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the key i. e v 6 is one impressive electric vehicle, which is why when it's 40 or sibling, the v 6 g t was announced. there were plenty of expectations. rad louis capital put it through its paces on road and track in sweden. hi guys. welcome to rec. today i'm here with kiya with the new e, b 6, g t. this is the fastest kia ever built and how it drives we're gonna find out today like the high and ionic 5 and the regular e v 6. the g t version is also built on higher dies electric, global, modular platform. booking in this kia,

because when you hit the exhilarated get instant power and punch as you beg in the seed, which is really fun. the other thing i really like about the e v 6 g t is that you can drive pretty solid and corners because this different up the back of the kia and they precisely changed the steering on the front. xle. so you get a lot of grip and corners, which is pretty nice and the big s u v like this. but it doesn't even feel as heavy as it is. the v 6 g t weighs 2.2 tons. but it's adapted chassis active role stabilization and the ground clearance reduced by 5 millimeters and sure that it is good on the road. it comes powered by a 77.4 kilowatt hour battery with 424 kilometers of range. you get everything in full, a take 3.5 seconds from 0 to 100 and the tops beat off 260 kilometers

a pretty impressive and we're going to find out by ourselves now. oh yeah, that walks forward. i mean, it's another 3.5 seconds. i think it's about 3.2 seconds as they tested. and that is really impressive for me for such a big and heavy s u v. like the v 6, g t b, b 6, g t is powered by 2 electric motors. a $160.00 kilowatt motor in front, and a brand new $270.00 kilowatt motor at the rear, which he is is a to stay to inverter. that contributes to the machines quick response. ah, for driving fast with the v 60 t, he on the racetrack, it's really fun. but you should always drive it as well on the streets. and

therefore we are going into stockholm. we are driving into sweden and we are going to have a look how this car drives in every day. behavior says g, t stands for ground to raise mo or grand tour. it should come as no surprise that the v 6 g t allowance for comfort and performance are plenty even on long distance drives. and helping things along is the fact that it to gets key as 800 boat technology treatment. which means that at the fast charging stations, it's better we can go from 10 to 80 percent in just 10 minutes. so let's talk about the general driving impression. and after say, the kia e v 6 t t really drives comfortable and relaxing. he, on the streets, you don't even feel holds. you don't even feel bombs. and it's really relaxing to drive here in sweden. the only down point for me here is that these streets

are so narrow and these lanes are so narrow that the lane keeping assistant often just recognizes one lane. and so he just pushes you sometimes in one direction, which doesn't feel so good. as far as energy recovery goes, this kia comes with a multi stage recuperation option for up to $150.00 kilowatts can be recovered. it also has one pedal mode which help save energy. so what's the difference between the v 6 and the v 6 g t? yeah, the v 6 is the whole different car. i would say here change the suspension here. they changed the brakes. they upgraded the power, they changed quite a lot in here. so the car feels like feels like a different car to me and it's got some impressive performance figures. we're talking about numbers like 3.5 seconds from 0 to 100 kilometers an hour. we

are talking about figures like from a posh tie, can s, for example, i mean, and it's double the price the tie can as, as double the price of the e v 6 g t. so why should you buy a tie? can s if the evie 6 g t has the same figures are almost the same figures as this car. i mean, i don't see the reason any more because i get a lot of driving pleasure and a lot of fun driving this car right now. so why shouldn't i save my money there and go for the v 6 g t is that and while this car might not be as pretty as a fortune or ref tester was still impressed. so let's talk about the design of the e v 6, and i have to say, i really like it from the outside. i think a little sporty. it looks good to me and i really like the inside. i think it looks

