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Kia Announces 2023 Sportage PHEV for US Market in Q3

By Marian Barnes
February 12, 2022
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These features of the 2023 Kia Sportage include a high-efficiency 7.2 kW on-board charger that reduces the time needed to fully charge the identically sized 13.8 kWh battery to around 2 hours, compared to around 4 hours for the Sorento PHEV. This could be an attractive feature for drivers with the ability to recharge during a full day of errands or for those who rely on public charging infrastructure to keep their PHEV running at peak efficiency. In an informal poll of a handful of Sorento PHEV owners I did on social media, it’s not a feature many would pay extra for. As such, it’s interesting that Kia chose to include this feature on its lower-priced Sportage and may suggest the faster charger will come to the more expensive Sorento, at least as an option, eventually. Otherwise, with a PHEV intended to be charged once or a few times a day, typically even the slower 3.x kW Level 2 charging rate commonly available on PHEVs is enough to keep a person going for more than 30 to 60 driving miles every day. with a charge stop of a few hours or more in the middle. Granted, that won’t be enough for every driver on every occasion, but PHEVs aren’t meant to be 100% electric either. Kia’s choice is therefore interesting and we hope it will lead to customers having options for faster charging times in the future.

Another option, or rather set of options, unique to the Sportage PHEV is the trim package. For the Sorento PHEV, in the United States, the only trim packages are the two most luxurious versions, the SX and SX-P. For the Sportage PHEV, the two trim options are the more “sporty and rugged” X-Line and X-Line Prestige trims which include unique front and rear bumpers, side mirror, roof rack, door surrounds window and gloss black alloy wheels. In both models, PHEVs represent the more expensive versions, which makes sense given the added costs of the plug-in powertrain and the limited supply of batteries required by each. But still, it’s somewhat disappointing that the low-cost versions aren’t available to those who might need or want them in the US, initially. Undoubtedly, Kia is very strategic when it comes to the prices and versions offered for its PHEVs depending on each market. Either way, there’s at least a little comfort knowing that the Kia and Hyundai PHEV compact SUVs will or still are among the cheapest options in the US, especially given their beefier AWD systems ( and standard).

As positive as the news of another ultra-efficient plug-in vehicle is, the Sportage PHEV may represent the last new PHEV model (or one of the last) that Kia will offer in the United States. That’s because, as InsideEVs explained, now through the next two years is Kia’s projected “peak” period for PHEVs. Maybe Kia will offer one or two other PHEV models besides the Niro, Sorento and Sportage, maybe a Telluride or a Carnival for example, but that seems less likely to me given the volume described in the article InsideEVs and the sales volume of the three PHEVs that Kia offers in the United States by the end of this year. Between the 3, I imagine Kia could easily sell about ⅓ of its total estimated PHEV production in the US alone, let alone European and Asian markets. From that plateau, Kia will gradually offer fewer PHEVs and more BEVs and HEVs over the decade, apparently. That’s not a bad thing in and of itself, given the investments the U.S. government and the private sector are making in electric vehicle charging infrastructure, which will make it easier for people to transition to fully electric vehicles.
Are you interested in the Sportage PHEV? If so, what’s more appealing than Kia’s other PHEVs? Leave your comments and questions below.

Image courtesy of Kia.

Justin Hart has owned and driven electric vehicles for over 14 years, including a first-generation Nissan LEAF, second-generation Chevy Volt, Tesla Model 3, electric bicycle, and most recently, a Kia Sorento PHEV. He is also a SUP enthusiast, poet, photographer and wine lover. He enjoys taking long EV and PHEV trips to beautiful, serene places with the people he loves. Follow Justin on Twitter for daily news coverage of KIA EV.

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