Which legendary sports automobile brand is likely to be making in-wheel motors?
Which automaker cut a hybrid from its consumer lineup to make more police-duty hybrids?
That is our look back on the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Automobile Reports—for the week ending November 25, 2023.
In a 2024 Audi SQ8 E-Tron review, we found this big, performance-oriented luxury SUV to flex the benefits of its tri-motor layout with perhaps one of the best handling of any SUV, gasoline or not—without sacrificing its class-leading comfort and quiet.
2024 Cadillac Optiq
GM’s Cadillac luxury brand confirmed that its 2025 Optiq electric SUV can be the entry point amongst its American-market EVs, slotting below the Lyriq. Today’s lowest-priced Cadillac is the $35,000 CT4 sedan, so don’t expect it to undercut internal combustion quite yet, whilst the brand pushes toward all EVs by 2030.
Perhaps in preparation for all of the EVs from other brands beginning to use Tesla’s top-rated charging network next yr, Tesla Superchargers may cost a little an additional $1 a minute when charging above 90% during what Tesla determines to be congestion.
Hyundai at Tesla Supercharger
The Jeep Wrangler 4xe plug-in hybrid is being recalled for a battery-related issue. Within the meantime owners are being advised to not charge their vehicles and even park near structures or other vehicles.
There won’t be a 2024 Ford Explorer Hybrid, the automaker confirmed last week, and the Lincoln Aviator Grand Touring plug-in hybrid has also been nixed from the lineup. That frees up room for the thriving police-duty Police Interceptor, based on the Explorer Hybrid—and, likely, focuses toward the fully electric seven-passenger SUV due in 2025.
Ford Gen 2 electric SUV after efficiency improvements
Honda has provided a number of more details regarding its next-generation fuel-cell modules set for the U.S.-made CR-V Fuel Cell starting next yr—and indicated that fuel-cell products for Europe could also be an even bigger a part of the corporate’s hydrogen plans this time around.
Recent patent filings suggest that Ferrari in-wheel motors could also be within the works. Although not the axial-flux design the automakers has been working on, these radial-flux motors, packaged along with brake components, could possibly be a possibility for future performance EVs.
CATL Shenxing battery
LFP batteries have been touted as the way in which toward cheaper EVs, and in Europe Stellantis and CATL are partnering up for potential supply on the Continent.
Whilst the marketplace for electric vehicles grows, EV buyers have top-tier credit, confirmed a study released this week by the credit giant TransUnion with S&P Global Mobility.
Last weekend we checked out how the EV age has revived an aerodynamic obsession within the auto industry. One such example, Audi, recently identified that its predecessor corporations back within the Nineteen Thirties worked on wild aero-focused combustion-engine cars. Now that EVs are made more viable with every little bit of efficiency and range, it seems that aero is certainly back in vogue.
2009 Toyota Prius
And the way will that old Prius help construct recent EVs? Redwood Materials has on-the-ground plans for ensuring a high rate of hybrid and EV battery packs get recycled into materials that may construct recent EVs. And a portal with U.S. automotive dismantlers is the beginning of an effort to really ramp up the recovery effort nationwide.
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