futuristic with this 2 digital displays right here and the infotainment with a quick touch response. i really like it. and the i toggle symbols which you can change though you can operate while driving what you need. the 6 d t can seems an average of 20.6 kilowatt hours. however, this consumption value increases significantly. if you want to have a lot of fun in the kia, my car tester today, which means the harder you are on the accelerator, the faster the range drops. but in the machine this big on fine, it's pretty hard to resist to matching the paddle. so guys, now my final verdict to the kia e v 6 g t. i think it's a really fun car to drive. it's so powerful, but in the same way relaxing. and i think it's a good way kia got this e v 6 g t. now, because it's not even 6 anymore,

it's complete new car prices for the kia, easy, 6, t t start at around $70000.00 euros in germany. worth it if you're looking to go electric and want to have a bit of fun behind the wheel. but keep in mind, a heavy right foot might see that range drop quickly. if you're not careful today, we're going to tell you exactly how to get your e terms, right? there's a lot of confusing information about electron mobility out there. so maybe you heard about m pairs, loyalty rewards kilowatt hour, whatever we want to give you the details, you need to know to be clear. there are various types of previous on the market to prep. when most people talk about these, they mean battery electric vehicles of b, like this tesla i'm driving at the v is a pulley electric vehicle, which has a battery where dos all that energy in this battery can be loaded again and again

by charging it. now let's understand the common terms most b v driver says every day. so let's start with kilowatt hours. a german with a sausage. what the stereotype. so imagine this is your e v battery. the amount of need in that sausage is equal to the amount of energy stored in the battery. so this is considered kilowatt hours. for example, the tesla comes with a 77 kilowatt hour battery. now let's talk about kilowatts. so when you look at the sausage, the meet needs to go into the casing, the rate of what the meters going into the sausage is equal to that rate of what the energy is flowing into the battery. and that is what is called kilowatt in germany. you're most likely to find 11 kilowatt charges in cities in smaller towns

or the countryside, you find up to 50 kilowatt charges, and on highways, you'll find charges with an average of 3 and 50 kilowatt correct. now let's talk about m p s. this isn't a term that you are going to worry about at most external charging stations, but it doesn't matter if you're trying to charge your e v at home, adrienne and black points. the amount of current going through the wire is close and passed through. an employer is a unit of measure of electric current, and you need to know how many empath lang can take to prevent damaging the line or the device in this case an electric vehicle. otherwise, this is the consequence, a burnt socket all worse. but now on towards the force you to push. the current was, quote, was actually the thick of the cable. the more was the more empath possibly voice have an influence on charging speed, a lot of ease, including the tesla model,

3 performance charge with $400.00 voice technology. but some e v manufacturer like he a portion audi, a switching to 800 word technology. twin able even faster charge thinking about charging evie if you ever one now i sometimes people take out their very own cable and plug it into the charger or sometimes they pull out the cable from the charger and into the car. is related to 2 more very important e v terms. so a, c and d. c charging this, for example is ac. charging a fee for alternating current is how energy is usually supplied. but dc or direct current is the energy that at least a took the key capable of taking. so usually when you take a table out of your car and plug it into a charger, what you're doing is taking alternating current and sending it into the car where the cars convert changes it to direct current for the battery to stop. but when you

take the cable straight out of the charger, you usually sending direct currents straight into the cost battery because a conversion happens within the external charge. so logically, this is usually much faster. i've just finished my charging, had an ac charge out with a type 2 cable. you wonder what type 2 cable is? stay tuned for next. how to 43. 4445. i was up now is 103, mercedes. just at this intersection here. i travel to albania and looked high and low for and since as to why it has more mas, he dispenses per capita than anywhere else. ah, a little legend has a dead sunny albania. as proclivity for mosquitoes began in the ninety's after the

communist bloc crumbled, as i discovered deb was only half the story. some secrets have just been very well kept. ref hunter for clues for that might explain albania is mess seated, obsession. ah, what better place to start than the capital? to run home to around 500000 people with and boasting and notorious mercy this club, since they are madly in love with the w 120 or produce between the mid eighty's and the end of the ninety's. and eventually marketed as the eclipse with slick old machines dead look, brand new tricks out in every respect. and with more than

