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Kia is opening pre-orders for its first electric van, the PV5, starting at under $45,000 (electrek.co)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's a pretty ugly car, but it does have potential for a TMNT wrap.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every time I hear someone call a car ugly I look at it and wonder why. It's a BEV economy people mover, not a Cybertronian Lola Bunny.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The issue I have is many designers make their evs look radically different simply to be different. As if people buy an EV so they can shout to everyone "look at me".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

There's that. I tend to give EVs a lot of leeway to be different though, because of two reasons: The function of vehicles in society needs to be shaken up a lot, and the underlying technology of an EV is so different from a combustion vehicle. Form and function are necessarily in flux, so I think the real folly would be to carry on with the design assumptions that have gotten us here, at least not without a critical eye. Things like passenger and road safety have come a long way in a century so some things deserve to stay (looking at you, Cybertruck) but there's a lot of room for new ideas in this space too.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

It looks fine to me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Starting at under $45k" is one heck of a way to try to undercut it's $45k for the base model.

Edit: Ahhh "starting at £32,995, which is around $44,000."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Would never go for the first of anything. Peugeot has really not done well with their first EV

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Is this an evolution of Kia’s existing EGMP platform?

But man, that range is not looking good. If it were real world that’d be something, but WLTP is typically…aspirational. Shame because I want a minivan for road trips…