Wow - so much misinformation. First of all, the starting price is £25,000 or $30,000. Second, the range for the was not disclosed, but the ranges for the other models (EV 3, 4, and 5) start at 330 miles CLTC, or 245 miles EPA , with an optional battery upgrade to provide 447 miles CLTC or 330 miles EPA. Third, KIA did not release any images for the EV2, so it is unclear if it is a small sedan, hatchback, or CUV. We just don't know. Fourth, this is planned for sale in Europe only (for now), with production in Slovakia.

Interesting; press release Kia says "these three models will span the $US35,000-$50,000 ($AU54,500 to $AU78,000) price range"

Click bait. Not even a prototype is shown... Good luck in that coming out in 2024. And even if it is, it probably won't be available in the U.S.

@decimal1815

6 ай бұрын

These channels are going to die out soon as viewers get wiser to clickbait content

@jamesvandamme7786

6 ай бұрын

And if it does it'll be $35K

@Sw33tBabyRays

5 ай бұрын

They did show the EV2 on Kia day. But the look is a concept. Not like the EV5 which is in production. Also sodium ion batteries are nowhere near production..

@daltonx6177

5 ай бұрын

​@@decimal1815Exactly. These cheap and ridiculous channels come out by the dozens every week, with nothing to show for but videos from car makers. I frankly don't know how these guys sleep at night ! 😡

Dream on. Never going to see it at that price.

My 2023 EV6 Wind RWD is absolutely awesome. It gives a Tesla Model S base a run for it's money. A KIA EV5 with 800v architecture and an 11kw onboard charger AND a power rear window like in the Fisker Ocean would be icing on the cake.."git er done" Mr. Song !!

I wouldnt hold my breath for that price. Tesla promised the 2WD cybertruck for $39,000 but when it was delivered it was $62,000. !

Hundai motor company who produces Kia really has it going on and will do well in the next decade. Not sure which of these cars shown will actually make to market but some of them in some form will. Until then I will continue to love driving my EV6 with it's nearly unlimitted adjustable regen at your fingertips and great ride. Now to just get that range up to 400 miles and continue to upgrade the charging stations.

I’m the industry and I was shocked

The KIA Ev-2 will need to be affordable if they hope to beat Tesla and BYD in electric vehicles.

@JoeyBlogs007

5 ай бұрын

They just have to be more reliable and they will win. EVs ae to unreliable to date.

I'll believe it when I see it.

On 02/21/2023 I called a local Kia Dealership in Florida and new nothing about the EV2. Really thought this would have been a hot topic considering the manufacturer at least on KZread is ready and willing to get these vehicles to the USA. in the mid to late 2024 cycle.

I'll believe it when I see it

I think that it look's fantastic and absolutely a great price, with Sodium Ion batteries that does make them cheaper, my only concern would be like the Hyundai if a battery needs to be replaced due to damage you might as well through the car away.

@TheCharleseye

5 ай бұрын

Well...yeah. All consumer products are becoming less durable and less repairable. That is by design. They want you to buy things, wear them out, throw them aw...[ahem]..."recycle" them, and then buy more things. That's how they make money and that's all they really care about. Right now, governments are forcing them to put out EVs, so that's the latest disposable item they're making. They're obviously not doing it because of any real demand for EVs. Barely anyone is buying them, even though they're available from every major manufacturer at this point.

@sohailakmal3384

4 ай бұрын

Looks like they ripped off the fisker ocean

Just use smaller twin motors if it's overpowered. 4WD offers better vehicle control.

Pretty sure It won't destroy anybody, and it won't cost $25k.

Not a word about safety.

Awesome ❤

The Chevy Bolt is no longer discontinued. Great car, cheap with incentives. Drawback is the lousy charging speed (~50kwh).

@krazyfan2000

5 ай бұрын

Lousy is an understatement. It has the worse charging speed out of any EV.

@mv80401

5 ай бұрын

@@krazyfan2000 -- True, but for my use case it doesn't matter. Pretty much all dual car households in the US would do really well to make one of their cars an EV and cover those rare long trips with the other. It's what I do when I venture into Wyoming or Utah.

and the 🥶🥶destroys KIA and HYUNDAI EV’s

They already announced that this model is not coming to tge USA because of the new ev tax incentive.

