Kia Carnival Hybrid Prototype Spied Testing

Phantasm22 said:

Kia Carnival Hybrid Prototype Spied Testing - Korean Car Blog

Shares 3 As you already known, Kia is currently working on updating production line inside Sohari plant in South Korea in order to start production of the Carnival Hybrid and All-electric EV9 large SUV from 2023, something that means the discontinuation of Stinger. Now we have first spy pictures...

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Dadillac said:

Thanks for sharing, interesting that this author thinks it will share the same 1.6 engine as the Sorento PHEV. I Feel like it will be underpowered but with the price of gas these days it could be worth the trade off.

I did find this part a little confusing…

“Despite the PHEV, looks like Kia will skip it and will focus on a full-electric Carnival, but for now we will have to settle for the hybrid”

So will there be a hybrid or full electric??? Maybe I’m misreading it…

Anywho, with the way things are going who knows when it would be available for purchase and actual delivery…

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Phantasm22 said:

I think what they are suggesting is the Kia will release a hybrid-electric (non-plugin) and skip the PHEV (plug-in hybrid electric) in favor of the full on plug-in (non-hybrid) electric. That's supported by the pictures where there are no front electric charging doors (from what I can see).

Personally, I'd love to see the PHEV as it would qualify for a tax credit here in the US.

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Phantasm22 said:

If I were to do it all over again, I would do the same and get the ICE Carnival. The resell values on via Carvana are still crazy. If / when a hybrid or AWD (or ideally both) shows up we’ll be trading ours in for a new one.

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