{"id":20231,"date":"2022-04-18T12:04:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T16:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=20231"},"modified":"2022-04-18T12:04:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T16:04:06","slug":"kia-ev6-wholesale-march-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=20231","title":{"rendered":"Kia EV6 Wholesale Shipments Reached New Record In March 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kia reports that its global vehicle sales in March amounted to 250,646 units, which is 0.9% less than a year ago. During the first quarter of 2022, the company sold 685,358 vehicles (down 0.7%), so it was close to maintaining its 2021 level.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/kia\/ev6\/\">EV6<\/a> wholesale sales (closely related to production) reached a new monthly record of <strong>7,667<\/strong>, including 2,689 in South Korea and 4,978 exported.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kia reports wholesale sales (on the manufacturer level or plant sales), unaudited and on a preliminary basis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a positive sign, although we must note that the Kia EV6 production still appears to be constrained, compared to strong demand.<\/p>\n<p>In Q1, Kia EV6 volume exceeded 20,000, so we can assume that at least 80,000-100,000 is possible during 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Cumulatively, the company produced<strong> more than 50,000<\/strong> EV6. Most (almost 35,000) were exported.<\/p>\n<section contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"special_image\" data-align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"spi_wrapper\"><a class=\"lightzoom\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/custom\/kia-ev6-electric-car-sales-wholesale-sales-march-2022.png\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"custom-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/custom\/thumbnail\/kia-ev6-electric-car-sales-wholesale-sales-march-2022.png\" alt=\"external_image\" width=\"916\" height=\"424\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>The manufacturer reports also 6,551 retail sales of the Kia EV6 outside of South Korea in March (a new record) &#8211; including 3,092 in Europe and <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/577376\/us-kia-ev6-sales-march-2022\/\">3,156 in the US<\/a>. 121 units were sold in Canada and additionadditionalts in other global markets, according to Kia.<\/p>\n<p>Retail sales of the <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/kia\/soul-ev\/\">Soul EV<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/kia\/niro-ev\/\">Niro EV<\/a> outside of South Korea amounted to respectively 900 and 6,824 (we don&#8217;t have numbers for Kia&#8217;s home market).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Kia does not report PHEV numbers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data released by Kia, March was a record month for all-electric Kia sales, which nearly reached 17,000 and 6.8% of the total volume.<\/p>\n<p>Kia BEV sales last month:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>EV6<\/strong>: <strong>6,551<\/strong> retails sales outside South Korea<br \/>(7,667 wholesale &#8211; 2,689 in South Korea and 4,978 exported)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Niro EV<\/strong>: <strong>6,824<\/strong> retails sales outside South Korea<\/li>\n<li><strong>Soul EV<\/strong>: <strong>900<\/strong> retails sales outside South Korea<\/li>\n<li><strong>Total*<\/strong>: at least <strong>16,964<\/strong> (up 206% year-over-year) or 6.8% of the total volume<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Kia EV6 is Kia&#8217;s first E-GMP-based model, launched in the second half of 2021. Soon, it will be joined by a sporty EV6 GT version.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/571397\/kia-ev9-flagship-suv-2023\/\">In 2023, the company would like to introduce the Kia EV9 flagship SUV model<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/571273\/kia-2030-roadmap-ev-transition\/\">By 2027, a total of 14 new all-electric Kia models to be introduced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<section class=\"relatedContent-new\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"related-content\" data-widget-size=\"content\" data-params=\"%7B%22type_id%22%3A0%2C%22title_id%22%3A%22%22%2C%22items%22%3A%5B%7B%22article_edition_id%22%3A%22580323%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22Volkswagen%20Group%20Global%20BEV%20Sales%20In%20Q1%202022%3A%20Almost%20100%2C000%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22volkswagen-group-global-bev-sales-2022q1%22%2C%22section%22%3A%221%22%2C%22is_video%22%3A%220%22%2C%22images%22%3A%7B%22s5%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.motor1.com%2Fimages%2Fmgl%2FrKKo3Y%2Fs5%2Fvolkswagen-group-bev-sales-q1-2022.jpg%22%7D%7D%2C%7B%22article_edition_id%22%3A%22578308%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22Tesla%20Production%2C%20Deliveries%20Graphed%20Through%20Q1%202022%3A%20Another%20Record%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22tesla-production-deliveries-graphed-2022q1%22%2C%22section%22%3A%221%22%2C%22is_video%22%3A%220%22%2C%22images%22%3A%7B%22s5%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.motor1.com%2Fimages%2Fmgl%2F7qKJJ%2Fs5%2Ftesla-model-s-model-3-model-x-and-model-y.jpg%22%7D%7D%5D%7D\">   <\/section>\n<section contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"video_mstv\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sizer\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAYAAAA7KqwyAAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAABpJREFUeNpi\/P\/\/PwMlgImBQjBqwLAwACDAAOVfAw9\/ZDvcAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC\" alt=\"\"\/>  <\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kia reports that its global vehicle sales in March amounted to 250,646 units, which is 0.9% less than a year ago. During the first quarter of 2022, the company sold 685,358 vehicles (down 0.7%), so it was close to maintaining its 2021 level. Meanwhile, last month, EV6 wholesale sales (closely related to production) reached a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}