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Kia launches mod-and-modular PBV platform with 5 EV concepts at CES 2024


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Kia launches mod-and-modular PBV platform with 5 EV concepts at CES 2024 - Autoblog

 

Kia just made its big CES reveal, and it’s called the Platform Beyond Vehicle, or PBV for short. The “PBV” isn’t just one vehicle, though. In total, there are five PBVs that were just revealed at CES – three versions of the Concept PV5, the Concept PV7 and the Concept PV1. All of them are electric.

That’s a whole lot of cars, and they all have their purposes.The idea behind the line of PBV vehicles is to create a modular fleet of vehicles that can be modified to suit certain needs in quick order. 

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This whole project is a little more serious than many ideas you may see at CES, too, as plans for a PBV-dedicated assembly plant are already underway. To be built in Autoland Hwaseong, the factory is expected to be online in 2025 and produce up to 150,000 vehicles per year. A business and tracking system is scheduled to be launched alongside the PV vehicles that will allow for easier fleet management and monitoring of the vehicles someone might have in their fleet. It’s unclear if these vehicles will ever go on sale in the U.S. at this point, but we’ll be on the lookout for any news over the next couple years.

 

Kia PBV Concept Lineup

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4 hours ago, rmc523 said:

Kia launches mod-and-modular PBV platform with 5 EV concepts at CES 2024 - Autoblog

 

Kia just made its big CES reveal, and it’s called the Platform Beyond Vehicle, or PBV for short. The “PBV” isn’t just one vehicle, though. In total, there are five PBVs that were just revealed at CES – three versions of the Concept PV5, the Concept PV7 and the Concept PV1. All of them are electric.

That’s a whole lot of cars, and they all have their purposes.The idea behind the line of PBV vehicles is to create a modular fleet of vehicles that can be modified to suit certain needs in quick order. 

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This whole project is a little more serious than many ideas you may see at CES, too, as plans for a PBV-dedicated assembly plant are already underway. To be built in Autoland Hwaseong, the factory is expected to be online in 2025 and produce up to 150,000 vehicles per year. A business and tracking system is scheduled to be launched alongside the PV vehicles that will allow for easier fleet management and monitoring of the vehicles someone might have in their fleet. It’s unclear if these vehicles will ever go on sale in the U.S. at this point, but we’ll be on the lookout for any news over the next couple years.

 

Kia PBV Concept Lineup

Ummmm... They're interesting. But it may be too much like that start up company Cannoo van thing. But unlike Cannoo, Kia is a funded and established automaker, so that's why it has a better chance of working.

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