Kia Electrical Automobile Gross sales Up 112% in USA!

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IRVINE, California — Kia America delivered highest first-half EV gross sales in firm historical past. Kia additionally marked the second-best first-half complete gross sales. The model’s best-selling fashions by the primary half of 2024 have been the Sportage SUV and Forte sedan.

Kia America bought greater than 5,000 all-electric automobiles for the third consecutive month and 29,392 complete EVs by the first-half, leading to 112-percent progress year-over-year and indicating robust EV gross sales progress momentum for the corporate.

4 Kia fashions — Carnival (+18-percent), Forte (+13-percent), Sportage (+11-percent) and Seltos (+1-percent) — set new first-half gross sales information.

“Kia’s management as a sustainable mobility options supplier and our rising choice of hybrid, plug-in hybrid and all-electric utility automobiles are delivering one of the balanced lineups within the trade,” stated Eric Watson, vp, gross sales operations, Kia America. “With the first-ever hybrid Carnival MPV arriving quickly and a rising provide of the up to date K5 sedan, Kia continues to offer clients with award-winning decisions, and we anticipate shopper demand and Kia showroom visitors to additional enhance in the course of the second half of the yr.”

Along with the month-to-month gross sales efficiency, Kia America introduced a number of initiatives, together with:

• Kia participated in Electrify Expo Lengthy Seashore the place the model displayed the all-electric EV6 and EV9 fashions. As well as, attendees have been capable of take part in a ride-and-drive to expertise the EV6 and EV9 automobiles for themselves.
• Durham, North Carolina, was chosen because the headquarters for IONNA, the charging community based by a coalition of the world’s prime automakers: along with Kia, BMW, GM, Honda, Hyundai, MB, and Stellantis.

Information from Kia America