Jeep Renegade EV, Honda battery leasing, 2025 VW ID.4, MPGe and EVs: Today’s Car News

Honda units itself up for extra reasonably priced EVs with battery leasing. VW re-ups its ID.4 EV and expands its ChatGPT assistant. Jeep reveals extra about its $25,000 mannequin anticipated to reach as quickly as subsequent yr. And will we recalculate how EVs are figured into U.S. mpg guidelines? This and extra, right here at Inexperienced Automotive Studies. 

A $25,000 electrical Jeep is arriving within the U.S. very quickly, in accordance with a Stellantis investor presentation, within the type of a 2027 Jeep Renegade EV. And in accordance with CEO Carlos Tavares, the mannequin will use LFP battery cells to assist obtain that focused worth.

A bunch of Republican Senators are pushing back versus stricter emissions standards anticipated to result in extra EV gross sales—by questioning the way in which EVs are figured into fleet effectivity calculations. At the moment they’re given an inflated worth that motivates automakers as every EV successfully allows the sale of many gas-guzzlers. So between that and softer future targets launched final week by the Biden administration, would automakers even need to give these calculations up?

Volkswagen has confirmed that the 2025 VW ID.4 will carry over with all of its modifications given for 2024—together with extra energy, extra driving vary, and a vastly improved interface—whereas extra of the model’s different fashions will achieve its ChatGPT-based digital voice assistant. 

Battery leasing has been seen as one answer for making EVs extra reasonably priced, however no one has tried it at scale within the U.S. Honda on Thursday introduced a brand new three way partnership with Mitsubishi Company that it says will end in more affordable Honda EVs. For now it’s just for Japan, however might the same scheme result in an reasonably priced U.S.-bound Honda EV?

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