2020 · Soul Electric
Kia Soul EV
SUV · 39.2 kWh usable · CHAdeMO
- EPA range
- 243mi
- Efficiency
- 3.43mi/kWh
- DC peak
- 44kW
- Boot
- 11.1cu ft
Side by side · 2020 and 2025
Kia Soul EVvsToyota bZ4X
243 mi EPA · 47 min 10–80%252 mi EPA · 33 min 10–80%
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The Kia Soul EV is rated 243 miles on the EPA test, the Toyota bZ4X 252. A 10–80% stop takes 47 minutes in the Kia Soul EV and 33 in the Toyota bZ4X. Every figure below names the version of the car it belongs to, and the three tools further down turn the same numbers into a charging race, a road trip and a yearly bill.
At a glance
Kia Soul EV · Soul Electric
243mi EPA
47min 10–80%
Toyota bZ4X · bZ4X
252mi EPA
33min 10–80%
The short answer
The Toyota bZ4X is the quicker car to charge.
1
The Toyota bZ4X is rated 252 miles against 243 — 9 miles, 4% further. It uses 29.2 kWh to cover 100 miles where the Toyota bZ4X needs 28.3.
2
A 10–80% stop takes 33 minutes in the Toyota bZ4X and 47 in the Kia Soul EV. On a 50 kW post it is 33 and 54 minutes, so most of the advantage disappears at a slow site.
3
The Toyota bZ4X makes 160 kW against 100.
Which one, in one line
Pick the Toyota bZ4X ifit wins on range (252 mi against 243), running cost (28.3 kWh per 100 miles against 29.2), charging (33 minutes against 47).
The priceNeither car has a US list price in the sheet yet, so nothing here claims an MSRP or a monthly payment.
2025 · bZ4X
Charging, raced
Two cars, one post, same clock
Charging speed is a station number and a car number, and the smaller one wins. Set the post and both cars fill against the same clock — the interesting part is not who wins, it is how much of the gap a slow post takes away.
Each car is modelled on its own published 10–80% time, which gives an average power over that window: 35 kW for the Kia Soul EV, 81 kW for the Toyota bZ4X. A post above that average changes nothing; a post below it sets the pace.
Toyota bZ4XCCS133min
Kia Soul EVCHAdeMO47min
At 150 kW, going from 10% to 80% takes 47 min in the Kia Soul EV and 33 min in the Toyota bZ4X — a gap of 14 minutes. Both cars are limited by their own packs at this post, so a bigger station would change nothing.
Every figure
The numbers, with the version attached
A tick marks a figure that is simply more useful — more range, less energy per mile, a faster stop. Rows without a tick are different, not better: a bigger battery, a longer wheelbase and a wider body are all trades, and this page does not pretend otherwise.
| Measure | Kia Soul EV | Toyota bZ4X |
|---|---|---|
| Range and efficiency | ||
| EPA range | 243 mi2020 Soul Electric | 252 mi✓2025 bZ4X |
| EPA efficiency | 3.43 mi/kWh | 3.53 mi/kWh✓ |
| Energy per 100 miles | 29.2 kWh | 28.3 kWh✓ |
| Battery, usable | 39.2 kWhKia e-Soul 39 kWh | 64 kWhToyota bZ4X AWD (MY22-24) |
| Range left in the cold | 57%modelled envelope | 56%modelled envelope |
| Charging | ||
| DC peak | 44 kW | 147 kW✓ |
| 10–80% at peak | 47 min | 33 min✓ |
| Average power, 10–80%(derived) | 35 kW | 81 kW✓ |
| AC maximum | 7.2 kW✓ | 6.6 kW |
| Full charge on 240 V | 9.5 h✓ | 11 h |
| Fast-charge plug | CHAdeMO | CCS1 |
| Size and weight | ||
| Length | 165.2 in | 184.6 in |
| Height | 63.2 in | 63 in |
| Wheelbase | 102.4 in | 112.2 in |
| Kerb weight | 3,512 lb | 4,564 lb |
| Space and practicality | ||
| Seats | 5 | 5 |
| Boot, seats up | 11.1 cu ft | 16 cu ft✓ |
| Front trunk | — | 0 cu ft |
| Maximum cargo | 47.3 cu ft✓ | 27.7 cu ft |
| Towing, braked | — | 1,653 lb |
| Heat pump | Standard Equipment | Standard Equipment |
| Performance and safety | ||
| Power | 100 kW | 160 kW✓ |
| 0–100 km/h | 9.6 s | 6.9 s✓ |
| Euro NCAP stars | — | 5 |
| Battery warranty | 7 years / 93,206 mi7 years / 150,000 km | 8 years / 99,419 mi8 years / 160,000 km |
| V2L / V2H | Not supported | Not supported |
How to read the mixed rows. Range and efficiency come from one EPA row — the longest-range version of each car's current model year, not the longest range it has ever been rated at. Battery, charging and the catalogue dimensions come from the catalogue's headline record, which is not always the same trim. Each of those rows names its trim where the two disagree, and the model pages carry the full per-trim table.
