An electrical successor to the sporty Kia Stinger seems resulting from launch in 2026 beneath the title EV8, in accordance with supply materials revealed through Korean Car Blog.
A correct fanatic’s automotive sporting a rear-wheel drive platform and smooth hatchback styling, the Stinger was launched for the 2018 mannequin yr and discontinued after the 2023 mannequin yr. But an analogous mannequin with an electrical powertrain now seems to have been given the inexperienced gentle.
Korean Car Blog cites Kia’s Union New Car Production Schedule, which lists this mannequin as being allotted to the automaker’s Hwaseong Plant 3 in South Korea. The plan additionally reportedly exhibits that the EV8 might be primarily based on a successor to the present Hyundai/Kia/Genesis E-GMP platform referred to as eM, and lists some preliminary specs.
2023 Kia Stinger
The EV8 is reportedly slated to get a 113.2-kwh battery pack enabling 435 to 497 miles of vary (probably as measured with Korean testing protocols). Range-topping fashions will get a 612-hp dual-motor all-wheel drive powertrain, with a 435-hp all-wheel drive mannequin and a single-motor rear-wheel drive mannequin tuned for 218 hp under it.
This is not the primary report of the undertaking. A sequence of stories via final summer time and fall, initially confirming the undertaking title of GT1 (that title can be referenced within the Korean Car Blog report), advised that it is perhaps a revival of the Stinger’s mission in all however the title itself.
Kia EV4 idea
Kia additionally has the racy-looking EV4 idea, which is because of be smaller and extra inexpensive however might present hints of the Stinger-replacing EV8’s design.
Kia’s design boss stated again in 2020 that the Stinger would possibly swap to electrical energy. While a short while later it appeared that he’d been referring to the very fast EV6 GT, maybe he was pointing towards a real successor like this all alongside.
Source: www.greencarreports.com