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From Edward VIII to James Dyson: the yacht that tells a tale of British wealth

The fortunes of industry and a handful of ultra-rich individuals are woven through the history of the Nahlin

I n the early years of this century, soon after he began moving production of his bagless vacuum cleaner from Wiltshire to south-east Asia , James Dyson bought a superb yacht. The Nahlin is exemplary in the beauty of its lines and instructive in its history, though how much of this history Dyson understands or relishes is hard to know. Despite spending a fortune (at least £25m) on its restoration, Dyson has never talked publicly about his yacht, no more than he has about his purchase of Singapore’s most expensive flat (£43m) and its sale soon after, at a loss. For a time, a kind of omertà prevailed about the vessel’s ownership among its team of restorers, though to own and care for such an elegant piece of naval architecture would surely be no shame.

What Dyson certainly knows is that it was on the Nahlin that King Edward VIII and Mrs Wallis Simpson shed any discretion and “came out” as a couple – a relationship reported across the world, though not at the time in Britain – precipitating the crisis that ended with the king’s abdication a few months later, in December 1936. “The cruise of the Nahlin” became an inevitable chapter in any telling of the event, though how the king came to be aboard such a mysteriously named vessel tended to be overlooked. In fact, the name is said to have Native American origins, and reportedly means “fleet of foot” – the yacht’s figurehead wears a chieftain’s headdress – and the king was aboard because the Foreign Office, worried by social unrest in France, had warned against his original plan to rent a villa there.

So instead he rented the Nahlin, to avoid the fuss that a voyage in the royal yacht, the Victoria and Albert, would create and perhaps also because the Nahlin, commissioned only six years earlier, appealed to his appetite for cocktail modernity. Fuss, however, was unavoidable. At Šibenik, the Dalmatian port where the king and Mrs Simpson boarded the yacht, an exuberant crowd of 20,000 turned up and (thanks to reports in the American press) showed as much interest in her as in him; at sea, two Royal Navy destroyers, the Grafton and the Glowworm, accompanied the Nahlin wherever she went – a leisurely August progress down the Adriatic, through the Corinth canal to the Greek islands, and eventually to Istanbul. The “nanny-boats”, as Lady Diana Cooper called them; she and a few other prominent society figures were also aboard, as well as a crew around 60-strong.

Of course, the term yacht is misleading. No sails have ever been involved. The Nahlin, like its bland modern equivalents, was a yacht only in the sense that its sole purpose was its owner’s pleasure, the owner being in this case a Lady Yule. Launched in 1930 from the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Co – builder of celebrated liners such as Cunard’s two Queens – it measures 300ft in length and was originally powered by four steam turbines. Characteristically of the steam yacht, of which the Nahlin was among the very last examples, its hull preserves elements of the sailing ship, with a curved clipper bow and a counter stern, each stretching well beyond the waterline. The shape and colour of steam yachts – white hull, cream funnel – made people think of swans. Their costs and months of idleness meant they were an indulgence that only the richest magnates on either side of the Atlantic could afford: JP Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sir Thomas Lipton.

And Lady Yule? She was thought to be the richest widow in England. How had she come by her money? Jute, was the short answer. A longer one involves a story of British innovation and industrial expansion overseas that Dyson might recognise, beginning in the 1820s when Dundee manufacturers began to look for an alternative to hemp in the making of sacking, rope and sailcloth. Jute was cheap and reliably available from Bengal in British India, but it was tough and brittle and broke easily when it was spun or woven. After years of experiment, it was successfully made pliable by the application of whale oil, of which Dundee as a whaling port had no shortage.

The demand for jute fabric and jute rope boomed, and Dundee enjoyed a near monopoly until the 1870s, when British industrialists began to open jute mills in Bengal itself because, as economic historian Morris D Morris has pointed out, “jute manufacturing was not a complicated process [and] cheap labour was a very great advantage”. Bengal had five jute mills in 1870 and 69 jute mills in 1914, as cheaper Indian-made jute conquered foreign markets previously served by Dundee, and exports of jute cloth from India grew 272 times over the same period; even better was to come with the first world war, when the word “sandbag” must have sounded like a ringing cash register in the inner ear of every Indian jute trader.

