9 Underrated Electric Cars – Rated by Matt The Right Car & Neerav Electrifying Everything
What do you think, Matt, are the most unusual and underappreciated electric cars you’ve driven this year? This is my friend Matt from The Right Car. Uh really good channel. Possibly the only channel I recommend that doesn’t re review just pure EVs. Um but he does it really well. Thank you. Yeah. Um yeah, so my ones I reckon, please contribute. It really helps my independent, honest journalism. There’s a few other ones. I think we have one in common that we think is unusual and underappreciated, probably also a bit overpriced, which is the Hyundai Insta. Um, very small, unlike this, which is 5 m. The Hyundai Insta is, from memory, less than 4 m. Yeah, 3.7 or something. It’s tiny. Absolutely tiny. I’ve got one as a long-term car. Yeah, I’ve had it for a few months now. And I find that it is just super drivable. Apart from the safety systems being a bit annoying, the um size of it means that it’s easy to park. Uh it’s got a beautiful ride comfort. It drives bigger than it is in terms of the ride and the steering. Uh and also it feels like it’s more mature than it probably looks. It looks pretty immature and it’s a bit of fun. It’s a cute little quirky machine, but yeah, I think we both agree it’s a bit too expensive. Yeah, it actually feels more powerful than the numbers of the power specs say because it’s so small and light and narrow. Another one um I would reckon is the Kia EV3 long range. That might be Why would you think that’s underrated? Well, that one cuz I like going on long road trips. Some people do, some people don’t. But I reckon if you do, have a look at that car because again it’s quite small about 4.3 4.4 meter kind of area, but it can go 600 km WLTP range, which means easily 700 in the city. You might not need to charge it for a month or more potentially depending on how much your commute is. So no worries about that. Good for if you have an apartment. I know someone who has an apartment who has one of those and it means that their charging anxiety is gone because they barely ever need to charge it. But also when they want to drive to actually they drove near here. They drove to Hunter Valley Gardens and back to their place the other day and it’s got decently fast charging well over 100 kW and on a highway it can do you know easily 450 maybe close to 500 if you drive sensibly. So that’s a that’s a pretty good one. Yeah, I love the EV3, especially the look of it. I think it’s a gorgeous little car. It’s got that sort of semi-root look to it, and I just think it looks great. It’s great packaging as well. It’s a very spacious interior for the size of the car on the outside. Underrated, I think. Again, though, some of those safety systems for me just Yeah, I don’t like them. One that I do like that’s sort of similar size and actually a fair bit cheaper is the MGS5 EV. I don’t think it’s found the mass market yet. Um, I think that it is one of the nicest to drive small EVs on the market because it’s rear wheel drive and it doesn’t have a huge battery, so it’s light, it’s nimble feeling, it’s agile, it has a one-touch system, so you can drag down and press a button and all your safety systems switch off if you don’t like them. I’m the sort of guy who doesn’t like the safety systems. Sorry people, but I do think that it is a lovely, lovely little car and the price is pretty amazing from about $41,000 drive away. It’s got good packaging. It’s got a big boot for the size of it. Big back seat for the size of it. Um, and you know, the potential for a conditional 10-year warranty as well really does sell that car if you are unsure about it. Um, but yeah, I think it’s a great one. Now, one thing that’s larger than those cars, uh, but I think didn’t really get off to the start that it deserved in Australia due to lack of dealerships and perhaps a lack of marketing is the Xpang G6. I really liked that car when I drove it earlier this year and it had a really cool orange color, unfortunately discontinued. M um and it was I kept looking at the efficiency numbers and I’m like this is fun to drive and efficient like usually that doesn’t happen at the same time. Yeah. Yeah. I’m a fan of the Xpang as well. I think that it is unfortunately um a riskier buy than lots of the others out there because of the dealership network. It’s just not there yet. Um, I was saying to you before that I think that they maybe didn’t get off to the best start because there was no traditional media launch for it. There was a launch of the Xping building in Sydney, the new, you know, flagship dealership uh showroom where you can go and see their new products. That’s great. But if you want to speak to the entire new car buying audience, then you sort of have to speak to the traditional um media outlets and the newcomers as well, of course. But it is a shame because in a lot of ways that car ticks more boxes than most of the rivals for less money. And it’s got an opulent feeling interior. It’s got easy to use controls. It’s got a fantastic self-parking system. It’s got great technology on board and efficiency like you say. So it could be a fantastic one. There’s a facelift coming. There’s a dual motor allwheel drive coming and then they’ve got some other new models coming as well after that. So, it’s pretty exciting. I I do hope that XPing sticks it out and they they actually push a little harder because they’ve got a great product. They just haven’t yet found as many buyers as they probably should. Yeah. Possibly the other enemy of the Xpang G6 was that they launched it in Australia and then the overseas headquarters launched the refresh shortly