Race between Kona and Model X 

Bjørn's joke at 00:16 explained: "Who is the best, Kona or the X?" In Norwegian "Kona" means "the wife" and the "X" means of course the "ex-girlfriend".

Wow, the Kona just won a lot of respect from me! Great race guys!

I LOVE WHEN BJORN SAYS "SHIEEEEEET" 🤣🤣🤣👌

That was a great video! Almost want me to buy a Kona!.. I just got my Ioniq because of Bjørns review a while ago. Hyundai should give you lots of more credit, because you are really giving them bonus for showing people what great cars Ioniq and Kona are. Nobody else is doing that! :-)

This race is epic! Reminds me of the ol' top gear races... Well done Bjorn and Pawel

Hyundai built a REALLY good EV. They better build them as fast as they can sell them.

These race videos are a lot of fun guys. Keep up the good work.

You guys make EVs exciting, thank you Björn and Pawell. I dream of an EV yet no one I know has one, keep it up. Show us what these cars can offer.👍🏿

more exciting than an action movie 🎥 😂😉. Keep on going. Nice race

Great job guys ! Thank you Bjorn for the great and very informatives videos !

Wow incredible video bjorn you are outstanding in your scientific tests congrats.

Thank you Tesla, for the Kona!

To be fair, Kona should be compared with Model 3 but even then there's still significant price difference. Hyundai has beaten Tesla in their own game in less than 3 years of production.

What a great battle Bjørn and Pawel and what a great car that Kona is, it will be a huge sale succes in Europe!!

Very nice... KONA is awesome!

That was great review of Kona efficiency, thank you Bjorn

That Kona rocks! The size of a golf and the price of a high end golf! That is the best EV in Europe!!

Thank you guys was a great race. The 30 seconds is nothing, Pawel could have left maybe 1 min earlier.

Wow - that kicked ass! The Hyundai Kona has wild efficiency.

Great vid guys. Really informative. Definitely a tie - if you want to take more risks in range you *might* get there quicker ... or not! Well done. Thanks.

Hyundai have produced another amazing ev, hopefully they can keep up with the demand

5 Stops(Model X) vs. 2 Stops(Hyundai Kona[Kauai]).. WOW!!

Love your test's Bjorn! Keep up the work. Best regards!

Amazing video!!! You are doing for electromobility popularisation more than many others. And it is a really great fun!

26:18 "first time they see Kona".. this is a nice phrase to say to a portuguese person LOL

Awesome videos guys. Ordered my Kona today.

Love these races! You've got to do some Tesla v Tesla ones to compare efficiency between the different models. I think what you're starting to point out is that efficiency is a really big factor with electric cars, potentially more important than range after a certain point. The kona may not get as much electricity as quickly as the X, but it can go just as far on the amount it can get in the same time. I can't wait for you to find a model 3 to play with too

Bjørn Nyland I'm turning into a big fan of yours, I love all your videos!

WhaaaaT! It was super fun and amazing video, guys! Boths did it great this time! I had my money with the Model X, but yet to win it would have arrived with 30 ish km left which it's too low for a Tesla since they are not using GoM but displaying range based on typical consumption!. Yet again it was super fun to watch guys! A great summary video with lots of great shots, like when both passed each other and the meetups! It keep me up to the end in the edge of my seat!. I belive you have here, with this format, an excelent video franchise with tons of potencial for brands to use it and to get lots of extra followers! As you said at the end I'd love to see a Jag I-pace reviewed by Bjorn and also in the races!

Wow...very impressed!!...great comparison video guys...Kona would be my fist choice if I move from gas to a electric vehicle

that was a great video that shows that even with the current g2 cars that are coming we can drive long distances on electric as soon as the infrastructure is there because it is known fact that tesla owners drive very long distances very often using only their propietariy charging infrastructure.

I am convinced that the Kona is a car I want.. Just wonder when we can buy them in the USA

You made me want to buy a Kona.. or leasing on...thanks for this great test..

**Takes hands off wheel** Kona: **angry kona noises**

When EV goes from novelty to mainstream Tesla will have a hard time competing with the likes of Hyundai.

I love these races, hope you will do one with your Tesla and the new Nissa Leaf when it comes :)

Great video! Amazing only 30 sec difference in 12 hours

This is awesome. Fun comparative review!

Good Can't wait for the ending looking forward to it!!!

The kona 64 excecutive has been ordered. Excepting delivery time : between 1st and 15th of December 2018 !!!!!

Watching you from NZ and I love the Kona

Awesome video, very impressive. I think these are in a whole different categories of SUV vs CUV. But that Kona really changes the EV game again, hopefully they'll really trybto sell them unlike Chevrolet with their bolt that's never been on an add in the USA

Bjorn: Yah Pawel: Yea Bjorn: Yeah Pawel: Yeah

Top video, lots of fun and suspence....Huge thumbs up.

It would be nice to know much time did each of them spent charging

Intensely exciting!

WOW, that tool that holds your phones on the windscreen looks like some awesome quality! Would you mind linking to it? I'd love to use it for a phone and a camera.

Hyundai kona for me

Brilliant race

So close! If Pawel hadn’t been been afraid of running out again, he would have come first. But still been a very close race.

Great Bjorn, good at the next

interesting how these kind of races become more of a logistics challenge than a speed race

I can't believe I watched the whooole thing. Was surprisingly electrifying.

