KIA SPORTAGE PHEV 2024 REAL RANGE TEST : HOW MANY MILES? 😱 

Best thing about phev cars is that you can use all those fancy EV only parking spots :)

Greetings from Germany! I have the 2023 Sportage Plug-In Hybrid. In the German market, the GT Line is the top spec and has all the bells and whistles, including adaptive suspension dampers which give this car better ride and handling than my previous car, a 2022 BMW X3. I agree the driving modes aren’t as clear as I’d wish. I use electric mode for the city and hybrid mode for everything else. I don’t quite understand Automatic mode, and therefore don’t use it. I get 65-70 kilometers electric range, which translates to 40-43.5 miles. I have 13,000 km (8,000 miles) and have had no problems with it. Mine is Blue Flame with the black roof, which looks fine over here, in a sea of black, white, silver and grey cars. I love the dashboard, but I only wish there was a light interior color option. The black interior is fine, albeit a bit dark and dreary for my tastes.

I bought the US version of this with EVERYTHING. Here it is called the X-Line Prestige. I've had it exactly a month and absolutely love it. I was spending about $240 a month on fuel for my 2012 Honda Odyssey. I just crunched the (loose) numbers for my fuel for the month of April and I came in right $100. That is a $140 in fuel savings a month which is FANTASTIC. I love the heated and cooled seat as well along with a bunch of the other top trim perks.

I have owned the 2023 Prestige for 6 months. For the life of ownership, we are averaging 61mpg/+96km. Due to the type of driving I did on one tank, I drove +1,300 miles on 9 gallons of gas. That’s over 2,100km on 34 liters. Pretty amazing! We have a level 2 charger at home - the best way to go if you own a PHEV. Our other car is a base model 2021 Prius. For the life of ownership - we are getting +80mpg/129km. As a norm, we are pretty much depleting the batteries in both car approx. 50% of the time.

Did the battery warning message disappear after you charged the PHEV battery up? I disagree with your test procedure. I think the car will try to keep around 15% of battery in reserve at all times and operate as a HEV when you deplete the batteries to that level. This means you travelled 13.6 miles using 35% charge giving the full range (85%) something closer to 33 miles. But great video, loved the secret button presses, keep up the good work

Shame no 100% battery for the range test

Why did you drain the battery before doing the 0-60 test it would make it a lot slower

I have 2023 Sportage PHEV in Canada. It does more than estimated 55km full electric

Combined fuel consumption is totally meaningless, it can be as high as infinite MPG if you only touch the battery. What's the real fuel consumption you are getting on the highway on a long trip, say 500 km? I plan to ride to work and back, which should be pretty cheap, but I regularly do long trips, and I am afraid this car may turn out to be more wasteful than my current diesel, for all the new tech it packs

Local EV, distance Hev. Local 90mpg, distance 40mpg.

I have a 2024 Kia Sportage PHEV Xline Prestige in the US. 2 months in and I average 95% of my driving is on EV mode and 5% HEV. On EV only, I get around 40-42 miles range per 85% battery usage in daily suburban driving 35mph to 40mph speed limit (down to 15% car will switch to HEV). I always drive about 5 mph over the speed limit. Kia has it at 34 miles range on EV, but I'm averaging 6-8 miles range above. So I would guess the 34 miles range is for drivers with a heavy foot. My final verdict is EV range is above the advertise 34 miles range spec.

I have the PHEV '4' on a 72 plate. In my opinion the best option to get all the bells & whistles of the gt-s without paying the extra for a power tailgate and cooling seats. I have a short commute, 6 miles each way. So I use about a quarter of the battery each day going to and from work. This is the perfect use case for this car. I get three days commute for approx £3 of electric. The car never uses the last quarter of battery, keeping that in reserve. So I get about 36 miles of electric only driving, never using the engine. One caveat is that as soon as you turn on the heating, the engine kicks in. The car doesn't have a heat pump so requires the engine to produce heat. This is pain in winter, but thankfully the last one has been quite mild. During the summer months I put about £20 worth of fuel every 6-8 weeks, this figure goes up during winter and I charge the car every 3-4 days from home on a trickle charger. Great car, really comfy, bik is only 8% so friendly on the wallet as well.

I got my wife a 2.5L gasoline engine Sportage, 8-gear auto tranny, which yields close to 40 mpg! And, a big PLUS: 10-year/100,000-mile Warranty!!!

To save charge, select Sports Mode, uses both modes but mainly the engine so charges the battery up fairly quickly.

Great video thank you..Can you please tell me how many miles kia sportage full hybrid can run per tank ? If you know? Or what is real mpg ?

"Watch that thing turn off". *doesn't film it. You know we're not in the car with you, right?

I've ordered this over the Tucson because the BIK tax is lower on the Sportage even though they are effectively the same. I currently have the Kia Proceed GT which is a fun car but the BIK tax on them now is stupid so PHEV is the way forward for me. I'm going to be interested what mpg I get on a combination of A, B and Motorways roads for my daily commute.

