Lotus’ very quick and fast-charging electrical SUV begins to reach in Europe. Aston Martin and Lucid are in a strategic partnership. GM releases some numbers for the Silverado EV WT and $40,000 isn’t certainly one of them. Lordstown Motors is up on the market. And the drivers of upcoming Stellantis EVs will get some superior route-planning steerage. This and extra, right here at Inexperienced Automobile Studies.
Stellantis, the father or mother firm of Jeep, Dodge, Ram, and others, is committing to the identical charging aggregation and route-planning instruments for all its manufacturers, as a part of a brand new enterprise unit round power and charging. But it surely doesn’t but imply the corporate is constructing its personal charging infrastructure or signing on to Tesla’s NACS connector.
The Ohio maker of the Endurance electrical pickup, Lordstown Motors, goes bankrupt and up on the market. The corporate has additionally confirmed it is suing Taiwan’s Foxconn.
The Lotus Eletre SUV is arriving in Europe and the UK quickly, and this massive electrical SUV units out to problem the Tesla Mannequin X Plaid with some new efficiency benchmarks, together with a 0-60 mph time underneath three seconds, four-wheel steering, and 20-minute road-trip fast-charges of its massive 112-kwh battery pack. It’s attributable to arrive within the U.S. someday later within the yr.
Aston Martin and California’s Lucid Group on Monday introduced a long-term strategic partnership by which Lucid will present the UK performance-car market with powertrain tech for upcoming autos. With the deal successfully giving Lucid a 3.7% share of Aston Martin, it offers Aston entry to Lucid’s drive items, battery tech, Wunderbox charging {hardware}, and assist.
GM has successfully upped the bottom value of the Chevy Silverado EV WT—the fleet-oriented base mannequin of its electrical pickup—nicely earlier than it’s truly being delivered. Whereas pricing is more likely to begin round $60,000 versus round $40,000, It’s unclear whether or not the $40,000 mannequin with a decrease vary and smaller battery will ever arrive.
And plenty of 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe plug-in hybrids are being recalled attributable to a difficulty that might set off an engine shutdown. It’s a software program difficulty however requires a dealership go to.
