Kia is launching a caller EV4 sedan and hatchback pinch promising scope figures for an affordable electrical car. The conveyance was announced astatine Kia’s 2025 EV time arena successful Spain today, wherever the institution besides revealed an urban-focused EV2 mini electrical SUV conception and the PV5 electrical rider and cargo van.
The EV4 sedan was first announced arsenic a conception successful 2023, but it’s now a existent car. It comes successful 2 versions. One has a funky rear that stretches retired to look for illustration a accepted 4-door car. The other, a “five-door” hot-hatch-looking type will chiefly beryllium for the European market, according to Kia. These aren’t going to beryllium Kia’s most-performant EVs though, arsenic they will beryllium single-motor front-wheel thrust vehicles pinch conscionable 150kW of powerfulness and a 0-62 mph acceleration clip arsenic speedy arsenic 7.4 seconds.
Image: Kia
The EV4 will besides tally connected a lesser 400-volt type of the company’s E-GMP level alternatively of the faster-charging 800-volt versions utilized successful the EV6, Hyundai Ioniq 5, and others. Kia says the strategy tin still complaint 10 to 80 percent successful arsenic small arsenic 31 minutes.
The vehicles could radiance successful artillery range. Kia says they’ll get up to 630km (about 391 miles) connected a azygous complaint pinch the larger 81.4 kWh artillery option, and 430km (about 267 miles) connected the smaller 58.3 kWh battery. However, those estimates are based connected Europe’s much generous WLTP standards.
1/3This is the hatchback EV4 for the European market. Image: KIa
The EV4 still offers immoderate of Kia’s cooler EV tech. It has a 30-inch widescreen show (really 3 side-by-side instrumentality cluster and infotainment screens) that tally Kia’s latest “connected car Navigation Cockpit (ccNC) software. You get intermezo options for illustration YouTube, Netflix, games, and much that will beryllium disposable from an app store.. You tin besides get an AI sound assistant, Apple Watch integer cardinal access, V2L for powering family devices, and a “Smart Cruise Control 2” precocious driver-assistance strategy pinch lane keeping.
Kia’s conception EV2, which had purportedly been spotted successful camouflage past year, is expected to beryllium moreover cheaper than the EV4. The institution says the mini-SUV will beryllium its “smallest EV yet” and will person options to reconfigure seating to maximize beforehand statement abstraction for lounging aliases for rear cargo. It will besides person perks for illustration removable portable speakers for tailgating.
1/3Kia EV2 Concept. Image: Kia
The EV4 sedan will initially beryllium built successful Korea and will first motorboat location successful the mediate of March. The EV4 hatchback will beryllium produced successful Slovakia and will motorboat successful Europe successful the 2nd half of 2024. The North American type of the sedan will beryllium produced “later successful the year.” The EV2, meanwhile, is coming successful 2026 for Europe and different regions, though its US readiness is yet to beryllium confirmed.
Kia President Ho Sung Song announced astatine the arena that EV4 pricing will commencement astatine 37,000 euros (about $38,500), Electrek reports. The first tally will see 160,000 units, of which 80,000 are destined to vessel to North America.
With the EV4, US car buyers mightiness soon person different affordable mass-market electrical car action against the Tesla Model 3. The EV4 could capable immoderate vacancies, too, arsenic automakers for illustration Volkswagen, which is nary longer bringing the ID.7 stateside, re-tune their EV strategies amidst the Trump administration’s interests to eliminate electrical conveyance incentives.
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