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Lamborghini, Ferrari, Rolls-Royce: The most efficient debuts at Monterey Automotive Future

Baua Electric

The German automaker introduced its Maybach EQS electrical SUV, in addition to the Maybach Night time Layout and Perceptible One-11 idea, a contemporary pluck at the historical C111 supercar. Hennessey debuted the $3 million Venom F5 Revolution Roadster, a limited-production variant of its Texas-Made $2.1 million Hypercar.

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Volkswagen faces mounting pressure from Tesla and BYD

Teslarati

Credit: Bloomberg During the same period of time, Tesla has expanded significantly with the addition of new production facilities in Austin, Texas, within the U.S., Since taking over and retaining his title as head of Porsche , Blume has managed new partnerships and hopes to fix issues at Cariad, the automaker’s in-house software developer.

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That Was the Year That Was

Clean Fleet Report

SUV EVs are taking the market by storm as models appear throughout the diverse market, walking away with accolades as the Hyundai Ioniq 5 did with Motor Trend’s SUV of the Year award. Volvo, Lucid, Porsche and Jaguar had low sales while Mini, Genesis, Toyota and Subaru were just beginning their sales. Looking to 2023.

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Update: Top 10 Electric Cars

Clean Fleet Report

Porsche Taycan 6,822. Tesla helped former shareholder Toyota to bring back the Toyota RAV4 EV , an electric SUV and also aided its other OEM shareholder, Daimler (which also has since divested its Tesla shares), with the Smart ED and B-Class Electric. Tesla Model 3 80,681. Chevrolet Bolt 22,799. Ford Mustang Mach-E 15,938.

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Opinion: EVs for Everyone in 2022

Clean Fleet Report

Affordable & Luxury Electric Cars, Trucks & SUVs Coming. Tesla has a new plant coming online in Texas to pump up production the country’s best-selling EV—the luxury Model Y crossover. If you’ve keeping count, that’s six more crossover/SUVs added to the mix. Cadillac’s Lyriq SUV will begin its shift to all-electric.

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Is Elon Musk Back In “Production Hell” With Tesla’s 4680 Battery?

Cars That Think

And where current Tesla packs feature what Munro calls "a crappy cooling design" with thermal channels between cells—superfluous, because most heat is concentrated at cell ends—Munro says 4680 cells will rest atop a liquid-cooled thermal plate that's become a staple of EVs from GM, Ford, Volkswagen, Porsche, or Rivian.

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2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5: First of an aggressive wave of new EVs

Charged EVs

The Ioniq 5 sits on the company’s Electric-Global Modular Platform (E-GMP), which it says is flexible enough to support not just compact vehicles but mid-size ones too—including an electric three-row SUV it is expected to launch by 2023, perhaps to be named Ioniq 7. The same platform also underpins an EV from Hyundai’s sister brand, Kia.

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