Toyota Prius review, Porsche Taycan lessons, mobile 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 Automobile Stories—for the week ending November 25, 2022.

Simply forward of the current 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 another present mannequin and not using a cost port, it nonetheless makes a powerful argument within the numbers.

A Toyota Prius—or another Toyota/Lexus hybrid—may energy your house by way of a blackout with an aftermarket high-voltage inverter that’s been obtainable for a decade. So should you’re holding out for the fitting EV only for its power-out functionality, keep in mind that you’ve choices.

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

GM and Volvo are among the many legacy automakers projecting that EVs and gasoline automobiles will attain value parity by 2025. That might be assisted by know-how enhancements, plus the Inflation Restoration Acit (IRA), which each corporations 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 equipped by roof-mounted photo voltaic panels—to help its XP-1 fuel-cell supercar.

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 biggest of its sort within the U.S., it’s going to help U.S. battery and EV manufacturing and as soon as ramped up make sufficient materials for 1.2 million long-range EVs yearly. 

Normal Motors, in a current investor presentation, revealed that its dealerships have made greater than 11,000 repairs on Tesla automobiles. Talked about by president Mark Reuss, it emphasizes that about 90% of the U.S. inhabitants lives inside 10 miles of a GM vendor—so it’s a degree of comfort Tesla itself won’t have the ability to match.

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 observe what number of EVs are deployed, and the place. 

Whereas EV adoption lags within the U.S. heartland, in keeping with a current research, a lot of elements comparable to product availability, the expansion of charging infrastructure, and shopper consciousness might altogether change that. 

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

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