{"id":74846,"date":"2024-07-26T00:04:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T04:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=74846"},"modified":"2024-07-26T00:04:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T04:04:05","slug":"1143925_2026-kia-pv5-electric-van-spy-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=74846","title":{"rendered":"2026 Kia PV5 electric van spied"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kia plans to have 14 electric vehicles<\/a><\/strong> in its lineup as soon as 2027, and some of these will be purpose-built vehicles designed to meet a customer’s specific needs, such as delivery vans or shuttles.<\/p>\n

Kia previewed some of its upcoming purpose-built vehicles with concepts during 2024 CES<\/a>, albeit without any powertrain details.<\/p>\n

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Now a camouflaged prototype for a production model has been spotted. It’s a midsize van<\/strong> that’s likely to carry the PV5<\/strong> name into production. The name was attached to the concept that served as a preview of the van at CES.<\/p>\n

The concept measured close to 183 inches long and had a wheelbase of almost 118 inches, and the production model looks to be about that size. A larger van measuring more than 207 inches long, dubbed the PV7<\/strong>, was also shown.<\/p>\n

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Kia PBV Concepts<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Depending on how it’s configured, the PV5 could serve as a delivery van, a passenger van, a camper van, or a taxi<\/strong>. Kia has also shown a configuration that could be used as a robotaxi<\/strong>, something Kia plans to use itself.<\/p>\n

Kia also plans to offer the PV5 as a chassis cab<\/strong>, which will enable owners to build the vehicle to fully suit their needs, a practice known as upfitting.<\/p>\n

The PV5 is expected to debut in 2025 as the first of Kia’s new purpose-built vehicles.<\/p>\n

Kia will also launch a purpose-built vehicle designed for taxi services using its Niro compact crossover<\/a> as the basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kia plans to have 14 electric vehicles in its lineup as soon as 2027, and some of these will be purpose-built vehicles designed to meet a customer’s specific needs, such as delivery vans or shuttles. Kia previewed some of its upcoming purpose-built vehicles with concepts during 2024 CES, albeit without any powertrain details. Now a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"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-74846","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\/74846","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=74846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}