Kia has finally confirmed that it is building a brand-new electric pickup truck for the American market. This new Kia EV Truck will compete with major brands like the Ford Ranger and Toyota Tacoma. It could be based on the Kia EV9 SUV platform. How powerful will this truck be? When will it launch? Find out all the details in this video. #KiaEVTruck #KiaPickup #ElectricTruck #EVNews
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00:00After years of hints and reporting suggesting that Kia has been considering producing an all-electric pickup truck,
00:07hard confirmation finally landed at an event hosted by the automaker in Korea.
00:13Per Jalopnik, executives came out and said that a Kia EV truck is happening, and that development is already underway.
00:20Here we should point out the obvious, that this new electric pickup is not the same thing as the bizarrely styled Tasman introduced for certain global markets last year.
00:31The two were never one and the same, even though like the Tasman EV is expected to be a mid-sized pickup as well,
00:38the electric truck, we've included renderings here of a would-be Telluride pickup.
00:42But the eventual production truck is more likely to resemble a pickup-a-feed EV9 SUV than anything else,
00:50also will get its own platform, something Kia has hinted at since 2022.
00:55Though it isn't yet clear whether that means it'll be adapted from the EGMP architecture that currently underpins almost every.
01:04Hyundai-Kia EV, including the EV9 three-row SUV, some have speculated the truck could be spun off of.
01:10But if it's truckier, it could possibly feature a body-on-frame type design.
01:15Kia outright says the electric truck it's working on will go head-to-head with offerings including the Ford Ranger and Toyota Tacoma, or Jalopnik.
01:24Which means it'd also face up against the Nissan Frontier, Chevrolet Colorado, GMC Canyon, and Honda Ridgeline here in America.
01:32To some extent, we'd include the Rivian R1T in that group, since it's the only all-electric mid-sized-ish truck available,
01:41or, put another way, it's the smallest EV truck you can buy here.
01:45Even if its footprint lands it somewhere between traditional mid-size and full-size rigs.
01:51Oh, and Kia is targeting some 90,000 sales with the EV truck, given the global trade environment,
01:57which was just as topsy-turvy during the Kia event last week as it is today.
02:02We have to assume Kia is planning on building this new truck in America.
02:06Otherwise, it'd be subject to tariffs and not qualify for the EV tax credit, for as long as that's around, if the Trump administration decides to undo it.
02:16Kia has manufacturing resources here,
02:19So it's not a stretch to think that the automaker would be able to fire up more capacity for something with as much potential upside as an affordable electric truck.
02:27The only key question left.
02:29Besides details such as the truck's powertrain, battery capacity, hauling capabilities, and more,
02:36is when we can see this new Kia debut.
02:39With development vehicles already spotted in the wild,
02:42As Jalopnik points out,
02:44the wait shouldn't be long,
02:46look for the EV Kia pickup to show itself for the first time in some production intent form within a year or so.
