There were 20,296 newly registered taxis that went into service in Korea between January to July 2022, according to data from Korea’s Ministry of Transport, extracted by carisyou.com. Of the total, 36.4 percent (7,394 units) were battery electric vehicles (BEVs, or battery EVs). This is a sharp increase from the 1,029 units of electric taxis registered in the whole of 2019. Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 is the most popular EV taxi there, with 3,453 units registered in the first 7 months of 2022. This is fol

Yes we know the 2022 Kia EV6 has already been launched, and yes we love it, but unlike other cars on sale, the unit you're looking at here is your only chance at getting up close and personal with this snazzy new EV. Why? Well simply because the first shipment of EV6s has all been spoken for, and will be delivered to customers starting in Q3 of 2022. The EV6 is not even available in Kia showrooms, and thus your best chance of viewing it is at the WapCar Auto Show 2022. To recap, the recently lau

Dinamikjaya Motors to launch Kia EV6 in Malaysia in H2 2022 Sales will be low, capped by shortage in supply Bermaz's priority is to stablize Kia's profitability and sales volume, before putting in more resources into EVs Bermaz Auto, the parent company of Kia distributor Dinamikjaya Motors, is confirmed to launch the fully electric, E-GMP platform Kia EV6 in the second half of this year. This was confirmed by CEO Dato’ Francis Lee in an interview with BFM radio earlier this month. “We are going

Following the Ministry of Finance’s Budget 2022 announcement to exempt electric vehicles (EVs) from taxes, EVs are now generally referred to as tax-free. In October 2021, Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz’s Budget 2022 proposed for EVs (specifically, it’s battery electric vehicles or BEVs) to be made tax-free. Some buyers confused this to include sales tax. However, the Malaysia Automotive Association (MAA) has since clarified that the tax-free reference only refers to import

In a report by Maybank Investment Bank (Maybank IB), it has been revealed that Dinamikjaya Motors, Kia’s new distributor in Malaysia, is mulling to introduce the fully-electric Kia EV6 as soon as this year. The launch is subject to conditions or incentives outlined by Malaysia's upcoming EV promotion policy. And that’s not all, according to the report, Dinamikjaya is also planning to locally assemble (CKD) the EV6. If the distributor manages to CKD the EV6, the model will very well be one of the

We've long established that electric cars are the way forward, although there are always naysayers. Well, the naysayers won't like watching this: A Kia EV6 GT electric car going toe to toe with some of the world's fastest supercars. Watch as Kia's latest and greatest battle it out in a drag race against renowned performance cars like the Lamborghini Urus, Ferrari California T, McLaren 570S, Porsche 911 and Mercedes AMG GT. Fast cars in their own right. Can the Kia EV6 GT, or will it end up with