Interior

The interior is billed as “vegan” made of black faux suede or white leather depending on what you go for, with much of the interior made of recycled materials. The cockpit and steering column offer dual 12.3” curved display that skirts the line between instrument cluster and dedicated Augmented Reality heads up display. That said, there is an AR HUD, displaying driving information on the windscreen and turn by turn instructions from the navigation system. You get seven years of Kia Connect (UVO) services and can connect it via an app.

It’s a comfortable ride, featuring eight-way adjustable power driver's seat with two-way power lumbar support and two-position memory – the same goes for the back seats (except it doesn’t have the memory installed – and the middle seat misses out.) You can even go business class and recline to almost 180°.

But that’s all good though, considering the seatbacks have USB ports to power their devices without shuffling anyone about. There’s also V2L (Vehicle to Load) power underneath the rear passenger seats.

Like everything modern these days, it comes with RGB lighting – you can tailor the front and rear ambient lights to your liking in 64 different colours. It also features active sound design – which is a fancy word for fake driving noises. (You don’t need these on, of course.) If you like a bit of tunes instead, you can listen to dulcet tones via the fourteen (!!) speaker Meridian setup, which includes four tweeters, four woofers, and one subwoofer.

A central dial on the console changes “gears” with push-button parking mode. You can also rest your phone atop this console for wireless charging. Apple CarPlay is wireless; and again, for some bizarre reason, Android Auto is wired only.

Inside there’s a wide sunroof which takes full advantage of the space, instead of just a little square that sits above you that you never really use.

Thanks to the E-GMP platform, the floor is completely flat and gives the back row much more legroom than other comparable EV SUVs.

Garnering a top-tier five-star ANCAP Safety Rating, almost all active safety assistance features are standard. This consists of adaptive cruise control with stop and go, blind-spot collision alert and avoidance help, lane following and maintaining assist, rear-cross traffic alert and avoidance aid, and auto emergency braking (AEB) with moving object (cars, bikes, etc.) turning recognition. Dual frontal, side chest-protecting and side head-protecting (curtain) airbags are fitted as standard.

Additionally, all variations are equipped with driver attention alert, lead vehicle departure alert, intelligent speed limit help, safe exit warning (which keeps you from opening the doors into the path of an approaching car or bike), and safe exit warning.

The GT variant also sports rear Autonomous Emergency Braking while parking, A 360-degree surround vision camera with different angle views, an automatic kid rear door lock, and a blind-spot view monitor camera.