Rear Wheel Drive on Kia EV6 - Handling OK?

I drove a rear wheel drive Tesla for a couple of months and it was absolutely fine as far as I could tell it felt no different to drive than any other car so I would agree with the comment above that if the manufacturer gets the system right it feels fine. The Tesla had a lot of power going through the rear wheels but I never managed to get it to misbehave and it felt better in bad conditions than the rear wheel drive Mercedes I owned for years.

Aragorn said:

Many EV's seem to be going this route. the ID3/4 and associated models are also all RWD too. I presume its for packaging. You can neatly fit the drive motor under the rear boot floor and thus shrink the "engine bay" at the front, increasing cabin room for a given vehicle size.

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I wonder how much of this switch to rear wheel drive is also to allow the wheelbase to be increased and still retain the needed level of crashworthiness? It seems to me that there are big advantages in having empty space up front as it allows for bigger crumple zones without that space being taken away from useful volume inside the car which has to be a good thing.

It will be interesting to see how car shapes evolve now that they have lost the contents of one of the traditional three boxes needed, the engine space the passenger space and the boot space. With a drive unit that is not much bigger than a conventional rear axle that must really free things up for the designers. I get the feeling that they are being really conservative at the moment and keeping electric car designs too similar to ICE cars when they could make some really big changes if the buying public would accept them.