@yourfavoriteflavor

5 ай бұрын

Same with the EV5. I'm not sure why they aren't planning to build these at the Georgia plant like the EV9.

@jaeyocho

5 ай бұрын

@yourfavoriteflavor it's because the battery components are mostly from China at this point. South korean president just made a trade agreement with Vietnam to produce ev battery components, so it may change in the future.

i dont want my car to play random sounds, and pump out essential oils...

? What Tesla Model 2? Where do I sign for my EV2???

$25k is great, but I really just want a car that size. I don't need a Canyonero. I'd pay for premium upgrades given the option.

I live in the rural Western US. I can't afford an EV that charges slowly. I don't care for a car that "senses my mood" but a car that takes forever to charge isn't of interest to me at any price point. And, yeah, KIA's gonna release their EV2 in 2024? Make me a believer.

@adamwu4565

5 ай бұрын

400V charging isn't slow by any stretch of the imagination. Plenty of EVs currently on the market are charging at just 150-250V.

@paulholterhaus7084

5 ай бұрын

He....A talking Computer...said "Next Year"........that's 2025 where I live........Paul

"Imagine driving from San Francisco to Washington DC and return" - but not based on anything you said. I am a Kia/Hyundai fan and have been waiting for an electric car with manual windows, cloth seats and NO sunroof.

Markup?? But you will still get the $7500 EV credit AND a State credit if available, my '23 EV6 in Sept got two credits for $9800 OFF the sticker price of $51,000 so I GOT A LOT of CAR for $41,000...... UNBELIEVABLE!!

sir.. you forgot about Dealer markup price..

Affordable EVs are here, you can get a 2 year old Zoe that does over 200 miles on a charge for under 15k in the uk

I really hate channels with computer generated voices, often be and misleading information

You need to check with that Hyundai has written off vechile without any damage to the car just few scratches on very light cover for batteries

Very nice, only 25K. That is a price that is more along the lines of what will be more widely accepted. But that's what the market has to go through. There was information on the internet when Tesla was first starting to get popular about potential fire hazards. That is really just the nature of lithium. The truth is, if it is exposed to air, it catches fire. It cannot be exposed to air as the starts the chemical reaction that makes it ignite. If the shell of a battery is ruptured, it will burn. So what has to be done is that they should do everything they can to engineer the vehicle in a way that it will not allow the rupture of a cell. Information if it is not supplied, should be supplied about charging practices and battery maintenance. I have had RC cars that are electric for a long time. I watched the tech go from Cadmium, to Hydride, to Lithium. There are charging practices and these batteries act a certain way. Cadmium batteries could basically be overcharged or shocked to increase their initial power. Hydrides were similar. Lithium does not tolerate an overcharge. Overcharging will quickly degrade the cells. Unfortunately, I have found information that shows some catch fire. I think what should be done there is to ensure that there is maybe redundant charging safety built in. The car along with the Chargers should be smart chargers. Maybe they already are, but there seem too be malfunctions. Such is the way of electronics. With RC vehicles, helicopters specifically, the electrics are more powerful. The Cost of the purchase of a kit is up front with electric. With gas, you pay for fuel over time. EVs are or have been basically the same. We, though the battery tech is moving and will likely continue too improve, have had the same pattern. With RC, there are cell balancers, I am sure the vehicles are the same way. But there should be a way in the car if it is not there, Malfunction of the Charger for instance, that would terminate the charge. But the car has to be able to absorb voltage and dissipate heat. I wonder if the laws have been too strict with the timelines, but manufacturers have done an incredible job in pushing the tech and getting prices down. It was actually alot to ask, but the Auto makers answered the call so they deserve credit for their efforts. What should also be understood about them is cold conditions, when its cold, electrons do not want to travel within the batteries. So the charge gets slowed. They still get faster and faster so the battery tech is moving.

