Likes
- Comfortable, competent drive experience
- Long range from bigger battery
- Sharp pricing on entry-level model
Dislikes
- Design will polarise
- Boot is a missed practicality perk
- Service costs higher than most
The GT-Line is the flagship model in the Kia EV4 range, and it shares its Long Range battery with the Earth, but gets a much more stacked equipment list.
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It’s $64,690 (almost $15k more than the cheapest Air), but is the only model to get its own look - thanks to the exterior plastics being swapped for gloss black - as well as things like a sunroof, a powered boot, dynamic welcome lights and projection headlights.
Inside, there’s a heated steering wheel, full synthetic-leather seats, relaxation seats to get comfy when charging and ambient interior lighting. You also get ventilated front seats, a better eight-speaker Harman Kardon stereo and wireless device charging.
The GT-Line’s battery is a 81.4kWh NCM unit, which delivers a claimed 612km range on the WLTP cycle. That’s not the very best in the business, but it’s almost certainly enough to cancel any ‘range anxiety’ talk.
The EV4’s 400-volt architecture does slow down charging a little, though, with DC fast charging capped at 128kW. That means going from 10 to 80 per cent in around 30 mins when using the fastest chargers. If you’re using a 50kW charger, it’s up to almost an hour and 20 minutes for the bigger battery.
