Learning to Love Electric: A Review of the 2015 Kia Soul EV - Torque News
Before getting into my views on the 2015 Kia Soul EV, I want to clarify a few points on my experiences with both electric vehicles and with the traditionally powered Kia Soul. I have had the pleasure of driving a handful of pure electric vehicles – those which do not have any sort of range extending gasoline engine – including the Nissan Leaf and the Fiat 500e. However, I only got to put a few miles on those cars and in... Both of those vehicles use an electric drive system, but they also feature a range extending gasoline engine which allows you to essentially ignore the remaining electric range, as when you run out of battery power – the Volt and ELR have a gas... On the other hand, when the battery in the Kia Soul EV is dead, there is no fallback plan, so daily driving the electric Kia would require more careful planning than did the Volt or ELR – but we will get to that later. On paper, the Soul isn’t the kind of vehicle that I would enjoy, as I am a lover of muscle cars and other high performance, rear or all-wheel drive sports cars along with full sized trucks – but having spent time in a traditionally powered... Source: www.torquenews.com
