{"id":106092,"date":"2020-04-26T21:05:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T04:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/kia-teases-800-volt-300-mile-ev-with-25-minute-recharge-time"},"modified":"2020-04-26T21:05:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T04:05:56","slug":"kia-teases-800-volt-300-mile-ev-with-25-minute-recharge-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/kia-teases-800-volt-300-mile-ev-with-25-minute-recharge-time","title":{"rendered":"KIA Teases 800 Volt 300 Mile EV With 25 Minute Recharge Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kia-teases-800-volt-300-mile-ev-with-25-minute-recharge-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>KIA and corporate cousin Hyundai build some efficient EVs that challenge industry leaders like Tesla. Yes, Elon an his minions are miles ahead in <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2020\/04\/24\/tesla-achieved-the-accuracy-of-lidar-with-its-advanced-computer-vision-tech\/\">self-driving tech<\/a>, but the Hyundai Kona EV and KIA Niro EV are world class cars that come close to meeting Elon\u2019s plea to other manufacturers to build compelling electric cars.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is, KIA and Hyundai don\u2019t have a dedicated battery electric platform. Both the Kona and Niro share their underpinnings with hybrid and plug-in hybrid models. A pure battery electric car may be coming soon from KIA, however. Recently, Hyundai said it is planning to bring <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2020\/04\/23\/hyundai-prophesy-to-replace-ioniq-in-2021\/\">two new all electric models<\/a> \u2014 the 45 Concept and the Prophesy Concept \u2014 to market this year and next. Both will be built on the company\u2019s new Electric Global Modular Platform known internally as E-GMP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KIA and corporate cousin Hyundai build some efficient EVs that challenge industry leaders like Tesla. Yes, Elon an his minions are miles ahead in self-driving tech, but the Hyundai Kona EV and KIA Niro EV are world class cars that come close to meeting Elon\u2019s plea to other manufacturers to build compelling electric cars. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}