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Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Kia 'Transcend Journey' design installation showcases Kia PV5, PV5 WKNDR and Concept EV2 at Milan Design Week 2025
Exhibition reflects how the diversity, adaptability and customization potential of Kia's multi-purpose PBVs can redefine how we live Design installation features production-specification Kia PV5 alongside PV5 WKNDR outdoor concept vehicle and Concept EV2 Partnerships with lifestyle brands, including outdoor gear provider Helinox and coffee shop Potler reinforce PBV and EV ownership experience 'Transcend Journey' display took place alongside Milan Design Week from April 7th to 9th at Eastend Studios in Milan, Italy MILAN, April 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Kia Corporation hosted an exclusive installation during Milan Design Week, reflecting the perspectives of designers involved in the development of the brand's revolutionary new Platform Beyond Vehicle (PBV) and electric vehicle (EV) models. Titled 'Transcend Journey', the installation explores the evolution of mobility, highlighting how Kia's innovative vehicles break the boundaries between urban and outdoor experiences. The theme reflects Kia designers' vision of a transformative journey, where Kia vehicles enable users to seamlessly navigate between diverse environments. What vehicles does Kia's Transcend Journey exhibition feature? Under the theme 'Transcend Journey,' the concept was illustrated with a twisting sculpture inspired by Kia's 'Opposites United' design philosophy and symbolizing the harmonious uniting of opposing ideas. The exhibition features multiple Kia vehicles split across two main zones that connect mobility with both urban and natural settings. These include: Kia PV5 Passenger – designed for practical use in both urban and natural settings Kia Concept EV2 – aims to reintroduce natural elements into urban landscapes Kia PV5 WKNDR– enhancing user experience with the outdoors Bridging divides – what themes does the Transcend Journeys exhibition cover? Manifesting how these vehicles bridge the divide between urban and natural pursuits, the exhibition is divided into two main zones. The Concept EV2 Zone presents a serene urban park picnic experience, featuring carefully selected picnic items in a calming blue color that complements the Concept EV2's exterior. This setting creates a relaxing atmosphere, aligning perfectly with the vehicle's modern aesthetic. In the PV5 Zone, the PV5 and PV5 WKNDR were paired with complementary artwork, while the PV5 WKNDR area features a nature-inspired camping retreat surrounded by plants, camping gear, and a pop-up coffee booth, creating a cozy, immersive outdoor living experience. The PV5 and PV5 WKNDR illustrate how urban and outdoor lifestyles can seamlessly connect through a single platform. The shift from the functional, everyday practicality of the PV5 to the nature-driven, adventure spirit of the PV5 WKNDR highlights the full spectrum of possibilities, embodying the essence of PBVs. Moving through the zones, there is a tranquil, immersive environment that encourages relaxation while simultaneously showcasing the vehicle's adaptability – whether in the city, in nature, or anywhere in between. Which brands has Kia collaborated with for its Transcend Journey exhibition? Held in partnership with Helinox, a leading provider of lightweight outdoor equipment, the installation features a striking sculptural form – inspired by Kia's 'Opposites United' design philosophy – that reinforces this theme. The artistic installation wraps around the vehicles, transforming a flat surface into a dynamic, three-dimensional space. Made from material used in Helinox products, it serves as a metaphor for the Kia PV5's varied use cases, showcasing its ability to adapt to a wide range of lifestyles and experiences. The pavilion-style artwork also mirrors the flexibility of PBVs by using lightweight materials, like aluminum poles from Helinox's parent company Dong-A Aluminum (DAC), and LinkSolution's 3D-printed joints, to create a scalable, easy-to-assemble structure. This ability highlights how PBVs can effortlessly transition between various environments, offering both practicality and freedom. Both the PV5 and PV5 WKNDR are integrated into the structure, with the PV5 WKNDR surrounded by Helinox camping chairs and tarps, highlighting its potential as the perfect outdoor vehicle and paired with a pop-up Potler coffee booth, emphasizing its versatility for outdoor experiences. In collaboration with the popular South Korean coffee brand, the booth offers Potler's signature s'more kit, complete with marshmallows, crackers, chocolate, and a special Kia-Potler postcard. Visitors enjoyed freshly brewed coffee made with drip bags, adding an interactive and personalized touch to their experience. The Concept EV2, meanwhile, was paired with complementary outdoor lifestyle and picnic items from Helinox, highlighting its versatility as an everyday companion. Perfect for both urban driving