The Yule family benefited enormously. Annie Henrietta (Lady) Yule was the daughter of Andrew Yule, the son of a small-town draper in Scotland who arrived in Kolkata (then Calcutta) in 1863 as an agent representing several British firms, and whose family eventually owned tea estates, coalmines, cotton and flour mills, railways, and 2,400 square miles of productive land – as well as the jute mills that Andrew Yule’s nephew and successor, Sir David Yule, had taken an especial interest in expanding. Sir David was a shy workaholic who rarely left Kolkata. Aged 42, he married another Yule, his cousin Annie Henrietta. When he died in 1928, soon after ordering his steam yacht, the Times described him as“one of the wealthiest men, if not the wealthiest man, in the country”.

Where did it all go? Lady Yule and her daughter Gladys made a long and expensive world cruise in the Nahlin in the early 1930s. She invested heavily and sometimes unwisely in the British film industry; she opened a stud farm. She had, in the words of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, “strong religious opinions, a sharp tongue, and imperious habits”. Her attempt to force teetotalism on the Nahlin’ s crew was probably not a success. At any rate she sold the ship to King Carol II of Romania in 1937, after which the Nahlin disappeared from the map of British interests – missing, presumed dead – until an English yacht broker, Nicholas Edmiston, discovered it moored in the Danube as a floating restaurant in the 1990s. It passed briefly through the ownership of another Brexit-supporting tycoon, Sir Anthony Bamford, before Dyson bought it in 2006.

This week, thanks to the wonder of digital ship location, I traced the yacht’s present whereabouts to the Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg; it had reached there from the Caribbean via Gibraltar and Falmouth. Blohm+Voss spent millions of Dyson’s money when the yacht was first restored and re-engined, and it may be there now for its annual overhaul. The shipyard is old and distinguished, and still fills the harbour with the sounds of building and repair work. They even build luxury yachts there; the clients include Roman Abramovich and Vladimir Putin.

Nothing remains of the Nahlin’s birthplace at Clydebank, apart from a large crane that stands useless at the river’s edge. Ships, like bagless vacuum cleaners and jute, are made elsewhere.

Ian Jack is a Guardian columnist

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NAHLIN is a 91.44 m Motor Yacht, built in the United Kingdom by Brown J and delivered in 1930.

Her top speed is 18.0 kn and her cruising speed is 15.0 kn and her power comes from four Curtis Brown steam turbine engines. She can accommodate up to 14 guests, with 47 crew members. She has a gross tonnage of 1356.0 GT and a 11.03 m beam.

She was designed by G.L. Watson , who also completed the naval architecture. G.L. Watson has designed 11 yachts and created the naval architecture for 10 yachts for yachts above 24 metres.

Her interior was designed by Sir Charles Allom and Rémi Tessier (26 other superyacht interiors designed) - she is built with a Teak deck, a Steel hull, and Steel and Wood superstructure.

NAHLIN is in the top 5% by LOA in the world. She is one of 33 motor yachts in the 90-100m size range.

NAHLIN is currently sailing under the United Kingdom flag, the 4th most popular flag state for superyachts with a total of 899 yachts registered. She is known to be an active superyacht and has most recently been spotted cruising near Turkey. For more information regarding NAHLIN's movements, find out more about BOAT Pro AIS .

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• Name: NAHLIN
• Previous Names: LUCEAFARUL,LIBERTATEA
• Yacht Type: Motor Yacht
• Yacht Subtype: Displacement , Classic Yacht
• Builder: Brown J
• Naval Architect: G.L. Watson
• Exterior Designer: G.L. Watson
• Interior Designer: Sir Charles Allom , Rémi Tessier

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NAHLIN – CLASSIC MOTOR YACHT

In the summer of 2010 Nahlin steamed into Dartmouth, the first time she had entered a British port under her own steam since leaving for Romania in 1937. This was the culmination of the largest classic yacht restoration project ever undertaken and G.L. Watson & Co. acted as Owners’ Representative, Design Authority, Exterior Designer, Yacht Manager and Interior Designer of Crew & Service Areas.

Beyond the five years of incredible work that preceded the well publicised return to British waters there had been a 15 year campaign to save this preeminent classic yacht in which G. L. Watson & Co. played a leading role.

