Canoo electric pickup, Polestar 4 from Korea, Tesla yoke and airbags: Today’s Car News

Most People nonetheless don’t see an EV as their subsequent automobile. The upcoming Polestar 4 comes from South Korea as a commerce workaround. Canoo remixes its electrical pickup with some army punch. And what did Tesla confuse in a few of its EVs with the steering yoke? This and extra, right here at Inexperienced Automotive Reviews. 

In keeping with a current ballot from Ipsos, claiming to attract from a “nationally consultant likelihood pattern,” most People stay unlikely to buy an EV as their subsequent automobile. But it surely additionally discovered {that a} slim majority of People assist authorities incentives for individuals who do need to go electrical. 

In an odd twist of globalism, possible amplified by Biden EV coverage, the U.S.-bound Polestar 4 will be built in South Korea, at a Renault plant, beneath a contract manufacturing association. The transfer, of a Swedish-headquartered model managed by a Chinese language conglomerate, serves as a workaround to bypass an import tariff utilized to autos made in China. 

Canoo final week spun its Gentle Tactical Automobile submitted to the U.S. Military right into a civilian-oriented American Bulldog electric pickup. Whereas providing lots of the identical options because the proposed army model—minus the Kevlar shielding, maybe—the particular construct of this electrical truck might stoke curiosity as Canoo nonetheless works towards solvency and manufacturing. 

And Tesla might have installed the wrong airbag when Mannequin S or Mannequin X homeowners switched from yoke to steering wheel, or vice versa. The steering yoke, which was at one level the default when these fashions received a refresh, has shifted to turn out to be a $1,000 possibility.

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