An electrical successor to the sporty Kia Stinger might launch in 2026 underneath the identify EV8, in accordance with supply materials revealed by way of Korean Automobile Weblog.
A correct fanatic’s automotive sporting a rear-wheel-drive platform and modern hatchback styling, the Stinger emerged within the 2018 mannequin yr. Kia discontinued it after the 2023 mannequin yr. However an analogous mannequin with an electrical powertrain now seems to have been given the inexperienced mild.
Korean Automobile Weblog cites Kia’s Union New Automobile Manufacturing Schedule, which lists this mannequin as being allotted to the automaker’s Hwaseong Plant 3 in South Korea. The plan additionally reportedly reveals that the EV8 might be based mostly on a successor to the present Hyundai/Kia/Genesis E-GMP platform known as eM, and lists some preliminary specs.
2023 Kia Stinger
The EV8 is reportedly slated to get a 113.2-kwh battery pack enabling 435 to 497 miles of vary (possible as measured with Korean testing protocols). Vary-topping fashions will get a 612-hp dual-motor all-wheel-drive powertrain, with a 435-hp all-wheel-drive mannequin and a single-motor rear-wheel-drive mannequin tuned for 218 hp under it.
This is not the primary report of the undertaking. A collection of reviews via final summer season and fall, initially confirming the undertaking identify of GT1 (that identify can be referenced within the Korean Automobile Weblog report), advised that it may be a revival of the Stinger’s mission in all however the identify itself.
Kia EV4 idea
Kia additionally has the racy-looking EV4 idea, which is because of be smaller and extra inexpensive however might present hints of the Stinger-replacing EV8’s design.
Kia’s design boss stated again in 2020 that the Stinger may swap to electrical energy. Whereas a short while later it appeared that he’d been referring to the very fast EV6 GT, maybe he was pointing towards a real successor like this all alongside.