a few special features. ah, oh, doesn't work if you, if you do that and traffic move? no, no, no. as it is impossible. again, there are 3 such clubs in albania, with well over a 100 members who traveled to meet from all over the country wide this model because it looks cool. oh wow. yeah, yeah, it's the school and the it's more unusable here in obeying of that. it's made just for for fun. oh, alton, tells me these cars are usually and garages, but when out they shine bright, classical thing i got is yes, they're covered and vaseline to make sure the tires don't look, use almost it for the original classical cars, sulisaga thing actually with the club members on the streets,

it's really hard to guess how many bend sister on to ronna. so i decided to check for myself. bound, make it 10 minutes, st. county at starting. now. ok one. now we are lucky to get is 13453, and are all here. blazes driving for one year. both of them are in my book. read 40, now. read 40. what is the 42 gun? 43444546. and one. from would be 448 filled with german number flags. time is up now is $103.00 mercy. just at this intersection i would say it's not that actually time to figure out exactly how many mosquitoes cars really apply the streets of albania. so i visit the vehicle registration department and to run up. they definitely know the numbers. i'm often they are approximately

740000 registered vehicles in albania, of which 212000 are benches in terms of percentage that's approximately 29 to 30 percent, which is the share that mercedes benz has in the albanian car market. we're in this you pre roll every 3rd car on albanian streets as a mosquitoes most a 2nd hand folded in 10 years. but our been says this large market share is dwindling. in part because to combat air pollution, albania has bent the import of cars that are older than 10 years and don't meet europe for standards. but with so many more citizens dotting albania streets, i asked myself where it all began. let's deep dive into albanian history. to a time when dictator and the whole general to country and the best place to explore a communist history and to rana is the central block for neighborhood but is now home to entertainment,

tourism. and of course night life was back down. the premises of envoy. ha josh and his gang by what only very few people knew is actually that his favorite go to car was the german class. albanians were bent from using private cars and, and belgium wanted to be seen as a man of the people which we now know was an elaborate masquerades. his luxury german saloon, which no longer on. this is no park than an old garage in toronto. i'm meeting with amelia pony, who today watches over one of the dictators best kept secrets. ah, this is the original flag. this mercy to 600 or a w 100 ty pullman was manufactured in 1966 that was custom made and personalized for roger. the prize spec done is equivalent to around $200000.00 euros to day.

oh, why is it not in the museum? no, thank you. it's important and it would be great if there was a museum for such vehicles, sierra mitchell, for vehicles that belong to the personalities of the past. or it would also be beneficial in terms of maintaining the machines because of because without proper cars storage, the condition of such cars simply deteriorates from their heart. hodge only covered about 7000 kilometers and a car in 17 years, mostly on trips out of town. and to his vacation spots, after all, dis, mercedes was a state secret over thank upper doors if they're in fact he didn't use the car very much of as if it, because he was smart and knew that it was too stark, a contrast to the lives of the people who were at the time extremely poor heavy they would notice that's my he always walked from his villa to his office and this

car was hardly ever seen by the common people at the time. i hope it's not go to get a full picture. we need to look at the history of albania, after world war 2 and a hodge, a rule, socialist albania, for 40 years, leading his people with an iron fist and isolating the country from his allies. he broke with his comrades and moscow, and dan would communist china after the death of german mouth. later, the increasingly paranoid dictator covered albania, with hundreds of thousands of bunkers. many people ended up in labor camps, and albanians suffered extreme poverty and hunger under his leadership. there is a lot of is to be in the car to say the least. i was it for years as of indian ish back in. it's an unusual feeling i'm endorsed. you know, when you know that you're sitting exactly where a former head of state, a dictator sat, that's a bit strange of corresponding. it's

