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2026 Kia EV3 First Drive Review: More Like This, Please

With an expected range topping 300 miles and a $35,000 price point, the Kia EV3 is simply a well-made electric car for the masses.

Impressively, Kia employed a ton of aerodynamic tricks between the underbody panels and wheel arch designs to bring the drag coefficient down to 0.26Cd, which you definitely wouldn’t expect from its squared-off body. We’ll have to see how Kia ends up packaging U.S.-spec EV3s, but the base model I drove in Seoul last week was hardly a penalty box, with a triumvirate of screens stretching across the fabric-covered dash—two 12.3-inchers for the driver display and infotainment, with a 5-incher in the middle housing the climate controls. It feels like a more premium product than its price would suggest not because of gimmicks or flashy tech, but because it is simply a well-considered and well-made car, the same way a Honda Civic outclasses its context as basic transportation for people who don’t really want to think about what they drive.

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