How are you going to declare as much as $7,500 off some new Tesla fashions on the time of buy?
Which automaker introduced plans to embrace the Tesla cost connector and reignite an offbeat sort of inside combustion engine, all in the identical week?
That is our look again on the Week In Reverse—proper right here at Inexperienced Automotive Stories—for the week ending.
The 2024 Hyundai Elantra Hybrid will get a value hike—and extra of a value bump versus non-hybrid Elantra fashions, though the Elantra Hybrid does now get the bigger 10.3-inch infotainment display. Effectivity-focused Elantra Hybrid Blue fashions retain the 54-mpg mixed EPA score.
With $7,500 of “retail bonus money”—a rebate on purchases, not leases–the 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 6 is less expensive than the Tesla Mannequin 3. Trying on the newest “Highland” Mannequin 3, as priced final week, it undercuts the Tesla by $9,000.
Teaser for 2025 Jeep Wagoneer S
Stellantis offered a primary have a look at the 2025 Jeep Wagoneer S electrical SUV, confirming Thursday that it’s proper on schedule and set to reach this fall within the U.S., with different markets to comply with.
The 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E GT will get an non-compulsory efficiency improve yielding the quickest acceleration of any Mach-E model but. A Bronze Look Package deal and Rally mannequin are additionally on the way in which, however 2024 Mach-E modifications due for the non-GT lineup are but to return.
Honda House-Hub Idea – 2024 CES
Honda could also be a late-starter with mass-production EVs, however as communicated final week with the Saloon and House-Hub ideas and by firm executives, it has huge plans for later within the decade—together with a number of platforms underpinning a unified Sequence 0 structure. We rounded up all of the themes and particulars, in 12 issues to learn about these Honda EVs arriving in 2026.
Set to reach in summer time 2024, the 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid shall be way more than a distinct segment mannequin, with the automaker anticipating 40% of Civic gross sales shall be hybrids. Honda says hybrids made up greater than 1 / 4 of its complete U.S. gross sales in calendar yr 2023.
Toyota City SUV Idea
And by no means thoughts the Nissan Leaf, apparently—or the Chevy Bolt EV. Two automakers this previous week, each identified for inexpensive gasoline automobiles, dashed hopes of seeing extra inexpensive EVs anytime quickly. Honda nonetheless has no inexpensive, mass-market EV, and based mostly on remarks from Honda’s world CEO, that’s not coming quickly—or an Accord EV or Odyssey EV—however solid-state batteries might allow an inexpensive small Honda EV by 2030. Toyota additionally dismisses the viability of an inexpensive EV—on this case, particular to the European market. Its growth boss there not too long ago stated that the premium for EVs received’t go away till a “substantial shift in the price of batteries” happens—sentiments that parallel these not too long ago made by Honda’s CEO, suggesting an inexpensive small EV won’t arrive till 2030.
Throughout the span of some days, Mazda has introduced each the adoption of Tesla’s NACS connector for future U.S. EVs, whereas additionally committing to the revival of the rotary engine. They’re amongst many blended indicators from the automaker lately on what it sees as its propulsion future, as it really works towards a worldwide goal of 40% EV gross sales by 2030
2022 Mazda MX-30 EV
The lineup of Ram ProMaster EV electrical van fashions was revealed Tuesday. These front-wheel-drive vans have a 110-kwh battery pack good for as much as 162 miles of vary and, with their deal with last-mile supply fleets and work-van upfits, will rival the Rivian EDV, Mercedes eSprinter, and Ford E-Transit.
In Rivian’s new environmental influence report, it underscores that it’s aiming for EVs with half the carbon footprint, on a lifecycle foundation, by 2030.
2023 Tesla Mannequin Y – Courtesy of Tesla, Inc.
Tesla has began making use of the EV tax credit score on the time of buy—through its personal web site and affecting the up-front quantity consumers might want to pay when shopping for a brand new Tesla. Eligible consumers shall be liable for figuring out eligibility, particularly in gentle of adjusted gross family revenue caps. That stated, fewer Tesla fashions now make the lower, as a result of extra restrictions on battery supplies sourcing launched for 2024.
And a latest “research of research” by an energy-policy advocacy group, the ACEEE, finds {that a} shift to EVs will drive the price of electrical energy down over the long run. That’s partly as a result of as soon as extra persons are charging EV on the grid, they’re making higher use of it.
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