SHOPSMART AUTOS – CUSTOMER INFORMATION – JULY 16, 2021 (PT.5)
HERE ARE ALL OF THE PROMISES THAT EV VEHICLES WILL DO FOR YOUNew BEVs on the horizon?
Yes, but nothing concrete other than the I-Pace, which is already in production. The storied English brands Jaguar and Land Rover have been a subsidiary of Tata Motors, an Indian multinational firm, since 2008. The Jaguar side of the company has already made waves with its Tesla-fighting electric SUV, the I-Pace, but the company says the Land Rover side will have its first EV model by 2024. According to an announcement the company made in early 2021, all Jaguar and Land Rover models will have an electric version by the end of the decade, with six new electric Land Rover SUVs over the next five years, and an all-electric Jaguar lineup by 2025. Hyundai Motor Group, the parent company that owns Hyundai and Genesis, also owns a minority stake in Kia, which has plans to release a series of EVs that ride on the same E-GMP platform—which is a modular, EV-specific substructure with the batteries mounted in the floor—that will underpin Ioniq-branded EVs. Kia already has an electric version of its Niro and says it will have 11 EVs—seven of them dedicated electric models—in its lineup by 2026. The first pure electric model in the series is the EV6. The automaker says it wants to sell 1.6 million “eco-friendly vehicles” globally by the end of the decade. Mazda doesn’t yet offer any electric cars in the U.S., but it recently started selling the MX-30 EV and plug-in hybrid models in other markets. Mazda says it plans to introduce an EV-only platform within the next few years, with all its nameplates available with some level of electrification by 2030. However, the automaker has not specified what proportion of its cars will be pure electric, and which ones will be plug-in hybrids or mild hybrids. Mercedes’ electric push began in 2007, with an EV version of the diminutive Smart ForTwo city car. Now, the automaker says it has plans afoot to introduce 10 new EV models by 2022. Mercedes says the U.S. market can expect to see the EQS, an electric version of its opulent flagship S-Class sedan, in fall 2021. Other EV models—SUVs like the EQA and EQB—are on hold for the U.S. market, but are expected to debut overseas. Mercedes says the EQS, which will be the first Mercedes EV in the U.S. when it goes on sale this fall, will have a 435-mile range, although that number is based on European test standards that tend to be more optimistic than Environmental Protection Agency numbers.
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