Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Hyundai Motor Group and NVIDIA announced the roll-out of the NVIDIA DRIVE connected car platform across all new models from Hyundai, Kia and Genesis from 2022 onwards. Hyundai, Kia and Genesis customers will therefore benefit from a feature-rich, software-defined AI user experience that is perpetually updateable.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 18, 2021

The Kia EV6 electric crossover will arrive in 2022 to dealerships across the U.S. Kia has been selling fully electric models in the U.S.—good —good ones—since 2014, starting with the arrival of the 2015 Soul EV.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The hamsters are back in Kia’s ads for its new Soul EV all-electric hatchback. And while their geeky, sexy, danceable ''science experiment'' is definitely memorable, after driving the 2015 Kia Soul EV we have to wonder if perhaps the Energizer Bunny would have been a better cheer-creature.

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InsideEVs

APRIL 10, 2023

The recall includes a small number of 2015-2019 model year Kia Soul EVs equipped with the E400 high-voltage battery.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Call it electric Soul: Kia took the wraps off its first electric car to be sold in the U.S. this morning, officially launching the 2015 Kia Soul EV at the Chicago Auto Show. The Soul EV was one of three Kia vehicles featured at the Chicago show.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Today we have the first plug-in electric car sales figures for October, the EPA range and efficiency figures for the 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf, and the fourth of our five 2015 Best Car To Buy nominees, the 2015 Kia Soul EV. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Kia has announced pricing for the 2015 Soul EV, the company''s first mass-market electric car. The 2015 Kia Soul EV will start at $34,500 in base price, not including the $7,500 Federal tax credit for electric cars, or any available state and local incentives.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 5, 2014

The first 2015 Kia Soul EV electric cars won''t reach U.S. MORE: 2015 Kia Soul EV Electric Car.' dealers until sometime between July and September, and then only in selected regions (for which read "California").

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 17, 2014

The very first 2015 Kia Soul EV electric cars are now being sold in California, adding a 19th plug-in vehicle to that state''s market. And its final EPA range and efficiency ratings may drive buyers in other states to demand that they get the chance to buy it too.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

For the first time since 2001, Kia surpassed Hyundai in market value with new affordable EVs rolling out this year. Kia is now South Korea’s fifth most-valued stock at $31 billion (41.3 Kia surpasses Hyundai in market value Hyundai, which saved Kia from bankruptcy in 1998, owns around a third of the South Korean automaker.

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Baua Electric

MAY 25, 2023

Hyundai and Kia are underneath force from complaints and regulators upcoming a current of vehicle thefts latter pace. The current used to be induced by means of TikTok video that confirmed how one can hot-wire Hyundai and Kia cars that inadequency an anti-theft instrument.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 18, 2014

Kia''s Soul hamsters haven''t just got fitter with the latest generation car--they''ve gone green, too. At the heart of the Kia Soul EV is a 192-cell, 27 kWh lithium-ion battery pack. That''s.'

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Nevada''s governor approves an incentives package for Tesla Motors'' battery Gigafactory, BMW weighs a decision to put the MINI Superleggera Vision two-seater concept into production, and Kia prices the 2015 Soul EV from $34,500. Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval signs bills that will provide $1.3 billion in.'

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The upcoming 2015 Kia Soul EV is not only the Korean carmaker''s first battery-electric vehicle sold in the U.S., Launched last week at the Chicago Auto Show, it adds a new and much greener model to the very popular second generation of the Kia Soul "tall wagon." MORE: 2015 Kia.'

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

If you can get over the rodent-based adverts, Kia''s new electric Soul, the 2015 Soul EV, is quite an interesting vehicle, and it''s the first electric car sold by Kia in the U.S. It''s making its debut at the 2015 Chicago Auto Show, and gives buyers yet another body style for their electric.'

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Kia is getting the (hamster) ball rolling on its first globally-marketed electric car. The 2015 Kia Soul EV will be the first electric car made by Kia to be marketed outside Korea when it goes on sale next year.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Meanwhile, the 2015 Kia Soul EV gets EPA ratings of 93 miles of range and 105 MPGe. Rear-wheel drive Model S electric cars get a power boost--on paper at least--and we analyze how dealer efforts to ban Tesla''s direct-sales model could backfire. All this and more on Green Car Reports. We''ve got an update on the Draconian.'

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: The 2015 Kia Soul EV electric car and 2015 BMW X3 crossover are unveiled at the 2014 Chicago Auto Show, and an attempt to drive a Tesla Model S from Texas to Panama. The 2015 Tesla Model X electric crossover will have all-wheel drive only, the company confirms. The 2015 Chevrolet.'

