Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2014

Kia’s 48V mild hybrid system uses a lead-carbon battery. Kia revealed a new mild hybrid powertrain as well as its new 7-speed DCT at the Geneva Motor Show. The mild hybrid powertrain will be available on new diesel and gasoline production cars from Kia in the near future. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) 7-speed DCT.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 2, 2022

When Kia says the 2023 Sportage is all-new, believe them. But it is more than a larger and more capable Sportage, now in its fifth generation and Kia’s longest-running model, but one that offers three propulsion systems, including the X-Pro trail-rated model for those who want to go off-roading. Something for Everyone.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 25, 2022

Built on an all-new platform, the K5 is wider, longer and lower than the Optima, more powerful, and takes design cues from the performance minded Kia Stinger. So what does Kia do? The 2022 Kia K5 GT is offered with one engine and transmission. The twin, chrome exhaust tips balance out the rear design. More Power.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 6, 2022

Lexus EV Sports Car. This flagship car for Faraday Future will be produced in limited quantities with production beginning in Hanford, California, in late 2022, so customer deliveries could be sometime in 2023. Kia is ready to go big with its next EV–the EV9. Lexus Sports Car. With a 0-60 mph time of 3.2

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2024

Three months after opening US orders for the long-anticipated three-row EV9 SUV, the folks at Kia invited media out to wine country to test drive it for the first time. Nevertheless, we at Electrek (myself included) were pleasantly surprised at how similar the production-intent EV9 stayed to its conceptual design. Here are my thoughts.

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Drive Electric

JANUARY 26, 2022

Kia’s award-winning EV6 was already a popular EV choice. Model : Kia EV6 GT Line 77.4kWh RWD. Calculated using UK average energy cost of 14p per kW – find out more about how much it costs to charge an electric car ). Kia EV6 Design & Powertrain. What is the Kia EV6 like to drive? Quick Facts.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Kia Motors revealed the new Ceed ahead of its world debut at the 2018 Geneva International Motor Show. The system uses external sensors to maintain a safe distance from the vehicle in front, operating between 0 and 130 km/h (81 mph). —Michael Cole, Chief Operating Officer for Kia Motors Europe.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

All-new in 2018, the 2022 Kia Stinger continues to turn heads by those that know cars. This coupe was Kia’s first entry into the five-passenger, four-door sportback GT world–and they got it right. Designed in Kia’s Frankfurt, Germany, design studio and built in Sohari, Korea, the Stinger is truly a world car.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Kia Optima Hybrid. Kia Motors Corporation premiered the hybrid version of its new Optima sedan ( earlier post ) at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Created primarily with the US market in mind, the Kia-developed powertrain delivers an estimated combined cycle fuel economy is 38 mpg US (6.2 Acceleration to 62 mph (100 km/h) takes 9.2

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2023

Kia released more details of the Kia EV9, its first three-row seat electric flagship SUV, which is comparable in external dimensions to the Telluride. The boxy, triangular design language of the EV9 emphasizes the tension of its short overhangs and long 122.0-inch earlier post ). Standard is a 76.1-kWh

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Baua Electric

JUNE 7, 2023

A minimum of one model will store 422 hp, or plethora for 0-60 mph acceleration in 3.4 The prototype’s wave proprietor just lately restored the automobile and now it’s been pushed to a manage velocity of over 200 mph for the primary month. 2025 Volvo EX30 hits 60 mph in 3.4 2025 Volvo EX30 hits 60 mph in 3.4

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Cars That Think

APRIL 4, 2022

The Hyundai Ioniq5 and Kia EV6 that I recently tested—a pair of wildly impressive, high-design EVs—take a different approach to solving range anxiety: an 800-volt battery architecture that delivers some of the fastest charging in the EV game, and unheard of at these price levels. The Ioniq5—already named Car Design of the Year , U.K.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 2, 2024

With Kia’s help, the new robotaxi will be revealed in just a few months. The startup designs, develops, and manufactures its supercars in-house. In comparison, the Tesla Model S Plaid has a 0 to 60 mph in 1.99 The electric supercar maker plans to launch a robotaxi with backing from Kia. It can sprint from 0 to 60 in 1.74

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Not all were, of course, as there is still plenty of interest around gasoline-propelled cars, SUVs and trucks. As a city car, this is fine, but it didn’t make it viable as all other electric cars had the ability to go a whole lot further. 2024 Kia Seltos. of torque, good for a 0-60 mph time of 3.2

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The design allows drivers to deploy the system at the push of a button, allowing drivers to sidestep some of the disadvantages associated with installing snow chains. Korean automakers Hyundai and Kia state that the technology relies on “shape memory alloy modules that are located inside the wheel and tire.”

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Teslarati

MARCH 30, 2021

Today, the segment is populated by simple but adequate vehicles like the MG ZS EV, Hyundai Kona Electric, and the Kia Niro EV. While the Chosun Ilbo report may seem strange considering Tesla’s ongoing efforts to release an affordable $25,000 car , such a partnership may still work in the Silicon Valley-based company’s favor.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2016

auto market to make automatic emergency braking (AEB) a standard feature on virtually all new cars in the US no later than NHTSA’s 2022 reporting year, which begins 1 Sept 2022. The report also found that there may be greater obstacles to vehicle designs without controls for human drivers, such as a steering wheel or brake pedals.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Flash Drive: 2023 Kia EV6 GT. Hold On Tight As the Fastest Kia Takes Off. When Clean Fleet Report first reviewed the all-new, all-electric 2022 Kia EV6 in January 2022, it was an eye opener for design and performance. It places this Kia in some pretty heady performance company with electric vehicles costing way more.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In a presentation on Hyundai’s fuel cell technology at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Merit Review in May 2012, John Juriga, Director of Powertrain Hyundai / Kia America Technical Center, said that the fuel cell system in the ix35 achieves a power density of more than 640 W/L (DOE target is 650 W/L). 160 km/h (100 mph).

