Kia vs. Tesla … reflections from a new Kia EV6 owner
Kia and most other EV (and other car makers, for that matter) owe a debt to Tesla for the design of the touch screen:
The Kia’s is one of the nicer ones:
I decided on Kia instead of Tesla after reading an article on Teslas being prone to being driven off by other Tesla owners.
But Kia has had a different disturbing problem recently too ..
Not just that, but to get the Kia map and bluetooth and whatnot I had to create a Kia account (impossible on the phone app, I found) … then (a) I had to log into the app and then log into the console on the car and scroll through at least 15 minutes worth of legalese before I got it to work … still doesn’t seem to work for “driver number 2” (theoretically my wife, though I don’t think she will be driving it much.)
This gives one advantage to Tesla … no account required to do anything with the car! I just sat down (after a few minutes figuring out the controls)
If you’re anti-lawyer I can see you’d prefer Tesla … and on minute 14 of my scrolling through legalese on the touch screen I was beginning to see that point!
Note on the Kia hack … apparently that was just used to “hotwire” gasoline powered cars, so, no need to buy one of these for my EV6:
Kia vs Tesla; what do you think?
