 Hey guys, Thundie here and welcome to my video on the Kia EV9. Now this is Kia's latest 7 seater SUV and one of the few 7 seater electric SUVs on the market. Now you're probably wondering if I'm going to give you a full review on this car, breakdown and no I'm actually going to give you a different video because yes I'm not really a car guy, I do like cars, I do like electric vehicles to a certain extent, give that as my caveat. But I want to just give you five things that I like about this vehicle and a few things that I don't. But that being said, the vehicle is available now, it starts at $53,000 and you can go all the way to a trim at $17,000. I do have the long range all wheel drive, that's what I'm testing here and this is, you can, the Parkage MSRP starting is at I believe 69 and then of course you can customize it whichever way you want. The vehicle gives you 373 horsepower and the mileage is above 300 miles. So one of the things I do like and the first thing is the design of the Kia EV9. This is a lovely looking SUV, it's futuristic but still very grounded in reality, I love the fact that while driving around people looked at it and they're like this is different you know and even the first time my wife saw the vehicle she's like, I like it, it's got that different look but still very grounded as being a vehicle, it doesn't look like an electric vehicle that everybody tries to make look funky-fied. This kind of reminds me something from a futuristic movie where they took a car and they tried to make it look futuristic but also still very grounded so I kind of like the approach. I like the fact that the front grille is pretty nice and big, you've got the running daytime lights LED lights in front, the back as well really nice and broad, the finishing across the side panels the fact that the door handles do pop out on its own whenever you come close to the car you open the car. So the 20 inch rims are pretty nice, the wheels are pretty nice with of course the wheel covers giving you all that very robust rugged look but also nothing to over-bearing as well so that's actually pretty cool. Now the second thing I do like about this vehicle is the interior. Now it's a cloudy day but you can see a lot of the interior as we cut in and out is that this is a spacious interior that's the first thing it's got a lot of space whether you're sitting in first row like I have not needed to move my seat back any further the second row has a lot of space you can get captain chairs if you want in the second row or in this case I don't and then you can get a bench or you can have a and then the third row is just a two-seater at the very back. Very spacious in all three rows what I'm sitting in the second or I'm seating in the third row. Now the third row you do have to move the second row a little bit forward but this is space for everyone there there's also USB type C charging ports for every single seat in this car for the third row for the second row which is great the second row you can get heated and cool seats for the second row as you do have for the first row as well the seats are really comfortable I've got more fabric and I've kind of got like this mesh net padding for the headrest which feels like a gaming chair which I can see you know if you're buying a car this price might you might not want that but I kind of like it it's comfortable but not too comfortable it's kind of right like the right kind of comfort for me this is all fabric interior you've got a little things around the interior that make it really nice for instance you can of course open and close the cup holder section if you will you've got wireless charging in front that kind of is a bit hidden as well they've got USB type C charging as well glove compartments and then you've also got this nice middle tray in the second row that allows you to play stuff cup holders there as well so there's enough things in the interior that make it really robust and active for a lot of people now when I move up to my third thing this kind of has to do with the interior itself and this is the audio in the car the speaker system is fantastic it's meridian speaker systems in the car and I like the placement of the speakers you've got little speakers in the front at the bottom every row has its array of speakers and what I like about that is that when you're listening to music it's not loud it is clear it's not overbearing it's very very clear and then the other thing too is you know when you were using say navigation and you're listening to music it actually cuts off the music in the front row and it moves the music to the rear or at least you can hear it just in the rear so it sounds distant and you can hear the navigation quite easily it's a very a lot of cars do this but I just like the implementation here in this vehicle it is pretty clean and it's pretty crisp on there now another thing I do like is the entertainment system or you could say the digital cluster on this car what I like about this is a couple of things you've got this massive display which is broken into technically three displays you've got of course your cluster in front of you you've got the side panel right next to it and then you've got of course the center console here which you can navigate a bunch of things below that is a haptic touch panel for your home map search media which is quite interesting to use it is kind of like touch sensitive so you got to have to press through and then below that you've got physical buttons for it like your temperature controls which I do like now I like the instrument system because it is really easy to use being able to just kind of go home or go to maps and find the things you want to media everything is kind of easy to figure out and find I don't have to kind of learn a car system to know where things are so I do like that I like that easy accessibility for things all around now one thing I do but we'll say about this though is that it allows you to jump in and jump out which a lot of systems don't I think it's pretty easy to use and for me that is a big plus and then the fifth thing that we like about this vehicle is the driving experience this is a you know a seven-seater SUV it's a big car it really is a large car but it drives like you're driving a sedan very comfortable it's got a decent turn radius but what I like about it is the smooth drive experience so whether I'm going through traffic or I'm going through a lot of bumps they need to fix the roads around here in Newark the experience feels very very comfortable and yes this isn't really noise proof so you you can still hear a lot of the elements that out