Loved your review. I'm actually in the United States in California. I have my eyes on the 2024 sportage sx prestige hybrid in matte shadow grey with red carmine leather interior (so beautiful). Your video made me even more excited to own one hopefully soon!

The UK variants are kinda mid ngl. so small

2024 model rear floor mat defect. Too big.

When you talk about 4wd, I think its important to note that the Sportage PHEV as a real 4wd because electric and petrol engine sit side by side and drive the same gearbox / 4wd system. Therefore they can both do 4wd alone, or complement each other. My mates BMW X3 also has 4wd. but the petrol engine only drives the front wheels, and the electric only drives the rear wheels.

When you operate the Kia PHEV Prestige in Sports Mode, it charges the battery almost fully using the gas motor 95+% of the time. So, it acts light and save mode you mentioned!

Why no mention of the Boot size ?…..Disappointing !,,,,

Hi will it switch automatic to the fuel when run out of ev if driving on the motorway or do i need to stop to switch to the fuel thank you

I have the car for an year now and you got 3 things wrong: 1. The battery % and the EV range are non linear. When you have the battery at 100% with AC off it shows range of 70km and in city driving in EV only I have seen reaching 72km range when the battery drops to 12-17% and range says 0km. Usual EV range 60-65km in city. At the moment you start the AC the EV range drops with about 8%. AC cooling mode is purely electric, so after that depends how long you run AC, compared with how long the car actually moves. 2. You cannot deplete the battery to 0% as the car always starts in EV mode and then the gasoline engine kicks in by auto-rotation. 3. When you go for a long distance and you want to keep let say 20km of EV range remaining at your destination, you run first on auto mode and when you see the desired EV range number you switch to HEV mode, then it will maintain the EV range with +/- few km. 4. There is another unusual logic in the algorithm. If you start at EV mode with 100% battery and you drive only downhill, the gasoline engine will start for the first 1km, even if the AC is on cooling mode and there is no need for ICE heat for cabin. It appears trying to recharge the 12V battery a bit. If you slow down to near 0 and continue downhill after you can see an awkward diagram on the power management screen, indicating the wheels power the engine, while ICE is stopped and there is no power going out of the main battery. I believe this is the moment the wheels turning the 12V alternator through the gearbox and the ICE to charge the 12V battery, however the 12V system is not displaying on the power management screen. Another important feature for the EV & PHEV cars is that noone realy needs that 0-100 km/h kick start, however you need good acceleration in the range 70-120 km/h range when you need to overtake and this car is the best in that speed range from anything I have driven before.

Car literally went in to limp mode while he was filming and he is sill praising it 🤷🤦

This is NOT his grandson..so kindly posing with random child ..❤️

Kuga PHEV is great it has 4 modes - Auto, electric only, save electric for later and charge while driving . Really good for areas where limited charging

Is there any particular reason why the Uk version of Sportage does not include electronic suspension?

Hi, really interesting and informative 👍.

Good review, I think you covered most things well although it would have been better to have a full electric only mode range test with 100% and a note of all active features such as climate, radio, wipers, headlights to assess it's range efficiency. Also doing the launch after you depleted the battery seemed pointless as it would need it for the best results. Liked the button mention for settings 👍🏻

if i was to get a phev it would be the ford kuga good fuel economy than the sportage

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Keep these great reviews coming! There simply brilliant!

Thank you for a very ‘fair-minded’ and honest assessment of the car’s electric range. About 6 weeks ago I bought a 72 plate Sportage PHEV ‘3’ (21,500 odd miles), and I absolutely love it. It’s quiet, refined and well-equipped, and on a personal level, it stores and carries my wife’s disability ‘pavement buggy’ with ease. Now I ‘get’ what some say about it being primarily a ‘low millage’ car, and to be honest most of my journeys are local. That said, I do occasionally take my Sportage out further and to my mind it is still quite economical, even when most of the power comes from the petrol engine. After cruising on motorways, I was surprised at how economical the electric motor worked in tandem with the 6-speed auto gearbox, and on such journey’s I achieved an economy closer to 50 miles per charge as opposed to the official figure of 43 miles.

PHEV is a complete waste of time unless you are doing mostly sub 30 miles a day, school run etc and charge every single night. Planning on a Sorento PHEV purchase soon for this exact use case.

Nice video, straight to the point which is good and bad. I noticed that there is front radar which for some Sportages is placed in left side (front view) and some have it placed in middle. Do you know why or what's the cause? Does it depend on trim, on motor type ? I like symmetrical things and this one being on the right side drives me nuts :D

Why are you reading that when driveing ?????

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What's the point of buying something that you can plug in costing so much money and charge it to the max and get no more than 40 miles? Over £40k?!

Worst driveing we've seen dangerouse

Show the car not all the waffle

Not best review we've seen