2024 Lucid Air, Rivian battery pack, Toyota Urban SUV: Today’s Car News

Rivian is reportedly simplifying its battery packs. Lucid is revamping its range-topping Grand Touring trim. And is Toyota nonetheless seeing the U.S. as a key marketplace for a compact electrical SUV? This and extra, right here at Inexperienced Automobile Experiences.

Toyota has revealed a compact EV, known as the Urban SUV Concept, for the European market. May or not it’s an additional improvement of the bZ Compact SUV Idea that Toyota confirmed final yr and urged may additionally be U.S.-bound?

The 2024 Lucid Air lineup begins at $78,900, in its Pure kind, and restructured function availability permits some gadgets just like the steel or glass roof, to change into unbiased of the model. Additional, Lucid says a revamped Grand Touring—the mannequin that makes the a lot of the bigger battery pack within the Air lineup—could have an up to date powertrain with higher thermal efficiency for longer durations of “spirited driving.”

And is Rivian creating a simplified battery pack for its R1S and R1T electrical vehicles which may take 1000’s of {dollars} of value out? Though these vehicles’ packs get extra vitality into much less quantity, simpler manufacturability and decrease value may present that there’s nonetheless loads of room for enchancment.

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