Which firm revealed plans for a light-weight electrical sports activities automobile?
And which one determined to imitate a few of the cues of combustion engines for its top-performance EV?
That is our look again on the Week In Reverse—proper right here at Inexperienced Automobile Experiences—for the week ending July 14, 2023.
Hyundai gave its 2024 Ioniq 5 N efficiency EV an official debut Thursday on the Goodwood Pageant of Pace. The 5 N has every kind of enhancements geared toward driving lovers—and much more energy, after all, good for 0-60 mph occasions of simply 3.4 seconds—but it surely’s the bigger battery pack and the cabin noise meant to imitate combustion engines which can be most noteworthy.
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Hyundai Ioniq 5 N
Additionally on the UK occasion, Caterham revealed the Venture V idea electrical sports activities automobile—signaling that the area of interest automaker is engaged on a genuinely compact, light-weight efficiency EV a bit smaller than the unique Tesla Roadster or a Mazda Miata.
Mercedes-Benz introduced a shift to the Tesla cost port—not only for its autos, beginning in 2025, however no less than partly in its personal American charging community that’s beginning to take type. It’s the primary German automaker to take action. Amongst full-line automakers, Mercedes is the one with the deepest historical past with Tesla, because it used to personal a couple of tenth of Tesla and exchanged expertise and elements in earlier EVs.
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Audi EP4 idea primarily based on the NSU Prinz 4
Audi is tapping into its NSU heritage with the Audi EP4 undertaking, which fitted fashionable Audi electrification items right into a classic NSU Prinz 4—yielding a particular go-fast retromod compact automobile that might be a proof level for future compact EVs from the model.
In a long-awaited follow-up overview of the Jaguar I-Tempo, we discovered that this pioneering luxurious mannequin is a much better EV than it was on arrival practically 5 years in the past. From interface to driving vary, it now delights; however are customers even noticing?
Dealership inventories of EVs are swelling, in line with a latest report. In the meantime, EV gross sales are leveling off. What that possible means is that EV offers might lastly be coming—and on the very least, the worth gouging is gone.
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2023 Ford F-150 Lightning
Ford is reportedly providing a $1,500 low cost on the 2023 F-150 Lightning in some areas. That’s after a sequence of worth hikes that go away it costing practically 50% greater, in its base Lightning Professional model, than it initially did for 2022.
The manufacturing ramp of the Fisker Ocean is transferring slowly. However in a Friday replace the startup pointed to provider challenges as a motive it solely made a couple of thousand of the EVs with contract provider Magna.
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Fisker Ocean
A $7.7 billion three way partnership between Renault and Volvo and Polestar father or mother Geely seems to be taking over Toyota for hybrid supremacy. Probably additionally involving the oil firm Aramco, it “goals to turn out to be the chief in next-generation hybrid and extremely environment friendly powertrain options to satisfy worldwide demand for the years to return.”
In the meantime, Toyota is shifting its hydrogen fuel-cell consideration towards Europe and China—along with the U.S.—because it targets price reductions and even profitability for the tech. It’s now searching for to get fuel-cell methods into 100,000 autos yearly by 2030.
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Canoo Crew Transportation Autos for NASA Artemis program
The U.S. startup Canoo this week introduced its supply of EVs to NASA to be used within the Artemis program bringing astronauts again to the Moon; it additionally delivered a battery pack for U.S. Navy navy purposes—all whereas the corporate’s financials make a full-scale manufacturing ramp of its private EVs look much less possible.
Rivian filed a patent for pass-through charging tech that successfully turns its electrical vehicles into an extension twine for one more EV—which can be helpful when one of many EVs is towing a trailer that may’t match within the charging bay, or when there merely aren’t sufficient connectors to go round.
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2022 GMC Hummer EV
The 2024 GMC Hummer EV has acquired a better vary score from GM for the brand new mannequin 12 months, in its 3X Pickup configuration. With the most important 205-kwh battery pack, the Hummer EV now achieves as much as 381 miles of vary—though it’s price preserving in thoughts that that is nonetheless not an official EPA score.
And the GMC Hummer EV is one in every of solely a handful of U.S.-market EVs are as of but able to the 800-volt charging that’s broadly seen as a tech benefit. We appeared into why 800V charging issues and why the shift over to the Tesla port throws an additional little bit of confusion into the sector.
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