At Milan Design Week 2025, Kia designers discussed how the Concept EV2 electric SUV reflects their vision for responsible design highlighted by more sustainable interior collaborations involving Bcomp flax, Simplifyber cellulose, and Biomyc mushroom materials supporting circular economy strategies.
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Two more passenger vehicles complete the brand’s core EV lineup, with the Concept EV2 B-segment SUV previewing an upcoming production model and the EV4 is its first electric sedan and hatchback set to hit world markets throughout 2025, starting with Korea in March.
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The lithium-metal cells for Mercedes-Benz leverage existing lithium-ion battery manufacturing processes and supply chains, which can streamline the validation phase and accelerate the advancement of its solid-state batteries toward series production of passenger EVs.
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Ford has enhanced the Mustang Mach-E Performance Upgrade, revealed a new Mustang Mach-E Rally dirt road performance variant, and set some new EV speed records with the Mustang Super Cobra Jet 1800 drag car at the NHRA Winter Nationals and the SuperVan 4.2 in Australia.
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At CES, Kia unveiled a new customizable EV concept lineup of purpose-built vehicles for commercial and fleet applications featuring interchangeable bodies and intelligent software.
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CES Brief: The solution, part of the bigger Sonatus Vehicle Platform, is engineered to enable OEMs and their ecosystems to deliver vehicle software and ECU firmware updates to their customers with greater confidence, better visibility, predictable cost, and improved security.
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The solution was to move the focus from hardware to software, according to Meridian Chief Executive John Buchanan, with the 14-speaker system employing a suite of proprietary digital signal processing technologies optimized for the surprisingly challenging acoustic environment.
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The partners have developed two corner-unit technologies: a wheel drive system that integrates drive components into the wheels for electric vehicles that could open up new vehicle design possibilities, and a shape-memory alloy that can act as a snow chain at the touch of a button.
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The new flagship accelerates Kia’s transition to a sustainable mobility solutions provider with more bio-based and recycled materials, plans to introduce conditional Level 3 autonomy, better user experience, a Kia Connect Store for over-the-air upgrades, and a WLTP target range over 541 km on a single charge.
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According to Luke Gear of IDTechEx, passenger car electrical vehicle networks of 800 V and more—pioneered by Lucid, Porsche/Audi, and Hyundai/Kia—will eventually be the automotive standard, and the time has come for high-voltage wide bandgap materials like silicon carbide and gallium nitride for power electronics.
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