Ariya has the answers. Or, at least, Nissan hopes so. Overall, there has been a positive consumer response to Nissan’s upcoming all-electric SUV — it is a well thought out and attractive EV even in an increasingly competitive market.
If you’re reading CleanTechnica, then you probably know all about the Audi e-tron. After all, this is the German automaker’s big push into all-electric mobility. It’s an easy-to-live-with electric SUV that should appeal to any Audi fan, and it’s proof positive that Audi is trying to woo ICE drivers into the electric fold without any big compromise. If you like electric vehicles — and we assume our readers do — then strategies like this are what will make driving electric the norm, someday.
There seemed to be too many shiny cleantech highlights from the 2019 Shanghai Auto Show (aka Auto Shanghai 2019) to stuff into one article. So, following up on the article published earlier this evening, here’s another piece highlighting other goodies from the show.
Walking the massive convention center that houses Auto Shanghai 2019 (i.e., the Shanghai Auto Show) is a great way to get in your steps. The place is huge, taking up 5,400,000 square feet of exhibit space. There are cars and automotive-related companies displaying everything from the latest SUV to a new electric concept to a meal-delivery robot that takes its cues from R2-D2. It’s an overwhelming array of new technology, and then you realize that there are two floors.
While the 2019 Nissan Leaf is part of the second-generation model of the best-selling electric vehicle, the battery pack inside the new Leaf+ is actually more like a fifth-generation unit.
Nissan is trying to do something different with the all-electric IMs concept that it just unveiled at the 2019 Detroit Auto Show.
At a massive event with around 10,000 electric vehicle fans and headlined by pop singer Bruno Mars, NIO unveiled its new, all-electric, premium SUV in Shanghai, China, tonight. CleanTechnica was there to enjoy the show and cover the details. Well, I was there. The rest of the CleanTechnica team was somewhere else.
The Guangzhou Motor Show is like the Chinese auto industry as a whole. It’s huge, it’s confusing (to a foreigner there for the first time), and it’s full of electric vehicles. As someone who’s been paying attention to the North American and, to a lesser extent, European EV scene for a dozen years, visiting the show in Guangzhou this past week was a revelation. I mean, how many new alphanumeric EV names can you cram into your brain in a matter of hours?
If you can make the perfect car for a small number of people who don’t have any other great options, your sales just might be better than someone making a mediocre car for a large number of people. That’s the logic behind the 2+X series of concept vehicles that GAC revealed at the Guangzhou Auto Show yesterday.
The first time I drove a Hyundai Kona Electric, it was in rough prototype shape on a frozen lake in northern Sweden. That was back in February, and getting to spin the wheels in the honking traffic of Los Angeles last week made it clear that the company has done tremendous work in the intervening months to introduce one of the best all-electric vehicles on the road today.
