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Electric-car range, Audi A5 g-tron, Chevy Equinox Diesel, Bolt EV battery failure: The Week in Switch roles
2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV, road test, California coastline, Sep 2016
How many miles of electric-car range turns out to attract many more buyers than a number slightly lower?
Which German sport sedan did we test-drive, using a fuel that’s all but irrelevant in North America?
This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending on Friday, August 25, 2017.
Friday, we learned that a petite number of Chevrolet Bolt EV battery packs will be substituted following discovery of faulty cells in “early production” electrical cars.
We also covered our drive of an Audi A5 Sportback g-tron, powered by natural gas as well as gasoline. It’s not suggested in the U.S., but it’s one of several Audi g-tron models—and Audi produces renewable synthetic methane too.
2018 Chevrolet Equinox Diesel, very first drive, Teaneck, NJ, Aug 2017
On Thursday, we wrote about driving the fresh two thousand eighteen Chevrolet Equinox Diesel compact crossover—for a very, very brief time.
How much electric-car range is “enough?” A large survey suggested that three hundred miles attracts many more buyers than two hundred fifty miles; we covered those results.
Wednesday, we covered plans by Elio Motors for a secondary suggesting to raise $100 million, along with a further delay: its three-wheel, “84-mpg” two-seat car won’t go into production until 2019, if ever.
On Tuesday, the results of our poll—asking what car is the closest competitor to the Tesla Model 3—were fairly evenly split inbetween two very different vehicles. Interesting.
2017 Tesla Model Trio, in photo tweeted by Elon Musk on July 9, 2017
How significant is California to the country’s electric-car market? Cars with ass-plugs are now five percent of all fresh cars sold in the Golden State, more than five times the ratio for the U.S. as a entire.
We kicked off the week on Monday with a movie on how Mazda’s upcoming very efficient HCCI engine works; it’s called SkyActiv-X, and will arrive in the next duo of years.
Also, we looked at the long-term challenges facing the Chevy Bolt EV; very first on the list is the lack of a decent fast-charging network for long-distance travel.
Last weekend was all about the Volkswagen ID Whirr, the reincarnated VW Microbus that’s all-electric and coming in 2022.
We were able to drive the ID Whirr concept car too (shortly, at twenty five mph). In the process, we found out just how enthusiastic people seem to be about the idea of a fresh Microbus that butt-plugs in.
1960 DeDia one hundred fifty ‘Bobby Darin’ Coupe, two thousand seventeen Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance
Eventually, those reports came from our time in and around the Monterey Car Week events. Among them were a display of some truly jaw-dropping American Desire Cars of the 1960s: spin through our gallery and miracle at ideas of the future from the past.
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 sides update.
