Sony and Honda could also be working together on a Civic-sized EV. Lancia rolls out the beginning of an EV revival. Rivian shines some light on the R2. And Lucid cuts prices. This and more, here at Green Automobile Reports.
Thursday, Lucid cut prices on the 2024 Air lineup. Affecting all however the top-performance, tri-motor Sapphire version, the very long-range, fast-charging electric sedan costs as much as $8,000 lower than it did yesterday. And the Lucid Air now undercuts the Tesla Model S—when you don’t require all-wheel drive.
Stellantis, the parent of Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, Fiat, and more, is pushing ahead to revitalize the historic Italian brand Lancia—inside just a few years, as an all-EV brand. The brand new Lancia Ypsilon urban EV revealed Wednesday marks the start of that revival—because of extend across Europe, with a crossover and bigger hatchback due later in the last decade.
In keeping with a report from Japan, the three way partnership between Sony and Honda plans to follow its electric Afeela sedan with two other models for the brand focused around apps and media—an SUV, and an inexpensive, Civic-sized EV. While the Afeela sedan stays because of arrive in 2026, the compact EV may not arrive until 2028.
And because the March 7 debut of the Rivian R2 approaches, the EV maker teased a primary detail in regards to the R2 lineup’s design and styling—most notably, that it looks poised to maintain the R1 lineup’s polarizing yet distinctive front lighting scheme.
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