[INQ. NO. 2509M18] Kia Corp. recently unveiled its first purpose-built vehicle (PBV), the Kia PV5, for the first time in Korea. The PV5 will bring about innovation in customers’ businesses and daily lives, for the first time in Korea, and concretized Kia’s vision for the Platform Beyond Vehicle (PBV) business through the exhibition space.
Kia’s PBV is a customized mobility solution that integrates vehicles and software solutions developed from the customer’s perspective. It aims to create new value for customers’ diverse lifestyles and business environments based on three major innovation elements – vehicle’s marketability; software solutions; and manufacturing sector ― thereby realizing a paradigm shift in mobility.

The PV5, the first dedicated PBV born under Kia’s PBV business strategy, is a mid-sized PBV developed to be used for various purposes such as mobility services, logistics, and leisure activities ― by applying a purpose-tailored vehicle structure and cutting-edge technology.
The PV5 is the first to apply the PBV-dedicated platform Electric-Global Modular Platform for Service (E-GMP.S) that adds marketability optimized for PBV on top of the excellent electrification technology of Hyundai Motor Group’s electric vehicle-only platform, Electric-Global Modular Platform (E-GMP), providing a spacious interior and cargo space, and can respond to a wide range of product lineups, from compact to large PBVs, by mounting various upper bodies for different purposes.

Kia can produce various body specifications optimized for customer needs in a timely manner by applying the flexible body system, which modularizes body parts of PV5 such as the roof, doors, and tailgate.
Kia displayed a variety of PV5 lineups in the PV5 Zone at the Seoul Mobility Show 2025, including the Passenger, focused on passenger boarding; the Cargo; specialized for logistics and urban delivery with a wide cargo loading space; and the Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (WAV) developed for the convenience of mobility for the transportation disadvantaged ― thus comprehensively demonstrating the PV5’s potential to adapt according to customer purposes.

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