The Toyota Camry Hybrid is quickly getting all-wheel drive. Battery tech within the Polestar 5 might permit some very quick charging. Lucid lets the Air cost different EVs. And VW claims once more it’s engaged on a $35,000 EV for the U.S. This and extra, right here at Inexperienced Automobile Experiences.
Polestar supplied up various know-how bulletins and product previews at its first Polestar Day occasion yesterday. Amongst them, maybe most notably, is that it’s planning to check StoreDot’s very fast-charging tech in a Polestar 5 prototype which may achieve 100 miles in 5 minutes. It additionally gave the Polestar 5 a proper bow.
The Lucid Air will quickly be capable to cost different EVs—at as much as 9.6 kw, which might give some fashions 40 miles of vary per hour. The {hardware} enabling it’s already within the Air, nevertheless it must be software program enabled, and also you’ll additionally want a specific cable.
The 2025 Toyota Camry Hybrid is getting a full redesign, to be revealed subsequent week, together with all-wheel drive for the primary time. If it may possibly preserve its mpg versus the Honda Accord Hybrid and Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, it’s undoubtedly a market edge.
And would a $35,000 Volkswagen EV put the model in development mode in North America? A prime American govt for the automaker indicated it’s within the works, with U.S. or Mexico meeting, however may not arrive till 2027.
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