Which main automaker may be partnering with Fisker for an electrical pickup?
Should EV charging stations be allowed the place gasoline stations aren’t?
This is our look again on the Week In Reverse—proper right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending March 2, 2024.
Ford detailed how EV homeowners 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 may be charged further.
Ford EVs at Tesla Supercharger
Rivian additionally might 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 a better worth—though a lot of the lineup provides 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, might be a giant litmus take a look at for the U.S. EV market. Will Americans embrace a small, two-door, urban-focused EV with effectively below 200 miles of vary—doubtlessly perhaps with tech like battery-swapping?
Fiat additionally offered a glimpse of its future within the type of 5 trendy compact EV ideas, together with a pickup and camper. However it has indicated that manufacturing fashions based mostly on these ideas will embrace a mixture of hybrid and inner 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 automotive at the moment provided within the U.S. Currently, although, there are not any plans to convey 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 should solely be accessible by lease in California. This time it’s completely 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 is, if you could find 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 car, the Fusilier electrical SUV. However, because it revealed the mannequin, constructed on a separate skateboard platform, the corporate famous that EVs are solely appropriate for “shorter trips and urban deliveries”—underscoring that its range-extended model but to be detailed might be a more sensible choice 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 undertaking utilizing supercooled liquid hydrogen guarantees smaller station footprints, quick allotting, and the potential to suit loads of vitality right into a smaller house—one thing nearer to gasoline or diesel by quantity however in fact far lighter than battery packs. But there look like price and vitality 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, by way of SpaceX? That seems to be what CEO Elon Musk recommended with latest posts—accompanying one other delay for the long-anticipated electrical sports activities automotive, in fact.
Three EVs are on the IIHS Top Safety Pick+ shortlist, regardless of more durable necessities, with a handful of EVs qualifying for the next-best Top Safety Pick award. It indicators not simply that buyers can select totally electrical autos with market-leading security, however that the company is placing extra EVs by means of 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 “large automaker” for EV platforms, funding, and North American manufacturing. With a large $463 million web loss for the quarter, the Foxconn partnership doubtlessly off, and future EVs just like the Pear on maintain, the way forward for the fledgling model is unquestionably unsure. Later on Friday, in line with a Reuters report, that enormous 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 known as an absence 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 surroundings. Although the Hummer EV makes use of much less vitality than the opposite huge gasoline vehicles and SUVs on the checklist, its emissions associated to manufacturing and disposal—together with that vast battery—give it a really heavy footprint.
And lawmakers in Kentucky have made a confounding proposal: to “protect” gasoline station discrimination by not permitting zoning for EV charging wherever gasoline stations aren’t. Is this proposal, which might maintain EVs from motels, eating places, and venues, fueled by more and more partisan rhetoric about electrical vehicles, or is there some logical sense to this?
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