F-150 Lightning discount, Jaguar I-Pace review, EVs with 800V charging: The Week in Reverse

Which firm revealed plans for a light-weight electrical sports activities automotive?

And which one determined to imitate among the cues of combustion engines for its top-performance EV?

That is our look again on the Week In Reverse—proper right here at Inexperienced Automobile Studies—for the week ending July 14, 2023.

Hyundai gave its 2024 Ioniq 5 N performance EV an official debut Thursday on the Goodwood Competition of Pace. The 5 N has every kind of enhancements geared toward driving lovers—and much more energy, after all, good for 0-60 mph instances of simply 3.4 seconds—but it surely’s the bigger battery pack and the cabin noise meant to imitate combustion engines which are most noteworthy.

Hyundai Ioniq 5 N

Additionally on the UK occasion, Caterham revealed the Project V concept electric sports car—signaling that the area of interest automaker is engaged on a genuinely compact, light-weight efficiency EV a bit smaller than the unique Tesla Roadster or a Mazda Miata.

Mercedes-Benz announced a shift to the Tesla charge port—not only for its automobiles, beginning in 2025, however no less than partly in its personal American charging community that’s beginning to take type. It’s the primary German automaker to take action. Amongst full-line automakers, Mercedes is the one with the deepest historical past with Tesla, because it used to personal a couple of tenth of Tesla and exchanged know-how and elements in earlier EVs. 

Audi EP4 idea based mostly on the NSU Prinz 4

Audi is tapping into its NSU heritage with the Audi EP4 project, which fitted trendy Audi electrification items right into a classic NSU Prinz 4—yielding a particular go-fast retromod compact automotive that may very well be a proof level for future compact EVs from the model. 

In a long-awaited follow-up review of the Jaguar I-Pace, we discovered that this pioneering luxurious mannequin is a much better EV than it was on arrival almost 5 years in the past. From interface to driving vary, it now delights; however are customers even noticing?

Dealership inventories of EVs are swelling, in response to a current report. In the meantime, EV gross sales are leveling off. What that doubtless means is that EV offers could lastly be coming—and on the very least, the value gouging is gone. 

2023 Ford F-150 Lightning

Ford is reportedly providing a $1,500 discount on the 2023 F-150 Lightning in some areas. That’s after a collection of value hikes that depart it costing almost 50% greater, in its base Lightning Professional model, than it initially did for 2022. 

The production ramp of the Fisker Ocean is moving slowly. However in a Friday replace the startup pointed to provider challenges as a purpose it solely made a couple of thousand of the EVs with contract provider Magna.

Fisker Ocean

A $7.7 billion three way partnership between Renault and Volvo and Polestar mother or father Geely appears to be taking on Toyota for hybrid supremacy. Doubtlessly additionally involving the oil firm Aramco, it “goals to grow to be the chief in next-generation hybrid and extremely environment friendly powertrain options to satisfy worldwide demand for the years to come back.”

In the meantime, Toyota is shifting its hydrogen fuel-cell attention toward Europe and China—along with the U.S.—because it targets price reductions and even profitability for the tech. It’s now in search of to get fuel-cell techniques into 100,000 automobiles yearly by 2030. 

Canoo Crew Transportation Autos for NASA Artemis program

The U.S. startup Canoo this week introduced its delivery of EVs to NASA to be used within the Artemis program bringing astronauts again to the Moon; it additionally delivered a battery pack for U.S. Navy army functions—all whereas the corporate’s financials make a full-scale manufacturing ramp of its private EVs look much less doubtless. 

Rivian filed a patent for pass-through charging tech that successfully turns its electrical vehicles into an extension twine for one more EV—which can be helpful when one of many EVs is towing a trailer that may’t match within the charging bay, or when there merely aren’t sufficient connectors to go round. 

2022 GMC Hummer EV

The 2024 GMC Hummer EV has received a higher range rating from GM for the brand new mannequin yr, in its 3X Pickup configuration. With the biggest 205-kwh battery pack, the Hummer EV now achieves as much as 381 miles of vary—though it’s price holding in thoughts that that is nonetheless not an official EPA score.

And the GMC Hummer EV is one in every of solely a handful of U.S.-market EVs are as of but able to the 800-volt charging that’s broadly seen as a tech benefit. We regarded into why 800V charging matters and why the shift over to the Tesla port throws an additional little bit of confusion into the world. 

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