{"id":50925,"date":"2022-08-23T11:39:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T03:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=50925"},"modified":"2022-08-23T11:39:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T03:39:37","slug":"kia-ev6-named-2022-european-car-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2022\/08\/23\/kia-ev6-named-2022-european-car-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Kia EV6 named 2022 European Car of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The all-new Kia EV6 has been named the 2022 Car of the Year in the European Car of the Year (COTY) awards. The innovative all-electric crossover was voted the overall winner by a 61-strong jury consisting of highly respected motoring journalists from 23 European countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Kia EV6 was initially listed for consideration for the top award alongside over sixty models that launched during 2021. In November, the COTY jury whittled this longlist down to a seven-strong shortlist, six of which were electric vehicles (EVs), further demonstrating the growing importance of electric vehicles to consumers as society transitions towards a new mobility future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jason Jeong, President at Kia Europe, commented: &#8220;It&#8217;s a great honour to have won the 2022 European Car of the Year with the EV6, the first ever Kia to win this prestigious award. The EV6 is truly a landmark development that&#8217;s been designed from the outset to make electric mobility fun, convenient and accessible by combining a highly impressive real-world driving range, ultra-fast charging capabilities, a spacious high-tech interior and a truly rewarding driving experience. The EV6 is an exciting sign of what&#8217;s still to come in our evolving electrified line-up.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EV6 is Kia&#8217;s first dedicated EV to be based on the company&#8217;s Electric-Global Modular Platform (E-GMP). This high-tech architecture ensures the EV6 eliminates the many compromises faced by EVs that are created on platforms initially designed to accommodate internal combustion engine vehicles. As a result of its E-GMP underpinnings, the EV6 has a class-leading interior space, a highly impressive 528km driving range and 800V ultra-fast charging capabilities that enables customers to carry out a 10 to 80 percent charge in just 18 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The innovative all-electric crossover was voted the overall winner by a 61-strong jury consisting of highly respected motoring journalists from 23 European countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":50926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[637],"tags":[6267,628],"class_list":["post-50925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring-2","tag-kia","tag-motoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}