and outdoor activities such as picnics, it breaks the traditional limitations of compact cars. The installation subtly reflects this aim, emphasizing exploration and showing how mobility can enrich a wide range of experiences. What are the Kia PV5's key features? The Kia PV5 is the first production model to debut under Kia's dedicated Platform Beyond Vehicle (PBV) global business strategy. It redefines space and mobility with innovative modularization, offering unmatched flexibility. Available in three body styles – Passenger, Cargo, and Chassis Cab – the PV5 will leverage the brand's world-leading EV technology to meet the diverse needs of a wide customer base by providing unprecedented flexibility and customization through innovative modularization. Built on Kia's advanced Electric-Global Modular Platform for Service (E-GMP.S), a dedicated battery-electric skateboard architecture, the PV5 allows for flexible combinations of various vehicle bodies. Key data includes: - A range of up to 400 km - 30-minute fast-charging capability - Practical performance for both business and leisure users - The PV5 will be available in Korean and European markets from the second half of 2025, with additional market launches to follow The PV5 Passenger, featured in the installation, is designed for both personal and business use. It offers a spacious interior with passenger amenities, a lift-up tailgate, and flexible seating options. Its three-row configuration includes versatile layouts, such as the 2-3-0 setup, where the third row can be used for luggage, and the 1-2-3 layout, which provides additional storage space. The vehicle's AddGear platform also allows for easy accessory installation, enhancing both convenience and versatility. What are the Kia PV5 WKNDR Concept's key features? The Kia PV5 WKNDR Concept is based on the brand's recently unveiled PBV line. Fully self-sufficient, the vehicle is equipped with solar panels and unique hydro turbine wheels that can recharge its batteries for various uses. Off-road tires make it the perfect escape vehicle for weekend getaways in nature. The WKNDR also features a highly flexible, modular interior that can be easily customized to maximize space and functionality. One standout feature – the 'Gear Head' – is a first-of-its-kind storage solution that provides sheltered off-board storage for gear when the vehicle is parked. This allows for optimal use of interior space while maintaining easy access to gear outside. The 'Gear Head' can also be transformed into a mobile pantry, ideal for those cooking outdoors who want to enjoy meals with a view. The WKNDR prioritizes sustainability, with materials such as Nike Grind flooring, made from recycled sneakers, offering both functional and aesthetic benefits. What are the Kia Concept EV2's key features? The Kia Concept EV2 is an agile, all-electric B-segment SUV that offers a glimpse of an upcoming production model from Kia. Designed to transform how users experience urban spaces, the Concept EV2 highlights how Kia could target lifestyle-driven buyers who are eager to embrace new technologies, enhance productivity and open up new possibilities while promoting smart, sustainable consumption. With a design that blends seamlessly into users' busy urban lives, the Concept EV2 features a sustainable interior with flexible seating arrangements, vibrant design accents, and functional LED lighting that adapts to various needs. Its user-centric, practicality-focused design is further enhanced by rear-hinged doors, a flat floor, and a wide-opening tailgate, ensuring easy access and versatility. Innovative features like pop-up luggage dividers, message lighting for communication with pedestrians, and removable triangular speakers offering flexible audio experiences. Kia Corporation – about us Kia ( is a global mobility brand that is creating innovative, pioneering, and leading sustainable mobility solutions for consumers, communities, and societies around the world. As a Sustainable Mobility Solutions Provider, Kia is spearheading the popularization of electrified and battery-electric vehicles and developing a growing range of mobility services, encouraging people around the world to explore the best ways of getting around. Kia has been providing mobility solutions since 1944. With 52,000 employees worldwide, a presence in about 200 markets, and manufacturing facilities in six countries, the company today sells around three million vehicles a year. The company's brand slogan – 'Movement that inspires' – reflects Kia's commitment to inspiring consumers through its products, technologies, and services. For more information, visit the Kia Global Media Center at About Kia Europe Kia Europe is the European sales and manufacturing division of Kia Corporation – a global mobility brand that is creating innovative, pioneering and leading sustainable mobility solutions for consumers, communities and societies around the world. As a Sustainable Mobility Solutions Provider, Kia is spearheading the popularization of electrified and battery electric vehicles