I drove Kia’s all-new $78,000 EV9 family SUV. Here are 22 cool features that help it stand out from the crowd.

According to Kia, the EV9’s 99.8 kWh battery pack can charge from 10% to 80% in just 24 minutes using a 350kW DC fast charger.

At home, EV9 can charge to 100% from 10% in 8 hours and 45 minutes using a Level II, 240V AC plug.

All EV9s are equipped with vegan interiors thanks to its artificial leather steering wheel and seats.

The GT-Line trim gets special two-tone SynTex faux leather seats with “GT-Line” emblems.

My GT-Line test car came with dual glass sunroofs. The smaller front sunroof opens, while the larger rear glass roof does not.

The EV9 also has one of the fanciest driver’s seats I’ve ever come across.

With the leg rest extended and the seat reclined, this is a great place for the driver to recharge with a nap when the EV9 is charging.

The EV9’s driver’s seat features an Ergo-Motion function that uses self-adjusting inflatable air pockets to support the driver’s posture and combat fatigue on road trips.

The EV9’s rearview mirror is equipped with a smart rear vision camera display. This system, which projects an image from a camera located near the top of the rear window, is incredibly useful when the SUV’s rear cabin is filled with people or cargo.

The RV9’s captain’s chairs have wing-out headrests that fold similar to those found on airplane seats for additional support.

The EV9 is equipped with Hyundai/Kia’s remote smart-parking assist, or as they called in the Bostionian Super Bowl ad from a few years ago, “Smaht Pahk.” The system can pull a vehicle into and out of a parking space with the driver outside the car simply by pushing buttons on the key fob.

Under the hood of my all-wheel-drive GT-Line test car is a small 1.8 cubic-foot front trunk or frunk with space for cargo weighing less than 44 lbs. For rear-wheel-drive variants, the EV9’s frunk increases in size and payload weight to 3.2 cu. ft. and 88 lbs., respectively.

Open the rear liftgate, and you’ll find an impressive 20.2 cubic feet of cargo space behind the third row.

The EV9’s cargo capacity increases to 43.5 cubic feet with the third row folded into the floor and to 81.7 cubic feet with the second row also folded.

My GT-Line test car came equipped with a pair of 189.5-horsepower electric motors, one mounted on each axle, to create a virtual all-wheel-drive system.

The motors combine to produce 379 total system horsepower and 516 lb. ft. of torque.

Kia says the 5,800-pound SUV can do 0-60 mph in 5.0 seconds. However, my experience from having tested a few hundred cars tells me that it may be a tad quicker than that.

The EV9 is equipped with a complete suite of advanced driver assistance and safety tech.

The EV9’s standard safety tech includes forward collision avoidance, blind spot collision avoidance assist, driver attention warning, lane keep assist, lane follow assist, rear cross-traffic avoidance assist, smart cruise control, rear occupant alert, and navigation-based smart cruise control.