Kia renews deal with TotalEnergies to continue supplying high-quality lubricants to European customers

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• Renewed agreement strengthens Kia's ability to support European customers with premium service throughout the ownership journey

Kia Europe and TotalEnergies have extended their partnership through 2031 with a five-year cooperation agreement. Kia has worked together with TotalEnergies, a global integrated energy company, since 2011 for the supply of high-quality lubricants to Kia customers in Europe.

Under the renewed agreement, Kia will recommend TotalEnergies lubricants to its customers and dealers in Europe. This ensures that Kia customers and dealers have access to high-quality lubricants from a market-leading and reliable partner.

Kia and TotalEnergies marked the extension of the partnership with a signing ceremony at Kia’s European headquarters in Frankfurt. The event brought together Sjoerd Knipping, COO of Kia Europe, and Jean Parizot, Director, OEM & Central Sales, Automotive Business Unit at TotalEnergies Lubrifiants, highlighting the commitment of both companies to the ongoing collaboration.

“Extending our partnership with TotalEnergies marks an important step in reinforcing our European competitiveness and ensuring customer satisfaction for long-term vehicle usage,” said Sjoerd Knipping, COO of Kia Europe. “By working closely with TotalEnergies, we will continue to elevate service quality, enhance ownership experience, secure vehicle performance and deliver greater value and confidence to our customers across Europe.”

Since first establishing a global cooperation agreement in 2011, Kia and TotalEnergies have renewed their partnership every five years. The latest extension, running through 2031, reflects the shared commitment to deliver outstanding ownership experiences for Kia customers in Europe. Providing customers with high-quality and technologically advanced lubricants enables Kia vehicles to meet strict European regulations, while ensuring Kia meets its own standards regarding fuel consumption and vehicle longevity.

“Our renewed partnership with Kia is much more than a continuation of 15 years of successful collaboration – it is a shared commitment to shape the next chapter of mobility together. By combining Kia’s leadership in advanced vehicle technologies with TotalEnergies’ expertise in high-performance lubricants and fluids, we will empower Kia dealers, enhancing the ownership experience and bringing premium, future-ready solutions to more Kia customers across Europe,” said Jean Parizot, Director, OEM & Central Sales, Automotive Business Unit at TotalEnergies Lubrifiants.

Strengthening Kia’s service competitiveness
Kia’s partnership with TotalEnergies has underpinned a wide-ranging portfolio of joint projects and marketing initiatives developed over the last 15 years. These initiatives will continue under the extended agreement, building on proven programs that deliver benefits to customers and provide dealers with the best possible tools. This helps Kia’s European dealers to deliver high-quality after-sales care, raise service standards and improve customer satisfaction. The two companies are also working on the new Recycled Oil Project that applies circularity to lubricants usage.

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About TotalEnergies
TotalEnergies is a global integrated energy company that produces and markets energies: oil and biofuels, natural gas, biogas and low-carbon hydrogen, renewables, and electricity. Our more than 100,000 employees are committed to providing as many people as possible with energy that is more reliable, more affordable, and more sustainable. Active in about 120 countries, TotalEnergies places sustainability at the heart of its strategy, its projects, and its operations.

About the Marketing & Services division of TotalEnergies
TotalEnergies’ Marketing & Services business segment offers its professional and private customers a wide range of energy products and services – petroleum products, biofuels, charging for electric vehicles, LNG for maritime transportation, fuels for Aviation, bitumen, LPG and Clean Cooking solutions – to support them in their mobility and to help them reduce their carbon footprint. Every day, over 6 million customers all over the world visit our 13,000 service stations and their associated services (mobility cards, car wash, food…). As the world’s number four in Lubricants, we design and sell high-performance products for the automotive, industrial, and maritime sectors. In order to provide the best response to the needs of our B2B customers, we deploy our sales force, our international logistics network, and our diverse and tailor-made offering. We operate in more than 100 countries, where our 25,000 employees stand close to all our customers.

About Kia Europe
Kia Europe is the European sales and manufacturing division of Kia Corporation – a global mobility brand that is creating innovative and pioneering mobility solutions that enable consumers, communities, and societies to transition towards electrification. As a leading mobility solutions provider, Kia is spearheading the popularisation of electrified and battery electric vehicles and developing a growing range of mobility services, encouraging people around the world to explore the best ways of getting around.

Kia Europe, headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, employs in total over 5,500 employees from 40 nationalities in 39 markets across Europe and the Caucasus. It also oversees European production at the company’s state-of-the-art facility in Žilina, Slovakia. Kia’s innovative products continue to attract great acclaim, notably the EV6 battery electric vehicle, becoming the first Korean car to be named European Car of the Year in 2022.

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