Which automaker isn’t going to make 600-mile EVs?
Is megawatt charging a menace to hydrogen fuel-cell tech?
This is our look again on the Week In Reverse—proper right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending May 26, 2023.
The greatest EV information of the week got here on Thursday, when Ford and Tesla made an announcement that may change the EV charging panorama perpetually: Ford is adopting Tesla’s cost port for future EVs, in addition to offering Supercharger entry with an adapter for current EVs beginning subsequent yr. Now, will different smaller automakers soar to the Tesla normal, too?
Ford Mustang Mach-E at Tesla Supercharger
That adopted two items of Ford EV information from earlier within the week. Don’t hassle ready for an electrical Ford Expedition Lightning to enrich the F-150 Lightning. Ford claimed Monday that its three-row electrical SUV coming in 2025 will likely be a groundbreaking “personal bullet train”—with a complete concentrate on effectivity leading to 350 miles of vary from a 100-kwh battery pack and 150 miles from a 10-minute cost. And as Ford CEO Jim Farley defined, as a part of its effort to manage prices and construct higher EVs, the automaker is just making an attempt to make use of the smallest battery for aggressive vary. That means Ford isn’t going to go to 600 miles of vary in its EVs.
2025 Ford 3-row SUV –
On a very completely different observe, Cadillac introduced plans to make a completely electrical model of its massive, thirsty Escalade SUV. The GM luxurious model claims the mannequin, badged Escalade IQ and to be revealed later this yr, will likely be “a different type of EV.”
The 2024 BMW i5 revealed Wednesday is actually a completely electrical BMW 5-Series. With a value beginning at $67,795 and a driving vary for that entry mannequin of 295 miles on the EPA cycle, it claims to supply the identical passenger house as different gasoline-fueled 5-Series fashions.
The upcoming EX30 could have Volvo’s lowest-ever carbon footprint in a manufacturing mannequin from the model, it says. The Volvo EX30 will symbolize a 25% drop in lifecycle carbon emissions versus the already-improved XC40 Recharge and C40 Recharge, it says, with plenty of recycled supplies and “100% climate-neutral electricity.”
2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV
More details about the 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV Work Truck (WT) trickled out forward of deliveries set to start out quickly. Among the brand new particulars: The WT and its base battery will likely be accessible to retail prospects, however not different WT variations. Knowing this, we took a take a look at the Silverado EV WT vs. the F-150 Lightning Pro in value and vary.
As it oversees the rollout of a $7.5 billion nationwide community of EV chargers, the federal authorities is tackling EV charger reliability within the U.S. That means collaborating with firms on {hardware} and software program, and opening up an information portal for reporting uptime and error codes.
2023 Toyota Sienna
Toyota introduced final week that it plans to spice up its U.S. hybrid manufacturing to fulfill what it says is robust demand for hybrid fashions. The identical manufacturing complicated in Kentucky is scheduled to start out making fuel-cell modules this yr.
BMW and California’s Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) have constructed on a earlier smart-charging partnership with a pilot program (and later, a area trial) taking a look at how EVs might complement dwelling vitality and the grid. With a BMW i4 it could assist return double the quantity a typical home makes use of every day again to the grid—on the peak instances when it would assist increase using renewable vitality.
2022 BMW i4 eDrive40
While enthusiasm for hydrogen fuel-cell passenger autos has waned, it seems poised for a brand new push in semis and different heavy-duty vans. Will megawatt charging successfully nix hydrogen and its high benefit which up till now has been refueling time?
Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6 lease costs now undercut these from Tesla, in response to a report digging into the numbers. Once once more, the help goes to the Commercial Clean Vehicle Credit loophole making use of to EV leases—even when they’re imported.
2023 Hyundai Ioniq 5
Looking on to that, Hyundai and LG this morning confirmed ultimate particulars for a joint-venture battery plant in Georgia that can provide Hyundai’s Georgia EV Metaplant with U.S.-built batteries. That plant could have the aptitude to construct 300,000 EVs yearly, although the corporate hasn’t but confirmed which Hyundai, Kia, or Genesis fashions these will likely be.
Future Stellantis EVs later within the decade—from Jeep, Ram, or Chrysler, for example—might reap the benefits of doubtlessly range-boosting, weight-cutting lithium-sulfur battery tech. Through Stellantis Ventures, it’s invested in California’s Lyten, which claims “a pathway to achieve the lowest emissions EV battery on the global market,” in a cell kind that may be made globally. But there’s nonetheless progress to be made on cycle life and degradation.
Electric autos price 47% greater than inner combustion autos, but they’re pushed 29% much less. That’s one discovering from a current information crunch primarily based on used autos listed on the market—and it confirms earlier findings from academia suggesting that Tesla leads different EVs in miles pushed. But maybe coverage must focus extra on these “gasoline superusers.”
Tesla Model S
Despite all of the speak about EV battery longevity, and the way their drivers aren’t overlaying as many miles, EVs aren’t staying within the fleet so long as gasoline fashions, and as we search extra EV adoption it is a potential drawback. What’s in charge?
And what’s all of the fuss over AM radio in EVs? Some automakers say it’s electrical interference; some say no one’s listening to AM anyway; others level to the shortage of AM radio in Europe. Either approach, Ford yesterday determined it wasn’t a combat price preventing and agreed to carry again AM radio in its EVs.
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