Toyota Prius Review, Porsche Taycan Lessons, Mobile Hydrogen Stations: The Week In Reverse

Which automaker claims its sellers have mounted hundreds of Teslas?

How are you able to see the place future quick chargers will probably be positioned?

This is our look again on the Week In Reverse – proper right here at Green Car Reports – for the week ending 25 November 2022.

Just earlier than the latest debut of the next-generation 2023 Toyota Prius, we drove an outgoing 2022 Toyota Prius Nightshade. With a break-even value round $31,000, and gasoline mileage above what we have seen from some other present mannequin with no charging port, it nonetheless makes a robust case in the numbers.

2023 Toyota Prius Prime (Euro Spec)

A Toyota Prius—or some other Toyota/Lexus hybrid—can energy your own home by a blackout with an aftermarket high-voltage inverter that is been accessible for a decade. So for those who’re holding out for the fitting EV only for its power-out functionality, bear in mind that you’ve got choices.

Porsche made the fitting option to construct its Taycan round an 800-volt battery pack, however underestimated the battery cells themselves. Those are among the classes discovered from Taycan, in line with Porsche executives, because the model leans forward to its PPE platform, boding nicely for future fashions from Audi, Bentley and the sports activities automotive model itself.

PPE platform for VW Group, developed by Porsche/Audi

GM and Volvo are among the many legacy automakers that predict EVs and gasoline automobiles will attain price parity by 2025. This will probably be aided by expertise enhancements, plus the Inflation Recovery Act (IRA), which each corporations have pointed to as strengthening the enterprise case for EVs.

Hyperion Motors has introduced plans to deploy mobile hydrogen fueling stations – with electrical energy for electrolysis supplied by roof-mounted photo voltaic panels – to help its XP-1 gasoline cell supercar.

Hyperion Hyper: Fuel Mobile Station

Mazda this week raised its EV goal to 40% by 2030, stressing 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 items.

LG Chem introduced on Tuesday that it’s planning an enormous cathode materials plant for EV batteries in Tennessee. The largest of its form in the US, it would help US battery and EV manufacturing and, as soon as ramped up, make sufficient materials for 1.2 million long-range EVs yearly.

General Motors revealed in a latest investor presentation that its sellers have carried out greater than 11,000 repairs on Tesla automobiles. It’s talked about by President Mark Reuss, highlighting that roughly 90% of the US inhabitants lives inside 10 miles of a GM dealership — in order that’s a degree of comfort that Tesla itself won’t be capable of match.

2023 Chevrolet Bolt EV Domino's pizza delivery car

2023 Chevrolet Bolt EV Domino’s pizza supply automotive

Domino’s has dedicated to 800 Chevy Bolt EV pizza supply automobiles in the US, with the primary 100 arriving later this month. Meanwhile, hungry prospects can observe what number of EVs are being deployed, and the place.

While EV adoption lags in the US heartland, various elements, reminiscent of product availability, the expansion of charging infrastructure and client consciousness, might change that solely, in line with a latest research.

Porsche Taycan charging

And will you be capable of make the Thanksgiving journey in an EV subsequent yr? For those that journey on the fringes of present charging networks, the thought of taking an EV could quickly be much less nerve-wracking — due to the federal EV charging community taking form. We have some tricks to shortly see the place future EV fast-charging street journey routes will probably be.

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