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Motor Trend named the Volkswagen Golf family—Golf 1.8T, Golf TDI Clean Diesel, Golf GTI and e-Golf models—as the 2015 Motor Trend Car of the Year. For 2015, the Golf was a near-unanimous choice among our judges by virtue of its strong performance in each of our six Car of the Year criteria. Kia Sedona. BMW 2 Series.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2014

Kia’s 48V mild hybrid system uses a lead-carbon battery. Kia revealed a new mild hybrid powertrain as well as its new 7-speed DCT at the Geneva Motor Show. The mild hybrid powertrain will be available on new diesel and gasoline production cars from Kia in the near future. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) Hybrids Transmissions'

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: We test out Volvo''s more fuel-efficient Drive-E engines, China extends its electric-car subsidies, and how the 2015 Kia Soul EV came to the United States. China will extend its electric-vehicle subsides beyond the 2015 expiration date. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 18, 2013

Electric-car fan Lee Colleton shot the 2015 Kia Soul EV prototype test cars connected to CHAdeMO quick-charging stations at a Residence Inn in the California coastal town of San Juan Capistrano. Ten days ago, spy shots of a new battery-electric car--from a maker that hasn''t yet offered one yet--burst onto the scene.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 16, 2015

Another recall for a low-volume electric car: 2015 Kia Soul EV tall wagons--as well as a much higher number of 2014 and 2015 Soul gasoline models--are being recalled to replace fragile accelerator pedals.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 4, 2013

We saw the Kia Soul EV spy shots almost three months ago, and now Kia has officially announced that its first battery-electric car will go on sale in the U.S. It''s an electric conversion of the new-for-2014 second generation of its "funky and iconic" Soul tall wagon, which Kia calls an "urban passenger vehicle."

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Hyundai and Kia will pay a combined $100-million civil penalty, the largest in Clean Air Act history, to resolve violations concerning the testing and certification of vehicles sold in the US (“Conformity Violations”) and will spend approximately $50 million on measures to prevent any future violations. Hyundai and Kia will also forfeit 4.75

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 17, 2014

This year''s New York Auto Show is seemingly one of facelifts and revisions, but one car offering slightly greater changes is the new 2015 Hyundai Sonata.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In December 2012, Hyundai will begin production of the ix35 Fuel Cell crossover vehicle at its Ulsan manufacturing facility in Korea, with a target of building up to 1,000 vehicles by 2015. The program was launched in 1998 with a roadmap targeting series production of fuel cell vehicles by the end of 2012 and consumer sales by 2015.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Hyundai • Kia Motors and key hydrogen stakeholders from Sweden, Denmark, Norway & Iceland recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim of collaboration towards market deployment of zero. Hyundai • Kia has actively been developing FCEVs as well as battery electric vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 18, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: Chevrolet Volt drivers pass 500 million miles on electricity, the 2015 Kia Soul EV enters production, and the Acura ILX hybrid is discontinued. The Acura ILX hybrid goes to the grave for 2015, joining a growing list of defunct hybrid models. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Readers have asked about our impressions of the new 2015 Kia Soul EV, and now we''ve answered with a full drive report and lots of photos. We also used the Prius past to predict the Volt future, and have an update from a sneaky little ad agency that got caught lying about electric cars. All this and more today on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Kia Motors America (KMA) unveiled the Trail’ster e-AWD concept at the 2015 Chicago Auto Show. The Trail’ster, based on Kia’s Soul urban passenger vehicle, is primarily powered by a 1.6-liter liter gasoline Soul. The Trail’ster’s electric propulsion system draws energy from a 1.2

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, the alliance Renault SA and Nissan Motor Corporation and Toyota Motor Corporation— issued a joint a Letter of Understanding (LoU) regarding the development and market introduction of fuel cell electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Kia Motors Corporation plans to build a third manufacturing plant in China in order to meet increasing local demand and to maintain its positive sales momentum in the market. Dongfeng Yueda Kia (DYK) Motors is a 50/50 joint venture through which Kia Motors manufactures, markets and services vehicles in China.). in 2010 (13 th ).

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 30, 2015

Exactly two weeks from now at the 2015 Chicago Auto Show, Kia will unveil a new concept car with an outdoorsy theme. DON''T MISS: 2015 Kia Soul EV: First Drive Of Newest Electric Car Kia describes the.'

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Today on Green Car Reports, the Chevrolet Volt and Tesla Model S vie for first place in Canadian plug-in car sales, the 2015 Kia Soul EV is coming to the United States, and the first CCS electric-car fast-charging station opens in San Diego. The 2015 Kia Soul EV--the first Korean electric car to be sold in.'

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

When it debuted late in 2014 as a 2015 model, the Kia Soul EV boasted an impressive range for an electric car with a mainstream price. At an EPA-rated 93 miles, its range exceeded that of any electric car on sale at the time without a Tesla powertrain.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 5, 2015

With most of the data now in for April sales of plug-in electric cars, it's looking as though the first four months of 2015 aren't seeing notably higher numbers than those of 2014. As always, there's some slop in the numbers because Tesla Motors, Fiat Chrysler, and Kia Motors refuse to break out their plug-in car sales.

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