These two crossovers can speed up at supercar speeds, however which grocery getter is definitely faster?
The Kia EV6 GT is certainly one of our favourite electrical autos and the Tesla Mannequin Y Efficiency is likely one of the world’s hottest. Now, they’re going face to face within the artistic race format that may be a U-drag race. These very comparable electrical autos carry out very in a different way.
A U-drag race is what Edmunds calls “the race to there and again” and that’s a succinct approach to put it. Principally, each vehicles begin off simply as they’d for a standard drag race. After flying by the tip of a quarter-mile stretch at full throttle they should decelerate, flip round, and race again to the beginning. It’s an excellent take a look at that reveals off dealing with, acceleration, and braking.
On paper, these vehicles are fairly comparable. Each use twin electrical motors, each are pink, and each price north of $60,000. They do have just a few slight variations although. The Tesla makes 456 hp (340 kW) and weighs 4,419 kilos. That’s significantly lower than the 576 hp (429 kW) and the 4,793 kilos of the Kia EV6 GT.
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The load financial savings isn’t sufficient to assist the Tesla sustain with the Kia off of the road in race one although. Regardless of an excellent launch, the Mannequin Y Efficiency provides up increasingly more of a niche to the EV6 GT all through the drag race portion. It seems to catch up a contact throughout the braking part however can’t shut the hole solely. It finally ends up shedding race one by a number of automobile lengths.
Race two kicks off a bit in a different way. This time the Tesla will get an impressive launch and places a small hole on the Kia initially. The additional horsepower within the Korean EV is sufficient for it to reel the American crossover in by the tip of the drag race although. The drivers assault the braking zone utterly in a different way and the Kia will get a much bigger hole.
It by no means lets it go and manages to snag a 2-0 report within the pair of U-drags. In the long run, the Kia EV6 GT managed a greatest time of 34.2 seconds whereas the Tesla Mannequin Y Efficiency was almost a second again at 35.1. The outcomes appear fairly clear, each are downright fast contemplating how a lot practicality they provide.
Simply two electrical SUVs with supercar velocity head-to-head within the final take a look at of handing and efficiency pic.twitter.com/FZzJYErxfZ
— Edmunds (@edmunds) October 27, 2023
