• Kia’s 1st tiny camper van rolls out in slick, IKEA-like setup from USA Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Flipboard Email Ever since Kia looked into the crystal ball of off-road mini-camping with its epic, littlePV5 WKNDR concept, the world has waited patiently to see what it would drum up as a retail camper van built aboard its highly flexible Platform Beyond Vehicle (PBV) EV architecture. • While Kia has not (yet) developed a fully integrated PBV camper van, it has introduced an officially branded camper kit for the PV5 electric van, which itself launched just a few months ago. • Interestingly, the flat-pack IKEA-like (I-Kia?) assemble-yourself kit was developed in the USA, which has not even been confirmed as a PV5 market. • Unsurprisingly, the first dedicated PV5 camper setup to officially hit the market is far more toned-down than the SEMA 2024 WKNDR all-terrain concept camper. • The flexible drop-in kit was developed by California-based Vanlab, a flat-packcamper-in-a-boxspecialist that sells camping hardware for current and past US-market van models like the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, Ford Transit, Ram Promaster and Nissan NV200. • It also offers a camper wagon kit designed for a long list of utility vehicle makes/models.
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- Ever since Kia looked into the crystal ball of off-road mini-camping with its epic, little PV5 WKNDR concept, the world has waited patiently to see what it would drum up as a retail camper van built aboard its highly flexible Platform Beyond Vehicle (PBV) EV architecture. It waits no more. While Kia has not (yet) developed a fully integrated PBV camper van, it has introduced an officially branded camper kit for the PV5 electric van, which itself launched just a few months ago. Interestingly, the flat-pack IKEA-like (I-Kia?) assemble-yourself kit was developed in the USA, which has not even bee
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