![]() (I understand all these features are available on newer units) CAR! But, you may have ventilated seats, navigation, car-play, and wireless charging. And.you may NOT have a garage door opener (home link) incorporated into your car like EVERY. And, you may NOT have an electro chromatic (self dimming) rear view mirror.ever. However.you may NOT have a sun-roof (in 2018). And.a real auto transmission! 6 speeds! Not a moaning Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT). And.you can select ‘sport’ mode where you will have exclusive … internal combustion-only propulsion and spirited performance which charges the battery as you drive giving you extra EV range. 25 miles of gas-free electric range every time you unplug and get in. This is a very comfortable, tech-ladened, economical, environmentally friendly, tall wagon or large hatch-back. Pretending this is an SUV is laughable it is not not even close. If buying a new car today, we would buy the E-Niro. It drops you a gear lower, and the car zips up the steepest grades (and keeps the engine in the power range, so the "economy" gauge shows green. Have taken some longer road trips, and learned to use the "sport" mode for steep highway climbs. Update at the 3-year mark: Still happy with the car. Just entering winter, the frustrating season when we cannot run all-electric because of the heating system engineering flaw mentioned in the original review. No squeaks or rattles at the 2 year mark. Even if we had to pay a premium price for a fast charge, it would still be a great value to be all-electric - charging at home is the equivalent of $1.20/gallon. Each time, we had overnight charging available to us close to where we stayed. We've carefully tracked how many times we would have needed to charge "on the road." Three trips, for a total of about 10% of our total miles. If were were buying today, we would probably buy the full-electric. The E-Niro has become available, with 240 miles of range. Update at two years and 23,800 miles: We've had the Kia Niro Plug-in for two years now. Around here, the Prius Prime is probably a better value if it meets your needs. This is why I say it's a great car for Phoenix or San Diego, where you don't need heat much of the time. That forces on the engine (but the car still is propelled as an electric this big four-cylinder 1600cc engine running just to provide heat and defrost. In Olympia, where we have cool weather and dampness, we do need to run the heat all winter. The Niro does not, even though an air conditioner is essentially the same device as a heat pump running in reverse. The Prius Prime (the heads up competitor) has a heat pump system, that runs using electricity. There is one … clear bit of lazy engineering: the heating system only works when the engine is running. Upright seats, high enough off the ground so you don't crawl out of it like a Prius, and doors that open super wide. ![]() We really like the ease of entry and exit. We just passed 3,000 miles, and have used 24 gallons of gasoline. It's a small city, so 26 miles electric is plenty for our in-town driving.
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