Likes
- Comfortable, competent drive experience
- Long range from bigger battery
- Sharp pricing on entry-level grade
Dislikes
- Design will polarise
- Boot is a missed practicality perk
- Service costs higher than most
The $59,190 Kia EV4 Earth is the mid-point in the brand’s electric sedan range, sitting above the Air and below the GT-Line.
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Unlike the cheaper Air, the Earth gets the Long Range battery, unlocking the best driving range delivered by a Kia to date.
It’s a 81.4kWh NCM unit in the Long Range models, which delivers a claimed 612km range on the WLTP cycle. That’s not the very best in the business, but it’s almost certainly enough to cancel any ‘range anxiety’ talk.
The EV4’s 400-volt architecture does slow down charging a little, though, with DC fast charging capped at 128kW. That means going from 10 to 80 per cent in around 30 mins when using the fastest chargers. If you’re using a 50kW charger, it’s up to almost an hour and 20 minutes for the bigger battery.
The Earth builds on the Air’s equipment list with 19-inch alloys, cloth-and-synthetic-leather seats, a powered seat for the driver, and Kia’s very cool and comfortable mesh headrests.
