- Kia EV9 has been topped ‘UK Automobile of the Yr 2024’
- The EV9 additionally wins the ‘Massive Crossover’ class
- Awards voted for by a panel of 30 of the UK’s prime journalists working throughout automotive, enterprise and tech publications
The Kia EV9 has been named ‘UK Automobile of the Yr 2024’. The Awards have a good time one of the best new automobiles out there to UK clients right this moment throughout eight classes.
The UK Automobile of the Yr jury is made up of 30 journalists working throughout the UK on automotive, enterprise and tech publications. Eligible automobiles for the awards will need to 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 components; specifically its innate practicality, trendy design, and lengthy electrical driving vary.
“The uberpractical Kia EV9 might be the car that will get extra drivers out of their petrol or diesel automotive than some other mannequin. Seven seats, loaded with expertise, premium high quality and sufficient miles from the battery to treatment virtually each case of vary nervousness – plus it’s incredible to drive, too,” mentioned John Challen, co-chairman, UK Automobile of the Yr Awards. “The truth that practically half of our judging panel selected the Kia because the UK Automobile of the Yr 2024 is a large vote of confidence in what’s a critically spectacular and vastly interesting automotive.”
“It seems to be nice, has a beautiful inside, is sensible and the primary automotive to mix skill to hold seven folks with a real usable vary,” decide Paul Barker, Managing Editor of Carwow added.
“The EV9 exhibits Kia’s seemingly limitless ambition is aware of no bounds. An important choice 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 whole sense for anybody with folks 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 large honour for Kia UK to be awarded a class win and the general ‘Automobile of the Yr’ accolade on this 12 months’s UK Automobile of the Yr 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 expertise industries. We’re grateful to the judges for his or her onerous work appraising this 12 months’s contenders.
“This well-respected award additionally provides our 190-strong UK seller community a lift, because it continues to assist clients on their electrification journey and ship them the UK’s greatest automotive.”
Recognition within the 2024 UK Automobile of the Yr 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 Automobile of the Yr awards and as a top-three finalist for the 2024 World Automobile Awards, to be introduced on the New York Worldwide Auto Present on 27 March 2024.
The Kia EV9 is likely one of 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 outfitted 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 customary 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 customary, guaranteeing most peace of thoughts for purchasers.
Notes to Editor
*The vary was decided based on the standardised EU measurement process (WLTP). The person driving model and different components, corresponding to pace, outdoors temperature, topography and the usage of electricity-consuming gadgets/models, have an affect on the real-life vary and may presumably scale back it.
** To be able to obtain the utmost charging pace, 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 is determined by various factors together with the present state of cost of the battery, battery temperature, exterior climate circumstances and the charger used. It’s also outlined by the person driving model and vitality consumption.
