Kia on Monday partially revealed production-ready sedan and hatchback variations of its EV4 compact electrical automobile.
First previewed in 2023 by an idea automotive, the manufacturing Kia EV4 sedan retains the idea’s smooth profile and daring, multi-faceted surfacing. The hatchback replaces the sedan’s tapered tail with a squared-off form that additionally seems to be pretty distinctive.
New Kia EV4 sedan
Kia is simply displaying the exteriors of the EV4 sedan and hatch for now. A extra thorough reveal will happen Feb. 24 throughout a Kia EV Day presentation in Tarragona, Spain, at which the automaker additionally says it’s going to present an replace on its electrification technique. Full particulars on the EV4 will observe on Feb. 27.
The EV4 is one among three smaller electrical fashions Kia unveiled at its October 2023 Kia EV Day occasion, all of that are anticipated to succeed in manufacturing for at the very least some markets. The opposite two fashions have been crossovers, together with the EV3, which is near the identical measurement because the Volvo EX30, and the EV5, which is sized just like the Kia Sportage, Honda CR-V, and Toyota RAV4.
New Kia EV4 hatchback
Kia was fast on the time to say that the EV5 was not U.S.-bound, however it left the door open for the EV4 and EV3. A production-ready model of the EV3 was proven in Could in of final yr, and on the 2024 Los Angeles auto present final November, Kia America chief working officer and government vp Steven Middle instructed Inexperienced Automotive Stories that “we might even see each” the EV4 and EV3 within the U.S.
Just a few months previous to that, a report stated Kia was “creating a definite North American mannequin” of the EV3 concentrating on a $30,000 base value, to be constructed on the automaker’s manufacturing unit in Monterey, Mexico, beginning this yr. The report did not point out the EV4, and Mexican manufacturing of any new EVs could possibly be jeopardized by the Trump administration, which has threatened to levy tariffs towards imports from that nation.