Kia’s Next Ev Is The Affordable, Long-range Ev4 Sedan

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 clip arena successful Spain today, wherever nan institution too revealed an urban-focused EV2 mini electrical SUV conception and nan 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 nan 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.

The EV4 will too tally connected a lesser 400-volt type of nan company’s E-GMP level alternatively of nan faster-charging 800-volt versions utilized successful nan EV6, Hyundai Ioniq 5, and others. Kia says nan strategy tin still title 10 to 80 percent successful arsenic mini arsenic 31 minutes.

The vehicles could radiance successful artillery range. Kia says they’ll get up to 630km (about 391 miles) connected a azygous title pinch nan larger 81.4 kWh artillery option, and 430km (about 267 miles) connected nan smaller 58.3 kWh battery. However, those estimates are based connected Europe’s overmuch generous WLTP standards.

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 overmuch that will beryllium disposable from an app store.. You tin too 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 nan EV4. The institution says nan mini-SUV will beryllium its “smallest EV yet” and will personification options to reconfigure seating to maximize beforehand connection abstraction for lounging aliases for rear cargo. It will too personification perks for illustration removable portable speakers for tailgating.

The EV4 sedan will initially beryllium built successful Korea and will first motorboat location successful nan mediate of March. The EV4 hatchback will beryllium produced successful Slovakia and will motorboat successful Europe successful nan 2nd half of 2024. The North American type of nan sedan will beryllium produced “later successful nan 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 nan arena that EV4 pricing will commencement astatine 37,000 euros (about $38,500), Electrek reports. The first tally will spot 160,000 units, of which 80,000 are destined to alloy to North America.

With nan EV4, US car buyers mightiness soon personification different affordable mass-market electrical car action against nan Tesla Model 3. The EV4 could tin immoderate vacancies, too, arsenic automakers for illustration Volkswagen, which is nary longer bringing nan ID.7 stateside, re-tune their EV strategies amidst nan Trump administration’s interests to destruct electrical conveyance incentives.