In 1929 G.L. Watson & Co. was commissioned by the heiress Lady Yule to design a steam yacht that would permit her to “visit every part of the globe she desired”. Following in a line of acknowledged classics we produced a design which was at the pinnacle of the evolution of clipper bow and counter stern steam yachts.

Clyde-built

Clyde-built by John Brown & Co., Nahlin’s elegance was acclaimed in her day and, with her extraordinary survival to the 21st century, she remains the ultimate classic power-yacht. As John Brown & Company’s Hull Number 533, Nahlin immediately preceded Cunard’s iconic liner the Queen Mary .  John Brown & Company were world leaders in shipbuilding and at the epicentre of maritime engineering. Along with the yard’s Queen Mary , QE II and Royal Yacht Britannia , Nahlin is an icon of engineering excellence.

Lady Yule recruited most of her crew from the Clyde and Western Isles of Scotland and their families’ historic photographs and memories, along with material from museums and archives of Clydebank and Glasgow, were invaluable in the restoration project.

Lady Yule (1930-1936)

Lady Yule was heiress to a considerable fortune, but in her own right she is known as one of the founders of the British film industry and was a major partner in Pinewood Studios along with J. Arthur Rank and John Corefield. An accomplished horsewoman she founded the Hanstead Stud Stables, endowed one of the first dedicated veterinary hospitals and several animal sanctuaries both in the UK and abroad.

Over the course of six years Lady Yule made several extended cruises, including a circumnavigation. In 1932 she wrote to  Nahlin’s designer James Rennie Barnett, senior partner of G.L. Watson & Co., that Nahlin was “the most beautiful yacht in the world, and the most seaworthy”. In 1936 having seen “every corner of the globe she desired to visit”, Lady Yule eventually made Nahlin available for charter or sale.

The Royal Yacht (1936-1939)

As the premier British yacht of the day, King Edward VIII chartered Nahlin in August of 1936 for a private cruise. The presence of Wallis Simpson aboard attracted great media attention. These news reports also brought Nahlin to the attention of King Carol II of Romania who acquired her in 1937. Less than two years later, with the outbreak of war, King Carol quit his throne and Nahlin was left on the backwaters of the Danube. Ironically, this was to be Nahlin’s salvation. Unlike many pre-war yachts, Nahlin was neither requisitioned for the war effort, nor modernised in the post war era. Instead she survived largely unmodified.

RESCUE (1988-1999)

In 1988 William Collier, a young yachtsman with a passion for classic boats, had recently moved to the south of France and with the encouragement of broker Nicholas Edmiston he set about investigating Nahlin’s fate. Pre-revolution Romania was largely closed to visitors, but with the aid of a Student Visa and a fair amount of pluck, Collier discovered Nahlin operating as a floating restaurant on the banks of the Danube. She was in a perilous state but, despite neglect, Nahlin’s beauty shone through. Inspired by Collier’s photographs the pair set about her rescue. With the collapse of the Soviet block and the Romanian revolution the yacht was sold to a privatised company. Edmiston and Collier began the hard task of her purchase & repatriation. With the volatile post-communist political situation there was much frustration, but finally in 1999 Nahlin returned to British waters and today Nahlin is once again registered in her home port of Glasgow.

Stabilisation & Archiving (1999-2005)

In the years following her return to the UK, G.L. Watson & Co engaged in a comprehensive programme to stabilise her condition, document all surviving material and  to prepare her for restoration. The ship was dry-docked and her hull comprehensively surveyed. Over 450 tons of debris and contaminants were removed. The surviving interior was surveyed, and CAD drawings produced of interior designs and panelling schemes. Casts were made to record delicate plaster mouldings and enrichments.

YACHT RESTORATION (2005-2010)

In the summer of 2010 Nahlin was re-commissioned following a total restoration under the supervision of the vessel’s original designers G.L. Watson & Co.  The first phase of restoration work on the hull was carried out by Nobiskrug shipyard in Rendsburg with the subsequent engineering and fit-out at Blohm & Voss Repair GmbH in Hamburg. Participating in the project were firms from across the UK, Europe and beyond, including Scottish and Merseyside engineering companies who had supplied John Brown’s some eighty years ago. The standards achieved during this yacht restoration broke new ground in restoration quality and have revealed the original beauty of this acclaimed classic. The re-commissioning of Nahlin in the summer of 2010 brought the best possible conclusion to a twenty year plus campaign to save this preeminent classic yacht.