afterwards. So, a lot of people were like, “Oh, well, the Australian one’s pretty good, but then I can get one that’s 10, 20% better, and they didn’t realize it’s going to be a year till that turns up from the previous one, or maybe a year and a half, then you’ve got to wait for the ships to bring it here from China, distribute it from the ports. It’s not going to just turn up like that.” Yeah. So yeah, I noticed they’ve got some deals on at the moment with cut price like additional 5 years warranty to make it 10. Yeah, it’s worth a look. Worth a look. And another one that I often tell people they should probably have a look at even though it was very late to the party was the Volkswagen ID4. Uh the price for it is maybe still a little bit high. Uh midsize SUV at about $60,000. It’s slightly smaller than lots of the other midsize SUVs as well, but it does have more than 500 ks of range. It’s got the 15 stage adaptive dampers, so it is super comfy. You can tailor it to your tastes. Rear wheel drive for the entry level one, and it’s an absolutely charming thing in terms of the drive character. It is just like a Volkswagen that happens to be electric, and that’s what I love about it. It drives like a Volkswagen that’s just electric. ID4 is one of them. ID Buzz was the other one I was going to call out. Although again, it’s big, it’s heavy, and it costs a lot, but it is so cool in my opinion. Definitely different. And I I think there should be points for difference cuz otherwise all we’re going to get in Australia is 100 medium-sized SUVs that all look almost identical from a distance in a car park. And I don’t think we want that in the future. No. No. in this car. This is a great example of why that won’t be right for everyone, right? It it doesn’t look like an SUV like all the other ones and it’s not like all the other ones. So, that’s so cool about it. Yeah. And then um I think we both agree, we yet to see it in big numbers in Australia, but the SCOD Lrock, which is very similar size to the Kia EV3 and is currently I think the possibly the cheapest cheapest 55 plus onroads uh Volkswagen MEB platform electric car. That that could be interesting. It’s not an exciting electric car, but it’s a possibly a good option for people who feel comfortable with an established car brand that they’ve comfortable with for decades. Yeah. Could it also be the most affordable European electric car on the market? I think it might be made in Czech Republic um and the only um European brand with a 7-year warranty as well. So for those who are concerned about that and I know that SCOD also has that guaranteed future value program as well. So if you are worried about resale value you could be able to basically set your resale value in advance with a guaranteed umbrella hidden in the side. So if you can’t afford a Rolls-Royce which also comes with a guaranteed umbrella hidden away uh get a SCOD. Yeah. Um to today’s car, the DPAL E07, very unusual sort of coupe/ ute or um SUV/ ute. You could call it a multi-r like I You could you could call it a multi-r. Yeah. Um that’s definitely We don’t know if it’s totally underappreciated yet because it’s just launched. We’re at the drive day right now and we’ll find out if people buy it. Um, I think it it’s a interesting concept, much more refined than buying say a Ford Ranger if you’re just going to drive in the city and might go camping 102 km away and run some stuff from your car. Reckon it’s a pretty good option. And then definitely and one other one, I didn’t mention this before. It’s actually from oral, however they say it. I say, the machine says it should be deep. But anyway, um the S07, so it got off to a terrible start in our market. It was so painful to drive because of the systems, the welcoming you every time, saying, “Hi, I’m Deepo, your friendly companion,” or whatever. And then all the beeping and bonging technology in that car made it absolutely despicable to drive in my opinion. and they listened. Basically, they said, “Well, we need to fix it.” They did. They fixed it so that if you don’t like some of those systems, you can disable them and they will stay disabled and it is still a five-star ANCAP car. So, that has been a big learning for that brand. They’ve applied the same logic to this EO7 multi-truck and I reckon that is the right way forward because some of the bigger brands, the uh legacy OEMs with EV offerings like Hyandai and Kia, they can’t switch off some of that stuff and have it stay off for whatever reason. They’re not allowed to by their headquarters or whatever it may be. But it does mean that in those cars in a lot of instances you might get a car that annoys you a little bit. Whereas if you buy a deep now, before it was annoyed, now even if you buy one of the ones in stock, the software will have been updated. So that means you can basically tailor it more to what you want, which is cool. Awesome. Thanks, mate. No worries. Thanks for having me. See you later. Thanks for liking, subscribing, and sharing my videos. It really helps me make more videos like this for you. And have a look at the suggested videos up above. I’m pretty sure you’ll like those as well. Thanks and see you
My friend Matt from The Right Car and I discuss the 9 most unusual, under rated and underappreciated electric cars we’ve driven this year. Some are very big and some are quite small. Watch to find out!
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:25 Car 1
01:28 Car 2
02:59 Car 3
03:55 Car 4
06:35 Car 5
07:18 Car 6
07:30 If no one buys unique EVs, all new EVs for Aus will be SUV 🙁
07:58 Car 7
09:10 Car 8
09:52 Car 9
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