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We'll start with news of Kia unveiling some versatile electric vehicle concepts at the CES Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It is now on. I think I'll be talking about that with you quite a bit this week. Three electric vehicle concepts shown off. And it's a significant expansion in their range of what they call multi-purpose vehicles or specifically PBVs. That would be purpose-built vehicles. Modular ones, in other words,

electric vehicles for the same chassis to have various different functions. The design of the

PBVs isn't just for commercial use. They're also intended for things like passenger transport

and getaways at the weekend with camper vans and things like that.

The first model that we'll hear about is the PB5.

We'll get that in the UK in 2026.

That's a, well, the concept we were shown looks like a highly modern van with what they call

easy swap technology for various configurations.

Now, I don't know how easy you can swap the body of a vehicle.

I think that's the idea is that, well, you could have a truck in the week and then put on a

different body at the weekend if you're going camping and you want an RV kind of thing. I think

you'd need a pretty decent-sized crane to do that in your back garden. Wait to be told how they plan

to do that. But they say that these

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