Kia EV4 earns five-star Green NCAP sustainability rating with 90% score
Kia's first dedicated all-electric sedan, the EV4, has taken a five-star Green NCAP Sustainability Rating with a 90% overall score — the best result among the seven vehicles tested.
- 90%
- 81.4 kWh
- 13.9 kWh/100 km
- 130 kW
What Happened
The Kia EV4, Kia's first dedicated all-electric sedan, has earned a five-star Green NCAP Sustainability Rating with a 90% overall score. That is the highest overall score among all seven vehicles assessed in the latest test round, which included electric, hybrid, gasoline and diesel models. The car was tested in Earth trim with an 81.4 kWh battery. Green NCAP attributes the strong result to the vehicle's efficient powertrain, its production in Slovakia and a clean regional electricity mix.
90%
Highest overall score among the seven vehicles in the latest assessment round.
- 9.5/10
- 8.9/10
- 8.8/10
Green NCAP evaluates vehicles across Clean Air, Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse Gases using laboratory and on-road testing, and its Sustainability Rating considers whole-life environmental impact, including driving range, charging and cold-weather performance. The tested EV4 is built in Slovakia, and Green NCAP used European production parameters in its lifecycle calculation, noting that European production and a relatively clean regional energy mix contributed positively to the result. Green NCAP also highlighted the EV4's efficient powertrain and low electricity consumption across multiple test conditions, including 13.9 kWh/100 km in summer on-road testing.
- Manual and automatic battery preconditioning to optimize charging
- DC fast charging starting at up to 130 kW, tapering toward the end of the charging process to protect battery health
- Bidirectional charging capabilities, adding to the vehicle's everyday versatility
“The Kia EV4 successfully introduces long-range EV capability from the premium into the mainstream family-car market. Green NCAP found the vehicle offers consumers high efficiency and excellent range under a variety of driving conditions. We applaud Kia for producing this model in Europe which further reduces its environmental impact. A 5-star sustainability rating for a vehicle of this size and class is a real achievement.”
“Like all Kia EV models, the EV4 was developed to make electric mobility both more practical and more sustainable for everyday use. The five-star Green NCAP rating provides valuable independent recognition of the engineering that has gone into the EV4's energy efficiency, real-world driving performance and lifecycle environmental impact.”
Why this matters
The rating gives buyers an independent, whole-life environmental measure of the EV4, not just a range figure, and Green NCAP singled out its efficiency, cold-weather range and charging. Because the EV4 is built in Slovakia, the result also reflects European production and the region's relatively clean electricity mix, which affect the car's footprint where it is sold.
Terms in This Story
- Green NCAP
- An independent assessment programme that rates vehicles on environmental performance such as emissions, energy efficiency and greenhouse gases, using laboratory and on-road testing.
- battery preconditioning
- Preparing an electric vehicle's battery, usually by heating or cooling it, before charging so it can accept power faster and more efficiently.
- bidirectional charging
- The ability of an electric vehicle to both draw power from and send power back to an external source, rather than only charging in one direction.
- Sustainability Rating
- A Green NCAP score that goes beyond tailpipe emissions to consider a vehicle's environmental impact over its whole life, including production and energy use.
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