Blazer EV issues, clean hydrogen rules, Prius Prime, Porsche-Audi charge cord: Today’s Car News

Chevy Blazer EV gross sales have been halted. Porsche and Audi are issuing recall letters for many of their plug-in autos, nevertheless it’s not for the autos themselves. Hydrogen guidelines goal to reel within the dirtier aspect of the hydrogen economic system. And we have a look at the Prius Prime as one of many yr’s finest. This and extra, right here at Inexperienced Automobile Stories. 

At the moment we took a have a look at the final of our Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2024 finalists up shut. As the one plug-in hybrid we contemplated in our remaining spherical in wanting on the yr’s finest new fashions, the Toyota Prius Prime allows a every day commute freed from tailpipe emissions, then 52-mpg gasoline gas effectivity after working via the cost. However with a sluggish onboard charger, no vital enhance in efficiency over the hybrid, and indicators that Toyota sees this as a distinct segment mannequin, is the Prius Prime prime sufficient?

The Biden administration has set a excessive bar for the beneficiant tax credit created by the Inflation Restoration Act (IRA) to assist spur large-scale manufacturing of hydrogen, beginning with regional hydrogen hubs. To qualify for clean hydrogen handouts below the foundations, these amenities might want to use new sources of fresh power, and looking out farther forward, to run solely on the instances of day when clear power is on the market. 

Audi and Porsche are taking part in it protected with a greater mobile charging cable for EV and PHEV models. Though formally a recall, the marketing campaign has nothing on to do with the automobiles themselves, fairly with an adjunct cell charging wire included with the autos—which now, in its revamped type, features a temperature sensor to assist safeguard residence wiring that may’t totally assist the 240-volt wire. 

And in case you missed it earlier this previous vacation weekend, GM paused deliveries of the Chavy Blazer EV over software program woes—after a collection of incidents and hassle codes skilled by house owners and reviewers alike. GM emphasizes that these usually are not safety-related points and never associated to its Ultium EV propulsion suite or Google built-in.

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