Cycle & Carriage Kia launches the much-awaited premier mannequin of their product line – the EV6, a fully-electric sports activities crossover car. Available in 2 variants, particularly the Standard (Single Motor / Standard vary), and the GT-line (Dual Motor / Long vary) fashions, the EV6 combines futuristic good options with luxurious house and luxury to make on a regular basis drives greener with model.
Electric-Global Modular Platform
The launch of the EV6 additionally marks the debut of Kia’s Electric Global Modular Platform (E-GMP), following its rebranding efforts final yr. A devoted and modular platform, the event of the E-GMP signifies a daring dedication to the event of Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs).
Seamlessly tailored to sedans, SUVs, and past, the E-GMP will even see elevated effectivity and optimised packaging, as in comparison with its earlier EV fashions.
Battery
Boasting 800V ultra-fast charging functionality with zero emissions, the brand new EV6 is designed to encourage a complete new means of eco-friendly residing – an embodiment of the model’s imaginative and prescient of Movement that Inspires. Both the GT-line and customary mannequin have a high velocity of 188 kilometres per hour, accelerating from 0 to 100 kilometres per hour inside 5.2 seconds for the GT-line, and 0-100 in 8.5 seconds for the Standard mannequin.
In only one cost, the EV6’s customary mannequin can cowl the space of 394 kilometres (from Singapore to Genting Highlands), with an extra 112 kilometres for the GT-line mannequin.
Moreover, it solely takes 18 minutes to cost up from 10% to 80% with the ultra-fast cost characteristic – with just one cost wanted for 10 days of travelling (primarily based on 20,000km mileage travelled per yr).
Luxury and Style
Setting a brand new customary for purposeful design, the brand new EV6 contains a 12.3-inch panoramic curved show that provides an immersive and easy-driving expertise by offering high-definition navigation info with minimal controls.
Supported by E-GMP know-how, the EV6 boasts a flexible inside and a plethora of cabin storage areas with a voluminous trunk house guarantee a fuss-free and luxuriously snug drive.
The EV6 GT-line’s ergonomic plush seats are additionally made with refined suede and vegan leather-based, together with vegan leather-based interiors for the Standard mannequin. Featuring recycled PETs for ground mats, glossy door map pockets in addition to recycled plastics for the dashboard, the EV6 serves as an eco-friendly different for city metropolis drives, and an emblem of Kia’s dedication to the way forward for electrical mobility.
Equal components elegant and rugged, with a sportier search for the GT-line, the EV6 has been visually designed with distinctive key options – together with Kia’s iconic ‘tiger-nose’ grille; now reinterpreted for the fashionable age. Adding a particular contact to modern design, the addition of daytime working lights, together with a sequential dynamic gentle sample, creates the ‘tiger face’ design that’s synonymous to Kia.
Having claimed victory on this yr’s 2022 Red Dot Design Awards as ‘Red Dot: Best of the Best’ and winner within the ‘Innovative Products’ class, EV6 is the primary Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) designed beneath Kia’s new ‘Opposites United’ philosophy – Showcasing a robust visible identification with contrasting combos of sharp stylistic components and sculptural shapes, symbolic for the design of future BEVs.
Eco-Friendly Smart Safety Features
Cruise by means of winding roads seamlessly with EV6’s glossy good tech options — together with a Smart Regenerative Braking system, which in tandem with its class main superior driver-assistance methods (ADAS) know-how, makes use of its sensors to routinely modify the regenerative braking primarily based on street site visitors circumstances.
The Smart Cruise Control characteristic reduces fatigue from heavy site visitors and lengthy drives by routinely sustaining a distance from autos detected in entrance, with an auto-stop and begin characteristic. The EV6 additionally combines comfort and elegance with flushed door handles coupled with built-in contact sensors that supply computerized deployment features.
EV6 can be the primary in Kia’s line-up to showcase the Remote Smart Parking Assist (RSPA) characteristic, which allows it to remotely park or exit a parking spot, with the motive force working from outdoors the car.
Equipped with among the best security and driver help suites at the moment provided available in the market, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) options are customary on the EV6. Promising a smoother and safer drive, further security options embrace:
- Blindspot View monitor which gives a reside view of the blindspot within the instrument cluster, eradicating the blindspot hazard when altering lanes
- Blindspot avoidance help which warns of vehicles inside the blindspot and assists to information you again into your lane ought to an imminent collision be detected.
- Lane following help with the car staying inside painted street markings detected by the car.
- Safe exit warning provides an audible warning and prevents the opening of the door when it detects a automotive approaching from the rear.
- Front Collision Avoidance Assist & Rear Cross-Traffic Collision Avoidance Assist which minimises frontal and rear collisions.
- Kia’s modern Surround View Monitor means that you can management the angle and see throughout the automotive from whichever angle you want when parking.
To date, the EV6 has already obtained a number of awards, together with the 2022 European Car of The Year (COTY) — making it the primary Korean car model to take action. Other awards embrace: 2022 Red Dot Design Awards, Autocar Awards 2022 for ‘Best Electric Car’, and the U.S. News 2022 for ‘Best Electric Vehicle’.
Gearing up for a cleaner, greener power, EV6 is the primary of 11 mannequin EV line-ups with seven devoted EVs within the pipeline for this main automaker. Kia has additionally introduced plans to unveil its first purpose-built car (PBV) – an electrical, autonomous machine for industrial use – in 2022, aiming to construct one million PBVs by 2030.