Best-selling car brand that’s become UK favourite to rival the Ford Transit with van coming in just months

A BEST-SELLING car marque is acceptable to merchandise a stylish caller SUV - and it's tipped to rival Ford's fan-favourite Transit.

The brand-new Kia PV5 volition beryllium disposable to bid astatine an undisclosed day successful 2025 and are expected to acceptable buyers backmost upwards of £34,000.

The electrical motor's modular sheet van is 4.5 metres agelong and operates successful front-wheel drive.

There volition beryllium longer ones (4.7 metres), high-roof versions (allowing drivers to basal up successful the cargo area), radical movers and a chassis cab for conversions which volition beryllium released astatine a aboriginal date.

Satnav location, contacts, complaint presumption and different data tin beryllium shared van-to-van and backmost astatine base.

If you’re moving debased connected juice, different PV5 tin halt and apical you up.

Integrated obstruction systems successful the cargo country let for cabinets oregon frames afloat of worldly to beryllium switched from 1 van to another, utilizing a tablet.

“In bid to disrupt the LCV market, an all-in attack is needed to maximise the benefits of a dedicated level for a wide scope of customers," Marc Hedrich, president of Kia successful Europe, said.

“While this attack is not a archetypal for electrical rider cars, it’s surely the archetypal clip we spot it for LCV.

"This is simply a benchmark moment, and our PBVs are acceptable to present amended accessibility, higher volumes, and little moving costs, to wholly alteration logistics and mobility.”

The vans volition travel successful 3 artillery sizes, including a low-cost option, with accelerated charging to 80 per cent successful little than 30 minutes.

They volition boat ultra-fast charging, high-tech cabins and hands-free cargo loading from 1 van to another.

Drivers tin get down the model's wheels aft forking retired astir £34,000.

Kia UK brag Paul Philpott promised earlier this year: “We are precise existent astir our aboriginal successful the electrical van market.

To interruption done we request to person competitively priced products.

“It’s a large accidental for america implicit a play of time.

“But we person to found the foundations first.

“If you deliberation you are going to travel successful with immoderate truly bully electrical van merchandise and spell from zero to No1 wrong 3 years you’re mad.

“We person to physique relationships with fleet customers, concern customers, found the expertise and turn it implicit time.

“The spot of the Kia marque volition assistance us. People cognize us.”

It comes aft Volvo teased images of the returning S90, dubbed the ES90, which is an electric version of the four-door vehicle.

No authoritative details of the conveyance person been released yet, but TopGear.com believes it volition apt instrumentality immoderate components from the EX90.

That conveyance has a ample 111kWh artillery successful its floor, supporting charing up to 250kW and claiming a scope of 374 miles.

The ES90 could beryllium disposable arsenic soon arsenic Spring adjacent year, with the EX60 coming afterwards.

New modular plan is acceptable to underpin each future electric vehicles from Volvo, opening with the EX90.