The all-electric Kia EV9 has been named a 2024 Wards 10 Greatest Interiors & UX award winner. The annual Wards 10 Greatest Interiors & UX competitors evaluates new or closely redesigned car interiors and user-experience expertise, with scoring based mostly on a wide range of metrics together with design and aesthetics, consolation, supplies, fit-and-finish, connectivity and infotainment, shows and controls, in addition to superior driver help programs and worth. For the 2024 awards, 25 autos had been evaluated.
“Wards 10 Greatest Interiors & UX Awards reveal the industry-leading high quality of the Kia EV9,” mentioned Steven Middle, COO & EVP, Kia America. “We’re honored to see the EV9 awarded for its distinctive design, modern expertise and general consolation.”
“Kia takes a step as much as the premium ranks with the exquisitely styled and well designed EV9, integrating Kia’s newest expertise right into a good-looking, horizontal dashboard that gives quick access to each function, whereas driver and passengers benefit from the comforts of a plushy outfitted and pleasantly illuminated cabin for as much as seven,” mentioned, Wards 10 Greatest Interiors & UX choose, Bob Gritzinger.
Wards 10 Greatest Inside & UX judges recommended the EV9 for its futuristic fashion due to its coloration, textures, and options, such because the haptic management buttons on the sprint and the choice to fold and unfold the second-row seats from the touchscreen. Judges highlighted the EV9’s consolation and adaptability, together with probably the greatest out there ambient lighting programs they’ve encountered, with the flexibility to dial in two separate colours, and second-row areas illuminated, together with the pull-out tray and drawer on the again of the middle console. Lovely show screens, straightforward cellphone pairing, and tons of ports and retailers additionally earned the car’s successful place.