Which super-efficient EV has gone Stealth?

Who known as Tesla’s Full Self-Driving irresponsible this week?

That is our look again on the Week In Reverse—proper right here at Inexperienced Automobile Studies—for the week ending August 12, 2022.

We paid an entire lot of consideration to the $7,500 EV Tax Credit score, as a part of the Inflation Discount Act, because it moved by Congress this week, from a shock Senate passage this previous Sunday to a decisive Home vote on Friday. Earlier within the week we checked out how its cap on automobile costs, at $55,000 for vehicles and $80,000 for pickup vehicles and SUVs, could pressure automakers to produce more affordable EVs. Then we seemed shut on the language within the laws, which has no provision extending the “outdated” EV tax credit score to purchases for the remainder of the yr. Apart from a lucky few who make binding, money-down contracts to purchase an EV earlier than President Biden indicators the invoice, it’s likely going away completely for the rest of the year.

And that’s not the one factor that’s controversial in regards to the invoice. The European Union now claims that in its prioritization of American-made content material, it might break WTO rules and discriminate towards European producers. 

Ford hiked 2023 F-150 Lightning prices by no less than $7,000 versus 2022—a hefty 17.5% on the base degree—whereas estimated EPA vary with the usual 98-kwh battery pack goes up 10 miles, to 240 miles. 

Lucid tapped into the stylish dark-trim look with its Stealth Look trim for the Air electric sedan. It claims to counter the Platinum Look with 35 totally different trim items and new wheel designs out there for all besides the bottom Air Pure. 

The designer behind the Volkswagen New Beetle and authentic Audi TT is behind the brand new electrical model of the Meyers Manx dune buggy. Merely known as Meyers Manx 2.0 Electric, it retains many of the easy allure of the unique design however with its efficiency claims of 0-60 mph in 4.5 seconds and as much as 300 miles of vary, there’s clearly extra sophistication beneath. 

An evaluation of itemizing costs discovered that hybrid and EV models are leading a used-car market price surge of the used-car market. Yr over yr, used EVs had been 56.7% larger in July, with used hybrids 30.5% larger. Over the entire market, used-car costs had been up about 11%. 

A sweeping TransUnion research tens of millions of transactions discovered that, on common, EV buyers have much more favorable credit ratings than ICE automotive consumers. What’s extra, they’re much less prone to tackle as a lot debt, even when they make a bigger down fee. 

Electrify America might be equipping the retail giant IKEA with two kinds of chargers: DC fast-chargers for the general public, at as much as 350 kw, and different chargers for its EV supply drivers. 

The UK startup Arrival is encountering some monetary challenges, and that’s led to a enterprise reorganization that reportedly scraps plans to produce an affordable EV for Uber use. Though the corporate stopped wanting confirming this in a monetary replace, the sooner report put its electrical bus mission additionally in query, though the electrical van nonetheless has wings. 

The corporate Autonomy put its cash down this previous week as proof that its EV subscription service will extend well beyond Tesla vehicles and doubtlessly California. It revealed particulars for its $1.2 billion fleet order, spanning 45 EV fashions from 17 automakers—sure, even Canoo, which was initially to be supplied by subscription. All within the order are anticipated to be delivered within the subsequent 18 months and including as much as 1.2% of projected U.S. EV manufacturing by that point.

And Tesla confronted elevated pushback from a number of instructions this week over its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving methods. One in every of them, shopper security advocate and former Presidential candidate Ralph Nader this week known as on federal regulators to order the removal of Tesla Full Self-Driving from all its autos. He known as it “one of the vital harmful and irresponsible actions by a automotive firm in many years.”

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