Why This E-Car Is Beating German Brands

The car race of the year 2022 is set: the clear winner is the electric car Kia EV6. Thus Kia asserts itself against European competitors among other things and gets out of competition with the German electric model. There are many good reasons for this.

Kia EV6 – the best car of 2022

Kia won the title of Car of the Year 2022 With the new electric car EV6. The e-SUV ranks first for a model from South Korea and thus for Kia as well. The e-car impresses with, among other things, “pleasant performance”, modern safety features and high charging capacity with 800 V technology.

The jury members emphasized comfort as well as long distance and a compatibility and networking that did not exist before (source: car of the year) a A special advantage of the Kia EV6 is the powerful charging technology, which is currently only found in significantly more expensive e-cars. This is not yet the case with German competition like ID.4, but it doesn’t quite work in winter yet, as our colleague Peter Hrissiuk Im Kia EV6. review of has been established. Still, the model for him was “the best car I’ve ever driven”.

Renault Megane E-Tech Electric came in second place Not far behind Kia, but the result is clear. While the EV6 collected a total of 279 points and 12 votes as the best car, the French electric car managed to score 265 points.

German manufacturers can learn something from Korean electric cars

Along with the Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia’s group brother also gets a place on the podium, enough for a bronze (261 points). The result makes it clear: When it comes to e-cars, you have to keep pace with the Koreans – and a good example can be taken from the figureheads of German manufacturers Kia and Hyundai. it has already been shown list of finalists, where German brands were not represented at all. Along with the Cupra Born and the koda Anac IV, two models from the Volkswagen Group were shortlisted, but ultimately failed to impress.

This year’s vote for Car of the Year by the jury, which typically includes 61 expert journalists from Europe, was also influenced by the current situation in Ukraine: The votes of the two Russian jurors were not counted. However, this should not have affected the result (source: Faiz,