Toyota confirms 3-row electric SUV for US assembly in 2025

2023 Toyota bZ4XToyota on Wednesday confirmed that it will assemble a three-row battery electric SUV at its Georgetown, Kentucky, plant starting in 2025. The new SUV will use batteries supplied from Toyota’s North Carolina plant, and it says that facility will be “Toyota’s hub for developing and producing lithium-ion batteries needed for its...

Volvo teases Tesla-like single-screen interface for EX30 EV

Volvo EX30 teaserThe Volvo EX30 compact crossover EV won’t just be smaller. It will also be vastly more simplified in its interface, Volvo revealed Wednesday. With no separate gauge cluster, the EX30 will, like the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y, shift all displays to a single screen. On it, speed and charging levels will be among the pieces of information near...

Rivian CEO explains why spectacular Tank Turn mode is a no-go

Rivian Tank Turn in actionThe glorious Tank Turn feature that Rivian showed off way back in December 2019 got a lot of truck and off-road enthusiasts talking, for good reason. The mode showed off the possibility of using all four of the electric motors in Quad Motor R1T and R1S electric trucks to rotate the vehicle around and around in essentially the same space, given a...

Base 2023 Kia EV6 Light returns at $43,925 and 220 miles

2022 Kia EV6Not everyone wants or needs the EV with the biggest battery and the most range—especially if it means a higher price. That appears to be what Kia has discovered—with an asterisk—with the EV6. Less than a year after dropping the lower-priced base Light version of the EV6, which was the only model to offer the smaller 58-kwh...

Hyundai-LG venture: US batteries for 300,000-vehicle Georgia Metaplant

2023 Hyundai Ioniq 6Hyundai and the battery maker LG on Friday confirmed final details for a joint battery venture to be located in Georgia and due to supply cells for Georgia-made electric vehicles starting in late 2025. The total investment of the 50/50 joint venture will be $4.3 billion, the companies confirmed, and it will produce 30 gigawatt-hours of battery...

Ford adopts Tesla charge port for future EVs, Supercharger access soon

Tesla chargingFord CEO Jim Farley and Tesla CEO Elon Musk together on Thursday announced that Ford is planning to shift to Tesla’s charging interface—and the superior fast-charging experience of Tesla Superchargers—starting with its next-generation EVs in 2025. Those next-generation models will have the familiar Tesla port, called North...

Future Stellantis EVs: Better range vs. weight with lithium-sulfur cell tech?

Stellantis aiming to double battery energy densityAsk futurists which materials have the potential to make our lives better in all sorts of ways, and odds are the resulting shortlist will include graphene. Graphene has become a bit of a buzzword for startups in a range of areas, and it takes center stage in Lyten’s lithium-sulfur EV batteries. A 300-million-euro ($320 million) investment...

No Ford 600-mile EVs, MCS vs. hydrogen, AM radio in EVs: Today’s Car News

2023 Ford Mustang Mach-EFord says enough is enough with the range race and stands behind efficiency and viability. AM radio in EVs appears to be safe for now. And is megawatt charging a threat to hydrogen fuel-cell tech? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. As Ford CEO Jim Farley explained earlier this week, as part of its effort to control costs and build better...

Ford CEO: We’re not going to go to 600-mile range on EVs

Ford Explorer electric crossover for EuropeFord is taking batteries very seriously, and it’s not going to spend more on them than it needs to. What that means, Ford product development chief and CTO Doug Field explained at the company's Capital Markets Day earlier this week, is redesigning next-generation EVs around weight savings, reduced complexity, lower rolling resistance, the...

Cadillac confirms Escalade IQ electric SUV for late-2023 reveal

2023 Cadillac Escalade-VCadillac on Monday announced plans to create a fully electric iteration of its biggest SUV, the Escalade, plus a tease of the timeline: The electric version, called Escalade IQ, will bow later this year. According to Cadillac, the Escalade IQ “promises the same commitment to craftsmanship, technology and performance that has helped the...

Ford three-row EV due in 2025: 350 miles on 100 kwh, exec says

2025 Ford 3-row SUV - Ford CEO Jim Farley on Monday teased the automaker’s upcoming fully electric seven-passenger SUV as being “like your own personal bullet train.” While that might not have been quite as extraordinary a picture as the Millennium Falcon with a back porch he likened Ford’s upcoming Project T3 electric pickup to in March, the...

Feds tackle EV charger reliability in US infrastructure buildout

2022 Ford F-150 LightningThere’s a lot riding on the success and effectiveness of the $7.5 billion nationwide network of EV chargers that’s taking form based on the last week's updates from the U.S. Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. Tesla has its comprehensive Supercharger network for its vehicles, and the Electrify America network has allowed EV road...