Kia will pull the wraps off its largest electric van yet at IAA Transportation in Hannover, Germany, with press day set for September 14 and public show days running September 15 through 20, 2026, the automaker confirmed through its own Hyundai Motor Group newsroom.

Key Points

• The van is called the Kia PV7, Kia’s second dedicated all-electric Platform Beyond Vehicle after the smaller PV5, built on the automaker’s E-GMP.S commercial platform.
• Kia is pitching it directly at the light commercial vehicle segment, the same territory occupied by Ford’s E-Transit and Volkswagen’s electric van lineup.
• Its world premiere lands at IAA Transportation, Europe’s largest commercial vehicle show, with credentialed press getting first look on September 14 ahead of the public opening.
• Kia is positioning the PV7 for both fleet and business buyers and everyday lifestyle use, rather than as a pure cargo hauler.

A Bigger Box for a Bigger Job

Kia’s PBV strategy started with the PV5, a smaller van aimed at last-mile delivery fleets and small businesses. The PV7 scales that idea up. According to Kia’s own preview materials, the van carries a one-box profile with a black hood and pillar garnish that contrasts against the body color, plus the brand’s now-familiar front and rear lamp graphics carried over from its passenger lineup. Kia describes the goal plainly: more space and more capability than the PV5 offers, aimed at the kind of businesses that have outgrown a compact delivery van but don’t want to jump straight to a full-size box truck.

Why Ford and VW Should Be Watching

Ford’s E-Transit and Volkswagen’s electric commercial vans have largely had the mid-size and larger electric van conversation to themselves in markets where fleet operators are actively shopping battery-powered options over diesel. A larger Kia PBV entry gives fleet buyers, and increasingly gig-economy and small-business operators, a third serious name to cross-shop, backed by Hyundai Motor Group’s manufacturing scale and its existing EV supply chain. That matters for total cost of ownership conversations, since parts availability and service network depth tend to decide fleet contracts as much as sticker price does.

What Happens Next

Kia hasn’t published full specifications, including battery size, range, payload or cargo volume, ahead of the Hannover reveal, holding those details for the show floor itself. Once the PV7 is unveiled to credentialed media and then to the public over the following days, expect Kia to move quickly toward confirming which markets get the van first and on what timeline, particularly given how aggressively European regulators are pushing commercial fleets toward zero-emission vehicles in city centers. For now, the PV7’s debut marks the clearest signal yet that Kia intends to compete across the entire commercial van size range, not just the compact end of it.