KIA - Planning for the future of motoring
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Robert talks to David Hilbert about how KIA intend on making serious moves in the EV game. From their bespoke architecture to their unique design language, David explains all.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Fully Charge Plus podcast. Now we were very lucky to get a very |
| 0:26.5 | early sleep peak at the very impressive Kia EV6 recently and so I was extra pleased to get the |
| 0:33.0 | chance to talk to David Hilbert who is marketing director at Kia. Now we had time to get into the |
| 0:39.3 | long grass about how a company like Kia is transitioning from being a combustion engine car |
| 0:45.3 | manufacturer to a purely electric car manufacturer. But before we dive in, here's a word from our lovely |
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| 1:36.1 | greener future. Now without fanfare or who plot let's get on with this fabulous episode, |
| 1:44.6 | please welcome to the Fully Charge Plus podcast David Hilbert marketing director at Kia. |
| 1:54.4 | So David I mean for a start thank you because you know thank you for taking the time to talk to us. |
| 1:59.9 | I'm really interested to start off our conversation with your experience because you've been |
| 2:05.7 | right in the thick of it for the last sort of 20 years that you've seen an incredible change in |
| 2:11.7 | the automotive industry and particularly in the last 10. I mean it has been really fascinating |
| 2:16.0 | because you were at Toyota before Kia. Correct yeah Robert thank you very much for having |
| 2:21.6 | me on your show. You know really excited to be able to share some of our plans and of course |
| 2:26.4 | our fantastic new model that's just about to be launched at EV6. As you mentioned you know I've |
| 2:32.1 | been in the industry for actually 17 years now so I started at Tokyo in 2004. I did a number of |
| 2:38.9 | roles in kind of purchasing sales and marketing and in product in particular which has always been |
| 2:44.3 | quite close to my heart and like you say there's been rapid change in terms of technology regarding |
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