Kia EV4 sedan and hatch revealed, US-bound later in 2025

• The EV4 debuted through the automaker’s EV Day presentation
• The EV4 options 30 inches of screens
• Kia mentioned the EV4 will enter manufacturing for the U.S. later this yr

On Thursday, Kia detailed the EV4 sedan and hatchback that it beforehand revealed earlier in February. The most recent curtain drop of specs came about Feb. 27 as a part of the automaker’s EV Day presentation in Tarragona, Spain.

First previewed in 2023 by an idea automotive, the manufacturing Kia EV4 sedan retains the idea’s smooth profile and daring, multi-faceted surfacing. The hatchback replaces the sedan’s tapered tail with a squared-off form that additionally appears to be like pretty distinctive.

The EV4 brings the idea automotive’s punched-out design into manufacturing. The jagged LED daytime working lights, floating roof, and sporty-looking heels nearly make it seem like a next-gen K4 that occurs to be battery powered.

At 185 inches lengthy, the EV4 sedan is similar dimension because the gas-powered K4 compact sedan. The EV4 hatchback is 11 inches shorter.

New Kia EV4

Kia referred to as the EV4’s inside minimalist, high-tech, and famous the free-floating interface and uneven steering wheel. The EV4’s dashboard will incorporate a 12.3-inch digital gauge cluster, a 5.3-inch and a 12.3-inch touchscreen all beneath one 30-inch widescreen glass-covered show. A quantity knob and climate-control toggles stay with nearly no different exhausting buttons.

The EV4 is certainly one of three smaller electrical fashions Kia unveiled at its October 2023 Kia EV Day occasion, all of that are anticipated to achieve manufacturing for not less than some markets. The opposite two fashions had been crossovers, together with the EV3, which is near the identical dimension because the Volvo EX30, and the EV5, which is sized just like the Kia Sportage, Honda CR-V, and Toyota RAV4. On Thursday Kia additionally unveiled the EV2 in idea type, which will likely be a small crossover set to reach in 2026.

As with the Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6 hatchback and sedan which have already launched, the EV4 rides on father or mother firm Hyundai’s E-GMP skateboard chassis. Kia mentioned globally will probably be obtainable with a 58.3- or 81.4-kwh battery pack. It is unclear which of these, or if each, will likely be coming to the U.S. market. Energy output from a single motor is rated at 201 hp. A 0-60 mph estimate of seven.4 and seven.7 seconds, battery pack dependent, was offered by Kia.

Kia mentioned it is concentrating on 267 miles of vary with the small battery pack and 391 miles of vary with the bigger pack, however these are based mostly on the extra lenient European WLTP normal. U.S.-based EPA figures can be decrease.

DC fast-charging from 10-80% will take 29 minutes with the smaller packs and 31 minutes with the bigger pack, in response to Kia. A Degree 2 charger will increase these occasions to only over 5 hours and 7 hours respectively.

Each EV4 will characteristic automated emergency braking with pedestrian detection, adaptive cruise management, blind-spot screens, lively lane management, automated excessive beams, a rear occupant alert, and a driver-attention monitor. A 12.0-inch head-up show will likely be obtainable. Kia additionally talked about the EV4 goals to be rated a High Security Decide by the IIHS.

New Kia EV4 hatchback

Kia was fast to say that the EV5 was not U.S.-bound, but it surely left the door open for the EV4 and EV3. A production-ready model of the EV3 was proven in Might in of final yr, and on the 2024 Los Angeles auto present final November, Kia America chief working officer and govt vp Steven Heart informed Inexperienced Automotive Stories that “we might even see each” the EV4 and EV3 within the U.S. 

On Thursday, through the EV Day presentation, Kia mentioned the EV4 will launch in March in Korea with European market launch set for the second half of 2025. EV4 manufacturing for North America and different areas is deliberate for later within the yr, in response to Kia.

A number of months previous to that, a report mentioned Kia was “creating a definite North American mannequin” of the EV3 concentrating on a $30,000 base worth, to be constructed on the automaker’s manufacturing facility in Monterey, Mexico, beginning this yr. The report did not point out the EV4, and Mexican manufacturing of any new EVs may very well be jeopardized by the Trump administration, which has threatened to levy tariffs in opposition to imports from that nation.