- Kia EV3 affords accessible, sustainable electrical mobility as a part of elevated SUV expertise
- World-first cutting-edge applied sciences allow clients to unlock new dimensions from EV3, enhancing driving and possession expertise
- Kia’s i-Pedal expertise offers extra relaxed, environment friendly driving model
- Good Regenerative braking system delivers stress-free metropolis driving
- Driving Vary Information ‘coaches’ drivers for larger effectivity
- Breakthrough in thermal administration expertise provides EV3 battery effectivity and charging time edge over rivals, even in harsh circumstances
- Automobile-to-Load charging highlights how EV3’s revolutionary expertise can improve clients’ interactions with their automobiles
When Kia unveiled the EV3 in Might this yr, the model showcased a automobile that might make easy, sustainable mobility extra accessible. To ship on that dedication, Kia’s new compact all-electric SUV options industry-leading expertise, a WLTP driving vary of as much as 600km and fast-charging functionality.
The EV3’s game-changing mix of attributes means clients needn’t be involved with making the transition from an inside combustion engine (ICE) automobile to an electrical automobile (EV).
Kia’s growth group was decided to create an all-electric SUV that might increase the bar for what’s anticipated of a compact electrical mannequin. Attaining this meant drawing up a wholly new set of parameters, reminiscent of clever regenerative braking and the power to energy or cost exterior gadgets, reminiscent of tenting tools, enabling clients to take pleasure in a spread of life-style and driving options beforehand unavailable on this sector.
Pioneering world-first expertise sits on the coronary heart of the EV3, with Kia’s engineers making certain these improvements deliver real advantages to the EV3’s occupants.
i-Pedal improvements
Kia is continually innovating and has developed its regenerative braking expertise for the EV3 with its upgraded i-Pedal 3.0 and Good Regenerative 3.0 techniques. These applied sciences take the idea of one-pedal driving to the following degree to ship larger enjoyment and effectivity.
The most recent i-Pedal 3.0 expertise affords the motive force far more flexibility and management by separating the extent of regenerative braking from the total stopping management operate. Full one-pedal driving can now be utilized in all regenerative braking modes, whereas i-Pedal 3.0 can be utilized optionally in Reverse and also will keep in mind the beforehand chosen degree when the automobile is turned off. The system could be chosen by a less complicated strategy of pulling the left-hand steering wheel paddle for multiple second.
Regenerative braking ranges are rated from 0 to three, with probably the most substantial Stage 3 braking ideally suited for driving in heavy start-stop visitors, the place drivers could have to sluggish the automobile rapidly. This has additionally been optimized with a extra linear calibration for smoother outcomes.
Stage 2 offers barely much less braking power, a really perfect setting on a winding street, enabling drivers to actually have interaction with the driving expertise by slowing the SUV easily for corners with out touching the brake pedal. This sustainable strategy can extract extra driving vary from every battery cost.
On a protracted motorway journey, drivers may choose Stage 1 and even Stage 0, which permits the EV3 to glide when lifting off the accelerator. These regenerative braking ranges present extra comfort-focused deceleration. i-Pedal on Stage 0 permits the EV3 to coast totally, whereas bringing the same deceleration price to Stage 1 at decrease speeds.
Good tech for stress-free driving
The Kia EV3 is the primary automobile to function Hyundai Motor Group’s Good Regenerative System 3.0 expertise. This clever system offers the motive force with a digital co-pilot that may scan the street forward and reply to conditions with lightning-fast reactions.
The Good Regenerative System is engaged by holding the right-hand steering wheel paddle for greater than a second and integrates autonomous driving expertise with regenerative braking.
When the motive force releases the accelerator pedal, the system makes use of sensors to detect the gap to the automobile forward and navigation info to mechanically decelerate to a protected pace, if vital.
Whereas Kia’s earlier Good Regenerative System relied solely on GPS info, this newest model incorporates a greater diversity of navigation-based information, unlocking an array of benefits for the motive force.
For instance, when the EV3 approaches a good flip or a curve within the street, a pace restrict lower, a pace bump or a roundabout, the automobile will mechanically decelerate to an acceptable pace, making for a extra relaxed, environment friendly and protected drive.
Good Regenerative System 3.0 can relieve the stress of negotiating a busy, unfamiliar metropolis heart by relieving psychological pressure on drivers. Whereas Kia’s earlier system may mechanically sluggish the automobile to 9 km/h, the most recent expertise can deliver the EV3 to an entire cease, offering even larger flexibility.
Reassuring vary and superior aerodynamics
Kia’s engineers imagine in creating expertise to create a greater, extra sustainable world. However additionally they know that some individuals – particularly these new to electrical mobility – nonetheless fear about driving vary. That’s why the event group went to nice lengths to make sure that the EV3 is without doubt one of the most impressively environment friendly and confidence-inspiring EV to drive.
