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    Hyundai Kona

    Sep 08, 2022 4 minutes
    Alex Ingram

    MODELTESTED: Kona Electric 39kWh Premium

    PRICE: £31,800 POWERTRAIN: 1x e-motor, 39.2kWh battery, 134bhp

    Running costs

    4.2m/kWh (on test)

    £11 recharge/£0 or 2% tax

    Practicality

    Boot (seats up/down)

    332/1,114 litres

    Performance

    0-62mph/top speed

    9.9 seconds/96mph

    Performance 0-62mph/top speed 9.9 seconds/96mph

    Design & engineering

    SINCE its launch in 2018, the Kona has been offered with a variety of powertrains, including petrol, diesel and hybrid. However, our pick of the range has always been the fully electric model, which joined the line-up soon after the combustion-engined options.

    In 2020, the entire range received a nip and tuck. From a cosmetic point of view, this introduced a sharper front-end design – still with a smoothed-out

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