The table is doing the work on this page. Model on the left, what it plugs into, what it draws at home, and the lead to order on the right.
Kia spans a wider range of charging behaviour than most brands here, from a Type 1 first generation Soul to the 800 volt EV6 and EV9. Ten models, and the year on the V5 matters on two of them.
What the third column means
There is a single ceiling here and it belongs to your electricity supply, not to the car. Thirty two amps on one phase is about 7.4 kW. A car rated at 11 or 22 kW meets that ceiling and stops; a car rated at 3.6 kW never reaches it.
The Soul changed connector, so check yours
Telling them apart takes a glance. A Type 1 socket is round with five pins; a Type 2 socket has seven and is squared off along one edge. A lead for one will not physically go into the other.
The first generation Soul EV is a Type 1 car and needs a Type 2 to Type 1 lead. The second generation moved to Type 2. The Soul page covers both and tells you how to tell them apart without looking anything up.
What actually separates one Kia from another
The numbered EV cars, the EV2, EV3, EV4, EV6 and EV9, all take 7.4 kW at a British house and all want the 32 amp lead. The Niro sits just below at 7.2 kW on the older car and 7.4 on the newer, which makes no practical difference.
The plug-in hybrids are the ones to be careful with. The Optima and Sorento run 3.3 kW onboard chargers, so a 16 amp lead is already more than they can use, and the Sportage plug-in hybrid takes 7.2 kW. Buying a 32 amp cable for an Optima is not a mistake exactly, it just buys flexibility rather than speed.
Charge port position is the other place Kia varies. The EV cars and most of the range charge from the rear offside or an offside front wing, but the first generation Soul charges from the centre of the nose behind a flap in the grille, which is a genuinely different cable run.
Choosing a length
Get the length from your own driveway. Five metres where the charge point is next to the socket, ten for most layouts, fifteen or twenty where the unit is in a garage and the car is not.
An EV9 is over five metres long with a rear socket, so ten metres is the honest recommendation there. A nose-charging Soul parked head in can often manage with five.
How these cables are built
One build for the whole range: tinned copper, one-piece moulded IP67 connectors, a cold weather sheath, a two year warranty and free next working day delivery.
Its sister brand is laid out the same way in the Hyundai range, and the Genesis range shares the same 800 volt platform.