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Nahlin is a custom motor yacht launched in 1930 by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, United Kingdom and most recently refitted in 2008.

Nahlin measures 91.44 metres in length, with a max draft of 4.50 metres and a beam of 12.00 metres. She has a gross tonnage of 1,356 tonnes. She has a deck material of teak.

Nahlin has a steel hull with a steel superstructure.

Her interior design is by Sir Charles Allom.

Nahlin also features naval architecture by G.L. Watson & Co..

Performance and Capabilities

Nahlin has a top speed of 18.00 knots and a cruising speed of 15.00 knots. She is powered by a twin screw propulsion system.

Accommodation

Nahlin accommodates up to 14 guests . She also houses room for up to 47 crew members.

Other Specifications

Nahlin has a hull NB of 540.

Nahlin is a LR class yacht.

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Super Yacht NAHLIN is a 91.44 metre vessel first designed in 1929 by G.L. Watson & Co. and built in 1930 by John Brown & Co..  Rediscovered  a few years back, she was completely restored to her full splendour by Nobiskrug Shipyard and Blohm + Voss Shipyard over the past four five years.

MotorYacht Nahlin can accommodate up to 14 guests aboard together with a crew of around 47 members. Her beam measures 11.03 metres in width, which reflects her very spacious proportions. She is also reasonably deep with a draught of 4.51 metres. Connected to her Curtis-Brown engine(s) are twin screw propellers. The main engine of the yacht produces 2200 horse power (or 1619 kilowatts). She is fitted with 4 engines. The total power for the boat is therefore 8800 HP or 6475 KW.

SuperYacht Nahlin in her full splendor on the river Dart

SUPER YACHT NAHLIN’S HISTORY goes right back to 1929, when G.L. Watson & Co. were commissioned by the heiress Lady Yule to design a steam yacht that would take her to every part of the globe she desired to see. G.L. Watson & Co. then went on to design the very impressive yacht of her times, which was at the top of the evolution of clipper bow and counter stern steam yachts.  She was then Clyde-built by John Brown & Co. and became a very acclaimed yacht of her day and she remains the ultimate classic power-yacht to this day, thanks to her amazing survival.

Lady Yule made several extended cruises on board of the Yacht Nahlin. In 1932 she wrote to Nahlin’s  designer James Rennie Barnett , senior partner of G.L. Watson & Co., that Nahlin Yacht was “the most beautiful yacht in the worlds and the most seaworthy”. Having seen “every corner of the globe she desired to visit”, in 1936 Lady Yule decided to make superyacht Nahlin available for charter or sale. In August 1936 she was chartered by King Edward VIII for a private cruise. In 1937 King Carol II acquired Yacht Nahlin, however less than two years later, with the outbreak of the war, Kind Carol resigned his throne and left yacht Nahlin on the river Danube.  Amazingly Nahlin superyacht survived almost unmodified since then.

Super Yacht Nahlin before

She was discovered in 1988, when the young yachtsman, William Collier set about to investigate yacht Nahlin’s whereabouts, encouraged by the broker Nicholas Edmiston. Collier discovered Super Yacht Nahlin operating as a floating restaurant on the river Danube in Romania. With the collapse of the Soviet block the yacht was sold to a privatised company. Here, Edmiston and Collier began to work hard on her purchase and repatriation. After large amount of frustration and hard work, finally, in 1999 Motor Yacht Nahlin returned home to British waters. She is once again registered in her home port of Glasgow.

From 1999 to 2005 G.L. Watson & Co started a comprehensive programme to stabilise her condition, document all surviving material and began to prepare her for restoration. Her hull was thoroughly examined, while she was dry-docked. Her interior was also cross-examined and CAD drawings were produced of her interior and panelling schemes.

In 2005 the restoration of the Motor Yacht Nahlin began under the supervision of G.L. Watson & Co., who acted as overall project managers, in collaboration with Owner’s Representative, Design Authority, Exterior Designer, Yacht Manager and Interior Designer of Crew & Service Areas.

The first stage of her restoration work on hull of the Luxury Motor Yacht NAHLIN was carried out by Nobiskrug Shipyard in Rendsburg. The following stage, the engineering and fit-out continued at the Blohm + Voss Shipyard in Hamburg. On the project other firms were participating from across the UK, Europe and beyond. These include Scottish and Merseyside engineering companies, who supplied John Brown’s about eighty years ago.

