Toyota Prius assessment, Porsche Taycan classes, cell hydrogen stations: The Week in Reverse

Which automaker claims its dealerships have fastened 1000’s of Teslas?

How are you going to see the place future fast-chargers might be positioned?

That is our look again on the Week In Reverse—proper right here at Inexperienced Automotive Studies—for the week ending November 25, 2022.

Simply forward of the latest debut of the next-generation 2023 Toyota Prius, we drove an outgoing 2022 Toyota Prius Nightshade. With a bottom-line value of round $31,000, and gasoline mileage topping what we’ve seen from some other present mannequin with no cost port, it nonetheless makes a robust argument within the numbers.

2023 Toyota Prius Prime (Euro spec)

2023 Toyota Prius Prime (Euro spec)

2023 Toyota Prius Prime (Euro spec)

A Toyota Prius—or some other Toyota/Lexus hybrid—might energy your private home by way of a blackout with an aftermarket high-voltage inverter that’s been obtainable for a decade. So for those who’re holding out for the appropriate EV only for its power-out functionality, keep in mind that you’ve got choices.

Porsche made the appropriate alternative in constructing its Taycan round an 800-volt battery pack however underestimated the battery cells themselves. These are among the many classes realized from Taycan, in accordance with Porsche executives, because the model leans forward to its PPE platform, good for future fashions from Audi, Bentley, and the sports activities automobile model itself.

PPE platform for VW Group, developed by Porsche/Audi

GM and Volvo are among the many legacy automakers projecting that EVs and gasoline autos will attain price parity by 2025. That might be assisted by know-how enhancements, plus the Inflation Restoration Acit (IRA), which each firms have pointed to as strengthening the enterprise case for EVs.

Hyperion Motors introduced that it plans to deploy cell hydrogen fueling stations—with electrical energy for electrolysis provided by roof-mounted photo voltaic panels—to assist its XP-1 fuel-cell supercar.

Hyperion Hyper:Gas Cell Station

Mazda this week boosted its EV goal to 40% by 2030, and emphasised that it plans to introduce a brand new hybrid system earlier than then. It additionally introduced agreements with suppliers to develop and manufacture electrical drive models. 

LG Chem introduced on Tuesday that it’s planning a mammoth cathode materials plant for EV batteries in Tennessee. The most important of its type within the U.S., it’ll assist U.S. battery and EV manufacturing and as soon as ramped up make sufficient materials for 1.2 million long-range EVs yearly. 

Basic Motors, in a latest investor presentation, revealed that its dealerships have made greater than 11,000 repairs on Tesla autos. Talked about by president Mark Reuss, it emphasizes that about 90% of the U.S. inhabitants lives inside 10 miles of a GM seller—so it’s a stage of comfort Tesla itself may not be capable of match.

2023 Chevrolet Bolt EV Domino’s pizza supply automobile

Domino’s has dedicated to 800 Chevy Bolt EV pizza supply automobiles within the U.S., with the primary 100 scheduled to reach later this month. Within the meantime hungry prospects can monitor what number of EVs are deployed, and the place. 

Whereas EV adoption lags within the U.S. heartland, in accordance with a latest research, a variety of components corresponding to product availability, the expansion of charging infrastructure, and shopper consciousness might altogether change that. 

Porsche Taycan charging

And can you be capable of make the Thanksgiving journey in an EV subsequent yr? For many who journey the fringes of present charging networks, the concept of taking an EV would possibly quickly be much less nerve-wracking—because of the federal EV charging community taking type. We now have some tricks to rapidly see the place future EV fast-charging road-trip routes might be. 

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