three new battery electric models available now or coming soon. Kia likes to keep things simple. The new models are known as the EV3, EV4, and EV5. All are built on the company’s E-GMP platform that supports either 400- or 800-volt architecture. Higher voltages typically enable faster charging., an all electric counterpart to the Kia Telluride, a 3-row, 7-passenger SUV that has all the design characteristics of a boxcar, with a.
The long range AWD model will also have the 88 kWh battery pack but adds a 70 kW motor at the rear for a combined output of 230 kW. Its range is said to be 650 km. In addition, it will have a more robust fast charging capability that will make charging from 30% to 80% capacity possible in 27 minutes.reports that Ho Sung Song, Kia’s president and CEO, said the EV5 will come to “America,” and a representative from the product planning department said it would arrive in mid-2025.
The new Kia models apparently use the 400-volt version of the E-GMP chassis. It seems only the EV5 AWD will get the 800-volt architecture.Kia also introduced another concept at EV Day, the EV4 sedan that looks a lot like the EV6 with a flatter rear section grafted on. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, they say, but to us, it looks like the least successful of the three new concepts.