Volvo XC60 Hybrid Vs Kia Ev6

The type of driving you do is critical when thinking about if a diesel, PHEV or EV suits you. if you do 100km each way commute, get the EV6 and you’ll save a fortune in fuel. If you do 70km a day and can charge daily or even during the day but don’t want to delay yourself on occasional long journals then the T6 would be great too. If you do 600km a day quite often get another diesel.

I love modern Volvo’s and although the EV6 is v modern, the Volvo cabin is higher quality and is super comfortable, small things like real leather rather than ‘vegan’ leather. Ignore the one sided merchants saying one type of tech is outdated, this is pure rhetoric

Isn't their problem a short term issue though? Surely a small issue like that while they wait for a home charger to be installed isn't something to put you off buying an EV.

I have my Leaf coming up on a year now. I've public charged 4 times in that year. Once was to see how to do it (charged for 15 mins, no wait). The next two times were for a quick fast charge (no wait at all and again charged for 15-20mins to get what I needed) and the other time was to see how much free charge I might get while shopping in Lidl, didn't have to wait and charged away for free for 40mins while shopping.

I just used the 3 pin charger while I waited for my wallbox to be installed also.

The family member is delight with the purchase. It is myself who was turned off them.

I don’t see the benefits out weigh the inconvenience of them yet. Hope the tech improves dramatically over the next few years so I can change my mind.

They don’t have a charge point at home yet, house they live in doesn’t have a connected parking space beside it. One of these houses where the parking is community spaces across the road etc.

they are looking into burying the cable so avoid kids falling over it etc. should have it sorted in a couple of weeks.

i currently get 950k/1000k out of a dacia duster on a full tank, circa 70e to fill up and time spent filling is less than 4 minutes.

based on the Nero charge time on a 50kw charger the same distance would take 2 hours to charge and cost €25.

2 hours waiting’s to charge isn’t worth the 45e savings for me personally.

As previous posters said, you really need to have access to a home charger to maximise the benefit of an EV. I know this is a challenge for some people, but it will improve. You are paying 70 euro to fill your car now, I wonder what you will be paying this time next year? All energy prices are increasing, but the gap between electricity and petrol/diesel is going to widen constantly into the future.

Our EV is doing about 460-480 on a full charge at the moment. Charged it last night to 80% capacity and it cost just €5.10. So my point is that if you get the home charger combined with a car with decent range you practically eliminate any reliance on public charging.

So the flip side to your point is that we have moved from a fill of diesel costing €100 to an electric cost of approx €9 for the same range. Effectively the upgrade to the new car costs us nothing as the diesel savings pay for the car.

I'm going from 530d which has incredible blend of comfort & power to Ioniq 5 ( brother to the EV6). Don't regret the decision at all.

As a driver of a phev myself home charging is essential, the public network is essentially useless to me as the charge rate is so slow. If I had it over again I'd go for the full ev. No matter which car you choose there are great savings to be made over Ice. I can't remember when I put petrol into the car I'll have to check my banking app.

Mine seems to have settled on being charged twice a week maybe a third partial charge (40%) (costing €5 in total for electricity)if I do a bit extra. There's a big difference in petrol consumption between doing a journey with a flat or charged battery, you'll never get better than 6.5 with a flat battery whereas down into the 3's has regularly shown on the summary.

Oh I agree completely, but the cars in question belong to a particular German 'performance' car brand, and I think they were chosen for the 200Hp and low road tax versus the tractor engine models, rather than because of the fuel savings and opportunity for EV driving

Home charger is a must (from a cost perspective - public charging erodes the running costs savings you can achieve with EV) - solar is a bonus in my opinion

Hi there. I made a trip like that from West Cork to Bray but honestly can’t remember the MPG. Right now I’ve done 1850kms @ 4.7l/100km. I have a trip this weekend and I will try to tell you what the mpg is, if I remember. Not sure on the options? Mine is a T8/455bhp. I am getting 55-60kms per charge. Hope that helps.

Hi @drunkmonkey. I did a little more of the mileage you were asking about this weekend, so wanted to get back to you. First of all I travelled from West Cork to Longford. 310kms, 6.8l/100km. Car was charged prior to that trip - I had my destination in the car and I'd say that approx half the journey was on motorway on cruse control. When I for to my destination, I could charge the car for 90 mins at a cost of 1.51 - which gave me about 22kms of expected charge. So i headed back without a full charge for a total of 655kms (including the trip already detailed) and 7.7l/100kms. Charged the car overnight and did another approx 140kms - so a total trip of 793 at 7.1l/100km. My total on the car is now 2750 at 5.4l/100kms, but I won't need petrol for any trips this week, as they are all local and so that average should drop.

I had a D4 and despite my concerns around changing when I read some stories about software, and the fact that I lost blindspot and Cross traffic on this model due to component shortages, I'm delighted with the change and have no regrets. I hope this helps. It's an expensive purchase, but I am happy with the decision I made.

Had the T8 since Monday dropped it back yesterday afternoon, got nearly exactly as your long trip clocked up just under 800km with a good bit of motorway in bad conditions, even had to deal with snow and flooding (air suspension came in handy, didn't have to detour), was showing me about 55km on a full charge and to be fair it was accurate which is good considering how bad the weather was here.

It's not a car you'd buy to make a major fuel cost saving, it was brilliant in so many other ways.

I didn't buy it but I still could, what stopped me was the charging speed not sure it was the weather but it was taking roughly 6hrs to charge it on my home wall box, I usually have an hour or two at home before starting the second half of the day so was hoping to get a decent bit of charge in it but was showing about 8km after an hour or so.

Is that normal, do you know if there's any plans to up the charging speed a bit or if it's just not possible due to the hardware in it.

That’s normal. I think it’ll only charge at 3.5KW/hr. I think that’s the case with most PHEVs? Might be wrong there. Agree with you. I’m saving money versus the diesel T4 but not enough to justify the cost. But a much better car than my 2018 model. Very happy with mine.

With a home charger you get 400km for 15seconds of work. Compared to driving to a garage, queuing for a pump, standing pumping fuel in the cold, queuing in the shop and driving home. Could never go back to that inconvenience. Not to mention the thousands in extra costs, and contribution to deaths from my tail pipe emissions