{"id":352799,"date":"2026-04-28T12:03:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/pv5-electric-van-sales-are-so-hot-kia-is-ramping-up-production-plans\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:03:34","slug":"pv5-electric-van-sales-are-so-hot-kia-is-ramping-up-production-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/pv5-electric-van-sales-are-so-hot-kia-is-ramping-up-production-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"PV5 electric van sales are so hot, Kia is ramping up production plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/04\/pv5-electric-van-sales-are-so-hot-kia-is-ramping-up-production-plans.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>The new PV5 is Kia\u2019s first entry into the commercial vehicle space, and the company had ambitious plans to sell some 4,000 of the boxy EVs to UK fleets in 2026. Well, it\u2019s April \u2013\u00a0and it looks like Kia is going to have to build a lot more than that if it\u2019s going to meet demand. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/04\/28\/pv5-electric-van-sales-are-so-hot-kia-is-ramping-up-production-plans\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/pv5-electric-van-sales-are-so-hot-kia-is-ramping-up-production-plans\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":352800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}