A 1,482-Mile Road Trip in a 2024 Kia EV9 Delivers 3.3 mi/kWh, $350 in Charging, The Owner Says “I Might as Well Have Been a Passenger in the Backseat 75% of the Trip”, Even Through 60-MPH Kansas Crosswinds

There are “mountain conditions” between Denver and Oklahoma.

This is not a compliment for this manufacturer or electric vehicles. 13 charges for 1400 miles? Minimum charge time was 17 mins. So a minimum of 3.7 hours of charging.AND.$350? My 2018 subaru gets about 500 miles to a tank. Even if I filled it 4 times, that would only be about $300. On top of that, fill ups oy take about 10 mins. So an older gas powered vehicle is still cheaper and faster.

Your charge cost came in at 78 cents a KWH. I drove from Alabama to San Diego used Electrify America my cost average 52 cents a KWH. Did you have a plan with EA. Love my Kia EV6 just bought my second EV6. Soon to replace out Telluride with an EV9

The same trip in my hybrid would have been 1/3 the cost and would not have required a coal fired power plant.

Not many mountainous roads between Oklahoma and Denver! Rolls my eyes.

Still cheaper to buy gas, maintain gas, insure gas, and resell gas vehicles.

The EV is dead

Am I missing something here? A 30mpg ICE vehicle energy cost for that distance would be less than half the posted charging cost?

Are we all going to pretend that $350 is a good price? At 30 mpg and $3 a gallon, only comes out to $150 in gasoline. RIP electo-turds.

That's so much money for 1500 miles. My 2025 Honda Accord Hybrid could do that trip for about half that. There are literally no advantages to driving an EV over a efficient hybrid. Maintenance included.

$350 to drive 1482 miles? In my Hyundai Santa Fe I wouldn’t spend $200 to drive that far. And I would only have to stop five times to fill up. EV’s are great for local travel but I prefer EREV’s-Hybrids or regular old ICE vehicles if I’m doing long trips. I have better things to do than stopping 12 times to refuel. Just my opinion

In my 2025 Camry, it would have cost less than half that in gas.

The cost of "fuel" is unpleasantly surprising. I regularly drive a 2025 Hyundai Kona--IC, not EV or Hybrid. A full tank of gas is less than $40 but I'll use that number. At 70-75 mph highway driving driving I get about 400 miles per tank. So, very conservative estimate is 4 tanks at $40/tank = $160 to easily travel the distance covered by your Kia EV -- but, at less than half what you paid for charging. Are you sure about your numbers? I'm absolutely sure about mine.

Gas would have been cheaper at least $110

Ridiculous, A comparable size Palasades Hybrid would make the trip for under $150 in gas and 75% less refuling time. Gas in those three states (OK, KN and CO.) is in the $2.65 a gallon range.

So a KIA Telluride would do the same trip with half the cost of gas. And only 4 stops. The ICE for the win.

Ridiculous, A comparable size Palasades Hybrid would make the trip for under $150 in gas and 75% less refuling time. Gas in those three states (OK, KN and CO.) is in the $2.65 a gallon range. Even in Kalifornia it would be $75 cheaper if not more as Electricity is more expensive.

So, I know this was supposed to be a positive report, but I hate to say it, that's not. That cost, $350 for ~1500 miles of driving is terrible. That is more expensive than driving a diesel Ford F350 towing 14000 lbs behind it for the same distance, which comes in at 16 MPG at ~$3.53 a gallon. That cost for charging is nuts.

Umm that's not exactly an efficient trip, at least not when you look at the economics of it. He paid about $1 for every 4.2 miles that he drove. I drive a big V8, and live in an area where premium gas is about $4 a gallon. I also get just over 20 mpg on the highway, which means that fuel would cost me about $1 for every 5 miles traveled.

I ended up with an EV6 as a rental wanting to see how an EV could replace my family runaround vehicle. We had it for six weeks and I ended up using it for a work trip of over 350 miles. Honestly now I'm in the market to purchase one. The experience was amazing.

Cost of a KWH at a charging station is ridiculous. There's profit and there's gouging, and this is way over on the side of gouging. Their excuse, of course, is that they are "expanding". That this expansion is part of a two billion dollar deal/fine/court decision is not mentioned very often.

This is almost 3 times what it would cost in my 2007 Honda Civic! I thought that they were supposed to be cheaper!

If you had been driving a VW Turbo Diesel you would have spent $ 200.00 less on fuel, provided VW hadn’t been caught cheating.
Diesel technology is by far the way the US should have gone, easily potentially doubling the gas mileage of cars in the US.

The 13 to 17 average charge times masks the 13 times he stopped. In my truck that is three 5 minute stops.

Those fuel costs are crazy high. In my lifted offroad diesel truck i could do that trip filling up 3 times. Assuming that diesel is on the pricier side than it actually has been locally it would cost $100 less. The author doesnt know what he is talking about with the inclusion of that line about gas cars meeting or exceeding the fuel cost. Most cars sold will get 20 mpg on the highway, including thirsty v8 muscle cars, so gas would have to cost over $4.60 a gallon across multiple fill ups to match the cost of the EV. With a more fuel efficient car the cost of gas would have to go to $7 a gallon to reach the ev cost.

Do the math. You’d have to have gasoline prices at $4.72 cents and a car getting 20 mpg to cost $350 for a 1,482 mile trip. Gasoline prices are lower than that except in CA and most cars get better gas mileage. EVs are now much more expensive and getting worse over time.

So a gas SUV would have cost about $150 in gas, with a much shorter refuel time. How is the EV better?

I just filled my car up, it was 42 dollars and it got me 462 miles, uhm, im no mathematical genius but to get to 1482 miles, that comes out to less than half of 350 dollars, nowhere near the cost to charge, not sure if this article was trying to compare charging to gas prices in downtown l.a. for ultra premium but.....seriously?

Are they out of their mind $350 is good and comparable to today gasoline and hybrid car??
I can get 20 to 25 mpg average 22 mpg with my 15 years old full size 3 rows SUV that means that 1482 miles would have costed me about $200 or $150 less than this brand new hi-tech EV.
If I had one of the newer hybrid it would even less by another $100 at least.
Are we normalizing BS now...$350 is way too much.

Crazy expensive for 1500 miles. My 2022 Hyundai Tucson would have cost less than $150 and needed no more than 5 stops

Do you realize that you could have done the same trip for a hundred bucks by just purchasing any kind of hybrid or an ice Camry? Spending the 300 plus dollars to go only 1,500 miles is delusional at best.