Genesis GV60 (2025 - ) Electric review

If you’ve got a home charger running a Genesis GV60 should prove to be considerably cheaper than trying to keep an equivalently posh petrol or diesel car on the road. For charging up on the move the GV60 has always benefitted from the advanced 800-volt electrical architecture but now with level two battery conditioning it’s one of the fastest-charging EVs on the market. Its 11kW AC rate isn’t anything special, mind, although a 7.5-hour full charge at that speed remains decent. Perhaps the biggest issue is that the revised GV60 range is considerably more expensive than the benchmark Tesla Model Y.

Shared foundations with the Kia EV6 and Hyundai Ioniq 5 means the Genesis GV60 has good genes. A five-year, unlimited-mileage warranty helps that peace of mind. However, GV60s have only performed to a middling standard in reliability surveys, with owners reporting electrical glitches as the main problems.

The GV60 also includes a lot of helpful safety gear as standard, including Highway Driving Assist, which teams radar cruise control with active lane keeping to form a semi-autonomous motorway driving mode. There’s also a rear-view camera, blind-spot collision avoidance, intelligent speed limit assistance and forward collision-avoidance assistance. It’s perhaps a shame, though, that more advanced kit such as a head-up display, plus the brilliant Blindspot View Monitor are all part of four-figure option bundles called the Innovation Pack or the Innovation Pack Plus. The better news is that the former of these two packages is standard on the range-topping Performance GV60.

Arguably the biggest selling point of the Genesis GV60 is how pleasant it is to be in its sumptuous and top-quality cabin. New upholstery colours embolden what has always been a superb passenger compartment, although room in the second row of seating isn’t massively generous and the boot is also relatively modest. But in terms of the fit-and-finish and aesthetics, the cabin is a big hit. And so is the way the Genesis effortlessly oozes down the road. Surprisingly agile and enjoyable when the corners come, the GV60 is also plush, supple and serene cruising along covering ground to the point it really worms its way into your affections. Rare are the times you pick up anything significant about the the road surface beneath its tyres as you roll along in the Genesis.

There’s lots on the latest Genesis GV60 to satisfy even the most demanding of technophiles, including face recognition on the B-pillar to unlock the car, a fingerprint reader inside which can be used to power up, and a lovely orb-like ‘Crystal Sphere’ drive selector which rotates theatrically into position as you start it up. But the three big points for the updated car are a revised wireless charging pad for smartphones that makes it easier to access your device, a digital rear-view mirror as part of the Innovation Pack Plus and then the absolutely unmissable (because it is vast) 27-inch OLED panoramic widescreen infotainment display merged seamlessly into the instrument cluster. As long as you like enormous digital real estate inside your car, this set-up looks great and it also operates in a slick fashion, so it’s a technology winner.

Before the facelift, the Genesis GV60 had a simple-to-understand three-model line-up of Premium, Sport and Sport Plus. For the 2026 model year is the first and last of these have been renamed as Pure and Performance, respectively, but in all other respects – save for the larger battery pack on all models – the powertrain options are the same. The single-motor Pure has enough power and acceleration for anyone’s reasonable real-world needs, so the two other dual-motor cars in the range are probably excessive. Especially the flagship Performance model, which has two electric motors so powerful to trouble the latest hybrid enhanced Porsche 911s. As to driving range, the bigger battery now allows every GV60 to claim comfortably more than 300 miles, the Pure being the best, with a 348-mile headline figure.