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The current position of NAHLIN is at East Mediterranean reported 2 min ago by AIS. The vessel is en route to DOMUZ ISLAND , and expected to arrive there on Apr 4, 18:00 . The vessel NAHLIN (IMO 1009417, MMSI 235075032) is a Yacht built in 1930 (94 years old) and currently sailing under the flag of United Kingdom (UK) .

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King Edward VIII and Mrs Wallis Simpson were on an extensive cruise  around the Eastern Mediterranean Sea on the Yacht Nahlin on this day in 1936, spending time on the Dalmatian Coast and in the Adriatic Sea, with stops in Vienna, Yugoslavia, and Istanbul, eschewing the traditional prolonged stay at Balmoral by the King who had succeeded to the Throne a few months earlier. The relationship of the King and Mrs Simpson had not been public knowledge until this Cruise, and it was not mentioned in the British Media but every element was extensively covered in the Foreign Press that eventually made its way to Britain in the few months before the Abdication Crisis, when the King abdicated the Throne to marry Mrs Simpson.

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Isn’t she beautiful and graceful? “Nahlin” visited us at the beginning of the year and was docked outside the Marina Casa de Campo because this luxurious lady was too big to come in.

On Friday January 16th the 300ft (91.44m) custom motor yacht  “Nahlin” was here, and even though she was too big to come in, she docked just outside of the Marina Casa de Campo.

Nahlin is a luxury yacht and one of the last of three large steam yachts constructed in the UK. She was built for Lady Annie Henrietta Yule, heiress of Sir David Yule, and was launched in 1930. She is currently owned by British industrial entrepreneur Sir James Dyson, who purchased her from Sir Anthony Bamford, Chairman of JCB. The name Nahlin is taken from the Native American word meaning “fleet of foot” and the yacht has a figurehead depicting a Native American wearing a feathered headdress beneath the bowsprit.

The yacht was bought in 1937 by King Carol II of Romania for £120,000 and renamed Luceafarul (Evening Star), and later Libertatea. When the Romanian monarch abdicated in 1940, she became the property of the Romanian Ministry of Culture and was tied up in the port of Galați on the Danube as a museum and later as a floating restaurant.

“Nahlin” (formerly Libertatea) is a 91.44m (300m) motor yacht built by John Brown & Sons in United Kingdom at their Clydebank shipyard. Last refitted in 201o by Blohm + Voss Shipyards, this luxury vessel’s sophisticated exterior design and engineering are the work of G.L. Watson & Co.. Her interior was designed by Sir Charles Allom.

In 1989 the yacht was rediscovered by luxury yacht broker Nicholas Edmiston who purchased the vessel in 1998 from the Romanian government. The company paid $265.000 for her, scrap metal value. Back in the UK, she underwent a 15-year process of stabilization and a £25 million restoration led by G. L. Watson & Company, and was recommissioned in 2010 as the Nahlin. The refit was undertaken by Nobiskrug at Rendsburg, Germany, and completion was at the Blohm + Voss shipyard, Hamburg, where diesel engines replaced her old steam turbines.

The great “Nahlin” offers accommodation for up to 14 guests . She is also capable of carrying up to 47 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience. She has a hull with a steel superstructure and a beam of 12.00m  (39’4″ft) and a 4.50m  (14’9″ft) draft, and is also capable of 18.00 knots flat out, with a cruising speed of 15.00 knots.

Scource: wikipedia.org 

If you missed her, here’s a video of the magnificent yacht:

A few other megayachts we’ve spotted in the Marina Casa de Campo are:

Beautiful megayacht “MY GIRL” Arriving during Semana Santa (Easter week), the mega yacht “MY GIRL”, owned by a wealthy businessman from the United States, is certainly an impressive addition to the Marina Casa de Campo. Click here for photos and the full story! 

370 ft megayacht “Le Grande Bleu” formerly owned by billionaire Ramon Abromovich On Saturday and Sunday the 31st of March and the 1st of April, Casa de Campo villa owners and visitors were treated to the magnificent sight of a very impressive megayacht, “Le Grande Bleu” docked directly opposite Casa de Campo’s Minitas Beach and just off the coast of the exclusive Punta Minitas neighborhood. It’s all glamor and fame here in Casa de Campo! Click here for photos and the full story! 

