Future of Leaf, Tesla Cybertruck’s preliminary mode, stores batteries for fast charging: Car News Today
Nissan hints at the future of the Leaf. Electrify America is betting on battery storage. Tesla Cybertruck will go around. And the finalists for Best Car to Buy have been announced! This and more, here at Green Car Reports.
This morning, we announced Car reached the final round in 2022. Five models met our qualifying numbers and were offered for testing. While they’re all EVs, it’s one of the most diverse groups we have, which says a lot about the evolution of the electric vehicle market.
Tesla Cybertruck already has a version with four motors and four rudders, enabling “craning mode” that sounds very similar to what is offered by the GMC Hummer EV. The feature was confirmed by CEO Elon Musk last week as part of a “product roadmap update” that will be presented during Tesla’s next earnings call.
On-site battery storage is one of the key technologies to make it possible to deploy more DC fast charging stations in locations where the “charge-on-demand” of the area utility could make it expensive. Electrify America last week announced next-generation battery storage hardware and said it could 30 MW of hardware installed on 140 stations.
And this weekend we took a look at what Nissan had to say about a Potential successor to Leaf, launching around 2025. One of Nissan’s Ambition 2030 concepts from last week, Chill-Out, aligns with that, and along with the automaker’s other message of cutting-edge features combined with cost-cutting, gives See how Nissan can position a smaller, more affordable model than the Ariya.
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