VW ID.4 EV tax credit; Subaru Solterra Update; Macan, Prologue and ZDX prices: The week in review
Which CEO of a global automaker suggested that electric vehicles may never capture 30% of the global vehicle market?
Which electric vehicle from a U.S. automaker became the best-selling vehicle in the world, electric or not?
This is our review of Week In Reverse – here at Green Car Reports – for the week ending January 26, 2024.
Volkswagen has confirmed this “Most” 2023-2024 ID.4 models qualify for the $7,500 electric vehicle tax creditThis makes the company the first foreign automobile manufacturer to be awarded the contract under stricter procurement rules. Models supplied with SK On batteries instead of LG meet the requirements. This applies to approximately 80% of 2023 models and all upcoming 2024 models. So keep that in mind when purchasing one.
Porsche has set the price for its Macan electric SUV– badged simply as Macan 4 and Macan Turbo, $80,450 and $106,950 respectively. Gasoline versions of the Macan will be available in the U.S. for at least a year, and even longer in some markets outside of Europe and North America.
2024 Hyundai Santa Fe
Toyota has been committed to offering hybrid vehicles across its lineup without a huge price premium for years, and we can now see hints of the same strategy alongside electric vehicles from Hyundai. In 2024 Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid Pricing A three-row SUV launched this week, the hybrid version costs just $500 more on all but the base model – a difference that pays off very quickly with higher MPG ratings.
Subaru has sped up DC fast charging for the Solterra EV – especially in cold weather – and also has a driver assistance system that’s good for low-speed traffic jams, new brake recuperation paddles and finally a display that shows you the battery percentage . All in all, the The 2024 Subaru Solterra costs just $120 more as 2023.
2024 Subaru Solterra
How much does the Honda Prologue cost? Honda released Pricing for the 2024 Prologue on Thursday, and it fulfills previous claims that the electric SUV would start under $50,000. The Prologue costs $48,795 with a range of 296 miles, although a turbocharged version with all-wheel drive comes close to the $60,000 mark.
The 2024 Acura ZDX A price was also mentioned. As the luxury brand Honda’s first all-electric model, with a recently announced starting price of around $64,850, it unexpectedly costs thousands more than its close platform mate, the Cadillac Lyriq. Will Acura’s own design, tuning and high-quality equipment selection make the extra cost worth it?
2024 Acura ZDX
Stellantis released more details about its dedicated STLA Large electric vehicle platform, designed for 400 volts or 800 volts and designed to support electric vehicles from the Jeep Wagoneer S, a Dodge electric muscle car, and several other electric vehicles from various brands of the global automaker for the decade and beyond out. Perhaps most notably, it sticks to its guns with battery packs of up to 118 kWh 500 mile US range– for limousines, on the platform.
Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda has never been a big fan of electric vehicles or even embraced the idea that they will be the technology on the path to market dominance by the end of the decade. In new comments, the Toyota manager says Electric vehicles will not make up 30% of the market– maybe ever. And he wants a new generation of gasoline engines.
2023 Tesla Model Y
Meanwhile, Tesla has indicated this is the case with its quarterly and annual update The Model Y is the best-selling vehicle in the world. 1.2 million of these were delivered worldwide, from four different production locations. That would mean the Model Y outperformed the previous and long-time champion, the Toyota Corolla, which was previously manufactured at Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California. And although CEO Elon Musk didn’t add more color to it Tesla electric vehicle worth $25,000 Reported earlier in the day, he said the next-generation cost-cutting platform would be “next level.”
At the opening of its second production stage in Arizona, which will enable production of the upcoming Lucid Gravity electric SUV, Lucid announced its likely next product – a smaller electric SUV that is apparently a… potential rival to the Model Y.
The The Apple Car project has switched to a simple electric vehicle instead of the driverless, fully autonomous electric vehicle that Apple originally envisioned. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for Apple innovation, in aspects like the electric vehicle as a connected device or Apple’s potential “mono-cell” battery design.
Genesis GV60 with Active Air Rock
Hyundai and Kia boast about it Active air curtain technology could increase the range of electric vehicles– Up to 4 miles of additional range by reducing drag at highway speeds. A simple flap is extended downwards in front of the front wheels, which reduces the drag coefficient, reduces turbulence on the underbody and helps improve stability and traction.
The Treasury Department has released guidance on which electric vehicle charging projects could be eligible for the revived IRS 30C tax credit, which covers up to $30 30% of the cost of installing chargers in “eligible census tracts.” Although the focus is on low-income and rural areas, the Biden administration’s broad interpretation will make the fee subsidy available to areas where two-thirds of the U.S. population lives.
BT Group is testing EV chargers powered by street distributors
In the UK, telecommunications company BT Group is finding that telephone and internet switchboards can easily be retrofitted for electric vehicle charging – by diverting some of the 100 amps that many are designed for Roadside electric vehicle charging. Could using phone infrastructure to charge electric vehicles work in other markets like the US?
And the California Air Resources Board (CARB) should sign off on Electrify America’s proposed plan for the final 2.5-year cycle of its capital expenditure plan, sending $800 million to California and $1.2 million to the rest of the US send, as prescribed by him, settlement due to diesel pollution. Is it going far enough in tackling the problem? Reliability and availability of the charging network?
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