• Kia EV3 named TopGear.com’s ‘Best EV Crossover’
• Latest award follows the EV3 being named TopGear.com’s ‘Crossover of the Year’ in 2024

The Kia EV3 has been named ‘Best EV Crossover’ at the TopGear.com Electric Awards 2025. Judged by TopGear.com’s expert team of road-testers, the annual awards highlight the best EVs on sale in the UK today.

This award follows the EV3’s previous success in the overall 2024 TopGear.com Awards, where Kia’s newest electric car was also crowned ‘Crossover of the Year’.

Paul Philpott, President & CEO of Kia UK Limited, said: “The EV3 has enjoyed an excellent start to 2025. It’s not only the UK’s best-selling EV to retail customers so far this year, but has also earned both UK and World Car of the Year awards. Being recognised as Top Gear’s Best EV Crossover is another fantastic achievement and further testament to how impressive the EV3 is.

“As the EV3 continues its success, the Kia EV line up expands further in 2025. Both the EV4 and EV5 are coming to the showrooms of our nationwide dealer partners by year end, further enhancing our customer offering and making the switch to electric even more seamless.”

Ollie Kew, Senior Road Test Editor at TopGear.com, said: “I drove the EV3 across the Outback. Not your usual road test route, admittedly, but the Kia just trucked along. The aircon blew ice cool, no numb bum after a four-hour stint, it exudes a grownup, big car feel. I like the mature composed ride, the minimal wind noise and the sense it’s been engineered like Golfs used to be. The most impressive bit? Despite the distance, the temperature, the relentless schedule and the impromptu off roading there were no error messages or glitches. I found myself bonding deeply with this sensible but complete little car.”

Since sales started at the end of last year, the Kia EV3 has gone from strength-to-strength in the UK market – being both the best-selling EV in the UK retail market in Q1 and year-to-date, whilst also being named ‘2025 UK Car of the Year’ and ‘2025 World Car of the Year’, following in the footsteps of its larger sibling, the EV9, which also won both awards in 2024.

While the EV3 may be Kia’s most affordable electric car, it also offers the longest range of all of Kia’s electric models – up to 375 miles* on a single charge. It also boasts an extensive list of standard equipment, even in entry-level ‘Air’ guise, benefiting from all-round LED lights, flush door handles, heated front seats and steering wheel, Vehicle-to-Load (V2L) capability, triple driver display screens (12.3-inch touchscreen navigation, 5.3-inch climate control screen, and 12.3-inch driver display), wireless Apple CarPlay™ and Android Auto™, and seven years’ free access to Kia Connect services.

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Notes for editors
*Range figures are determined according to the standardised EU measurement procedure (WLTP). Individual driving style and other factors, such as speed, outside temperature, topography and the use of electricity-consuming devices/units, have an influence on the real-life range and can possibly reduce it.

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