- Largest value hike applies to base front-wheel-drive Sportage Hybrid
- 2025 Sportage Hybrid stays cheaper than rivals if AWD isn’t a precedence
- Sportage PHEV carries over at 34 miles of vary, consists of AWD
Kia has carried over its Sportage Hybrid and Plug-In Hybrid lineups for the 2025 mannequin yr. And whereas there are few adjustments to those fashions’ mixture of practicality, pep, fuel mileage, or plug-in electrical vary, costs have gone up.
Together with the $1,375 vacation spot charge, the Sportage Hybrid begins at $29,965 in base LX front-wheel-drive type, with AWD including $1,800. Altogether, that’s a hike of $1,400 over 2024 pricing, or 5% on the base stage. Mid-level 2025 Sportage Hybrid EX fashions begin at $33,765 and embrace AWD—as do prime Sportage Hybrid SX-Status trims at $38,965.
The Sportage Plug-in Hybrid stays solely provided in top-trim variations, with all-wheel drive. That features the Sportage PHEV X-Line at $41,065 and the X-Line Status at $45,565. These replicate extra modest value hikes of simply $200 and $100, respectively, going into 2025.
For 2025, Sportage X-Line trims get a “darkish themed exterior design enhancement,” together with gloss-black entrance and rear bumper and aspect sill therapies, black badging, and gloss-black alloy wheels. EX trims might be optioned up with a Premium Package deal bringing the panoramic sunroof and energy tailgate.
The Sportage was redesigned for 2023, and it’s carried over in the identical type since then with solely slight function and pricing adjustments. On the time it got here out, Inexperienced Automotive Stories declared the Kia Sportage Hybrid because the mannequin within the lineup making probably the most sense. The 2025 Sportage is predicted to hold over its EPA rankings from 2024, when the Sportage Hybrid returned 42 mpg metropolis, 44 freeway, 43 mixed with front-wheel drive and 38 mpg in all three respects with AWD. The Sportage PHEV goes 34 miles all-electric then will get 35 mpg mixed as a hybrid.
Each the hybrid and plug-in hybrid have a 177-hp, 1.6-liter turbo-4 engine as a part of their hybrid techniques packaging an electrical motor along with a 6-speed automated transmission that may take the engine out of the combo when sufficient cost permits.
The plug-in hybrid will get a a lot bigger battery—13.8 kwh versus the hybrid’s 1.49 kwh, in addition to larger electrical motor energy (66.9 kw versus 44 kw), in order to allow a wider vary of electric-only driving and the next output for the system total (227 hp and 258 lb-ft of torque for the hybrid, versus 261 and 258 lb-ft for the PHEV).
Rivals to the Sportage Hybrid embrace the Hyundai Tucson Hybrid, the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid, and the Honda CR-V Hybrid, amongst others. They’re all priced in the identical vary if you would like all-wheel drive, but when you are able to do properly with front-wheel drive, the Sportage Hybrid stays cheaper. The 2024 Hyundai Tucson Hybrid begins at $33,950 however consists of all-wheel drive, whereas the 2024 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid begins at $33,075 and likewise consists of AWD. The CR-V Hybrid begins at $35,400 if AWD is required. The plug-in hybrid Toyota RAV4 Prime begins at $45,040, however it gives the next stage of efficiency and extra electrical miles.