@mnhsty

5 ай бұрын

What do you have to say about LFP batteries?

give me one KIA

They are all nice cars but I think I like kia 4 with dual motors

I've had three Kia Sportage back here for the last two years with their EVs having same one price from the release date just Robing everybody blind her in new Zealand for the last two years with their EVs but here at the same time in New Zealand model Tesla y went from $92,000 down to $67 500nz

Yes next year good. Some cars just said its coming it's coming 😅😅😅😅sadness rights 😀😀😀

KiaEV9 was announced ask 50k car, the reality - in my country it is near 100k USD

A sodium ION battery is not going to have an increase in range. Sodium has a far lower energy density than lithium. Someone, somewhere messed up on that.

@jamesvandamme7786

4 ай бұрын

Most of this video is hearsay. OK, it's BS.

4:12 How many people have to die before car manufacturers realize that touch screens are distracting and dangerous?

@paulholterhaus7084

5 ай бұрын

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.........I HATE touch screens........give Me knobs AND forget autopilots.........Paul

@wassiswallylokhankin191

5 ай бұрын

@@paulholterhaus7084 Couldn't agree more!

The KIA EV2 looks good I'll give it a try when they release it

I preume that AI is our direct link to Ogun Feray. On the request line!!

$25 thousand dollars car, $50 thousand dollars lithium battery haha!

i purchased a Kia Spotage hybrid. My criteria was that it be able to tow a small trailer ( 600lbs) the dealer said yes, the owners manual said #1620lbs of towing, but then the dealer later told me after the purchase that it was not capable. called the corporate office they asked for the vin # and then assured me it could. the dealer again said not capable . never got any help from Kia. They are not an honorable company. i will never buy a Kia again unless Kia does something about this.

Sodium ion battery with 400 mile range?

Somebody is listening to the market...

Dealers will never have base models and will then add dealer and customer demand fees for the optioned versions and you will not be able to get one for under $39k

@kodak_jack

5 ай бұрын

ALL brands are having to deal with terrible dealer mark-ups. Ford threatened to make ordering an on-line choice for customers to try to get away from this.

@adamwu4565

5 ай бұрын

And how would that be any different than ICEs sold by the same dealers?

Unless the USA gets to building the infrastructure needed to charge EV's the entire industries growth will be hampered.

Is this an infomercial?

Sounds like a smoke and mirror advertisement video.

Most people who buy cheaper cars don't live nor own their own homes, let alone a garage. So, these owners of cheaper EVs must have good and easy access to charging on the go. However, with the much slower charging speed of low-end EVs due to cheaper components used, it is hard not to have battery swapping for these low-end EVs. One company comes to mind ... NIO from China, which will introduce their economy EVs to European countries first in 2025, and then in USA in around 2026-2027. Battery swapping is the way to go, not just for that 3 minutes of swapping to an already fully charged battery, but also lower the costs of ownership of EVs due to not having to buy the battery outright, and no worry of the depreciation and degradation of the battery. Thirdly, insurance for the EVs will be lower due to no need to insure the battery by the owner of the low-end EVs. NIO should come to USA market ASAP. Check it out.

@jamesvandamme7786

6 ай бұрын

Jury is still out on swapping. There's extra expense involved, you'd pay for it one way or the other. When ranges and charging speeds go up, and chargers are all over the place, it won't look so good. But Stellantis is looking into it.

@paulholterhaus7084

5 ай бұрын

Here in the Midwest, USA, Everyone has a Garage ...Standard feature of new Homes......Paul

Citroen C3, Renault 5, VW ID-2 all, Kia EV2 and where is Tesla model 2?

Very nice advertorial.......

Like all Hyundai/Kia plagued by crap dealerships, awaful electrical software problems

I'm afraid of byd batteries blowing up

@mnhsty

5 ай бұрын

That’s their hybrids. I think they’ve got a fix for it, but I don’t know if it will retrofit. Anyway, it can’t be that common. The Chinese government is pretty harsh on defects like that.

I wonder how much it costs the battery replacement

@mv80401

5 ай бұрын

Why would you care about a potential cost that may occur a decade down the road? Do people ever ask what a new transmission costs?

