A couple of months after it made its international debut, Kia unveiled the U.S.-spec 2025 EV6 facelift on the Los Angeles Auto Present. Along with even-funkier seems to be, the refreshed EV6 has a bunch of latest tech, longer vary and Tesla’s charging port — plus it’ll be inbuilt America.
The primary design adjustments for the up to date EV6 are on the entrance finish, the place it has what Kia calls Star Map headlights and working lights. There are new bumper designs with angular intakes and extra creases on the hood, and alongside the edges the EV6 has tweaked aspect skirts and wheel arch claddings. Kia didn’t change the form of the EV6’s taillight bar, however the internals have an analogous Star Map motif, and the rear bumper is new as effectively. I particularly love the brand new wheel designs; Kia has been killing it in relation to wheels currently, placing out designs in contrast to something we’ve seen earlier than.
A brand new curved display sits atop the sprint, a bit extra freestanding than the outgoing show, and Kia ditched the outdated EV6’s cool two-spoke steering wheel for a extra conventional unit. In any other case, design adjustments are restricted to new supplies, textures and trims. The 2025 EV6 does function Kia’s newest infotainment system that guarantees to be quicker and clearer, and it has over-the-air updates that may be utilized to all the pieces from driver-assist and tech options to powertrain capabilities. Different new tech objects embody an up to date digital key, a wi-fi hotspot, extra media streaming choices and personalizable show themes (together with official NBA-themed ones).
The bottom-model EV6 now has a 63.0-kWh battery pack, up from 58 kWh in final 12 months’s mannequin, which is paired with a single motor within the rear placing out 167 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque, the identical as earlier than. Improve to the brand new 84.0-kWh pack that replaces the earlier 77.4-kWh unit and also you get 225 hp and 258 lb-ft with rear-wheel drive, or 320 hp and 446 lb-ft if you choose the optionally available dual-motor all-wheel-drive setup. With the bigger battery and RWD, Kia is focusing on a spread of 319 miles in each trim, 9 miles up from the longest-range model of the present EV6. Like Hyundai Motor Group’s different new EVs, the EV6 now has the Tesla-style NACS cost port, and the port itself has been moved to the left rear fender. A belt-type steering column is alleged to present improved steering response, there are extra sound deadening supplies all through, and Kia strengthened the EV6’s body to higher meet IIHS requirements.
Whereas we don’t have many particulars but, the EV6 GT is sticking round, and it’s much more highly effective than earlier than. In common driving the EV6 GT makes 601 hp and 545 lb-ft, however put it into the GT drive mode and that determine is upped to 641 hp and 568 lb-ft, an enormous enhance from the outgoing mannequin’s 576 hp and 545 lb-ft. (The EV6 GT simply so occurs to match the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N’s output now.) The GT additionally will get a brand new simulated gear shift function that offers you “visuals, engine sound results and a tactile sensation via motor torque changes.”
Pricing hasn’t been introduced but, however the up to date EV6 will attain sellers within the first half of 2025. It would now be produced at Kia’s manufacturing unit in Georgia alongside the EV9, which suggests it ought to hopefully qualify for the federal tax credit score — if it sticks round, that’s.
