Toyota does everything it’s doing to scale electric vehicles and compete with them in the future, though it’s still sticking to its goals and “multi-road” approach. And Polestar shifts the drive wheels and increases driving range. This and more, at Green Car Reports.
In coordination with this week’s annual shareholder meeting, Toyota has released several updates on key technologies, focusing on electric vehicles. In future electric vehicles, it finds uses a set of efficiency-enhancing technologies, including miniaturized electronic shafts, next-generation silicon carbide inverters, and edge-class aerodynamics from rockets. The Toyota Crown electric sedan is also on the way.
As part of this, Toyota has provided a comprehensive, albeit somewhat confusing, update on its battery strategy for future electric vehicles—including solid state technology allows for 10 minutes of charging, as well as bipolar LFP technology, next-generation NCM technology and chemical combinations. They could allow future EPA better range 500 miles later in the decade.
The 2024 Polestar 2 accelerated to 320 miles of the EPA scope. But that might not even be the biggest news for many shoppers. Notably, it switches to rear-wheel drive in the form of a single engine or a rear-biased AWD system in the form of a dual engine. There are more standard features with the new model year.
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