Which main automaker is likely to be partnering with Fisker for an electrical pickup?
Ought to EV charging stations be allowed the place fuel stations aren’t?
That is our look again on the Week In Reverse—proper right here at Inexperienced Automotive Experiences—for the week ending March 2, 2024.
Ford detailed how EV house owners can reserve a free Tesla charging adapter that, with Ford’s app or in-vehicle interface, will present Ford EVs with Tesla Supercharger entry. Route planning isn’t a part of it fairly but, and it’s unclear how Tesla will handle the additional congestion and whether or not, as Tesla CEO Elon Musk had hinted previously, slower-charging non-Tesla EVs is likely to be charged additional.
Ford EVs at Tesla Supercharger
Rivian additionally will likely be including Tesla Supercharger websites to its journey planner in March, the corporate confirmed Thursday. Tesla NACS adapter shipments to present Rivian drivers are because of begin quickly after that.
The 2024 Volkswagen ID.4 lineup will get the next value—though a lot of the lineup affords substantial upgrades together with stronger efficiency and a much-improved infotainment system.
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2024 Fiat 500e
The tiny 2025 Fiat 500e, arriving in March, will likely be an enormous litmus check for the U.S. EV market. Will People embrace a small, two-door, urban-focused EV with nicely underneath 200 miles of vary—probably possibly with tech like battery-swapping?
Fiat additionally supplied a glimpse of its future within the type of 5 trendy compact EV ideas, together with a pickup and camper. Nonetheless it has indicated that manufacturing fashions primarily based on these ideas will embrace a mixture of hybrid and inside combustion powertrains.
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2025 Renault 5 E-Tech
Renault introduced again a hot-hatch design from a long time in the past, within the type of the Renault 5 E-Tech EV—at a cheaper price than any electrical automobile presently supplied within the U.S. At present, although, there are not any plans to deliver it or the model to the U.S.
Honda revealed the upcoming fuel-cell model of its Honda CR-V and, as soon as once more, it’s going to solely be obtainable by lease in California. This time it’s totally different, although: The 2025 Honda CR-V e:FCEV has a cost port, so drivers can cost up the battery pack for 29 battery-electric miles, adopted by what Honda anticipates as about 241 miles of hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion. That’s, if yow will discover someplace alongside the way in which to gas up.
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Ineos Fusilier
The off-road maker Ineos introduced its first totally electrical automobile, the Fusilier electrical SUV. Nonetheless, because it revealed the mannequin, constructed on a separate skateboard platform, the corporate famous that EVs are solely appropriate for “shorter journeys and concrete deliveries”—underscoring that its range-extended model but to be detailed will likely be a better option for different makes use of.
Does liquid hydrogen have the potential to make fuel-cell long-haul vehicles extra viable versus EVs? With tech from Linde Engineering, a Daimler Truck mission utilizing supercooled liquid hydrogen guarantees smaller station footprints, quick shelling out, and the potential to suit a number of power right into a smaller area—one thing nearer to fuel or diesel by quantity however in fact far lighter than battery packs. However there look like value and power drawbacks for hydrogen storage which have but to be overcome.
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2020 Tesla Roadster
Is the Tesla Roadster getting a couple of extra know-how tips, through SpaceX? That seems to be what CEO Elon Musk steered with current posts—accompanying one other delay for the long-anticipated electrical sports activities automobile, in fact.
Three EVs are on the IIHS Prime Security Choose+ shortlist, regardless of more durable necessities, with a handful of EVs qualifying for the next-best Prime Security Choose award. It indicators not simply that buyers can select totally electrical autos with market-leading security, however that the company is placing extra EVs via its full battery of testing.
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Fisker Alaska electrical truck idea
Fisker confirmed with an earnings report and replace delivered Thursday that it’s in talks with an unnamed “massive automaker” for EV platforms, funding, and North American manufacturing. With a large $463 million internet loss for the quarter, the Foxconn partnership probably off, and future EVs just like the Pear on maintain, the way forward for the fledgling model is unquestionably unsure. In a while Friday, in keeping with a Reuters report, that giant automaker is Nissan—and the association would possibly end in a associated Nissan electrical truck.
Britain’s Aston Martin has delayed its first EV because of what the corporate referred to as a scarcity of demand. It’s now aiming to emphasise plug-in hybrids a bit extra, and targets a 2025 arrival for the Aston EV, which can lean on Lucid for some powertrain parts.
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GMC Hummer EV
The 2024 GMC Hummer EV is within the firm of gas-guzzlers on the newest checklist of “meanest” autos for the setting. Though the Hummer EV makes use of much less power than the opposite large gasoline vehicles and SUVs on the checklist, its emissions associated to manufacturing and disposal—together with that massive battery—give it a really heavy footprint.
And lawmakers in Kentucky have made a confounding proposal: to “shield” fuel station discrimination by not permitting zoning for EV charging anyplace fuel stations aren’t. Is that this proposal, which might maintain EVs from lodges, eating places, and venues, fueled by more and more partisan rhetoric about electrical automobiles, or is there some logical sense to this?
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