There’s a category of cars I like to call “Electric Crossover, But It’s From Us.” You know the type, even if you’ve never thought about them that way. They’re what you get when an automaker wants to go electric in a super important category meant to sell lots of cars – compact or midsize crossovers, usually – but they don’t really have any notable party tricks. Maybe the range is so-so, the technology is just fine, or there’s not really a case to be made to buy one over its competition.
There’s a console table inside that Kia says wasn’t made but grown – it’s made of mycelium, the root-like structure of a fungus. “Using Mycelium enables us to mimic the processes we see in nature and leverage it to design more sustainable solutions,” Kia’s head of Color, Materials, and FInish design Marília Biill said in a news release. “The material can be grown in any shape you want using a mold.
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