there but not as bad as some vehicles out there it's pretty comfortable to drive through and suspension is great so the cool thing about driving experience is that on the wheel itself you can easily switch switch between your driving mode so going through things like your eco mode normal mode your sports mode my drive which kind of like your own select setting and snow it's an easy process to do that plus you do have the camera system on the car that is quite extensive so while I was just trafficating now I turned on the camera it actually I have cameras by my side mirrors which allowed me to see exactly what's happening as I'm turning so I don't have to look at the mirror so I've kind of used the mirrors less and less I use it for initial check but whenever I'm trafficating either way that also works also the cameras when parking it's got a self parking mode we can use with your key fob remote which is great and simple to use being able to park in tighter spaces moving out of a tight space really makes a lot of sense with the way this car works and functions I like it absolutely amazing and I think the drive experience for a lot of people will be something that they would definitely like now you're going Thunder E you've said a lot of great things about this car so what are things that you don't like the couple things in this car that I'm not a fan of so the first thing is the front you know I didn't talk about it earlier because the front is really small it's a tiny front and for car the size where there's technically no engine you know combustion engine the front is really small there's enough space to put maybe a backpack or something smaller like that like a briefcase you do you do well you will find your home charger kit in there but that's pretty much it another thing I don't like is actually the interior now you know because you don't have a front you do have a lot of space to drop down the seats and you can store you know packing stuff there which is great so me doing some moving currently this is kind of helped out but I don't like a split moonroof or sunroof and moonroof because it just really I don't know just to me just doesn't work I think it's either you do a moonroof or you just kind of have a giant one roof or half a roof or something I'm not a fan of that maybe it's just my personal preference that's not something I like another thing to point out is actually with that main giant you know cluster and digital cluster in front of me now it's great because I can clearly see you know my instruments in front my speed my of course mileage I can clearly see the entertainment stuff on the side but that middle strip is annoying because my wheel blocks off a lot of things my line of sight so for me to actually look at say what some of the temperature reading is for the driver and for the passenger you know if it's not synced I have to kind of lean right this way or kind of lean left so I can see either one and and also see some of the other functionalities built in there not cool now another thing I don't like is the location of the start button you're thinking it's probably here right no you're thinking okay what about here nah it's not this button it's actually where is it it's right here it's underneath the wiper selector which is here and that makes sense and this is also the drive selector so it's not a bad thing you turn your car on you know you have it on and you can go ahead and select the drive it's pretty straightforward for that but trying to find that button sometimes can be annoying because you jump in the car and you're going okay this and that I also wish this actually just turn on when you jumped into the car with your keys so you can actually just drive off and you didn't have to have to hit that button maybe it's an option in the settings I haven't actually found that yet that you can actually do that but this is not a good location for the start and stop button for the car it should have been either there or here and I think the final thing that I don't like is you know range anxiety and this is not a thing to do with the car it's just to do with electric vehicles in total and I think Tesla has this problem solved with their charging stations and how their charging network works I had a lot of trips this week so I had to go charge and I'm going to go charge again now charging on this car it works well you can open up the charge port by the tap in or you can also press a button in the car here but the thing about the charge port is the charging situation is that while it's easy to find and I love the fact that navigation you can hit charging and we'll find a charge spot for you AC or DC charging I went to go find a charging spot and I had issues with you know just connecting to a charging spot first that took a while and then the second issue I had was the fact that it just was not cheap you know I charged from about 20 to 80 percent if initially say 45 minutes you know fast charging so it took about 18 minutes which was great at least I you know wasn't too long but it was also about 36 dollars or so and I was thinking if I went to fully charge this car you know it might go up now it's not as bad as charging an SUV a regular gasoline SUV at this size but it's not as cheap as you you think and also the anxiety of do I have enough electricity to get my car back home especially since I don't have a parking garage and I can't charge at home a lot of people talk about that I think it's something that has to be said and put into thought but that being said though the driving experience in this car has been great my biggest joy this car is that when you get in sitting it you feel like you're driving a regular car I like the feel of the car this is something that most people who talk about electric vehicles don't seem to state or understand you know people I have friends who talk about Teslas and other electric vehicles and I go to me doesn't matter do I like the car because as someone who is going to eventually buy a car not me now but anyone who's watching this video the main thing that you the main thing that you want to know is does this car fit me because this is most likely your second most expensive purchase in your lifetime first being your home so you want to basically love this car you gonna be using it for a while you want to appreciate it and you want to have a very good experience driving this car and I think that's something a lot of people miss out that I think should be noted so if you guys have any questions any comments let me know don't forget to like share subscribe leave your thoughts down below and always enjoy your entertainment