Kia EV9 Named UK Automotive of the 12 months 2024

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• Kia EV9 has been topped “UK Automotive of the 12 months 2024”
• The EV9 additionally wins the “Massive Crossover” class
• Awards voted for by a panel of 30 of the UK’s high journalists working throughout automotive, enterprise and tech publications

The Kia EV9 has been named “UK Automotive of the 12 months 2024”. The Awards rejoice the perfect new autos obtainable to UK prospects immediately throughout eight classes.

The UK Automotive of the 12 months jury is made up of 30 journalists working throughout the UK on automotive, enterprise and tech publications. Eligible automobiles for the awards should have been launched throughout the previous 12 months.

Along with successful the general award, the EV9 secured victory within the hard-fought ‘Massive Crossover’ class. Judges praised the EV9 for a number of elements; particularly its innate practicality, trendy design, and lengthy electrical driving vary.

“The uberpractical Kia EV9 may very well be the car that will get extra drivers out of their petrol or diesel automotive than another mannequin. Seven seats, loaded with know-how, premium high quality and sufficient miles from the battery to remedy virtually each case of vary anxiousness – plus it’s improbable to drive, too,” mentioned John Challen, co-chairman, UK Automotive of the 12 months Awards. “The truth that practically half of our judging panel selected the Kia because the UK Automotive of the 12 months 2024 is an enormous vote of confidence in what’s a severely spectacular and vastly interesting automotive.”

“It appears to be like nice, has a beautiful inside, is sensible and the primary automotive to mix means to hold seven individuals with a real usable vary,” decide Paul Barker, Managing Editor of Carwow added.

“The EV9 reveals Kia’s seemingly limitless ambition is aware of no bounds. An incredible possibility for giant households, that includes six or seven seats and loads of flexibility to adapt to load-carrying necessities. However, additionally luxurious sufficient to lure drivers out of premium-brand SUVs,” Alex Grant, a fleet-focused journalist commented.

Tech journalist Rob Clymo mentioned: “The EV9 makes complete sense for anybody with individuals to maneuver and it drives higher than you’d anticipate, with a topping of nice tech for good measure.”

Paul Philpott, President & CEO of Kia UK, commented on the win: “It’s a big honour for Kia UK to be awarded a class win and the general ‘Automotive of the 12 months’ accolade on this 12 months’s UK Automotive of the 12 months Awards. We’re delighted that the judges agree simply how spectacular the EV9 is. The popularity is made all of the extra important, having been judged by among the UK’s most influential and revered journalists from throughout automotive, enterprise and know-how industries. We’re grateful to the judges for his or her exhausting work appraising this 12 months’s contenders.

“This well-respected award additionally provides our 190-strong UK vendor community a lift, because it continues to assist prospects on their electrification journey and ship them the UK’s greatest automotive.”

Recognition within the 2024 UK Automotive of the 12 months Awards is the most recent in a string of early successes for the EV9. The automotive went on-sale within the UK in January 2024, and was already named a finalist for the 2024 European Automotive of the 12 months awards and as a top-three finalist for the 2024 World Automotive Awards, to be introduced on the New York Worldwide Auto Present on 27 March 2024.

The Kia EV9 is among the most versatile new EVs on sale, providing a selection of six- or seven-seat configurations; a selection of rear- or all-wheel drive powertrains; and three comprehensively geared up trim ranges. The EV9 is priced from £65,025 on-the-road, providing an electrical driving vary of as much as 349 miles (WLTP Mixed)* from a single cost of its normal 99.8kWh battery, full with ultra-fast charging able to including 154 miles in quarter-hour**. The EV9 additionally options Kia’s seven-year/100,000-mile guarantee as normal, making certain most peace of thoughts for patrons.

Notes to Editor

*The vary was decided based on the standardised EU measurement process (WLTP). The person driving fashion and different elements, equivalent to velocity, outdoors temperature, topography and using electricity-consuming units/models, have an affect on the real-life vary and might probably cut back it.

** In an effort to obtain the utmost charging velocity, EV9 should be charged at an 800V electrical car charger that delivers at the least 210kW of electrical energy. The moreover added real-life vary inside quarter-hour relies on various factors together with the present state of cost of the battery, battery temperature, exterior climate circumstances and the charger used. It is usually outlined by the person driving fashion and power consumption.

Courtesy of Kia

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