Which automaker pushed a very important EV goal back by five years?
Which brand is no less than considering adding artificial engine vibration to its EVs?
That is our look back on the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Automobile Reports—for the week ending February 23, 2024.
In a primary drive of the 2024 Honda Prologue EV, we found that this roomy, refined, and feature-packed electric crossover suits in only high quality as an establishing statement toward flashier Honda EVs arriving within the near future.
2025 Porsche Panamera 4S E-Hybrid
The brand new-generation 2025 Porsche Panamera plug-in hybrid lineup revealed this week mixes in additional electric miles, gets quicker acceleration, and gains an energetic suspension system, amongst its many improvements.
The legions of legacy automakers announcing delays to their EV plans grew again this week, as Mercedes-Benz delayed its EV targets announced earlier in the last decade. While it had planned for EVs and hybrids to make up 50% of its sales by 2025, it now expects to hit that concentrate on in 2030. It also appears to have scrapped its plan to only sell EVs by 2030 where market conditions allowed.
GM electric pickup silhouette – from 2020 Ultium platform preview
Further, GM is reportedly rushing plans for full-size plug-in hybrid pickups, because it pivots away from a brand new generation of electrical vans and a smaller electric pickup. And Hyundai’s Genesis may not shift to completely electric on quite the timeline it’s been detailing lately, in keeping with a report from South Korea. A report, citing insiders, suggests that the luxurious brand now plans so as to add hybrids next 12 months, whereas it had previously said all additions to the lineup from 2025 on can be EVs or hydrogen fuel-cell models.
Ford on Tuesday cut Mustang Mach-E EV prices by as much as $8,100. The worth adjustment brings base versions of remaining 2023 stock to $41,695, or about $2,700 lower than the entry Tesla Model Y. A bonus money incentive also chopped as much as $12,500 off F-150 Lightning electric trucks.
2025 Volvo EC40 (Europe spec)
Volvo, however, has recently reaffirmed its plans to go all-electric by the top of the last decade, and on the way in which there it’s retiring its Recharge badge for plug-ins. Which means adding two recent EV badges to align the old with the brand new—recasting the XC40 Recharge and C40 Recharge because the EX40 and EC40, respectively. Volvo also later within the week clarified exactly how it would shed most of its stake in Polestar, because the EV startup struggles and has turn out to be, as some have observed, a drag on Volvo resources.
Based on several reports from earlier within the week, the Biden administration is considering pulling back on stricter emissions rules, in order to offer full-line automakers more time to ramp up EV production levels and produce more gas-guzzlers. The tweaks would reportedly “slow the pace at which auto manufacturers would want to comply,” pushing sharper gains to 2030 and beyond.
Ready for a European vacation? The Volkswagen ID.7 Tourer electric station wagon revealed Monday looks all set for a family road trip—and with the three-row ID.Buzz coming here later this 12 months, it’s hard to assume this attractive electric wagon being U.S.-bound anytime soon.
2025 Volkswagen ID.7 Tourer
Based on a patent filing made last 12 months and recently found via a Mopar fan site, parent company Stellantis could also be considering greater than just noisemaking for its screaming-loud electric muscle automotive, now due for a reveal March 5. A so-called “Lively Vibration Enhancement” system might potentially provide a muscle EV with the shake of a V-8.
Sono Motors is undergoing something of a revival, post bankruptcy, with a solar electric bus kit geared toward converting business vehicles. But there’s no mention of the Sion solar EV project, which had previously seemed to be on the market. As of this weekend, the corporate still hasn’t responded to Green Automobile Reports regarding the status of this system or its potential sale.
Sono Sion and other vehicles equipped with Sono solar panels
Before the top of the last decade, EVs could also be cheaper than gas models. Based on a study out this week from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), a glut of lithium plus Biden policy will lead to lower battery prices and, most significantly, much lower EV sticker prices relative to gasoline vehicles. The affordability gains will occur even without Biden incentives, just more slowly.
And as misinformation spreads about EV sales being down, send your mates to an easy-to-read chart—showing that 2023 EV sales blew past 2022 levels each month of this past 12 months.
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