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Kia launches the 2025 Ray EV starting under $21,000 (electrek.co)
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Kia officially launched the 2025 Ray EV in Korea with the same low starting price of under $21,000. However, the new model year gains additional features. With incentives, the entry-level electric car can be bought for as little as $15,000 (20 million won).

The “New Kia Ray” was reborn as an entry-level EV last year. After opening pre-orders last August, starting at around $20,500 (27.35 million won), the Kia Ray EV secured over 6,000 reservations in less than a month.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Please bring to North America

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

"We hear you! Here is another hideous SUV with absolutely awful, wildly inefficient energy-to-range figures. Enjoy!"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

It's made exclusively for the SK market.
It also likely wouldn't pass US safety ratings because it's lightweight and tiny.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If it does it'll get the import tax so look forward to it being in the high 20ks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

unless they build in the US?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I don't know that they're allowed to. I saw China is building some of them in Mexico because of it.