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It’s a green light for electric vehicles! Aussie CO2 standard tough on Toyota, SUVs and utes

EV Central

Previewed in an Impact Analysis published on Sunday (February 4), the newly renamed National Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES), will impose tough CO2 emissions limit on passenger vehicles, SUVs, utes and vans that ramp up around 12 per cent per year from 2025 to 2029 under the government’s preferred model.

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JATO: 2018 record year for EVs; sales up 74% to 1.26M units; overall market stable, as SUVs rule

Green Car Congress

SUVs once again drove sales in the global market, proving that the boom in demand for the segment was not just a fad, but a long-lasting trend that continues to appeal to consumers around the world. million SUVs were sold in 2018, with volume up by 7% on 2017. All SUV subsegments recorded positive results. million and 5.2

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Toyota 3-row EVs, Tesla price cuts, electric G-wagen, airless tires: The Week in Reverse

Baua Electric

Toyota confirmed a second 3-row U.S.-made made electric SUV —in Princeton, Indiana, starting in 2026. That complements the other Toyota 3-row electric SUV set to be made in Kentucky in 2025. And Mazda has applied its design flair to an EZ-6 electric sedan that incorporates tech from China’s Changan Automobile.

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TTAC's Best Cars of 2023

The Truth About Cars

Again, here are the rules: The vehicle has to be a car/truck/SUV/crossover at least one of us drove during the calendar year, even if only for a few minutes. Toyota GR Corolla Morizo: I reviewed this earlier this year, and I keep thinking about it. We gave you our picks for worst cars of 2023 earlier today. Is remarkable.

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

All the new electric cars, electric SUVs and electric utes arriving in Australia in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Alfa Romeo Tonale – the Italian brand finally has a rechargeable car in its ranks in the form of the Tonale PHEV compact SUV. Aston Martin DBX PHEV and EV – electrified versions of AM’s first SUV on the cards.

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2022 EV sales record: Top selling electric cars revealed

EV Central

The SUV number isn’t quite as impressive but still shows there’s increasing EV interest. percent of the 574,632 SUVs sold in 2022 were electric. Considering there are no EVs on offer to tackle the more than 50,000 Toyota Prados, LandCruisers, Ford Everests and Nissan Patrols that dominate off-road, it’s an impressive feat.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Mazda Ford Partner was reported to be developing Series PHEV based on Mazda 5 MPV platform. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs.

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