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Kia EV to Be Launched this Year

Nowadays if you want to be important in the automotive world, you must have a plan that includes some sort of market bomination by the year 20-something. One of the companies that doesn’t necessarily focus on that, but is assaulting the market with one fresh product after another is Kia, along with its sister company Hyundai.
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Now, it seem that the South Korean carmakers are preparing a new green development, with Hyundai Motor Group looking to launch a small electric vehicle by 2012, as Automotive News reports. This is part of a larger initiative called the TAM project, which will see the company release more EV models in the future, with a production target of 2,000 units set for next year.

For the moment, it is unclear if the new EV will also be brought to the US.
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