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If you drive at 70mph in the winter on a cold wet day usable range with a safety margin is more like 175-185 miles. I don't have a Niro now but on the occasional long winter trip I did drive in it that was what I worked on.

If you drive slower or have several miles before you get to the motorway then you will have a better chance of getting to 200 miles. I'm not sure you'll have much of a safety margin in the Niro.
The Kona would be a better option if you really want to be able to drive at 70 on cold wet days but I'm not sure you'd have a big margin left on the worst winter days.
 

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@Bill N Sorry Bill but on this one comment I can’t agree that Eniro isn’t a fun drive. I find it incredibly fun to drive. In fact it’s the drive over and above everything else that really does it for me. Despite my own quite long list of negatives, it still puts a big smile on my face every time I drive it. With respect I see that you don’t drive the Eniro yourself, so are you really in the position to make such a comment? I know your car is loosely similar but it’s not the same by any means. Cheers Peter.
Fun to drive is going to be a very personal thing, but I would find the Niro or Kona hard to discribe as fun. I owned a Niro for over a year and had a Kona briefly.
There's not many EVs that are really fun to drive, they are large and heavy, but the i3 was fun for the couple of days I drove it and the ID3 I'm driving now is the most fun to drive car I've owned for quite a while, but that's because I've had family cars for the past 20 years!
I would need to take an ICE out on a track to remember how to have fun in a car, IMO
 
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