Bench seats. When you can nonetheless discover them in sure pickup configurations, many people miss having the choice in automobiles. However like white wall tires and column shifters (although these appear to be making a comeback at Mercedes and with EVs) they went the way in which of the Dodo. Kia simply launched a design that will get us no less than a part of the way in which there.

Kia launched extra particulars and pictures of its third EV known as the EV5. It’s only a idea proper now nevertheless it’s set to go on sale in China in 2024; it’s up within the air whether or not or not we’ll see it right here within the U.S. Visually, it comes throughout as a smaller EV9 and definitely appears to be like cool and techy. Whereas the outside design is fascinating, the within is even higher.

Ignoring the standard EV design tendencies of giant contact screens, and low, floating heart and ground consoles takes us to the EV5’s seating. The entrance seats mix into one another with a bench-like design. Each entrance seats are linked by a curved, barely raised portion between the seats. You might nearly sit on it.

However upon nearer inspection within the pictures Kia launched, you’ll see what appears to be like to be a fold down heart armrest that comes down on prime of this a part of the seat. You’ll additionally discover how there isn’t any heart seat belt. So the presence of a fold down armrest and lack of a seat belt and the ground console present’s that it isn’t a seat in any respect sadly and is only a cool design characteristic. Regardless of the official phrase is on this distinctive design ingredient will stay a thriller for now. Other than lots of PR converse, Kia isn’t saying mush concerning the EV5 but.