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Kia Charge has expanded its network to over 800,000 charging points across Europe, marking a significant increase from previous years. This expansion enhances Kia’s one-stop charging solution, making electric vehicle charging more accessible and convenient for customers.
Key Highlights
- Kia Charge now offers access to over 800,000 AC and DC charging points in 28 European countries.
- This represents a 10% increase from Q2 2024 and a 39% increase from Q2 2023.
- 41% of Kia customers registered for Kia Charge in 2024.
- More than 2.5 million charging sessions have been completed using Kia Charge services.
- Kia Charge provides a single service for charging at home, work, or on the road, including route planning and payment.
- Access to over 4,200 ultra-fast charging stations through the IONITY network.
- Kia supports IONITY’s expansion to more than 17,000 high-power charging stations in Europe by 2030.
- Kia Plug & Charge allows charging without a card or app for authentication.
- Kia Charge Business solution offers centralized charging management for EV fleets.
Kia Charge is the company’s one-contract service for all charging activities in Europe, catering to both public and business customers. With more than 100,000 subscribers, the service now provides access to over 800,000 AC and DC charging points in 28 countries, showing a 10% increase from Q2 2024 and a 39% increase from Q2 2023. Customers have completed more than 2.5 million charging sessions using either their Kia Charge card or the Kia Charge app.
“As more electric vehicles take to the road, it’s important to match this uptake with an increasing number of charging points, to help our customers easily charge their vehicles,” said Martin Enthofer, Director Customer Experience Strategy and Solutions at Kia Europe. “Kia continues to set the benchmark for making electric driving more accessible to a wider range of audience, with Kia Charge helping to simplify and enhance every journey.”
Kia Charge offers customers a single service for charging—whether at home, at work, or on the road—including route planning, authentication, account management, and payment. Customers can also access over 4,200 ultra-fast charging stations of the IONITY network. Through its partnership with IONITY, Kia is supporting the expansion to more than 17,000 high-power charging stations along European highways by 2030.
So far this year, Kia Charge has a take-rate of 42%, with an overall satisfaction rate of around 75%. Supporting Kia Charge is the Kia EV Route Planner, which allows the vehicle’s navigation system to detect charging stations along the route and add them as waypoints automatically, making all charging points easily findable.
Kia Plug & Charge is also available to help take the stress out of charging. Customers can charge their EV by simply plugging in the charging cable—no charging card or app required for authentication. For business customers and companies, the Kia Charge Business solution enables centralized charging management of EV fleets.
About Kia Europe
Kia Europe is the European sales and manufacturing division of Kia Corporation—a global mobility brand that is creating innovative, pioneering, and leading sustainable mobility solutions for consumers, communities, and societies around the world. As a Sustainable Mobility Solutions Provider, Kia is spearheading the popularization of electrified and battery electric vehicles and developing a growing range of mobility services, encouraging people around the world to explore the best ways of getting around.
Kia Europe, headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, employs over 5,500 employees from 40 nationalities in 39 markets across Europe and the Caucasus. It also oversees European production at the company’s state-of-the-art facility in Zilina, Slovakia.
Kia’s innovative products continue to attract great acclaim, notably the EV6 battery electric vehicle becoming the first Korean car to be named European Car of the Year in 2022.
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