Inovev plans 100,000 units per year of the new Kia EV4
- First appearing in 2008, the Kia Soul was a small MPV available with gasoline and diesel engines. When it was renewed in 2014, the Kia Soul was still available in gasoline and diesel engines, but the carmaker added a 100% electric version, presented two years after the Renault Zoe, which in 2012 opened up the European electric market. This version only represented a small portion of Soul sales at the time.
- The third generation of the Kia Soul launched in 2018 abandons the diesel engine but retains the gasoline and electric engines. The latter takes an increasingly important place in the range, so that the versions exported to Europe are gradually becoming predominantly 100% electric.
- The Kia EV4, which will succeed to the Soul in 2022, will only be 100% electric model. It is in the Kia range under the EV6, presented in recent months. Taking the body style of the Soul, it is now a 4.30 m long SUV (10 cm longer than the Soul) competing with the Mercedes EQA, Audi Q4 and Volvo C40. Based on the E-GMP platform used across the full range of all-electric Kias known as EV, the EV4 will be the shortest of the proposals on this platform, as future EV5, EV6 and EV7 models launched next year will be larger. The battery capacity is available in two versions: 58 kWh and 77.5 kWh.
- Inovev expects a sales volume of 100,000 units per year of the Kia EV4 to be produced in South Korea, like all Kia EVs. It would be the best-selling of all the Kia Evs.
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