2023 Kia Niro First Drive: Running the Electric Gamut
Photo: D.Boshouwers 2023 Kia Niro HEV San Diego, CA – Generation Two of the Kia Niro is the culmination of a design process that began with the Kia HabaNiro concept, first introduced at the New York Auto Show back in 2019, in the pre-Covid age.
Photo: D.Boshouwers Kia Niro EV 2023, rear and profile Kia Canada decided to make only two of those formats available to us for our initial contact with the 2023 Niro, and the reason wasn’t complicated. The company expects the Niro EV to make up 70 percent of the model’s sales in Canada, with the Niro HEV straight hybrid expected to account for much of the rest.
The interior has also been pretty thoroughly modernized, which is good because other new hybrid and electric models are now out there putting on the pressure. And so the layout of the dash and central console are similar to what we’ve seen in the new Sportage and the EV6, only slightly shrunken. There’s the dual function row of haptic controls, for example. One row’s for the climate control and one’s for infotainment.
Kia has integrated V2L technology into the Niro EV as well, which allows users to power external devices when needed using the vehicle. Remote Smart Parking Assist, meanwhile, allows you to get your car out of a tight spot even if you can’t squeeze into the slit of a door opening. And at the back, the Niro now has an available smart power liftgate for the first time. Also for the first time? A 20-litre frunk, or front trunk.
By the way, the PHEV version we did not drive comes with an official electric range of 55 km, which makes it eligible for the federal EV incentive.Here there’s a positive way to look at things, and a negative one. On the one hand, changes to EV incentive criteria federally and in some provinces over the last year now mean that EVs can be eligible for those incentives even if their base price is above the $45,000 threshold. But Kia has held the line and kept the $44,995 price point.
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