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Kia’s EV5 Earth electric all-wheel-drive SUV – different yet appealing mid-sized SUV
Sunday, 29 June, 2025
Behind the wheel of Kia’s electric mid-size SUV, the EV5. The first Kia to be builtin China with the battery interestingly supplied by electric car giant BYD. There’sthree trim grades Air, Earth and GT-line, I’m driving the mid-grade EV5 Earth at$68,990 drive-away, a 230kW dual electric motor all-wheel-drive with a long range88.1kWh battery and a quoted range of 500km. The drive experience provedrewarding, my consumption around town running at 18.6 kWh/100km providing arange of 473km – charge time on my 11kW home charger from 10 to 100 percentjust over 8 hours or overnight. I must admit the Kia EV5 Earth SUV grew on methe more I drove it – the styling subjective, but I personally got to like it over time,the interior a highpoint, great seats, the test cars Nougat Beige interior coloursappealing in a dashboard design that is intuitive and different. Biggest gripe, theoverly active and intrusive lane keep assist, speed limit recognition and driveattention warnings and I’m surprised Kia Australia has not addressed this annoyance. Overall, though, all things considered the EV5 Earth all-wheel drive isa very rewarding electric SUV.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
