This week, Kia introduced its inexpensive EV4 electrical sedan will launch within the US early subsequent yr. While the US gained’t get a hatchback version of the EV4 that was talked about when it was revealed in February, there will probably be two battery configurations: a 58.3kWh battery with a Kia-estimated vary of 235 miles, and a bigger 81.4kWh battery with a Kia-estimated vary of 330 miles. No EPA vary estimates are at present accessible.
The EV4 will get Tesla’s NACS charging port and may cost up from 10 to 80 p.c in 31 minutes at a DC quick charging station. It additionally has vehicle-to-load functionality that gives AC energy for units like computer systems. And on the within, the EV4 options 30 inches value of side-by-side screens that run Kia’s newest “related automobile Navigation Cockpit (ccNC) software program with apps like YouTube.
The automaker’s “first all-electric world sedan” will probably be inbuilt Korea, and whereas Kia has not confirmed an official worth, MotorTrend experiences it may very well be about $37,000 earlier than any incentives. That worth would undercut Tesla’s most inexpensive and common Model 3 electrical sedan, which prices $42,490 earlier than the Federal $7,500 tax incentive. However, by the point this sedan is able to ship, President Trump’s tariffs on automobiles constructed exterior the nation could have a major influence.
