Kia reveals pricing for its first electric PV5 van with UK preorders

Kia is opening up preorders successful the UK for its PV5 Passenger electrical van astatine a starting terms of £32,995, oregon astir $44,000 with a modular scope battery.

Kia says preorders volition unfastened up tomorrow, May 1st, with archetypal deliveries successful the UK planned for “late 2025.” It volition travel successful a five-seat configuration (seven seats volition travel later) and customers tin take betwixt the basal “Essential” bundle oregon the “Plus” mentation that comes modular with the agelong scope battery.

The modular scope 51.5kWh artillery tin powerfulness the PV5 for 149 miles connected a azygous complaint based connected the European WLTP spec, portion the agelong scope 71.5 kWh battalion gets 249 miles of range. Kia says pricing for the larger artillery volition beryllium revealed later.

The Plus upgrades the Essential’s 16-inch alloy wheels to alloy ones, and adds an optional vigor pump. The higher trim besides includes heated beforehand seats with powerfulness adjustments, a heated steering wheel, a powered tailgate, Vehicle-to-Load AC outlet adapter support, wireless telephone charging, information additions similar transverse postulation collision avoidance, powerfulness folding mirrors, and more.

Kia says it’s keeping options “simple and straightforward,” truthful you can’t prime features betwixt the 2 trims beyond upgrading the modular achromatic overgarment to a premium enactment similar “Cityscape Green” oregon “Runway Red.”

The PV5 is portion of Kia’s lineup of all-electric PBVs (Platform Beyond Vehicle) that were introduced astatine CES successful 2024. These modular EVs person a flexible architecture wherever the bodies tin beryllium swapped into a minivan, a full-sized van, oregon a tiny truck, depending connected needs. The larger PV7 is coming successful 2027, and the PV9 successful 2029.

On the PV5, some batteries get a azygous electrical centrifugal with a max output of 120kW for the agelong range. The PV5’s 400-volt E-GMP.S architecture offers up to 150kW charging, which Kia says tin complaint from 10 to 80 percent successful little than 30 mins.

Kia volition besides connection the PV5 successful commercialized Cargo, Crew, and Chassis Cab versions successful 2026, erstwhile it starts shipping the conveyance to further markets. The automaker intends the PV5 to besides beryllium utilized successful fleets for deliveries and thrust hailing. Uber has already signed connected arsenic Kia’s archetypal customer.