Hybrid Surge and EREVs Point to New Paths for Green Motoring

Driving the 2027 Kia Seltos Hybrid through a Korean mountain landscape whose lushness evokes Hawaii, a light touch with my right foot helps me eke out a decidedly green 51 miles per gallon (4.6 liters per 100 kilometers). Back in the States, that kind of mileage will beat anything in the Seltos’s subcompact SUV class. Kia ’s timing seems uncanny. When the Seltos arrives in the U.S. in the fourth…