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GENESIS G80 ELECTRIFIED
Our time with this car is up. It would be a real shame if its time is up, too
WHY WE RAN IT This is Genesis’s biggest electric car, as well as the basis for the brand’s ICE models. Does this compromise its EV performance?
LIVING WITH A…
Where our long-term test cars have been and what they’ve done
About halfway through my time with the excellent G80 Electrified, Genesis announced that henceforth customers would be encouraged to buy from stock, of which there seemed to be plenty.
The inference was clear: people were more reluctant to go electric than marketers had predicted, and they were especially reluctant to shell out for premium EVs, because of the allegedly weak residual values, as declines in Porsche Taycan, Jaguar I-Pace and Tesla prices had made abundantly clear.
At that stage, my relationship with the G80 was already well developed. Despite its occasionally inconvenient 5m length and small boot, it had rapidly become my car of choice for all significant journeys, on account of its economy, comfort, refinement and impressive range, even in winter. I remember feeling pangs of regret that this class-wide prejudice would prevent a greater cohort of people from experiencing and knowing about a good car.