Which automaker claims its dealerships have fastened hundreds of Teslas?
How are you going to see the place future fast-chargers will likely be situated?
That is our look again on the Week In Reverse—proper right here at Inexperienced Automobile Experiences—for the week ending November 25, 2022.
Simply forward of the current debut of the next-generation 2023 Toyota Prius, we drove an outgoing 2022 Toyota Prius Nightshade. With a bottom-line value of round $31,000, and fuel mileage topping what we’ve seen from some other present mannequin and not using a cost port, it nonetheless makes a powerful argument within the numbers.
2023 Toyota Prius Prime (Euro spec)
2023 Toyota Prius Prime (Euro spec)
2023 Toyota Prius Prime (Euro spec)
A Toyota Prius—or some other Toyota/Lexus hybrid—could power your home through a blackout with an aftermarket high-voltage inverter that’s been obtainable for a decade. So in the event you’re holding out for the proper EV only for its power-out functionality, bear in mind that you’ve choices.
Porsche made the proper alternative in constructing its Taycan round an 800-volt battery pack however underestimated the battery cells themselves. These are among the many lessons learned from Taycan, based on Porsche executives, because the model leans forward to its PPE platform, good for future fashions from Audi, Bentley, and the sports activities automobile model itself.
PPE platform for VW Group, developed by Porsche/Audi
GM and Volvo are among the many legacy automakers projecting that EVs and gasoline vehicles will reach cost parity by 2025. That will likely be assisted by know-how enhancements, plus the Inflation Restoration Acit (IRA), which each firms have pointed to as strengthening the enterprise case for EVs.
Hyperion Motors introduced that it plans to deploy mobile hydrogen fueling stations—with electrical energy for electrolysis provided by roof-mounted photo voltaic panels—to assist its XP-1 fuel-cell supercar.
Hyperion Hyper:Gasoline Cellular Station
Mazda this week boosted its EV target to 40% by 2030, and emphasised that it plans to introduce a brand new hybrid system earlier than then. It additionally introduced agreements with suppliers to develop and manufacture electrical drive items.
LG Chem introduced on Tuesday that it’s planning a mammoth cathode material plant for EV batteries in Tennessee. The biggest of its sort within the U.S., it should assist U.S. battery and EV manufacturing and as soon as ramped up make sufficient materials for 1.2 million long-range EVs yearly.
Basic Motors, in a current investor presentation, revealed that its dealerships have made greater than 11,000 repairs on Tesla vehicles. Talked about by president Mark Reuss, it emphasizes that about 90% of the U.S. inhabitants lives inside 10 miles of a GM vendor—so it’s a stage of comfort Tesla itself won’t have the ability to match.
2023 Chevrolet Bolt EV Domino’s pizza supply automobile
Domino’s has dedicated to 800 Chevy Bolt EV pizza delivery cars within the U.S., with the primary 100 scheduled to reach later this month. Within the meantime hungry prospects can observe what number of EVs are deployed, and the place.
Whereas EV adoption lags in the U.S. heartland, based on a current examine, quite a lot of elements similar to product availability, the expansion of charging infrastructure, and shopper consciousness could altogether change that.
Porsche Taycan charging
And can you have the ability to make the Thanksgiving journey in an EV subsequent 12 months? For many who journey the fringes of current charging networks, the thought of taking an EV may quickly be much less nerve-wracking—because of the federal EV charging community taking kind. We’ve got some tricks to shortly see where future EV fast-charging road-trip routes will be.
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