280 ft superyacht “Vibrant Curiosity” The “Vibrant Curiosity” – at 280ft is the 3rd longest yacht to ever visit the Marina Casa de Campo. Click here for photos and the full story!

The world’s largest single-masted yacht, the “Mirabella V” The magnificent “Mirabella V” is a sloop-rigged super yacht, which was completed and launched in 2003 for Joseph Vittoria, former chairman and CEO of AVIS rental car company, at a cost of more than US$50 million dollars. Click here for photos and the full story !

190ft Mega Yacht “The Ronin” The RONIN, a Lurssen Yacht built in 1993, previously owned by Larry Ellison, the world’s 5th richest man. Click here for photos and the full story!

The 394ft ‘A’ Mega Yacht The ‘A’ is owned by 38 year old Russian billionaire Andrei Melnichenko, was designed by Phillipe Starke, is 394feet and cost 200 million dollars to build! Click here for photos and the full story!

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South Korean automaker Kia has started production on its all-electric EV5 SUV for export in China, with the first markets targeted being Thailand and Australia, with Australia’s price expected to undercut Tesla’s Model Y, which is the best-selling SUV in the country. A global launch is set for next year, but will that include the US?

While the boxy, compact EV5 starts in China at around 149,800 yuan ($20,000) Australians are expected to get one for under $70,000 AUS (around $46,000). While Kia hasn’t set the price in stone, it is expected to launch the vehicle at an aggressive price point (which is Kia’s signature style) designed to undercut Tesla’s Model Y, Australia’s most popular electric car.

Showroom arrivals are slated for June, with the South Korean automaker targeting 10,000 units of the family-style SUV. For reference, Tesla delivered about 29,000 Model Ys in Australia in 2023, while BYD delivered 11,000 Atto 3 small electric SUVs, reports The Drive . Kia’s top seller in Australia is the Sportage hybrid SUV with around 15,000 sales.

Australians can pick up three EV5 model grades, with the lower-cost Air and Earth due in June of this year, and the higher-end GT-Line between October and December. The standard Kia EV5 trim is equipped with a 64.2 kWh BYD Blade battery pack and 160 kW motor, providing up to 530 km (329 miles) CLTC range. The long-range model features an 88.1 kWh battery for up to 720 km (447 miles) CLTC range. Both battery options are produced by China’s BYD. The entry-level Air version is expected to be cheaper than the lowest-price Tesla Model Y, which sells in Australia for $65,400 AUS ($43,160 USD). However, the GT-Line Kia EV5 should cost around $80,000 AUS ($52,790 USD).

The EV5 – which debuted in October of last year – made the rounds in Thailand at the Bangkok International Motor Show, with the price range there set at slightly lower than its EV6.

Kia builds the EV5 in South Korea for its domestic market, but exports are being built in Yancheng, China.  

Unlike the Kia EV6, the EV5 doesn’t use the 800-volt version of the E-GMP electric platform from Hyundai and Kia, but rather a 400-volt system. So while it’s cheaper than the EV6, Kia is claiming a 30-80% charge time of 27 minutes on DC fast charging at a peak of around 150kW. That’s compared to the EV6, which can handle 10-80% in just 19 minutes under optimal conditions.

Electrek’s Take

The EV5 is a bit smaller than the Model Y, which is more similar in size to Kia’s EV6, but the automaker wants to cover all of its bases here, which could backfire in that it could eat up all the sales for the EV6 with its nice-looking design before presumably cutting into Tesla’s piece of the pie. Despite the bummer about the 400-volt system, this is the style of car that is ripe for a US launch. As the world’s dominant SUV market , the US is, unfortunately, unlikely to see this vehicle in that Kia has reportedly already signaled that the Inflation Reduction Act is a deal breaker for them, as Electrek has reported. But its arrival to Europe, where SUVs are surging in popularity, could likely be happening, although no specific launch dates have been set.

Still, with the expected “global” launch of the SUV slated for next year, perhaps the US will eventually be added to the list. We’ll see. Still, with Kia’s legendary aggressive pricing, it’s nice to see low figures being attached to electric variants.

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