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 26, 2023

But the combination failed to see the crossover reach 60 mph in under 11 seconds. Granted, the Mazda CX-30 is light years better to drive and there’s a slew of excellent Hyundai and Kia-branded crossovers that you should probably cross-shop. The new model is clearly designed by the same team that worked up the all-new Toyota Prius.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

GM adds another big EV Performance Details Big car – Big screen Built on the dedicated Ultium EV Platform Next generation, 200kWh lithium-ion battery American made at the General Motors Detroit-Hamtramck plant in Michigan Front and rear electric motors 750 horsepower and 785 pound-feet of torque 0-60 mph in under 5.0

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 23, 2024

A Bona Fide Third Row in an Electric SUV Combine the Kia Telluride three-row SUV and the Kia EV6 crossover and you get the all-new, all-electric 2024 Kia EV9 three-row SUV. The 2024 Kia EV9 went on-sale in December 2023 and is available in all 50 states. 0-60 mph: 7.7 of torque 0-60 mph: 8.8

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

As part of our visit, Lucid Motors also invited us behind the scenes at its design studio in California, where we got a look at the progress of its upcoming “Mid-Size” EVs. Yes, it’s the fastest of the three models below Sapphire (0-60 mph in 3 seconds), but I’d personally be more than happy in a Touring while saving some cash.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 16, 2023

I like to get drive impressions from my wife for some of the cars I review. After driving the 2023 Genesis GV60 Performance AWD for about 40 miles, she emphatically said this is the car she wants. Case-in-point is the all-new GV60 EV, which followed its cousins, the Hyundai Ioniq 5 (2020), and the Kia EV6 ( 2021).

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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

The 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona is a Detroit anomaly: it’s a passenger car in an age of trucks and SUVs, it’s battery-electric when U.S. The 707-horsepower Hellcat launched at $62,000, lower than any other car of equivalent power. The world’s “only” electric muscle car? Dodge says the EVs that replace them will be just as noisy.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 12, 2023

Flash Drive: 2023 VinFast VF 8 The First Car Vietnamese Car Comes To North America When Vietnam’s largest company, the VinGroup, announced in 2017 they were entering the automobile manufacturing business, it probably didn’t get too much notice. seconds: 0-60 mph 191 mile driving range. (

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 5, 2022

Kia’s newest EV delivers great value, cutting edge styling and variety of configurations. The Kia EV6 is a strong contender. Kia has been one of the leaders in value-priced EVs over the last few years, but their offerings had been based on vehicles that started life as conventional internal combustion cars.

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Baua Electric

MAY 28, 2024

In the 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E GT, the design cues and prancing-horse logos still deal out an overstated hand of pony-car attitude. When deliveries of the Mach-E started in late 2020, only the Tesla Model Y was being delivered, and the Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV6, and Nissan Ariya hadn’t yet arrived. At that price, why not?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2017

With the best intentions, we will put some technology in the car that we think will make the car safer, but people being people will use that technology in ways that we don’t anticipate. Kia Sorento LX. We’re putting more and more technology in the car that just does not mix with driving. —David Strayer.

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EV Life

JULY 21, 2023

The age of the electric car has arrived. While they still make up a relatively small portion of vehicles on the road today, electric cars continue to gain popularity, and more and more automakers are expanding their EV offerings. The Kia AV9 is expected to compete with other electric SUVs like the Tesla Model X and Rivian R1S.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 1, 2023

In a very short few years sedans have lost their favor with car shoppers. The EPA estimates fuel economy to be 45 mpg city/51 highway/47 combined, numbers that make Clean Fleet Report smile, as we are happy to drive a car that is a serious fuel sipper. On shorter legs, if even for a brief time, we touched 60 mpg.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 4, 2021

A Taste of 10 Different Cars Along the California Coast. The event, WAJ Media Day 2021, afforded me a chance to experience some exotic and high-end cars that aren’t normally in the sights of Clean Fleet Report. Seventeen manufacturers brought 27 cars for two dozen journalists to drive along Highway 1 and into the adjacent hills.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In September, it held a press drive in Colorado to show off the pickup to automotive and lifestyle reporters, who largely gave the truck favorable reviews for its performance, off-road capability, and clever design features. Rivian quotes acceleration from 0 to 60 mph at about 3 seconds, startling for a truck that weighs 7,000 pounds or more.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 5, 2023

Raw Sports Car Fun. Sports car purity, says Subaru about the 2022 BRZ. The auto market is now dominated by front-wheel drive cars, almost all of them with an automatic transmission. The auto market is now dominated by front-wheel drive cars, almost all of them with an automatic transmission. A vanishing breed.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 11, 2024

The Best Value of a Broad Lineup Kia’s best-selling EV delivers excellent value, cutting-edge styling and a variety of configurations. In 2022, Kia introduced the EV6, a 2nd generation-dedicated EV crossover built on the Hyundai/Kia/Genesis Electric-Global-Modular Platform (E-GMP). Kia’s aero look What Is the EV6?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Kia unveiled its new EV6 electrified crossover ( earlier post )—its first dedicated BEV launched under the new Kia design philosophy Opposites United. seconds with a top speed of 260 km/h (162 mph). seconds with a top speed of 260 km/h (162 mph). million units for these eco-friendly models.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 5, 2024

Choosing “best of” or “most important” new cars is always dicey, and doubly so with electric vehicles. Still, the 2025 Kia EV9 and 2025 Volvo EX30 stand out as particularly important EVs for 2024. Still, the 2025 Kia EV9 and 2025 Volvo EX30 stand out as particularly important EVs for 2024. Now we’ve driven both.

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