- Three-row EV SUV praised for its roominess, abundance of expertise, and aggressive worth level
- Class win makes EV9 a contender for Girls’s Worldwide Automotive of the Yr’s Prime Award
The 2024 Kia EV9 has been named a winner within the 2024 Girls’s Worldwide Automotive of the Yr (WWCOTY) awards, taking the win within the SUV class. The EV9’s class win has earned it a spot as a contender within the remaining spherical of judging for the WWCOTY’s Prime Award, which can be introduced on Worldwide Girls’s Day on March 8, 2024.
“We’re immensely pleased with the EV9’s triumph within the Girls’s Worldwide Automotive of the Yr awards,” stated Steven Heart, COO & EVP, Kia America. “This achievement is especially important, on condition that the all-electric EV9 emerged victorious within the fiercely contested SUV class, wherein it confronted a various discipline of world contenders. This award is a motivating pressure for Kia to proceed pushing boundaries and exceeding expectations.”
The Kia EV9 impressed the jurors on a number of ranges, together with its spacious inside for as much as seven passengers. The WWCOTY jury panel additionally famous the EV9 outshined the competitors with its revolutionary design, high-tech inside, bidirectional charging, and “ultra-fast 800-volt charging.” In summarizing the the reason why the EV9 was a standout success, Marta García, Govt President of Girls’s Worldwide Automotive of the Yr stated “…its worth may be very aggressive in comparison with different fashions in its phase.”
Created in 2009, the Girls’s Worldwide Automotive of the Yr is comprised completely of ladies, with 75 journalists spanning 52 nations. To find out the winners, a complete of 62 automobiles have been examined and evaluated on security, high quality, worth, design, efficiency, and environmental influence, amongst different necessary elements primarily based on the identical ideas that drivers think about when making a automobile buy.
