A couple of weeks in the past, we obtained our first take a look at the manufacturing model of the 2024 Kia EV9. On the time, although, Kia selected to solely exhibit the design and stored the specs a thriller. Fortunately, we didn’t have to attend lengthy to study extra in regards to the upcoming three-row electrical crossover.
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Measurement-wise, the EV9 sticks carefully to the idea, which suggests it’s virtually precisely the identical size, width, and top as a Kia Telluride. The wheelbase, nevertheless, is sort of eight inches longer than the Telluride’s, which ought to make it extra spacious for passengers. And talking of passengers, the EV9 might be ordered as both a six-seater or seven-seater, however not each EV9 will include these trick swivel seats on the second row. You’ll have so as to add them as an possibility if you need your second-row passengers to have the ability to face the third row.
So far as battery choices go, there’s a rear-drive Customary model that will get a 76.1-kWh battery and a rear or all-wheel-drive Lengthy Vary model with a bigger 99.8-kWh battery. No matter which battery you select, when you go along with a rear-wheel drive EV9, it’s going to be gradual. The model with the massive battery solely makes 201 hp and takes a claimed 9.4 seconds to hit 62 mph. The Customary is definitely more than a second faster to 62 due to an additional 14 hp.
Add all-wheel drive, although, and the EV9 isn’t almost as gradual. It makes 380 hp and 443 lb-ft of torque and may hit 62 mph in 6.0 seconds. There’s additionally an optionally available Increase mode that will increase torque to 516 lb-ft and drops the acceleration time down to five.3 seconds. Contemplating how gradual the rear-drive variations are, it wouldn’t be terribly stunning if Kia determined to solely promote the all-wheel-drive EV9 within the U.S.
Vary estimates for the all-wheel-drive EV9 nonetheless aren’t out there, however Kia did say the rear-drive Lengthy Vary ought to provide 336 miles of vary. However that’s on the European check cycle. In EPA testing, count on that determine to drop nearer to 285 miles. If you’ll find a strong sufficient charger, although, Kia says you’ll be capable of add virtually 150 miles of vary in solely quarter-hour.
The EV9 will even include a wide range of trendy security options, and whereas it received’t be out there at launch, the EV9 GT-Line will finally get a Stage 3 driver help characteristic known as Freeway Driving Pilot. And if you wish to park your EV9 with out sitting within the driver’s seat, there’s additionally a self-parking system you can management with the important thing.
One factor that Kia selected to not announce at the moment is how a lot the EV9 will price. It should go on sale within the second half of 2023, although, so count on that to be revealed within the subsequent couple of months, maybe on the New York Auto Present.
