Something fresh is rolling onto Belgian roads, and for once it doesn’t reek of half-burnt petrol — it smells like victory. Meet the Skyworth K800V, a proper electric family SUV straight out of China that can blast from 10 to 80 % in eleven minutes flat. And the price? Under thirty-seven grand. That’s the kind of number that makes premium European brands choke on their oat-milk lattes.
Skyworth has been quietly building your televisions and fridges for years without ever letting you down, so sliding into cars feels less like a gamble and more like the next logical step. They’ve given the K800V an 800-volt backbone, a 65.71 kWh battery good for 513 km on paper, and a real-world appetite of around 13 kWh/100 km. Translation: it drinks less than a frugal diesel and refills faster than you can finish a waffle at the services.
Inside, it’s genuinely huge. Panoramic roof, 12.3-inch driver display that actually looks sharp, and a 15.6-inch centre screen that does everything from streaming to proper voice commands without making you swear in three languages. Rear legroom and headroom are generous enough to keep teenagers quiet on the way to Center Parcs, the seats are soft where they need to be, and there’s even a 220 V socket so you can run a laptop or stop the kids turning the boot into a science experiment.
Under the skin sits a front-mounted motor pushing 204 hp and 330 Nm. It won’t set the Nürburgring on fire, but it surges forward with the kind of instant shove that makes filtering through Brussels traffic almost enjoyable. The ride soaks up most of our battered roads without drama, though the cobbles in Bruges still remind you they exist. Safety kit is comprehensive and fitted as standard: adaptive cruise, lane-keep, emergency braking, blind-spot warning — the full Level 2+ package that helps without nagging.
Here’s the killer part: everything is included. No £3,000 comfort pack, no £2,000 wheel upgrade, no £1,500 paint surcharge. You hand over the cash, you get the keys, you drive away grinning. The styling is clean and grown-up — full-width rear light bar, decent alloys — nothing that screams “look at me, I’m saving the planet”, just a handsome SUV that gets on with the job.
In short, the Skyworth K800V is the anti-rip-off electric car: big, blisteringly quick to charge, loaded with kit and priced where most brands still sell you a plug-in hybrid with the electric range of a toaster. In a country where 350 kW chargers are finally popping up like mushrooms after rain, eleven minutes to 80 % feels like cheating.
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