and developing a growing range of mobility services, encouraging people around the world to explore the best ways of getting around. Kia Europe, headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, employs in total over 5,500 employees from 40 nationalities in 39 markets across Europe and the Caucasus. It also oversees European production at the company's state-of-the-art facility in Zilina, Slovakia. Kia's innovative products continue to attract great acclaim, notably the EV6 battery electric vehicle becoming the first Korean car to be named European Car of the Year in 2022. Further information can be found here: Photo - - - View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Kia Europe GmbH Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Despite Its Tiny Size The Kia EV2 Concept Has The Perfect Seats For Canoodling
At its EV Day event in Spain this week, Kia revealed the production versions of the EV4 sedan and PV5 van, both hugely important electric vehicles for the brand. Kia used the opportunity to also unveil a concept version of its upcoming EV2, a really tiny SUV aimed at European cities. Its adorable exterior is a close preview of what to expect from the production EV2 that will come out next year, and while the interior of the Concept EV2 is definitely more, well, concept-y than the outside, it has one real standout feature that I must highlight: the seats. If you've been missing the old Honda Fit's Magic Seats, you're in luck, because the EV2 concept has an evolution of the same idea. As it's based on the same E-GMP platform as other Hyundai Motor Group vehicles, the EV2 has a totally flat floor that Kia's designers took full advantage of. The base of the rear seat can flip up, allowing the front bench to slide all the way back, leaving a ton of room between you and the dashboard. Kia says it's perfect for relaxing or stretching your legs, and that you can sit on the flat floor to enjoy a meal, but we all know what this is really good for. If you're trying to cuddle up at a drive-in theater or get naughty at lover's lane, this seems like a way more spacious solution than getting into the back seat. When you open up the Concept EV2's front sliding and rear-hinged rear doors, sections slide out of the ends of the bench to add additional seating areas and storage compartments. While the production EV2 will certainly have four normal, front-hinged doors, the flip-up bench and sliding front seat doesn't seem far-fetched to me. In other markets, cars like the Kia EV9 and Hyundai Ioniq 9 have second-row captain's chairs that swivel around to face the third row, and Hyundai has shown off how you can slide and recline the Ioniq 9's front passenger seat pretty far back, right up against the second-row seat, for a great lounge experience. Read more: These Are The Dumbest Looking Cars Of All Time, According To You Kia says the EV2's interior "blends practicality and emotion," but it's really not too different from its current offerings, or even that concept-y. The orange metal surface running along the dash incorporates power outlets and a wireless charger along with some physical media or climate controls, and the only other piece of hardware on the dash is the seamless widescreen display. Kia doesn't say what sort of orange fabric is covering the front section of the interior, only that the EV2 uses sustainable materials, but the color split looks great. The triangular speakers in the door cards are actually removable and portable, like what you get in a Rivian. There are also pop-up sliding luggage dividers and straps, sections in the windows that display text messages to pedestrians or other road users, and animated LEDs in the dash. To go along with the door speakers there are lots of triangular motifs throughout, like the headrest shapes and the metal straps that appear to hold the seatbacks in place. While the EV2 might not look quite as outrageous as some of Kia's other recent EVs on the outside, it's definitely distinctive and has a lot of cool elements. It's the first instance we've seen of Kia using a pair of vertical headlights on each side, which sit above a bumper that looks like a sports person's mouth guard. Crisp lines run along broad shoulders that have prominent angular wheel arches, and the EV2's boxy silhouette and upright stance give me Soul vibes. The C-pillar shape is a new motif for Kia that works well here, and my favorite element are the weird taillights that are mounted quite low down on the rear end. Kia says the EV2 will launch in Europe and "other regions" in 2026, and the production model has already been spied looking basically identical to the concept, at least from the outside. Sadly, it doesn't seem like the U.S. will be one of those "other regions." The company hasn't given exact dimensions but Kia says the EV2 is a B-segment SUV, of which there are barely any in America — think cars like the Nissan Juke and Ford EcoSport. We could see the production version of the EV2 be revealed at some point later this year. Read the original article on Jalopnik.
