{"id":30703,"date":"2022-09-03T00:03:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T04:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=30703"},"modified":"2022-09-03T00:03:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T04:03:46","slug":"1137045_toyota-ev-shift-bmw-fuel-cell-suv-california-heat-and-ev-charging-today-s-car-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=30703","title":{"rendered":"Toyota EV shift, BMW fuel-cell SUV, California heat and EV charging: Today\u2019s Car News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Toyota is shifting some of its ICE plants over to EV batteries. BMW starts making fuel-cell stacks. And California doesn\u2019t want you charging during today\u2019s Labor Day weekend traffic time. This and more, here at <em>Green Car Reports.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On the eve of a holiday weekend, California asked that EV drivers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1137034_labor-day-weekend-california-asks-ev-drivers-to-limit-charging\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not charge their EVs on Friday afternoon<\/a> after 4 p.m., because of unusually hot weather and increased air conditioning use. Just a week after the state enshrined its shift to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1136940_california-2035-end-date-ice-vehicle-sales-into-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">electric new-vehicle sales by 2035<\/a>, that\u2019s created some awkward optics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In Germany, BMW has started assembling fuel-cell stacks for its upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1137032_bmw-starts-making-fuel-cell-stacks-for-ix5-hydrogen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iX5 Hydrogen fuel-cell SUV<\/a>. Although they use Toyota fuel cells, the iX5 will borrow electric propulsion pieces from the BMW i4 and iX. With Hyundai\u2019s Nexo reportedly delayed and many other automakers shifting fuel-cell efforts to much larger vehicles like semis, the iX Hydrogen may shape up to be an outlier.<\/p>\n<p>And according to a report from Automotive News, Toyota\u2019s $5.6 billion investment plan for battery production announced earlier this week, which included a $2.5 billion expansion of a plant in North Carolina, will also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1137044_toyota-plan-convert-engine-plants-battery-factories-ev-shift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convert two Japanese plants to battery production<\/a>, from internal combustion powertrains. For an automaker that has thus far treated EVs as a narrow niche, that may signal the start of a faster shift.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Green Car Reports on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GreenCarReports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greencarreports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota is shifting some of its ICE plants over to EV batteries. BMW starts making fuel-cell stacks. And California doesn\u2019t want you charging during today\u2019s Labor Day weekend traffic time. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.\u00a0 On the eve of a holiday weekend, California asked that EV drivers not charge their EVs on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}