Kia America immediately unveiled the all-new 2026 EV4 sedan on the New York Worldwide Auto Present. The compact EV4 successfully strengthens Kia’s electrified car portfolio and goals to broaden widespread EV enchantment and adoption by means of a mix of innovation, daring design, know-how, vary and adaptability that meets a various vary of buyer wants. The EV4 is Kia’s first world EV sedan.
Based mostly on a 400V Electrical International Modular Platform (E-GMP), which underpins a number of EV fashions from Kia, the versatile and sensible EV4 is a well-rounded compact providing for city and suburban dwellers. The EV4 gives a recent tackle conventional sedan design, introducing a brand new typology and increasing choices in an EV market dominated by CUVs and SUVs.
“The EV4 makes all-electric possession accessible for these prospects who’re searching for a extra sensible and reasonably priced choice on the EV panorama whereas nonetheless wanting a complicated, technology-driven in-car expertise,” mentioned Steven Middle, COO & EVP, Kia America. “The arrival of the EV4 underscores Kia’s total efforts to reinforce the enchantment of electrical mobility to a wider viewers — an viewers that’s been witnessing the thrill round EVs for fairly a while and at the moment are able to expertise the excellent advantages for themselves.”
The EV4 is predicted to be accessible in three trim ranges – Gentle, Wind and GT-Line. The sedan is being produced at Kia’s Autoland Gwangmyeong EVO Plant in South Korea. Gross sales for the U.S. are deliberate for the primary quarter of 2026.
Design, Outdoors and Inside
Impressed by Kia’s ‘Opposites United’ design philosophy, the all-new all-electric compact sedan options contrasts discovered throughout nature and the human world, sharing the identical basic design language as that of the ground-breaking Kia EV6 and EV9 fashions. Establishing a brand new typology, the sedan combines a low nostril, long-tail silhouette, and fastback roofline for a singular and sporty profile.
On the again, the vertical taillights, two-piece roof spoiler and modern bumper design echo the front-end styling and emphasize the automotive’s rear presence and width. The EV4’s planted stance with both commonplace 17-inch aero wheels (Gentle/Wind) or 19-inch spoke-type wheels (GT-Line) provides it an athletic and sure-footed look. Apart from bigger wheels, the EV4 GT-line options unique design components to create a extra visually hanging bundle.
Simply as ‘Opposites United’ brings collectively the outside of the EV4, Kia’s progressive design language fuses nature with human-centric and industrial themes all through the cabin area. The trendy inside additionally brings forth surprising contrasts in type, colour and materials.
Headlined by a free-floating interface and two-spoke steering wheel, the inside boasts an open structure, interesting to prospects who view simplicity and usefulness as plus-side traits when transitioning from inner combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to EVs. Enhancing practicality, the EV4 cabin focuses on consolation, area and comfort, high-quality supplies, and a powerful quantity of passenger and cargo area. The cabin expertise is additional elevated by accessible 64-color dynamic ambient lighting.
Powertrain and Efficiency
To reinforce each efficiency and effectivity, Kia prioritized aerodynamics. Airflow enhancements embrace a full underbody cowl to assist the motion of air beneath the car. The result’s a drag coefficient as little as 0.23 Cd.
By way of DC fast-charging2, the EV4 is able to charging from 10 to 80 % cost in an estimated 29 minutes for the 58.3 kWh (Gentle) battery and 31 minutes for the 81.4 kWh (Wind, GT-Line) battery. For simple accessibility, the usual NACS charging port is situated on the entrance passenger aspect.
On pavement, the EV4 advantages from superior chassis engineering aimed toward delivering a excessive stage of experience consolation and refinement in addition to participating driving dynamics. The entrance suspension is outlined by an EV-tuned MacPherson strut design and the rear suspension is a multi-link geometry. Key areas of the car physique have been stiffened to additional improve the EV4’s agility and cornering prowess.
Kia’s newest i-Pedal 3.0 system3 helps drivers to easily management the velocity of the car and convey it to a whole cease utilizing solely the accelerator pedal. This function works in tandem with EV4’s adaptive Good Regenerative Braking operate to assist recapture vitality in any other case misplaced when brakes are utilized. The i-Pedal 3.0 system additionally now works in reverse and the EV4’s i-Pedal Reminiscence operate reverts to the last-used i-Pedal setting when the automotive restarts.
Upping practicality and adaptability, the EV4 gives the numerous advantages of V2L4 performance. V2L4 is designed to permit the car to handle the circulation of electrical energy from the car to suitable exterior units, together with quite a lot of laptops, lighting, and smaller electronics.
Comfort and Connectivity
The EV4’s practically 30-inch whole mixed wide-screen display6 – comprised of twin 12.3-inch screens and five-inch local weather show – serves because the face of Kia’s related automotive Navigation Cockpit (ccNC). This tech-forward interface units a excessive watermark for the in-car content material expertise, with connectivity and leisure options which may be upgraded remotely with software program enhancements delivered by means of over-the-Air (OTA) updates. Moreover, this modern setup permits prospects to use accessible show themes throughout the cockpit, comparable to their favourite NBA workforce, for a personalised cockpit aesthetic. The EV4 additionally gives wi-fi Apple Carplay10 and Android Auto.11
The driving force can expertise a extra immersive relationship with the EV4 by means of Kia’s AI Assistant.12 This technique makes use of machine studying to realize the next stage of natural interplay and higher voice recognition between the motive force and the car.
Different key consolation and comfort options embrace commonplace dual-zone computerized temperature management with rear A/C vents, acoustic windshield, and accessible heated/ventilated entrance seats13 with driver aspect reminiscence and heated steering wheel.
Superior Driver Help Know-how
The EV4 gives a sturdy suite of ADAS options, together with commonplace Freeway Driving Help (HDA)8, which is designed to make use of velocity restrict data from the navigation system on managed entry highway (comparable to state highways, U.S. highways, and federal interstates). Beneath sure situations, it robotically adjusts the car’s set velocity to match the posted velocity restrict (if initially set to the velocity restrict) and maintains distance from the car detected in entrance.
To additional elevate roadway consciousness for the motive force, the EV4 has accessible options comparable to Driver Consideration Warning14, Ahead Collision Avoidance Assist15, Lane Following Assist16, Clever Pace Restrict Assist17 and Distant Good Parking Help.18
Commonplace Palms-On Detection (HOD) senses contact between the motive force’s fingers and the steering wheel to find out if the motive force has their fingers on the steering wheel, permitting for activation and deactivation of ADAS warnings.
