How quickly is the revamped Tesla Mannequin 3 Highland arriving within the U.S.?
Which firm spent extra of its CES presentation speaking about gaming, TV, and flicks than the EV it’s serving to make?
That is our look again on the Week In Reverse—proper right here at Inexperienced Automobile Stories—for the week ending January 12, 2024.
At CES in Las Vegas, the Honda Saloon and House-Hub ideas supplied a head-turning first have a look at the automaker’s 0 Collection (Zero Collection) EVs set to launch beginning in 2026. These fashions purpose to go “skinny, gentle, and clever,” with excessive effectivity and low battery degradation, they usually embody by-wire steering.
Kia PV5 Idea
Additionally at CES, Hyundai outlined its work to determine a “hydrogen worth chain,” with a hydrogen imaginative and prescient that extends properly past automobiles, vehicles, and buses—to trains, ships, mills, steelmaking, robotics, air mobility, and extra. To make sufficient hydrogen, it plans megawatt-scale electrolyzers plus Waste-to-Hydrogen and Plastic-to-Hydrogen improvements. And Kia revealed a brand new world household of PBV idea electrical vans that may present a modular foundation for last-mile supply, cargo operations, and even robotaxis. Interchangeable modules, an built-in cargo-rail system, and a compact, maneuverability-focused PV1 mannequin are all within the works.
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Afeela electrical sedan prototype as proven at CES 2024
Sony led its CES presentation by touting all of the methods its bringing motion pictures, TV, and gaming to market. It adopted through the use of a PS5 controller to remotely drive in an up to date model of the 2026 Afeela electrical sedan being co-developed with Honda—an EV that may have a “digital platform for co-creation,” a “conversational private agent” utilizing AI from Microsoft, and driver-assist methods knowledgeable by AI.
Vietnam’s Vinfast revealed an electrical pickup idea, a $20,000 mini electrical SUV, and a retro-styled e-bike, all at this week’s CES. The three future EVs from Vinfast set a extra fascinating potential product path for the model, past its VF 8 and VF 9 electrical crossovers and towards franchised seller gross sales within the U.S.
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Vinfast VF Wild idea – CES 2024
Bosch used CES because the backdrop for asserting that it’s working with Volkswagen Group subsidiary Cariad to develop tech that mixes automated parking know-how with automated charging tech. May the longer term embody parking garages that return EVs absolutely charged?
The rental-car large Hertz has introduced that it’s promoting a 3rd of its EV fleet—about 20,000 EVs, together with some Teslas—to purchase gasoline automobiles. The corporate factors to costly collision claims and charging points, and has instructed that Tesla’s worth volatility didn’t assist.
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REE P7-C electrical truck
The primary automobile with by-wire steering, braking, and acceleration has handed U.S. security and EPA certification, the EV startup REE Automotive reported this week. Whereas autos providing two of these three varieties of by-wire tech have been more and more frequent, all three assist pave the best way for radical adjustments in EV packaging and autonomous automobile tech.
How a lot cash will EV possession save versus possession of a gasoline automobile? As College of Michigan researchers not too long ago highlighted, it depends upon the place you reside. Taking a look at 14 completely different U.S. cities, discovering a path for price parity and financial savings depends upon the area—and in some areas charging at house itself will save EV drivers an additional $10,000 over the lifetime of the automobile.
In response to the U.S. Division of Power, 270 miles was the median rated vary for brand new 2023-model-year EVs—that means simply as many EV nameplates had lower than 270 miles as had extra. Because the market norm approaches 300 miles, is that sufficient?
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2024 Hyundai Ioniq 6
Opposite to what’s been alluded to by current information protection, electrical automobile gross sales grew considerably in 2023, and analysts have predicted up to now week that EV development will proceed in 2024. Though the upcoming Presidential election might be a wildcard for U.S. EV coverage.
The U.S. EPA on Monday touted one other $1 billion of federal spending on electrical and low-emission faculty buses. As we famous, there’s a web-based dashboard permitting you to see the place precisely they’re ending up.
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Tesla Mannequin 3 (Europe-market refresh)
The U.S.-spec model of the 2024 Tesla Mannequin 3 Highland—the up to date Mannequin 3 with a much-improved, quieter cabin and aero-optimized styling—made a shock entrance on Tesla’s web site earlier this week. Deliveries begin as quickly as later this month.
And simply in time for final weekend, Tesla lowered vary estimates for a few of its electrical automobiles. A number of the most noteworthy examples included the Mannequin Y Lengthy Vary, which dropped from 330 miles to 310 miles, and the Mannequin Y efficiency, down from 303 miles to 285. The Mannequin X Plaid and Mannequin S Plaid had been additionally affected.
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