The 2024 Kia EV6 will get a brand new trim that provides patrons extra vary at a cheaper price.

Information of the 2024 EV6 Mild Lengthy Vary was once firstly discovered through Inexperienced Automotive Stories’ spouse website CarsDirect, mentioning a dealership order information, however GCR has since showed the brand new style’s arrival with Kia USA.

The Mild Lengthy Vary will lower the cost of the EV6’s better 77.4-kwh battery pack through as much as $2,750. That is the distinction between the Mild Lengthy Vary’s $45,950 base worth (together with vacation spot) in single-motor rear-wheel-drive shape and that of the next-highest Wind trim degree. The EV6 Wind’s base worth is unchanged from 2023.

Each the Mild Lengthy Vary and Wind are anticipated to satisfy or beat this configuration’s 2023 EPA ranking of 310 miles of vary. The EV6 Mild was once up to now to be had handiest with a smaller 58-kwh battery pack affording 232 miles of EPA vary. The Mild Lengthy Vary prices $3,350 greater than the usual model, consistent with CarsDirect.

2023 Kia EV6 GT

Upgrading to a dual-motor all-wheel-drive powertrain is an additional $3,900, however that is similar to the top rate for all-wheel force on different EV6 trim ranges.

The brand new lineup parallels the manner used for the three-row EV9, which provides its perfect vary of 304 miles in Mild Lengthy Vary trim. It is also the second one time Kia has reshuffled the EV6 lineup because the EV’s release for the 2022 style yr.

Whilst the EV9 is predicted to be eligible for the EV tax credit score of as much as $7,500, the EV6 is made in South Korea and is not eligible.

Kia first of all raised costs for the EV6’s 2nd style yr, for 2023, and dropped the bottom Mild model with the smaller battery pack. That model returned this spring at $43,925 with vacation spot, however was once handiest first of all to be had in a subset of states.

Kia USA showed to Inexperienced Automotive Stories that the 2024 EV6 Mild Lengthy Vary and 2024 EV6 Mild will probably be to be had in all 50 states.

2023 Kia EV6 GT

The EV6 is among the fastest-charging reasonably priced EVs, and on account of its just right potency and modest battery pack dimension, it does not require in search of out the highest-power chargers. That provides it a bonus in charging livability as opposed to its Hyundai Ioniq 5 platform-mate.

Kia this previous week stated that the EV6 would be the first of its fashions to get the Tesla North American Charging Same old (NACS) rate port, within the U.S. The rollout is scheduled to begin in past due 2024.

with reporting through Bengt Halvorson