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Earlier this week, Kia reported its U.S. sales figures for the month of October and the news was good! Kia notched up a few new sales records last month, in fact. Yet, amongst all the good news, there are also some less positive details that beg the question: Is Kia really on track to achieve its sales goals for the year?

This past weekend I took my longest road trip yet in which I wasn’t able to charge my Kia Sorento Plug-In hybrid, much, while stopped en route. Out of 526 total miles of driving on this trip, I only covered about 10% of my total miles on electricity stored from the grid. This is a scenario many could find themselves in on a long cross country drive. But this also means my combined fuel economy was the lowest at any point in the last 13 months of ownership. So how bad was it?

I am one of those nerdy types that keeps track of lots of things in spreadsheets. I track per mile fuel costs for my electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. I also track how much electricity I am using at home versus on the road/away from home. I’m a little extra, I admit. But I wonder, how close are my EV and PHEV in terms of their overall lifecycle emissions?

San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safai announced on Twitter Friday morning that his home broken into, and items from a renovation project were stolen.

Earlier this week, Kia announced U.S. pricing for its all new, second generation 2023 Kiro Niro EV. MSRP for the new Niro electric crossover starts from $39,450 (not including destination or other fees). The new Niro is certainly an attractive, feature rich electric vehicle, but is this new price point too steep, especially considering the lack of federal tax incentives?

Kia sells several electrified vehicles in the U.S. and is investing heavily in ramping production while also introducing new models each year. Their current list of electrified vehicles on sale in the U.S. includes 4 different models with 8 different variants among those models. These are the all electric (EV) EV6 and Niro EV, the plug-in hybrid (PHEV) Niro, Sorento and Sportage, and the hybrid (HEV) Niro, Sorento and Sportage.

In the case of two Ontario residents, the price of the battery replacement service was about as much as the value of their car

Back in February, I interviewed one of the first Kia EV6 owners in the U.S. to get his initial feedback on this all new electric vehicle (EV). 8 months later, Victor from Bristol, TN (still) thinks his Kia EV is perfect.

I just took a 150 mile road trip to a beautiful lake in my 2022 Kia Sorento Plug-In Hybrid (PHEV), beshod with Bridgestone Blizzak snow tires, a 12.5 ft paddleboard for a hat, and 2 adults and a child on board. I was expecting to get somewhere around 33 miles per gallon via combined electric and gasoline propulsion and at least 3-4 miles less EV range than the 32 it is rated for. But I was wrong.

GM’s Lake Orion, Michigan, plant made Chevy Bolt EVs as far back as 2015, and its UAW union workers were among the first to be trained for the new auto era.