The KIA EV9 will hit the market before the end of next summer

According to several South Korean media reports, KIA has reached an agreement with the country's unions that will allow it to begin production of its new electric SUV based on the E-GMP platform. during the first half of this yearThe KIA EV9 will be produced at the company's South Korean plant in Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi-do province.

If all goes according to plan, KIA intends to open reservations for this electric SUV in its own market during the next month of April; shortly after its official presentation. which will take place this coming MarchThe South Korean manufacturer has already shown the world a first prototype in November 2021.

Additionally, the KIA EV9 will also be produced from a new plant that the Hyundai Motor Group is building in the state of Georgia, in the United States, starting in 2025. The construction of this plant It started last October.

What can we expect from the new KIA EV9?

As far as the technical specifications of this new electric SUV are concerned, we are already waiting to know all the details officially at its presentation, as far as we know the South Korean manufacturer will offer five versions with different levels of equipment and autonomy, which will vary between 354 and 467 kmRear-wheel drive versions will offer around 150 kW of power from their single electric motor, while those equipped with a dual electric motor and all-wheel drive could deliver around 300 kW of combined power.

These same South Korean media outlets also claim that KIA plans to produce other electric models in the coming years at the same Gwangmyeong plant from which the EV9 will be produced. In fact, they even go so far as to speculate that these electric models could be the EV3 and the EV4.

Although it is not yet known which market segment they would belong to, given the nomenclature used we can imagine that they could be two urban electric vehicles of more or less compact size.