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Kia’s ‘Platform Beyond Vehicles’ is a family of modular electric minivans for businesses
The Platform Beyond Vehicles look just like minivans.
CES is famous for highlighting the outlandish, the uncompromising, and the immobile in the auto industry, but props to Kia for thinking more practically with its latest concept. The PBVs kind of resemble boring blobs: minivans with flat fronts, minimal overhangs, and an overall boxy design that screams “utility.” They can have long or short wheelbases. Hyundai, which owns a controlling stake in Kia, also had a PBV, or Purpose Built Vehicle, as part of its air mobility concept at the show in 2020.
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