2026 Kia EV9 GT: This Is It

The Kia EV9 is among the greatest electrical automobiles available on the market. It’s environment friendly, sensible, and opulent. It’s additionally not missing in energy, however Kia has gone and given it a lift anyhow. That is the 2026 EV9 GT, a 501-horsepower crossover that’ll allow you to get your children to high school that a lot faster. It makes its Thursday debut on the Los Angeles Auto Present.

The place the common all-wheel drive EV9 has motors on the entrance and rear that make 189 hp every, the GT will get a 214-hp entrance motor and a 362-hp rear motor. In fact, it doesn’t take a mathematical genius to determine that 362 plus 214 doesn’t equal 501, however presumably, every motor makes peak energy at a unique velocity. Kia additionally says its nonetheless finalizing horsepower figures for the EV9 GT, in order that 501 hp might rise by the point deliveries start.

Kia claims the EV9 GT does the 0-60 MPH run in 4.3 seconds, 0.7 seconds quicker than the EV9 GT-Line AWD. To cope with the additional energy, the EV9 GT will get bigger brakes, upgraded suspension with adaptive dampers, Continental tires wrapping 21-inch wheels, and an digital rear limited-slip differential. So, the EV9 GT shouldn’t simply be faster in a straight line—it’ll be higher within the corners, too.

Picture by: Kia

Picture by: Kia

One other notable improve is what Kia calls Digital Gear Shift (VGS), a mode that simulates an internal-combustion engine. It’s a function Kia has tailored from company cousin Hyundai, which debuted its personal model with the Ioniq 5 N. Primarily, VGS mimics the sound and feeling of a conventional automotive engine, with pretend engine sounds, gear shifts, and torque cuts. You should utilize it in a simulated automatic-transmission mode, or row by the “gears” utilizing the paddle shifters on the steering wheel. It really works uncannily properly within the Ioniq 5 N, so it ought to be nice right here, too.

Past the distinctive 21-inch wheels, the EV9 GT is distinguished visually by numerous trim items on the outside and lime-green accents inside. The EV9 GT additionally will get extra bolstered sport seats trimmed in Alcantara.

As commonplace, you get tons of driving-assist tech, and a Tesla-style North American Charging Commonplace (NACS) port, so that you’ll be capable to juice up the EV9 at Superchargers. In contrast to different EV9 fashions, that are inbuilt West Level, Georgia, the EV9 GT can be inbuilt South Korea. 

Kia hasn’t introduced two necessary figures—worth or vary. Anticipate it to value a pair thousand greater than the $75,395 of the present GT-Line AWD, and vary to be worse than that automotive’s 270 miles. Deliveries are set to start a while within the second half of 2025. 

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