before they take delivery of their car. Depending on your typical driving routine, many electric car owners may find they hardly ever step foot in a public fuel station again – and that’s got to be a win in our book.This depends on the capacity of an EV’s battery, typically expressed in kilowatt hours – the same metric used to measure your home’s energy consumption.
However, it’s worth noting that it’ll take more than seven hours to charge the EV6 from empty to full using a typical 7kWh home wallbox – so it’s best to leave it plugged in overnight. It may well take longer than your tariff’s cheaper off-peak period, making accurate calculations even harder. You have been warned.
If you’re in a hurry, public rapid chargers such as those provided by Ionity and BP Pulse can charge the EV6’s battery pack to 80 percent capacity in as little as 18 minutes. The most powerful 350kW chargers really pump in energy at a rate of knots . It’s more expensive to use a public rapid charger, as you pay for the fancy charging technology and the convenience of short wait times. At time of writing in March 2023, Ionity was charging £0.69 per kWh – which equates to £53.40 for a full charge with the same Kia EV6.