Kia To Launch PHEV Ceed in the Second Half of 2019

by Oct 15, 2018All News0 comments

Ceed

Ceed

Kia Motors Europe is on its way to accomplish the 2020 Hyundai-Kia Eco Car plan schedule of electrified models with the addition of a new Ceed estate plug-in hybrid model.

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We read on Autocar that the Ceed plug-in will share the same Plug-in Hybrid powertrain as the Niro PHEV and is scheduled to go on sale “in the second half of 2019” in wagon form.

With a 139bhp 1.6-litre petrol engine mated to a 59kW electric motor and 8.4kWh battery pack, a Ceed estate with the same powertrain should match, or even beat, the Niro’s 29g/km of CO2 and 217mpg of the outgoing NEDC economy standard.

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“We are going to introduce it for the wagon, and then decide if it makes sense on other body-types,” says Kia Europe’s marketing chief Artur Martins.

Production will be localised at Kia’s Slovakia plant, the first Kia plug-in hybrid vehicle to be build in Europe.

Written by Jose Antonio Lopez

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