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

Which automaker claims its dealerships have fastened hundreds of Teslas?

How are you going to see the place future fast-chargers will likely 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 current debut of the next-generation 2023 Toyota Prius, we drove an outgoing 2022 Toyota Prius Nightshade. With a bottom-line worth of round $31,000, and fuel mileage topping what we’ve seen from every other present mannequin with out a cost port, it nonetheless makes a powerful argument within the numbers.

A Toyota Prius—or every other Toyota/Lexus hybrid—could power your home through a blackout with an aftermarket high-voltage inverter that’s been accessible for a decade. So in case you’re holding out for the best EV only for its power-out functionality, keep in mind that you’ve got choices.

Porsche made the best selection in constructing its Taycan round an 800-volt battery pack however underestimated the battery cells themselves. These are among the many lessons learned 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 automotive model itself.

GM and Volvo are among the many legacy automakers projecting that EVs and gasoline vehicles will reach cost parity by 2025. That will likely 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 mobile 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 target 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 material 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. 

Common Motors, in a current investor presentation, revealed that its dealerships have made greater than 11,000 repairs on Tesla vehicles. 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 won’t have the ability to match.

Domino’s has dedicated to 800 Chevy Bolt EV pizza delivery cars 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 in the U.S. heartland, in accordance with a current examine, quite a few components corresponding 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 individuals who journey the fringes of current charging networks, the concept of taking an EV would possibly quickly be much less nerve-wracking—due to the federal EV charging community taking kind. Now we have some tricks to rapidly see where future EV fast-charging road-trip routes will be. 

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