{"id":187706,"date":"2024-04-19T20:23:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T01:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/kia-has-the-secret-sauce-for-affordable-evs-in-the-us"},"modified":"2024-04-19T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T01:23:10","slug":"kia-has-the-secret-sauce-for-affordable-evs-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/kia-has-the-secret-sauce-for-affordable-evs-in-the-us","title":{"rendered":"Kia has the \u2018secret sauce\u2019 for affordable EVs in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kia-has-the-secret-sauce-for-affordable-evs-in-the-us2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cheaper electric vehicles are on the way, and <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/guides\/kia\/\">Kia<\/a> believes it has an advantage. With its own \u201csecret sauce,\u201d Kia is moving to launch a series of affordable EVs in the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re ahead of most, and we\u2019re trying to rush out ahead because our technology will be more evolved,\u201d Kia America COO Steve Center told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autonews.com\/automakers-suppliers\/kia-has-head-start-less-expensive-evs-executive-says\">Automotive News<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Kia revealed a new <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2023\/10\/12\/kia-launch-cheaper-ev2-soul-ev-successor\/\">range of low-cost EVs<\/a> during its first annual EV Day in October, including the EV2, EV3, EV4, and EV5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheaper electric vehicles are on the way, and Kia believes it has an advantage. With its own \u201csecret sauce,\u201d Kia is moving to launch a series of affordable EVs in the US. \u201cWe\u2019re ahead of most, and we\u2019re trying to rush out ahead because our technology will be more evolved,\u201d Kia America COO Steve Center [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187706","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}