@AdrianRoncea-od4qy

5 ай бұрын

you are an optimist ,look at the Hyundai Ioniq 5 battery replacement cost only after a few months of use@@mv80401

@kiae-nirodiariesencore4270

5 ай бұрын

It is funny how only non-EV drivers worry about replacing a battery. My 2019 Kia e-Niro (Niro EV in the USA) is coming up 5 years old and 100,000 km driven. I have experienced no loss of range at all. A battery health check at 90,000 km service showed all 294 cells reaching nominal voltage...the car has a 3.5 kWh buffer on top of the 64 kWh available. I expect at 10 years old the buffer will be used up and I will see a little bit of range loss but I will be at 200,000 km then....at 15 years and 300,000 km (180,000 miles) I expect to see between 10%-20% range loss...but bear in mind that the average ICE car in Europe is on the scrap heap at 16 years and 250,000 km. Even if I were unlucky and my car suddenly lost a lot of range I would not necessarily have to replace the entire pack. The battery is comprised of 3 modules of 98 cells each....there are already specialist garages who can diagnose down to module level, replace the module and rebalance the pack. There are some good videos of this being done in the UK on a Nissan Leaf taxi with 120,000 miles on the clock. The job was done in a day and cost under £1,000 less than an engine or gearbox rebuild.

@AdrianRoncea-od4qy

5 ай бұрын

Have you seen the hyundai Ioniq 5 battery replacement cost due to a bulhe in the battery shield that was not affecting the car but it was said it was a fire hazard@@kiae-nirodiariesencore4270

This video is pretty suspect in accuracy. It keeps showing the EV3 and EV4. Just expanding on a few rumors is all.

@paulholterhaus7084

5 ай бұрын

Yes....This Producer is Mostly Horsh!t..............Paul

Most everyone that CAN adopt an EV in the US (charge at home, etc.) has already done so.

@b3owu1f

5 ай бұрын

Uh.. where did you come up with that? Not even close.

@mnhsty

5 ай бұрын

We’ll see.

that will not be the price when you get to the dealer!!!!!

I would not own an Electric Vehicle if they were 10 bucks.

Sorry I meant 2024 when I called

You buy a Kia or Hyundai, you better keep it for life because resale it’s BAD, nothing like a Honda

Broadcaster Voice: ACTIVATE

Not much info on the cars. Just apromo for KIA.....

@miked8121

6 ай бұрын

A lot of concept drawings.

Sodium Ion batteries are going to be the next LFP... An affordable, durable and safe alternative to Li-On batteries...

@matthewmanzi9504

5 ай бұрын

Sodium ion has a fatal flaw that will keep it from being viable in Evs. Besides being much less energy dense then even LFP cells it also has a large voltage drop as it discharges, which means you lose power as soon as its not fully charged. At 50 percent battery, you have lost around 45 percent of the batteries power and under 25 percent you have lost around 60 percent. I can't imagine driving a car that has 200 hp at one moment and a little while later has under 100 HP.

That's quality sign brand not just fast expansion grow but show seriosity brand 3st is market and buyers wish and design research there is good chance for strong position demand in mid class class up 30 000eur and uper mid limo or SUV in range 42 000 to 56 000 EUR awd factory drive option a Korean as brand for 500 km is class Toyota view world option that's already brand view expand

It’s not here yet.

its probably going to be around 40k when its for sale.

The EV2 is coming out in 2025 or maybe 2026 and maybe in.......

Hope a replacement battery doesn’t cost $60,000 like one of KIA’s EV’s. Check the replacement battery cost before you buy and get it in writing. kzread.info/dash/bejne/d3mMy8eoYJnakZs.htmlsi=0NVowl02rL0_NSXq

@michaelkeudel8770

5 ай бұрын

The problem with new things is lack of supply, that's why the batteries expensive. We've just hit a charging standard. Now we need a battery standard and common interface, which will allow competitors to build batteries. The more you standardize, the cheaper it gets.