Great race guys, keep up the good work :) I was sure the Tesla would win, by at least 10-15 min. Well, if Pawel's charging strategy was a bit different he might have won by 5 min I guess? Anyway, I'll accept it's a tie, but 5 stops vs 2 stops, thats a solid win for the Kona in my eyes. For the next race, maby you should add a rule for discount for rest energy? Let's say a car charges 1% every min, it arrives with 20% left, so you substract 20 min. Or end the race at Nebbenes (or other location with SC and QC) and stop the time when the car is charged back to a given SOC. That way you can play it safe at the end, and maby change the charge-strategy a little.

Very interesting race like it a lot love the kona for its efficency

Great job of editing resulted in a captivating story! As I See it, Tesla came in second and Kona came in next to last...🤔

The Kona looks better and better with every day.

Very Cool guys. Thanks.. Im a big Kona fan. But also impressed with tesla charging structure network.

Great Video :) THANK YOU Both :) Great FUN! do more..... I'll be watching!

love your videos, Bjorn. Just pledged on Patreon!

A great video. Thanks a lot for this! Is there a list of the energy consumption of the cars during the comparison? I'm very interested in that.

Nice job really good information. Real world review

KONA IS THE BEST!!! I just got mine in California 💞💞💞

Could you ask your friend with the kona please ? It’s About the charging ,on the 40 kw nisssan leaf you can only draw only 7 kw from 22 kw charger post , what about kona? Can kona draw 22 kw from 22 kw charger please?

So close. Well done to both of you. The Kona definitely did an impressive job. I wonder what the Ioniq could do if it had the higher capacity battery at it's lower drag coefficient ?

Very exciting video!Out of interest, I tried to do some numbers. The Tesla Model X charges twice as fast but does not consume twice as fast. I would have expected it to do better than the Kona. Still, the numbers seem to check out.Both cars drove roughly the same speed and arrived at rougly the same time. That means they spent roughly the same amounts of time charging.The Kona started out with 64kWh and finished with 6kWh. Bjørn charged 2x50 minutes at roughly 45kW, or 75kWh, for a total consumption of 75 + 56 = 131 kWh over 1000km. Seems to be in the ballpark.The Tesla started out with 79 kWh and finished with 11kWh. Pawel charged for 25,20,15,15,15 minutes at roughly 92kW, or 138kWh, for a total consumption of 138 + 68 = 206 kWh. Seems to check out as well.

Love your Kona. I ordered the same colour but won't receive it until March 2020. Can't wait. 🥺😖

01:38 sheeeeet, it's always 420 with you dude

Kona is small, but I'll wait for that Kia Niro EV that's coming out. I fit nicely in that!

Hi. I'm wondering how the noise from the road is inside the Kona? I've got an IONIQ Hybrid and I think the noise inside the car is quite loud. Have you made a comparison of Kona vs IONIQ in terms of road noise?

what mount do you guys use for the camera phone etc looks really heavy duty?

What brand/manufacturer were those windscreen mounts? TIA

That was good race. The next will be if possible between kia niro and tesla 3

Bjorn, can you do a separate video on how those EV paddle shifters work? That was an interesting bit on how you use it but it’s worthy of an episode.

Very interesting test on these ev's gives me an idea on what my next car will be in future. Only problem is we don't have this kind of infrastructure hopefully it will change over the next few years

Was this all out effiency testing? How about with running heat or AC for the trip? What would a half hour traffic backup (an American possibility, at least) with those things running do to the range?

Some predictions before the run would have been very interesting 👍

Hello Bjørn Nyland, I'm very glad to know that the Kona had such a great performance and efficiency. But I presume that the IONIQ is even more efficient than the Kona, right? So when in 2019 the IONIQ will be offered with a bigger battery, probably this will be a great advantage, but I'm not sure if he will beat the Kona in such a long race as this one in this video, What do you think?

Regards cost of charging, which is the better car?

25:38 "crap food" Looking pretty tasting from where I'm sitting! 26:24 "good sausage" What was that about 'crap food'? :)

Thank you very much for making the video, I see myself getting the Kona, would you be able to tell me if the Kona has more loading space with the seats folded or the Ioniq?

Hyundai always comes with fantastic cars

Nice Video! Does the Kona have all wheel drive?

But how do you know the wind direction while driving? where do you look up that things? nice vid btw!

Shieeeet, great content guys :)

Kona went on sale yesterday in the UK, online orders only.

Just one word.... Brilliant

In the beginning Pawel charged all the way down to 56kW before he left the charger which was a huge mistake. He should have left every super charger when it dropped down to 87kW.

Excellent idea for a race, I always want to drive my EV as efficiently as possible, never feel the same about ICE for some reason.

Shiiiiiit!!! Nice race!!! The limited charging speed of the Kona is due to the car charger or the power available at the charging station?

Model S 75d vs. Model X 100d?

Great race :)

KONA, Good job and bring on more good competition with decent quality and price! Thank you for Proving that most of EV are over priced!

What is the name of that pole you have all the cell phones mounted to?

That Kona is impressive!

THIS WAS AMAZING

Nice race, maybe now you could do race between new Kona vs new Model 3...

My next vacation will be to your great country! I want to meet you Bjorn, you're a great person, I want to see the legendary Optimus Prime.

I ordered a Kona(non range+) as well and I'm getting it next month

Cool video series. Add a diesel VW Passat to every race, so there's perspective. :)