{"id":34661,"date":"2022-10-27T00:03:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T04:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=34661"},"modified":"2022-10-27T00:03:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T04:03:59","slug":"1137621_mercedes-ceo-q-a-us-kia-evs-accord-hybrid-lucid-home-charging-at-80-mph-today-s-car-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=34661","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes CEO Q&A, US Kia EVs, Accord Hybrid, Lucid home charging at 80 mph: Today\u2019s Car News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kia will make EVs in the U.S. Honda wants to bring excitement back to its Accord\u2014including the hybrid, of course. Toyota is tapping BYD batteries for its BZ3, but only in China. The Lucid Air can charge really fast at home. And we talk to Mercedes\u2019 CEO about EVs. This and more, here at Green Car Reports<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In an interview with GCR,<\/em> Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola K\u00e4llenius<\/a> talked about the company\u2019s broad pivot to EVs, including the efficiency of its next-gen architectures, the electric G-Wagen, and its software remake; and he hinted that the brand plans to do more in the charging space.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kia confirmed that it too will have upcoming electric vehicles made in Georgia<\/a>\u2014at Hyundai\u2019s upcoming \u201cMetaplant,\u201d which broke ground Tuesday. Production at the Georgia plant for the brand will start in early 2025.<\/p>\n

Honda promises to \u201cbring excitement back\u201d for the redesigned 11th-generation Accord that will be revealed next month. That includes a bigger touchscreen and better hybrid performance<\/a>, it said\u2014and we\u2019d bet on the brand\u2019s latest, reconfigured hybrid system from the CR-V to accomplish the latter.<\/p>\n

Toyota is tapping BYD\u2019s LFP battery tech for its Tesla Model 3\u2013sized BZ3 sedan<\/a>. But the model is the result of several China-only partnerships for the company and simply not going to be sold in the U.S. (or Europe) in its present form.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The connected charging station that Lucid is selling for its Air enables a whopping 80 miles of range per hour of charging<\/a>\u2014at home, given an ideal installation and the peak charging rate. The Air’s phenomenal efficiency helps; and it helps take advantage of the Air\u2019s 19.2-kw onboard charger. The unit is ready for bidirectional charging capability yet to be enabled.<\/p>\n

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Kia will make EVs in the U.S. Honda wants to bring excitement back to its Accord\u2014including the hybrid, of course. Toyota is tapping BYD batteries for its BZ3, but only in China. The Lucid Air can charge really fast at home. And we talk to Mercedes\u2019 CEO about EVs. This and more, here at Green […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34662,"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-34661","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\/34661","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=34661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}