@kiae-nirodiariesencore4270

5 ай бұрын

Why would you even worry about needing to replace the battery? It is funny how only non-EV drivers or the irrational EV haters worry about this stuff. Most EV batteries will outlive the car..My Kia EV is 5 years old an coming up to 100,000 km, no range loss at all, all 294 cells reaching nominal voltage...the BMS keeps a voltage floor and ceiling buffer, so I would have to see >5% degradation to notice any range loss. Once the 3.5 kWh buffer is used up then I will see some range loss which I expect to be no more than 45 km (10%) at 10 years and 200,000 km. This still gives me a car with 400 km range. My battery is now considered old tech and the prices are coming down all the time. No one will ever pay $60K to replace a battery...there is already an aftermarket in refurbished packs which will become more competitive as more and more EV get old...but in most cases there will be no need to replace the pack as for most faults module level replacement is enough

@michaelkeudel8770

5 ай бұрын

@@kiae-nirodiariesencore4270 10 years from now batteries will be in high supply, probably be solid state, and cost 10-20% of what it costs today, there's no spare supply or logistics to deliver large heavy batteries. Like you said, once rebuilds and generics are created for competition, that red herring will disappear.

@daltonx6177

5 ай бұрын

A $60k battery... How gullible can you be ? 😝😁😆

Like always , battery too small :)

👍👍😎✌️🤟 No, no. It doesn’t. Not till they build their own “Tesla” charging network.

I can't find one for anywhere near $25k. Least price I see is $45k. This video is just click bait.

In Palestine 🇵🇸 55k ???????

Folks, don’t believe this. 400 miles range for $25,000? And those gummy weight reduction treats are not going to help you lose 40lbs in 4 weeks. 😂

Brands that will barely be around in 5 years? Toyota, GM and Ford at the rate they are switching to EV sales? The market will have long moved on... To Tesla, KIA, VW, BYD amongst others...

@paulholterhaus7084

5 ай бұрын

Not so sure about VW.........Paul

Chinese EVs Come with 30days warranty. It will break down as soon as it docks at port😂

All the child labor they employ won’t save Kia from bankrupting themselves with this pipe dream.

If no AWD, I'll stick with My Forester........And by the way....Make up Your mind......Is it next Year or 2024.......Where I live next Year is 2025..........Also, Try hireing a real Person.........SICK of talking computers.........Paul

usd25,000, cheaper EV? if you let Chinese EVs coming to North Amerca, you will be spoil for choices.

@lonniebeal6032

5 ай бұрын

I like the Punk Cat, starts at $15,000. Would never have one as my primary, but as a toy, sure.

Too broad. Need to focus on my search criteria

come back from dreamland, unless solid state batteries are developed enough and commercialized you can keep on dreaming for 400 mile range for only 25k

Any day now ...

Coming to market when the EV is in its death throes. Somebody tell Kia nobody wants EV's.

@KhanR1-qm2xi

3 ай бұрын

Right, 30% of new cars sold in China are EV's but nobody wants them.

Bad thing is that it is a ev

BS even it this is true the dealer willark it up to 40k.

No electric car of any kind for me.

Clickbait

When this car ignites and explodes inside your garage, it will destroy your house, not the competition

Click bait!!!!!

Click bait. Zero real information. Stop it, troll.

So much misinformation

Ich erwarte dass sie über ev2 reden...was kriege ich ? Bla, bla , bla...

Until you can charge 110 in 10 minutes EVs are dead .

@paulholterhaus7084

5 ай бұрын

At 110 volts You would need 2000 Amps and cables weighing 100 LBS.......Try reading up on electrics 101.................Paul

Kia crap

When are they gonna learn, Nobody in the USA, wants to drive an ugly EV!!! Regardless of cheapness , gtfoh 😂😂😂

Too many made up models😮

Kia vehicle is crap 😂

Get out of the electric car market ... while you can. Government is in the middle rethinking the whole EV issue because of economical and environmental worries of toxic batteries.

EV9 is overpriced, oversized and overweight. This if priced right would be a different story

25 k is still not affordable for common man!!

@markbennett6658

5 ай бұрын

No but $15K for a 2 year old low mileage depreciated one with lots of battery warranty probably is?

No one wants this crap