2025 Kia EV6 facelift: New looks, bigger battery and new tech promised

Speaking exclusively to Wheels at the forthcoming EV5’s local reveal, Kia Australia’s product planning boss Roland Rivero said he expects the restyled and updated EV6 to appear “very very late this year” – around six months after a similar refresh is debuted on its Hyundai Ioniq 5 EV cousin.

“It pretty much retains the [existing overall] design, [but there will be] some enhancements to the headlights to incorporate the [latest Kia] design language.

“[Yet] it’s still very distinctively EV6, and still more passenger-car-like in its execution than an SUV.”

Like the MY25 Ioniq 5, the 2025 EV6 will feature refreshed styling with expected updates such as new alloy wheel designs, as well as a larger 84kWh battery in lieu of the existing 77.4kWh unit in the upper-spec EV6 GT-Line RWD and AWD variants.

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No range claims have been quoted for any Hyundai-Kia EV with this larger battery, but you can expect the MY25 EV6 to improve upon the already-decent WLTP figures of 484km for the GT-Line AWD and 504km for the GT-Line rear-wheel drive with the 77.4kWh battery.

Again like the updated Ioniq 5, the facelifted EV6 will at last be capable of over-the-air (OTA) software updates and is expected to feature similar additional active safety features, enhanced interior finishes and upholstery, revised switchgear, latest-generation multimedia technology and enhanced standard equipment.

Given the excellence of the Australian EV6’s suspension tune, there isn’t really a need for improvements in this area, though the MY25 Ioniq 5 gains a strengthened body structure for improved ride and refinement, so the updated EV6 is likely to follow suit.

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This would allow the GT-Line to be moved further upmarket in its luxe interior presentation – further separating it from the EV5 GT-Line – while creating space for an EV6 Earth variant.

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