Kia’s upcoming line-up of electric automobiles shall be led by a Stinger successor with a world-beating vary and supercar-worrying efficiency, in accordance with new stories from Korea.
Korean Car Blog stories the subsequent Stinger is understood internally as the GT1, and shall be the first Hyundai or Kia automobile constructed on a brand new electric automobile platform dubbed eM.
The report claims the dual-motor powertrain will pack 450kW (200kW entrance and 250kW rear motor), up from the 430kW you get in the Kia EV6 GT.
-
Petrol Kia Stinger
160kW and 320kW powertrains will even be provided, in accordance with Korean Car Blog.
A large 113.2kWh lithium-ion battery pack will function on the eM platform, in accordance with the report, for a possible vary of as much as 800km.
That would throw the Stinger (or GT1) into competitors with the Mercedes-Benz EQS
-
Kia K5
Along with the new Stinger, the Kia sedan vary is forecast to develop with the addition of a sedan sized equally to the Optima-replacing K5. Dubbed CT1 by Korean Car Blog, the new sedan is predicted to be constructed on a less expensive platform.
It’s attainable the CT1 will share its electric platform with the EV5 SUV.
It shall be a lower-voltage (400V) platform, which suggests it received’t be capable to hit the similar charging speeds (350kW claimed, 230kW in the actual world) as automobiles constructed on the 800V E-GMP platform.
-
Kia EV5 -
IMA will provide the alternative of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) and nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) batteries.
The EV5 is a part of the 14-strong vary of all-electric fashions Kia plans to launch globally earlier than 2027. The new EV9 is becoming a member of the EV6 and Niro EV in Kia’s native EV line-up later this 12 months.
. .