Kia EV3 Wins World Automotive of the 12 months Award!

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The 2025 World Automotive Awards have been simply held on the 2025 New York Worldwide Auto Present, which began immediately, and shut cousins Kia and Hyundai nabbed a few large awards. Let’s begin with Kia, because it gained the most important award of the 12 months.

2025 World Automotive of the 12 months — Kia EV3

Simply a few weeks in the past, I highlighted that the Kia EV3 was completely crushing it within the Netherlands. From the start, we anticipated large issues from the little EV3. For a few of our early commentary (together with from readers), see: “Is The Kia EV3 The EV We’ve Been Ready For? Golden Steering Wheel Workforce Says Sure” and “Hyundai & Kia Most More likely to Fill “Tesla Mannequin C” Gap — Readers Chime In!” So, I’m assured the EV3 was totally deserving of the large World Automotive of the 12 months award. That is what it was destined for.

For its half, Kia explains the win with the next description of the EV3:

“The EV3 brings the cutting-edge innovation of Kia’s flagship EV9 to a wider viewers than ever earlier than, setting new requirements within the compact electrical automobile (EV) SUV phase. The EV3 boasts a daring, progressive exterior and an revolutionary, sensible inside that maximizes house, performance, and luxury.

“The EV3 has a segment-leading vary of as much as 605 km and might cost from 10-80 p.c in 31 minutes*, delivering spectacular usability. The automobile’s revolutionary inside design optimizes house, consolation, and accessibility, whereas Kia’s AI Assistant, superior driver help programs (ADAS), and Over-the-Air (OTA) updates improve the possession expertise with cutting-edge know-how.”

Certainly — it presents rather a lot in a small bundle and at an inexpensive value. It’s a compelling, futuristic, revolutionary automobile, nevertheless it doesn’t value an arm and a leg.

“It’s an immense honor for everybody at Kia that the EV3 has been awarded the 2025 World Automotive of 12 months title. This award highlights Kia’s world management in offering design-led, technologically superior, sustainable mobility options and the way the EV3’s class-leading attributes redefine the person expertise for purchasers worldwide,” famous Ho Sung Track, President and CEO at Kia.

A panel of 96 worldwide automotive journalists from 30 nations are in command of selecting this award.

This follows up on the Kia EV9 profitable the 2024 World Automotive of the 12 months award final 12 months.

General, since 2020, Kia has gained the next awards from the World Automotive of the 12 months crew:

• Kia EV9 – 2024 World Automotive of the 12 months
• Kia EV9 – 2024 World Electrical Automobile
• Kia EV6 GT – 2023 World Efficiency Automotive
• Kia Telluride – 2020 World Automotive of the 12 months
• Kia Soul EV – 2020 World City Automotive

Kia EV3 Promoting Very Effectively

As famous a few weeks in the past, the EV3 is the 2nd greatest promoting EV in Spain to this point this 12 months, the third greatest promoting EV in Eire, the 4th greatest promoting EV within the UK, the fifth greatest promoting EV in Finland, the sixth greatest promoting EV in Sweden, the ninth greatest promoting EV in Denmark (the place the EV3 was “Automotive of the 12 months” final 12 months), and the eleventh greatest promoting EV in Norway. In brief, the EV3 is doing very effectively throughout Europe.

It also needs to do very effectively in South America, Asia, and maybe even Africa and North America in time. There are few fashions I’m extra all for monitoring within the coming years. It’s really a horny, compelling small electrical automobile that needs to be widespread the world over.