2025 Kia Sorento Hybrid, Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid, Biden tariff hikes: Today’s Car News

The Biden administration hikes tariffs on varied items from China, and it goes past simply EVs and batteries. Kia refreshes its three-row hybrid SUV. And Subaru is trying to Toyota for extra of its EVs. This and extra, right here at Inexperienced Automobile Studies. 

In a first drive of Mercedes’ electric G-wagen, we discovered it to be a greater, extra exact off-roader than the gasoline mannequin—outshining the combustion variations even earlier than the EV’s party-trick zenith known as G-Flip.

Subaru is bringing back the Crosstrek Hybrid, in accordance with a report, and it’ll doubtless arrive quickly after the upcoming 2026 Subaru Forester Hybrid. In the meantime, it seems that three out of the 4 EVs that Subaru introduced final yr will likely be collaborations with Toyota.

The 2025 Kia Sorento Hybrid three-row SUV lineup earns as much as 36 mpg, and it’s getting refreshed styling in and out, with none worth hike. Count on the same replace for the plug-in hybrid. 

And the Biden administration successfully quadrupled the tariff on Chinese EVs, accompanying tariff hikes on EV batteries, photo voltaic cells, and demanding minerals. It expands past simply EVs, nevertheless, to metal and aluminum and semiconductors, nevertheless it omitted the language from challenger Donald Trump singling out imports from Mexico as a problem. 

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