Dropping Lexus RZ, Sono Sion cars to Finland, NHTSA evaluates the battery: Car News Today
The Sono Sion solar car moves out of Swedish production – to Finland instead. NHTSA rates EV batteries as potentially explosive. And Lexus has set a date to reveal its first EV. This and more, here at Green Car Report.
Lexus has made full disclosure for it RZ 450h electric SUV, in production form, on April 20 — with a version of the steering wheel that parent company Toyota introduced for international versions of the Toyota bZ4X. It also shows that, given Toyota’s development efforts in wire-to-wire technology, it can show how a fork can be much better than Tesla’s imprecise attempt.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has announced that review potentially defective batteries made by LG Energy Solution. Through potentially related recalls due to fire concerns from GM, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, and Volkswagen, the federal government aims to ensure that all defective batteries are recalled — presumably — perhaps with the industry’s stressful response to the Takata airbag problems.
And Munich-based startup Sono Motors announced on Tuesday that plan to produce electric car Sion supplemented with solar energy changed. With the switch of contract manufacturing partner to Valmet Automotive, the Sion will be built in Finland, not Sweden – and it will be the same partner freely used by the solar vehicle being built. other expectations, Lightyear One.
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