Yahoo
27-02-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Kia unveils 2025 EV4 and EV2
It turns out that the U.S. market will be getting the new EV4 after all, according to a confirmation at Kia's news conference this past Monday. America will get the four-door sedan in 2026, complete with its low nose, long tail, roof-mounted spoiler and a 17.3 cubic-foot trunk. Other markets will get an SUV-like five-door hatchback, with a squared-off rear backlight and less-radical styling. While American-market specs have yet to be finalized, Kia did reveal the EV4's stats for overseas markets. Standard models come equipped with a 58.3-kWh hour battery and 430 km (267 miles) of range. Long Range models get an 81.4-kWh battery and 630 km (391 miles) of range based on European WLTP testing. EPA figures will be about 20% lower. With 150 kW (201 horsepower) of power, Kia claims the EV4 Standard has a 0-60 mph time of 7.4 seconds and 7.7 seconds on the Long you'll find the same interior as in the smaller EV3, which is expected to go on sale in America sometime after the EV4 in 2026. It features the same 30-inch display that incorporates a 12.3-inch instrument cluster, 5.3-inch climate control touchscreen and a 12.3-inch infotainment touchscreen. Also present is the EV3's small tabletop that pops forward from the center console. Kia plans to build 140,000 EV4s annually, with 50,000 slated for the U.S. The EV4 is expected to start at €37,000 ($38,841) including VAT, but prices for the American market have yet to be announced. The sedan will go on sale in Korea in March while the Europe-exclusive hatchback will follow in the second half of the year. The Concept EV2 previews Kia's forthcoming B-segment all-electric SUV, also not slated to hit the U.S. market. Like any concept, it has some enticing styling details unlikely to reach production, like the rear-hinged back ideas could be realized, such as a rear bench seat bottom that folds up, allowing the front-row seats to slide back for more space. The cargo area features pop-up sliding luggage dividers and straps to secure cargo. Other clever touches include the EV2's removable door-mounted speakers, which serve as portable speakers when tailgating or when parked at a charging station. The interior is even more minimalistic than any Tesla model, something that we expect serves only as a proof of concept rather than an actual preview of the EV2's real design. Kia also designed a lighting system that can display messages on the windows to communicate with other drivers. Given the lack of civility and common courtesy that abounds in society today, we're not so sure this is a good that B-segment shoppers are price-sensitive, it's unlikely the Concept EV2's costlier ideas will see the light of day. Still, it reaffirms Kia's commitment to filling out its EV lineup from the smallest to the largest. While it may not affect Kia's prospects stateside, the production EV2 is vital to the automaker's success in Europe. 'EV2 is an especially important volume model in Europe,' said Kia President and CEO, Ho Sung Song in an interview. 'I think that as long as the volume of electrification is increasing in Europe, we also make sure that we can increase our volume of EVs.' Kia also introduced a line of PV electric vans to be sold in Asia, Europe, and possibly North America, which we will look at closer in a separate article. Stay tuned! Love reading Autoblog? Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get exclusive articles, insider insights, and the latest updates delivered right to your inbox. Click here to sign up now!
Zawya
17-02-2025
- Automotive
- Zawya
Kia to present global EV leadership strategy and key models at 2025 Kia EV Day
The Kia EV4 and PV5 and Concept EV2 to be unveiled on February 27 First Dedicated Platform Beyond Vehicle (PBV) model – The Kia PV5 – and PBV business strategy underscore Kia's first-mover leadership in PBV sector Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Kia Corporation's 2025 Kia EV Day will take place later this month at Tarraco Arena in Tarragona, Spain. The event follows the first Kia EV Day in Korea in 2023 and will showcase the brand's latest electric models, concepts, and technologies to advance Kia's global EV leadership in sustainable mobility. The second Kia EV day will also underscore Kia's role as a Platform Beyond Vehicle (PBV) first mover. It presents a vision of a new paradigm in EV usability with vehicles that offer users exceptional flexibility through radical modularity. Kia's 2025 EV Day will mark the global debut of the Kia EV4, unveiled in concept form at the brand's first EV Day, and the Kia PV5, the first of Kia's dedicated PBV model, displayed as a concept at the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Kia will also present the Concept EV2, a compact EV and the newest member of its dedicated EV model family. Teaser images and video footage that hint at the concept's styling, along with close-ups of the new models, offer a preview of Kia's innovative design approach. Each vehicle showcases aesthetics inspired by Kia's Opposites United design philosophy, with the visual assets offering a glimpse into the unique characteristics of the Kia EV4, PV5, and Concept EV2. These three models represent Kia's bold new electric vehicle Strategy. The Kia EV4, Kia PV5, and Kia Concept EV2 feature the brand's cutting-edge electric platform technology and demonstrate Kia's clear determination to lead global sustainable mobility in the passenger and business sectors to satisfy customers' diverse needs everywhere. Kia will share its overall PBV strategy, providing full details of the business, vision, product line-up, and launch to support the roll-out of the PV5. In addition, the company will also display its game-changing PBV platform. This dedicated battery electric skateboard architecture underpins the brand's new PBV business by enabling the flexible combination of various types of vehicle bodies. Key members of Kia's senior leadership team will take to the stage throughout Kia EV Day. In addition to presenting the EV4, PV5 and Concept EV2, the leadership team will also reveal Kia's expanded electrification strategy, which is set to transform the global EV market. The event video will be released on the Kia Worldwide YouTube channel in March. Kia Corporation – about us Kia ( is a global mobility brand with a vision to create sustainable mobility solutions for consumers, communities, and societies around the world. Founded in 1944, Kia has been providing mobility solutions for more than 75 years. With 52,000 employees worldwide, a presence in more than 190 markets, and manufacturing facilities in six countries, the company today sells around three million vehicles a year. Kia is spearheading the popularization of electrified and battery electric vehicles and developing a growing range of mobility services, encouraging millions of people around the world to explore the best ways of getting around. The company's brand slogan – 'Movement that inspires' – reflects Kia's commitment to inspire consumers through its products and services.