a dismay. this luxury car was not the only one used by whole just party and albania . they bought 7 mercedes benz at a time. all 280 s e l's plots. hodges 600. saddam i wonder if this car could be the very 1st mosquitoes in albania. i think you, i think this car is the 1st point of reference for albanians and the mercedes benz brand from the looks to the idea that it was used by the former dictator and was considered the most important, safest and most valuable car of the time of course it was an absolutely secret car until the ninety's. so if you look for the beginnings of mercedes and albania, i think the origins are right here in history ship director events and then they said would be good places. now that i track down a small but important piece of the puzzle i carried on my quest to find out exactly

what a tree pointed star rules albanian streets in order to leave to run off, i need to get myself a car, which is how i came into contact with l must pepper humanely renzo at mercedes cars and says the brand is so popular here because the roads were demanding and used to be particularly bad. that the vivid mercedes fits perfectly with albanian roads. it's suitable for both off road and asphalt elizabeth mercedes as suitable for all road surfaces and albania. we for him, german cars, a good business, the car, we rent cost 80 years a day, but already has over 200000 kilometers on the clock. so it's long since paid for it . so no wonder m must relies on receipt us. but where does it get them from?

from the, from her from dusseldorf. esa cologne often is very good. i disabled and you drove yourself? yes. oh, yes. 2200 kilometer duesseldorf, albania. again last year year. i know the roads between germany and albania, better than here between tarana and sheronda. i. both. our next stop is near the seaside resort of doris, with its picturesque beaches and albanians main port. oh, oh. oh. oh, i mean dot m a 22 year old who loves vintage cars and is a mechanic in a place that some albanians call him or cedar city and she act together with his father hassan. he runs a workshop only for cars with the start from what year is the car a 1980 so well 1987. hamilton. what looks good there.

2.5 liter. oh the money or use it ears, his eyes. ah and live the broom despair pods. waiting to be to put to use in the next classic car restoration. and right next door is the workshop. what a run that family business does. the sticker plays here. so all the tool assembly here you have all the, i like this. it's like a treasure here. for mercy, this hudson has almost 40 years of experience as a mechanic and he let his son follow in his footsteps. at an early age, he's convinced that it's the quality of german cars, which made the brand so popular in albania as well. if you look at that symbol, the messages i can drive around the world 3 times and i'm still a bens, otherwise there's no such thing as you drive around the world 3 times and everything is still there. there you go to. so we jump in and if the cars

break down on him says it's always cheap to repair them in albania, desired or whatever. so far it's are more cheaper than all their cars that have been fine. yeah. so it's below budget little people, mercedes, old, $1000001.00 plus another category, easy to maintain and robust, especially on demanding roads. these were ones to main arguments for buying mosquitoes in albania. but that's also changing and countryside we drive to lake, always one of europe's oldest and deepest lakes in lin, when people survive on tourism and fishing, it's now almost a luxury to drive such big cars because they can afford less unless they tell me that mobiles of organizational progress, coastal mo, let goals where there was wrong with my lawyer caused what

a lot more. thank you for listen, i don't i older friends you'll know the old that was god boy who has met and says mccoy, if you would describe the stores, minutes has been lost while they stay yet not so mir sewland. mm hm. but as long as the wheels of their benson is still turned, they say they'll stick with them. the german brown still mixed and proud and happy . inter honor for a w $124.00 fans. it's not so much about the money as it is about the details. dash, as he called himself, listened to. okay. but brings his car back to his native albania, to have it restored. because here they still take care of old cars like his they know these cause that they pay attention to detail when they deal with these college every day in the u. k. they don't want to see this cause any mind an old

car just cropping, to find somebody that still got the enthusiasm, that's impossible over there. now all you get the people that do the job for a live in and is just wet and my impression off to the strip. certainly there are still many in albania who are crazy about the german cars. but more and more people are turning away from them and looking fall, turn a tips and cheapest solutions. and so the image on albanian rhodes that has been shaped by mercedes until now is likely to change to more car enthusiasts and automotive obsession. next time andrea ah ah ah ah

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