{"id":300166,"date":"2025-04-09T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=300166"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:55:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:55:46","slug":"kia-achieves-strongest-sales-performance-in-34-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/kia-achieves-strongest-sales-performance-in-34-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Kia Achieves Strongest Sales Performance in 34 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kia continues to make waves in the electric vehicle market, with its EV3 model recognized as the best-selling retail EV in the UK for 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This remarkable achievement has contributed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.softonic.com\/articulos\/2025-podria-ser-el-ano-de-kia-y-hyundai-en-el-sector-del-ev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Kia's strongest sales performance since its inception 34 years ago,\">Kia&#8217;s strongest sales performance since its inception 34 years ago,<\/a> with <strong>the company recording 772,351 vehicle sales globally in Q1 2024, marking its best start since 1962.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In March alone, Kia sold nearly 20,000 vehicles in the UK, making it the fourth best-selling brand and the second top-seller of electrified vehicles, including EVs, PHEVs, and HEVs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kia is off to its best sales start since 1962, but with new EVs on the way, the run has just begun <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g2G1PXnFc8\">https:\/\/t.co\/g2G1PXnFc8<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EVPeteJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EVPeteJohnson<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Electrek.co (@ElectrekCo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElectrekCo\/status\/1907470268177526797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">772,351 Global Vehicle Sales<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Electric models comprised 21% of Kia\u2019s UK sales in March, with over <strong>7,000 electric cars sold, a nearly 50% increase compared to the same quarter last year<\/strong>. The EV3 particularly stood out, maintaining its title as the UK&#8217;s most popular retail EV and the fourth best-selling EV overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Kia EV3 is priced starting at \u00a333,005 ($42,500) and offers two battery options<\/strong>: a 58.3 kWh pack providing a WLTP range of 430 km (270 miles) and an 81.48 kWh pack extending that range to 599 km (375 miles).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BYD plans to increase its sales network in South Korea, a car market dominated by local brands Hyundai and Kia, as it pushes for more deliveries outside of its home stronghold of China  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/htZKvAu2JF\">https:\/\/t.co\/htZKvAu2JF<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bloomberg (@business) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/business\/status\/1907650538482614572?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Kia looks to capitalize on this momentum, it plans to launch additional electric models in the UK, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/kia-set-to-revolutionize-ev-market-with-upcoming-ev4-launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"including the EV4 sedan and hatchback\">including the EV4 sedan and hatchback<\/a>, and the EV5 SUV later this year. The company also emphasizes its ambition to lead in the electric van market with its new Platform Beyond Vehicle (PBV) business, beginning with the PV5 van.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking ahead, Kia has announced that the EV3 is expected to roll out in the United States by mid-2026, allowing American consumers to experience what has rapidly become a key player in the competitive electric marketplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kia continues to make waves in the electric vehicle market, with its EV3 model recognized as the best-selling retail EV in the UK for 2024. This remarkable achievement has contributed to Kia&#8217;s strongest sales performance since its inception 34 years ago, with the company recording 772,351 vehicle sales globally in Q1 2024, marking its best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/kia-achieves-strongest-sales-performance-in-34-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kia Achieves Strongest Sales Performance in 34 Years&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9317,"featured_media":300167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[8319,8774],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6849],"class_list":["post-300166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ev","tag-kia","content-category-lifestyle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308010,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300166\/revisions\/308010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300166"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=300166"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=300166"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=300166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}