Which EV holds onto extra of its vary within the chilly?
And drivers of EVs from which car maker appeared to “brick” their EVs?
That is our look again on the Week In Reverse—proper right here at Inexperienced Automobile Experiences—for the week ending November 17, 2023.
Simply forward of the LA auto present, Toyota revealed a redesigned ninth-generation Camry, and it’s taking the bestselling automotive within the U.S. all-hybrid. The 2025 Toyota Camry hybrid additionally will get the mix of obtainable all-wheel drive with the hybrid system for the primary time. And Toyota is slicing up the roomy crossover SUV market much more with the introduction of the 2025 Toyota Crown Signia. Provided additionally solely with all-wheel drive and in hybrid kind, and barely extra on the carlike aspect in format versus the Highlander SUV, the Signia is predicted to realize a 36-mpg score.
2025 Toyota Crown Signia
The 2025 Lucid Gravity electrical SUV made an official bow on the LA present this week, with three roomy rows of seating, an aerodynamic form, and a projected 440 miles of vary. Lucid has advanced its interface, up to date its efficiency-focused powertrain, and added an adaptive air suspension, all serving to allow off-roading in addition to a 6,000-pound tow score.
Subaru additionally revealed its redesigned 2025 Subaru Forester on the present, and it confirmed {that a} Subaru Forester Hybrid will comply with the opposite fashions by a couple of yr.
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Karma Kaveya idea
Karma on Monday revealed plans for 2 upcoming Karma EVs, together with a scissor-door sports activities automotive that received’t arrive till 2026 and an electrical sedan due in 2024. It hasn’t but detailed the way forward for the GS-6 (Revero) or that mannequin’s plug-in sequence hybrid powertrain.
Mercedes-Benz unveiled the primary charging station of its community that it claims would be the quickest within the U.S. It additionally represents a template for future stations on the community, a lot of which will probably be at Buc-ee’s journey facilities.
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Mercedes-Benz EV Charging Hub in Sandy Springs, Georgia
A Rivian over-the-air software program blunder earlier within the week may function a lesson for different manufacturers in addition to the electrical truck model’s personal releases. Infotainment methods on some Rivian R1S and R1T vans have been successfully bricked, though the vans did nonetheless operate. Happily it put the kibosh on the rollout earlier than greater than 3% bought the replace.
Hyundai introduced a devoted EV plant in Ulsan, South Korea, that will probably be able to constructing as much as 200,000 EVs yearly. Additional, in keeping with a report citing a plant govt, one of many fashions set to be constructed on the flagship plant will probably be a flagship EV—an enormous Genesis GV90 electrical SUV, due in 2026.
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2024 Volvo EM90
With the total reveal of the Volvo EM90 electrical minivan this previous weekend—for now solely positioned for China—Volvo is providing what is perhaps its most luxurious inside ever. It’s additionally road-trip prepared, with a good bigger battery pack than the Swedish automaker makes use of for its EX90 SUV.
In an odd twist of globalism, doubtless amplified by Biden EV coverage, the U.S.-bound Polestar 4 will probably be in-built South Korea, at a Renault plant, underneath a contract manufacturing association. The transfer, of a Swedish-headquartered model managed by a Chinese language conglomerate, serves as a workaround to bypass an import tariff utilized to automobiles made in China.
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Canoo American Bulldog
Canoo final week spun its Mild Tactical Car submitted to the U.S. Military right into a civilian-oriented American Bulldog electrical pickup. Whereas providing most of the identical options because the proposed navy model—minus the Kevlar shielding, maybe—the particular construct of this electrical truck may stoke curiosity as Canoo nonetheless works towards solvency and manufacturing.
And Tesla may need put in the mistaken airbag when Mannequin S or Mannequin X homeowners switched from yoke to steering wheel, or vice versa. The steering yoke, which was at one level the default when these fashions bought a refresh, has shifted to grow to be a $1,000 choice.
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2024 Audi Q8
Which EVs protect their cold-weather driving vary one of the best? The battery well being consultants at Recurrent just lately tapped into real-world knowledge to see, and the Audi E-Tron SUV (now Q8 E-Tron) and fashions with warmth pumps got here out on high.
Toyota is partnering with JB Straubel’s Redwood Supplies to go full circle with Toyota batteries. Below the plan, Redwood will seize recycled materials from retired Prius hybrids, then use that materials for future Toyota EV packs—masking what Redwood calls essentially the most essential battery parts which are at present making up most of the price of the battery cell and in any other case typical from abroad.
In response to a latest ballot from Ipsos, claiming to attract from a “nationally consultant chance pattern,” most People stay unlikely to purchase an EV as their subsequent car. But it surely additionally discovered {that a} slim majority of People help authorities incentives for individuals who do need to go electrical.
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Tesla charging
An excellent many elements are utilized in estimating Tesla vary for navigation and journey planning, in keeping with a put up from the EV maker this week. Though that and the reliability of the Supercharger community stay Tesla strengths, the automaker stays much less easy about how its EVs’ personal vary estimates are calculated.
And in keeping with a brand new examine, EV homeowners aren’t driving as a lot as these with gasoline automobiles—and that’s an issue, partly as a result of most fashions EV benefits assume they’ll be used about as a lot. In the meantime, gasoline “superusers” proceed to decide on the way in which of straightforward refueling, whereas many with long-range EVs and large, resource-intensive packs aren’t utilizing them to their potential.
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