Tesla Model three launch, two thousand eighteen Leaf, CAFE debate, Porsche quicker charging, ‘dead’ coal: The Week in Switch sides
2018 Tesla Model Three
What did we learn about the Tesla Model three electrical car this week?
Why is the EPA planning to liquidate an exhibit on climate switch?
This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending on Friday, August Four, 2017.
The Tesla Model Y will use the Model three platform, according to CEO Elon Musk, who said he had been “reeled back” by his team from what would have been “insanity.”
Andrea Kerr driving Fiat 500e electrical car in autocross, Fine Park, Irvine, Califronia, July 2017
On Thursday, our reader Doug Kerr wrote about taking an electrical car to the track: his daughter Andie drove her Fiat 500e in a local autocross, and he told us how it went.
A lump we published on the net number of Tesla Model three reservations may have contributed to CEO Elon Musk’s response: Tesla has 455,000 net reservations for the fresh model, he said.
Wednesday spotted us report on another fresh propaganda movie from a fossil-fuel lobbying group that distorts the facts about electrical cars: we debunked it.
A North American Mazda executive suggested that combustion engines can get cleaner, but that electric-car sales would collapse without federal subsidies.
(Days later, Mazda and Toyota announced they will build a U.S. assembly plant together—Mazda will assemble a fresh petite SUV—and will also cooperate on electric-car technologies.)
Teaser for two thousand eighteen Nissan Leaf debuting on September 6, 2017
On Tuesday, we demonstrated an pic from the Norwegian team that caught the two thousand eighteen Nissan Leaf electrified car without camouflage during an advertising shoot.
Tesla board member (and fresh Model three proprietor) Steve Jurvetson posted a movie demonstrating Tesla Model three Easter eggs on the car’s central touchscreen.
We kicked off the week on Monday with another milestone in much swifter prompt charging: Porsche has installed a working prototype for its 350-kilowatt, 800-volt prompt charging station at a fresh German site.
CEO Sergio Marchionne has been known for years as an electric-car skeptic, but with diesel on a downslope globally, Fiat Chrysler plans to embrace electrified cars in a big way.
Sunday, we described a secret concentrate group for a fresh Buick puny electrical SUV based on the Chevrolet Bolt EV; it likely won’t come until next year or 2019.
2018 Tesla Model Three
The thickest weekend news, tho’, was about the Tesla Model Three.
It officially launched into production on Friday at a Handover Party that exposed some (but not all) specifications and features of the very first two versions to be delivered.
We ran down the reviews of the Tesla Model Trio, which were largely positive and in many cases downright glowing.
Eventually, coal is facing significant headwinds: the CEO of CSX said the railroad will never buy another train for coal transport, deeming the fuel to be on a terminal downward slope.
You’d never know that at the agency that protects our air, water, and land from pollution: it may substitute a climate-change display with one lauding coal’s role in the U.S. economy.
Those were our main stories this week; we’ll see you again next week. Until then, this has been the Green Car Reports Week in Switch roles update.