Many elements can have an effect on a automobile’s all-electric driving vary, however the one which figures most prominently in clients’ minds continues to be the battery. Consequently, Kia’s engineers have geared up the EV3 with the most important battery in its class. The 81.4 kWh fourth-generation unit additionally boasts roughly 22 p.c larger vitality density in contrast with the Niro EV, which shares the identical 400V structure, and delivers a best-in-class all-electric vary of 600 km (WLTP customary).
Countless hours had been spent within the wind tunnel to hone the EV3’s aerodynamic efficiency, together with subtleties such because the SUV’s optimized wheel shapes and the improved rear mixture lamps. There are additionally new facet sill undercovers, together with eight elements protecting the underbody, which contribute to cleaner underfloor airflow and lowered drag.
Mixed with optimized headlamp and entrance bumper cowl profiles, wheel hole reducers, an optimized wheel arch design, a shallower roof spoiler angle, aerodynamic strakes on the rear bumper cowl and improved entrance wheel deflectors, the EV3 glides easily by the air with a drag coefficient of simply 0.26Cd.
The EV3’s physique throughout the rear wheel arches can also be narrower than throughout its entrance wheel arches, making a boat-tail form and larger electrical driving vary – one thing that drivers will certainly admire, particularly on lengthy journeys.
On-board effectivity coach
Whereas the EV3 is full of expertise to extract most vary from each battery cost, how homeowners drive could make an enormous distinction, too. That’s why Kia has made it simple to realize this with its ‘Driving Vary Information’ expertise.
Situated within the instrument cluster, the Driving Vary Information is simple to know at a look. It shows the utmost and minimal driving ranges achievable relying on driving model, and an estimated vary based mostly on previous driving effectivity.
When the EV3 is being pushed effectively, a inexperienced gauge on the data cluster fills in the direction of the utmost mark. If the automobile’s effectivity potential shouldn’t be being maximized, this gauge turns orange and shows a lowered potential driving vary. This real-time show encourages drivers to take pleasure in a extra environment friendly driving expertise.
Environment friendly driving in all circumstances
When creating the EV3, Kia’s designers and engineers by no means overlooked their mission to make the compact all-electric SUV extra accessible to extra individuals. This meant pondering of all attainable use circumstances and testing the EV3’s ultra-advanced expertise in a few of the harshest areas possible on the planet, reminiscent of Arjeplog throughout the Arctic Circle in Sweden.
The EV3 is the primary automobile on this planet to deploy a simultaneous warmth absorption system, enabling it to recycle waste warmth not simply from the automobile, but additionally outdoors air to optimize effectivity. The EV’s superior warmth pump expertise considerably improves its skill to guard battery efficiency and cost rapidly in chilly climate.
Due to the introduction of a singular high-thermal-efficiency sheath heater and low-temperature charging software program, EV3 homeowners spend a lot much less time ready for his or her automobile to cost.
The EV3’s battery can also be geared up with a liquid cooling system, which is used throughout charging to optimize battery thermal administration and improve charging speeds. The EV3’s speedy charging time is as much as 12 minutes quicker than the Niro EV, enabling charging from 10 to 80 p.c capability in 31 minutes (Lengthy Vary mannequin, below 350kW quick charging situation).
Due to the world’s first extremely environment friendly and super-compact THIN HVAC (heating, air flow and air-conditioning) system, the EV3 delivers constant cabin circumstances in all circumstances, maximizing consolation. The cleverly packaged system provides front-seat passengers an additional 6 cm of room within the footwell compared with a traditional HVAC system, due to the 33 per cent discount within the unit’s top.
Accessible superior expertise
The EV3’s spacious inside offers a residing space-like atmosphere for occupants to take pleasure in when travelling, or enjoyable when the automobile is stationary. Slicing-edge connectivity options allow them to have interaction with the digital world in additional immersive methods than ever earlier than.
Kia is the primary producer to deliver Automobile-to-Load (V2L) charging to the compact EV SUV phase. This function permits the automobile to energy exterior gadgets and permits clients to maximise the EV3’s accessibility.
Even whereas ‘off-grid’ from electrical infrastructure, homeowners can use the EV3 to cost and energy home equipment reminiscent of a laptop computer, a espresso machine, a small fridge or perhaps a film projector. That is yet one more instance of how the revolutionary expertise developed by Kia’s engineers for the EV3 can improve clients’ experiences on each journey.
Kia plans to introduce an all-wheel drive (AWD) variant in addition to a GT mannequin, increasing the vary of alternative for purchasers past the present two-wheel drive (2WD) fashions.