What the cold row is not. “Range left in the cold” is the catalogue's modelled cold-highway figure as a share of its mild-urban one — a European model, not an EPA test in US weather. It is shown as a share rather than in miles so it cannot be mistaken for a US range rating.
Euro NCAP is the European crash programme; NHTSA and IIHS ratings are not in this dataset and are not claimed here. Warranty terms are the catalogue's kilometre figures converted to miles, so read them as indicative until a US warranty source replaces them.
Your numbers
What this pair costs you, on your drive
Two questions decide most purchases: how often you stop, and what the year costs. Both are arithmetic on the figures above, so change the inputs and the answer changes with you.
The drive
Starts full, arrives at 10%, charges back to 80% at each stop, and assumes a highway range of 85% of the EPA figure.
- Kia Soul EV
- 3
- Toyota bZ4X
- 3
stops · 141 min charging
stops · 99 min charging
The year
Energy at the wheels from the EPA label, priced at the tariff you pay. Home charging is usually cheaper than the directory's median.
- Kia Soul EV
- $1,225
- Toyota bZ4X
- $1,189
$10 per 100 mi
$10 per 100 mi
The trip model ignores charger detours, queueing and the last 10% of the pack, which is slow on both cars. The yearly cost is energy only: no session fees, no idle fees, no home-charger installation, and no petrol car to compare against.
Your priorities
A verdict you can argue with
There is no single winner, only a winner for a set of priorities. Move the sliders and the weighting changes — nothing here is a magazine score, and the page never hides the numbers it is built from.
Weighted result
Toyota bZ4X
wins 5 of 5 measures on these weights
Kia Soul EV0%
Toyota bZ4X100%
Each measure is scaled between the two cars, so a weight of 5 means “this is the thing I care about” and 0 means “I do not care at all”. The scores are relative, not a rating out of ten.
Questions
Short answers, then the reasoning
Every figure here comes from the same data as the rest of the page. Where the data cannot answer, the page says so instead of guessing.
Still unsure about a term? The charging glossary covers the rest of them.
Which has more range, the Kia Soul EV or the Toyota bZ4X?
The Toyota bZ4X. The Kia Soul EV is rated 243 miles and the Toyota bZ4X 252, each on the longest-range version of its current model year — 2020 Soul Electric and 2025 bZ4X respectively. EPA figures are lab scores from one standard test, not a promise for a cold morning or a steady 75 mph.
Which charges faster?
The Toyota bZ4X. Going from 10% to 80% takes 47 minutes in the Kia Soul EV (44 kW peak) and 33 in the Toyota bZ4X (147 kW peak). At a slow post the station becomes the limit and the gap narrows, because the slower car is short of power rather than short of time.
Do they use the same plug?
No. The Kia Soul EV fast-charges on CHAdeMO and takes J1772 for AC; the Toyota bZ4X uses CCS1 and J1772 for AC. An adapter can bridge the shape of the plug; it cannot change the power either car will accept or what a station will supply.
Which is cheaper to run?
The Toyota bZ4X, by about $102.74 a year at 12,000 miles and $0.35 per kWh. It uses 28.3 kWh per 100 miles against 29.2. That is energy only, at the wheels: session fees, idle fees and home-charger installation are not in it.
Which has more space?
The Toyota bZ4X: 11.1 cu ft of boot against 16 cu ft. Boot volumes are measured by different conventions between makers, so read the direction as reliable and the exact size of the gap as indicative.
Is there a price comparison?
Not yet — neither car has a US list price in the current dataset. When a price source covers both, price becomes one more row in the table and one more slider in the weighting tool.
Other comparisons
All comparisonsEvery figure on this page comes from the same records the Kia Soul EV and Toyota bZ4X pages use. How the sources are chosen, and what a figure here never claims, is on the methodology page.