assist, frontal collision avoidance and adoptive cruise control. It also has so many little cool and useful gadgets that you'll find it interesting finding out all these one by one as you drive. I opted for EX Premium trim as lease cost was only about $ 10 more per month and it include moon roof and leather seats among few other options added. All in all, it's affordable 200+ mile EV compared to other similary equipped and ranged EVs out there right now. And I trust that Kia will deliver what they promised in quality and battery life. We'll wait and see.
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Really solid car
Rich, 11/15/2020
2020 Kia Niro EV EX Premium 4dr SUV (electric DD)
27 of 29 people found this review helpful
Decently priced (for an EV), decent range, decent comfort. It's basically just a really, really decent car, but it costs around £8 to 'fill the tank' and if you source your charges from renewables it's a really good eco-choice. It's enjoyable to drive (my wife shoves it in 'eco' and it feels like a slowish car - I shift it into 'sport' and it moves nicely). Practicality is decent, entertainment system is decent. I've done lengthy 700 miles trips and it handles it decently. Looks decent. I guess you get the picture - a decent car; but it's the first EV I've experienced that fills that niche. Teslas are cool and can sort of drive themselves, but also are built by people with serious sleep deprivation and you'd better not care too much about paint finish or panel gap. Jag/Audi EV's are great but you better be wealthy to buy one. Peugeot/Citroen et. al. might have EV's but I've never owned a car from them that didn't start shedding trim and mysteriously break 6 months out of warranty. The Niro a decent car, that will please the whole family, it's affordable enough for the class, so far it seems incredibly reliable, the build quality is good, the technology feels solid, it's nice looking and it's one of the few cars my wife hasn't complained about and that's a rarity.
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Overall wonderful / remarkably stupid electronics
Harstine Steve, 04/15/2021
2020 Kia Niro EV EX 4dr SUV (electric DD)
18 of 20 people found this review helpful
Wonderful, peppy driving experience; good driving range; practical body design. But this rig has some big and completely unnecessary flaws. The first you will experience is that when in reverse the car issues a VERY LOUD beep like a Home Depot forklift. It will turn all eyes your way and wake up your neighborhood. Really? There are three more serious flaws that have to do with battery management -- the lifeblood of an EV: 1) there is practically no information provided in the Niro User's Guide on the proper care and feeding of EV batteries. It's up to the owner to search the Web, hoping that Tesla batteries and Kia batteries should be treated the same; 2) the display that gives estimated mileage constantly re-calibrates itself based upon your recent drives, which means the driver can NEVER LEARN TO TRUST what the gauge is telling him. Tesla doesn't try to be so stupidly smart. Instead they offer you 3 estimates - based upon past 15 minutes of driving style, past hour, past day (or something like that), giving you a much better sense of your expected range for your current trip. 3) EV batteries should not be charged to 100% unless you are planning to start your drive right away, which makes it important to be able to set the time of charging completion to match your intended departure time for a long trip. But the Niro EV delayed charging system is USELESS. The algorithm it uses starts the charging at the start of the next cheap electric rate period, regardless of the intended departure. Really?
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