{"id":542239,"date":"2026-07-10T05:27:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/542239\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T05:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:27:29","slug":"kgm-musso-ev-koreas-new-lifestyle-focused-pick-up-driven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/542239\/","title":{"rendered":"KGM Musso EV: Korea’s new lifestyle-focused pick-up driven"},"content":{"rendered":"

While pitching its\u00a0new\u00a0Musso Rhino<\/a>\u00a0as a traditional workhorse, KGM\u00a0is venturing into new territory with its all-new Musso EV, an electric four-wheel-drive pick-up truck<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is a very niche segment: it\u00a0has only the Maxus eTerron9 and Isuzu D-Max EV for company, although the pool of electric pick-ups is set to expand with the arrival of the Toyota Hilux\u00a0Electric.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Unlike the Rhino, with its body-on-frame construction, the Musso EV borrows its platform from an electric car, the KGM Torres EVX<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Compared with the high-riding Rhino, then, the EV looks more\u00a0SUV<\/a>-like, with a noticeably lower ride height and longer wheelbase.<\/p>\n

It has a sleeker, cab-back stance and its styling is more aligned with KGM<\/a>‘s\u00a0range of SUVs rather than the Rhino\u2019s more rugged aesthetic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Musso EV is powered by a 80.6kWh lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) battery that\u2019s good enough for up to 236 miles of range.<\/p>\n

On a very short drive around Oxfordshire, it returned 2.6mpkWh, which means it should cover more than 200 miles in real-world conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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While its real-world range isn\u2019t outstanding, the Musso can still travel much further on a charge than the Hilux Electric (159 miles) and a D-Max (163 miles).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hook the Musso EV up to a rapid charger\u00a0and a 10-80% boost should take no longer than 36 minutes, or 10 hours if you plug it into an 11kW home wallbox charger.<\/p>\n

Plus, like Kia<\/a>\u00a0EVs, the Musso features vehicle-to-load (V2L) technology, allowing you to turn the car into a giant charging station for small electrical appliances, such as a kettle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The dual-motor powertrain makes 234bhp and 250lb ft of torque for a 0-62mph time of 8.0sec. While that sounds fairly sedate, it\u2019s more sprightly than the diesel-engined Rhino.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And while performance tails off fairly quickly, it has more than enough pace for nipping into gaps in traffic and motorway slip roads.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The choppy ride that afflicts the Rhino isn\u2019t present here either.\u00a0The EV may\u00a0feel\u00a0more floaty, but it\u2019s more comfortable \u2013\u00a0although the low-speed ride can be quite brittle.<\/p>\n

The Musso EV has also inherited\u00a0the interior design of its SUV siblings, and overall it\u2019s more interesting and colourful than the Rhino\u2019s durable cabin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While pitching its\u00a0new\u00a0Musso Rhino\u00a0as a traditional workhorse, KGM\u00a0is venturing into new territory with its all-new Musso EV, an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-542239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}