Hyundai Ioniq 6 deal, affordable Honda and Toyota EVs, Civic and Elantra hybrids: The Week in Reverse

How will you declare as much as $7,500 off some new Tesla fashions on the time of buy?

Which automaker introduced plans to embrace the Tesla cost connector and reignite an offbeat form of inner combustion engine, all in the identical week?

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

The 2024 Hyundai Elantra Hybrid will get a value hike—and extra of a value bump versus non-hybrid Elantra fashions, though the Elantra Hybrid does now get the bigger 10.3-inch infotainment display screen. Effectivity-focused Elantra Hybrid Blue fashions retain the 54-mpg mixed EPA ranking.

With $7,500 of “retail bonus money”—a rebate on purchases, not leases–the 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 6 is less expensive than the Tesla Mannequin 3. Wanting on the newest “Highland” Mannequin 3, as priced final week, it undercuts the Tesla by $9,000. 

Teaser for 2025 Jeep Wagoneer S

Stellantis offered a primary have a look at the 2025 Jeep Wagoneer S electric SUV, confirming Thursday that it’s proper on schedule and set to reach this fall within the U.S., with different markets to observe.

The 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E GT will get an non-compulsory efficiency improve yielding the quickest acceleration of any Mach-E model but. A Bronze Look Package deal and Rally mannequin are additionally on the way in which, however 2024 Mach-E adjustments due for the non-GT lineup are but to return. 

Honda House-Hub Idea – 2024 CES

Honda could also be a late-starter with mass-production EVs, however as communicated final week with the Saloon and House-Hub ideas and by firm executives, it has large plans for later within the decade—together with a number of platforms underpinning a unified Collection 0 structure. We rounded up all of the themes and particulars, in 12 things to know about these Honda EVs arriving in 2026. 

Set to reach in summer season 2024, the 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid will likely be far more than a distinct segment mannequin, with the automaker anticipating 40% of Civic gross sales will likely be hybrids. Honda says hybrids made up greater than 1 / 4 of its whole U.S. gross sales in calendar 12 months 2023.

Toyota City SUV Idea

And by no means thoughts the Nissan Leaf, apparently—or the Chevy Bolt EV. Two automakers this previous week, each identified for reasonably priced gasoline automobiles, dashed hopes of seeing extra reasonably priced EVs anytime quickly. Honda nonetheless has no reasonably priced, mass-market EV, and based mostly on remarks from Honda’s world CEO, that’s not coming quickly—or an Accord EV or Odyssey EV—however solid-state batteries could allow an affordable small Honda EV by 2030. Toyota additionally dismisses the viability of an affordable EV—on this case, particular to the European market. Its growth boss there lately mentioned that the premium for EVs received’t go away till a “substantial shift in the price of batteries” happens—sentiments that parallel these lately made by Honda’s CEO, suggesting an affordable small EV might not arrive till 2030.

Throughout the span of some days, Mazda has introduced each the adoption of Tesla’s NACS connector for future U.S. EVs, whereas additionally committing to the revival of the rotary engine. They’re amongst many blended alerts from the automaker in recent times on what it sees as its propulsion future, as it really works towards a worldwide goal of 40% EV gross sales by 2030

2022 Mazda MX-30 EV

The lineup of Ram ProMaster EV electric van fashions was revealed Tuesday. These front-wheel-drive vans have a 110-kwh battery pack good for as much as 162 miles of vary and, with their deal with last-mile supply fleets and work-van upfits, will rival the Rivian EDV, Mercedes eSprinter, and Ford E-Transit. 

In Rivian’s new environmental affect report, it underscores that it’s aiming for EVs with half the carbon footprint, on a lifecycle foundation, by 2030.

2023 Tesla Mannequin Y – Courtesy of Tesla, Inc.

Tesla has began making use of the EV tax credit at the time of purchase—by way of its personal web site and affecting the up-front quantity consumers might want to pay when shopping for a brand new Tesla. Eligible consumers will likely be accountable for figuring out eligibility, particularly in gentle of adjusted gross family earnings caps. That mentioned, fewer Tesla fashions now make the reduce, as a result of extra restrictions on battery supplies sourcing launched for 2024. 

And a current “examine of research” by an energy-policy advocacy group, the ACEEE, finds {that a} shift to EVs will drive the cost of electricity down over the long run. That’s partly as a result of as soon as extra persons are charging EV on the grid, they’re making higher use of it.

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