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2023 Kia EV6 GT lease ending

1.2K views 13 replies 4 participants last post by  billstep  
#1 ·
My lease is ending and I'm going to turn it back in. I have been thrilled with mine, no issues at all other than software updates. Have a solid dealer that gets them knocked out pretty quickly. Great do it all car. It is my daily driver, drag strip car, taken trips in it. It just does everything well. Only complaint is the headlights are atrocious.

Seriously considered buying it out, but I'm not paying the $38.5 residual. Also, hesitant putting more money in technology that is a few years old. The one thing that could have swung me was if Kia offered performance boost like Tesla. I know there is more in this car and would have been fine with very restrictive parameters, like performance boost only available above 90% state of charge.

Already grabbed the replacement, 2025 Audi S e-tron GT. First dragy on an asphalt road was 10.87@128.40. The biggest selling point for me was Audi/VW/Porsche can be tuned. I tuned mine and ran 9.98@142.18. Took it to the drag strip and ran 9.786@142.96.

Will be selling the wheels and drag radials from the Kia. Keep an eye on the for sale forum.
 
#3 ·
I'm in Tallahassee, FL.

Got the tune from mapev. They are a German company but they have vendors in the US. I used efi motorsports in New Hampshire. Order online, supply your VIN, install some software on your PC, connect PC to OBD2 port with bmw enet cable. Run the software and it sends your cars info to MAPEV. They get a new control unit, flash it with their software and ship you the flashed control unit. Takes about 20 minutes to remove your original control unit and replace with the flashed version. I like that they don't touch the original control unit, you can just switch them to go back to stock if needed. The control unit is the only thing that gets modified. Loving mine, went from 670hp/553tq to 927hp/730tq. The most impressive change was the 60 to 130mph time. Stock 8.0 seconds tuned 5.75 seconds.
 
#8 ·
Is that a limited-time power boost? Or can those HP numbers be sustained. It'd be amazing if the motor/gearing is rated for that much, but having had a lifetime of modded Audi/VW cars, all their turbo engines can support insane numbers on their stock engines, so I wouldn't doubt that Audi engineered their EV to handle as much.
 
#9 ·
No limitations on power delivery. Available all the time in all modes. Pretty good write up on the mapev site. Same motors and inverters in higher versions of the car, they are just artificially limited by software. The Taycan is really interesting. I wanted a 2025 taycan 4, the tune takes it to the same specs I'm at now. Better lease deals on the Audi.

I'm sure all the logic that keeps you from pulling to much power at lower states of charge is intact. I logged mine and it was pulling 1000A at 715V. I asked if he was just increasing the current limit, stock is 700A. He said that is not what they are doing, so I don't know specifically what they do. I suspect since the same version of the motors, inverters and battery packs is in different versions of the cars, they probably all have the same base software that is written for the most powerful version of the car, then they modify the software on the lower cost versions of the car and restrict it to some percentage of the unrestricted version. All speculation on my part. The guy that is selling the tunes has extensive threads in the taycan forum. J1.2 powertrain

You can also tune the 2020 to 2024 J1.1 powertrain. Not as much power as the 2025, but some substantial increases in power.