Which automaker teased the 800-volt way forward for its EVs sized like Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y?

Which automaker is utilizing a biogas-fed hydrogen fuel-cell plant to energy its largest U.S. port?

That is our look again on the Week In Reverse—proper right here at Inexperienced Automobile Experiences—for the week ending September 8, 2023.

The Polestar 2 is coming into its fourth mannequin 12 months, and whereas it doesn’t look all that a lot completely different, a lot has modified about the best way it drives—with a swap from a front-wheel-drive bias to a rear-wheel-drive one. A first drive of the 2024 Polestar 2 on some Colorado mountain roads was sufficient to point out that this Euro-flavored efficiency EV may be value one other look in its easiest, most charming type—the place it now additionally will get an EPA-rated 320 miles of vary.

2024 Polestar 2 single motor

The 2024 Volkswagen ID.4 is getting a lift in energy and acceleration versus 2023, VW revealed Monday. That enchancment, due to a brand new rear energy unit in fashions with the bigger 82-kwh battery pack, may even seemingly convey improved driving vary, though EPA scores haven’t but been launched. 

The 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E Rally unveiled on Thursday presents a brand new twist on performance-oriented electrical crossovers, specializing in filth roads and looking out again to Ford’s wealthy rally-car historical past. With a particular RallySport drive mode, a lifted suspension, and the high-performance GT mannequin’s dual-motor all-wheel drive retuned, it’s a formulation not but represented in EVs. 

2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E Rally

Regardless of their wonderful mpg, vary, and effectivity numbers, the 2023 Toyota Prius and Prius Prime plug-in hybrid are among the many automobiles touchdown a spot on the IIHS Prime Security Decide+ listing. It needs to be famous these revamped fashions are extra thrilling to drive and have a look at, too. 

Ford is quickly including Apple Maps EV routing to the F-150 Lightning electrical truck. As within the Mustang Mach-E, utilizing Maps with CarPlay within the Lightning will be capable of entry the automotive’s state of cost, planning charging stops alongside the best way when wanted. 

Toyota Hilux hydrogen fuel-cell prototype

Toyota revealed a hydrogen fuel-cell electrical pickup truck—within the U.Okay., and primarily based on that market’s closest equal to the Tacoma, a Hilux. To date it’s only a prototype mission, funded partly with authorities cash, however such a truck might be launched later within the decade, Toyota says. 

Honda has set the timeline for adopting Tesla NACS charging. And what meaning, it appears, is that dealerships might want to assist help the CCS normal within the first EVs arriving subsequent 12 months, whereas these coming a 12 months later in 2025 could have the completely different NACS cost port. 

Hilton motels add Tesla charging

Hilton has made a giant dedication to offering lodge friends the means to completely cost many EVs in a single day. It plans to put in as much as 20,000 Tesla Common Wall Connectors, offering L2 charging as much as 11.5 kw, at 2,000 motels within the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Tesla’s unit can cost each the model’s personal fashions with the NACS port and all different trendy EVs with the J1772 port.

Toyota is producing its personal fuel-cell energy for its enormous Lengthy Seashore port with a distributed hydrogen system that’s fairly the great answer for reducing its emissions and vitality use. Beginning with agricultural methane piped in, the system not solely cuts its reliance on grid energy however can feed extra energy to the grid, generate hydrogen for port semis and new Mirai fuel-cell vehicles arriving at port, and generate water for laundry vehicles. 

Toyota Mirai and fuel-cell semi, with FuelCell Vitality at Lengthy Seashore

In a research out this week, J.D. Energy discovered that EV adoption is changing into extra polarized by state, with EVs changing into much more well-liked in states which have supported them with insurance policies and incentives. Primarily based on this development, EVs will nonetheless surprisingly be the minority in states like North Dakota by 2035, it anticipates.

And at last, over the Labor Day vacation weekend, as American turned away from display screen time to seashore time and barbecues—warmth waves allowing—the German auto trade opted to introduce many necessary EV ideas with world attain, on the Munich auto present. A number of of those dig deep in respective manufacturers’ design heritage, reasonably than trying to remake all of the design cues as a part of it. 

BMW Imaginative and prescient Neue Klasse

Amongst them: The BMW Imaginative and prescient Neue Klasse provides up a design that’s concurrently a throwback to the E30 3-Sequence with a much-simplified interface, plus next-generation EV tech that guarantees extra vary, quicker charging, and extra effectivity. 

The Volkswagen ID.GTI Idea EV provides up how VW plans to re-up its fun-to-drive compact automotive for the electrical period. 

Volkswagen ID.GTI Idea

BMW’s Mini confirmed the primary of a future lineup of EVs taking type. Its upcoming Mini Cooper and Countryman electrical fashions, badged E or SE, will get much more vary than the present-day Mini Cooper SE, in addition to a simplified interface targeted round a spherical central show display screen.

Rounding out the ideas making a debut ultimately weekend’s Munich auto present, Mercedes’ Idea CLA-Class EV idea touted the model’s effectivity focus for its upcoming compact EVs, which shall be constructed round an 800-volt drive system. 

The Audi Q6 E-Tron electrical crossover will provide quicker charging and a platform designed round effectivity. Nevertheless it additionally marks the debut of a brand new inside design theme, Audi outlined on the present, in addition to a brand new interface and person expertise—together with the introduction of a lightbar working the bottom of the windshield that may sign info like charging standing. A passenger-side display screen may even permit video viewing with a “digital blind” so the driving force doesn’t get distracted.

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