The changes will take place from April 2025, the Chancellor revealed in his Autumn Statement

HiiROC has raised £26 million in funding from investors including Hyundai and Kia

They have signed a contract for investment in Arrival and for the joint development of electric vehicles

IONITY has so far achieved a network of nearly 140 renewable energy-powered charging stations in 14 European countries

The brand has more than doubled the rated driving range for the model in the space of one year

Four more carmakers have launched scrappage schemes in the UK. Kia, Nissan, Renault and Volkswagen have announced deals through which owners of cars registered before 2010 could save money by trading in their older vehicles for a new model. Those wishing to buy low emissions cars from Kia, Nissan and Renault could save up to […]

Kia Motors Corporation has cut the environmental impact of its Korean factories. While the car maker’s year-on-year global sales grew by 0.3% last year to 3.05 million units, it has managed to lower emissions levels, reduce water and raw material usage and hit a 93.7% recycling rate (219,000 tonnes) across its domestic production sites. This […]

Kia has announced it will develop “a greatly increased range” of environmental friendly vehicles. The South Korean firm has designed a five-year ‘green car roadmap’ which includes a target to become the lowest emissions of its kind in the car market by 2020. The car manufacturer aims to increase its green car models to 11 during […]

A South Korean automotive giant’s electric vehicle (EV) has been selected to trial a new wireless charging system in the US. Kia’s Soul EV wireless charger has reached the final stage of development and will be tested on five of its models. It won funding from the US Department of Energy for the project. It […]

Hyundai and Kia Motors have agreed to pay a record penalty for understating greenhouse gas emissions from nearly 1.2 million of their cars and trucks. They will pay a $100 million (£62.5m) fine – the largest in the US Clean Air Act history – and forfeit 4.75 million greenhouse gas emission credits, estimated to be […]