A MOTORIST who bought an EV and drove it until it died has revealed it left him stranded in the middle of nowhere.
Cars enthusiast Bjørn Nyland picked up a Kia Niro electric and drove it for a range test.
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The content creator posted a video on YouTube revealing his experience with the fully-electric £28,755 vehicle.
Although the Kia Niro boasts 285 miles of range, the motorist decided to drive it on minimum charge to check how well it performs.
He said: “I’m going to drive it down to zero and see how well it can handle it.
“It should behave like Hyundai Ionic but this is a new one so maybe it’s different.
“From what I heard these Korean cars should stop at roughly zero percent.
“They don’t have much buffer below that.”
Footage shows how the EV has 5 per cent of battery left when he starts driving it.
Once in the highway, the car range started to quickly drop to below five and the climate control to run low.
The alarmed driver then decides to stop and charge the vehicle up.
On the video the EV driver used a large-capacity rechargeable power station – also known as EcoFlow.
After a few minutes plugged into the portable charger, he gets behind the wheel again.
But things start to go even worse.
Even after charging the vehicle with the high capacity battery, the Kia refused to start.
After minutes of charging, the motorist realised there was 400 kilowatt of loss from the portable charger.
He claimed one battery wasn’t enough to fill up the car with the range needed to continue his journey.
The shocked driver said: “This time I’m actually stranded here. I did not bring both of the ecoflow batteries.”
Despite the range agony, the cars expert hit the road with only 1.5kw hour worth of range to the nearest charging station.
“Why do I put myself in bad situation like this.
“Next time even if I go on a 1000 km charge I should always bring an extra ecoflow charger,” he fumed.
The video has now gained nearly 40,000 views and thousands of likes.
Other drivers rushed to the comment section to share their opinions and personal experience with the EV.
One user advised: Just something to point out, when you turn the car on, other things will turn on like coolant pumps, power steering pumps, fans, heaters, ancillary equipment.
“Hence why it only looks like it’s charging at 1.8kw whilst pulling 2.2 from the charger.”
Another slammed: “I don’t get why car testers are obsessed with driving EV’s till they die.
“They don’t drive petrol and diesel engines till they die.”
It comes as an EV owner revealed he was left crying in a car park because his new ride was so frustrating to deal with.
Ed Cumming was left with a “sinking feeling” when he tried to take a trip in his new electric Skoda Enyaq.
Elsewhere, another car expert who bought the UK’s cheapest EV said the vehicle is such a chore and the range is rubbish.
Rory Reid, YouTube director at AutoTrader, shared his experience with a Nissan Leaf.