Ten electrical cars coming in the next three years
– Dec. 26th two thousand sixteen Five:26 am ET
2016 was my very first full-time year at Electrek covering clean-tech and primarily electrical vehicles. It undoubtedly was a good and arousing year for EVs with several automakers announcing fresh upcoming vehicles, some of them even committing to volume production and governments setting more ambitious goals for electrified vehicle adoption.
It obviously means that the next few years will be even more titillating in the segment and our coverage will inevitably become broader than mainly Tesla and a few EVs. Here we take a look at what’s on the roadmap for the next three years in the electrified vehicle world with ten fresh electrical cars.
It’s not a finish list of electrical vehicles coming to market by the end of the decade, but instead, I gathered details of the vehicle programs we know most about and those that have the best chances of making it to market.
Other vehicles like Faraday Future’s prototype or Lucid Motors’ fresh ‘Air’ sedan have potential and could very well get to market, but I stuck with electrical vehicle programs that have already been financed and therefore, they will almost inevitably hit the market at some point – albeit maybe not within the disclosed timeline.
I also didn’t include the Chevy Bolt EV since it already hit the market in California, but maybe I should have considering GM will only ramp up production and delivery to other markets in 2017.
Lightly the most anticipated one of the bunch, the Tesla Model three is also the vehicle with the most well-understood timeline to production. Tesla set the deadline for internal and outward components for July 1st, 2017. The company anticipates some delays from the immobile deadline and therefore, it is guiding for volume production to embark during the 2nd half of 2017.
The main things we know about the upcoming electrified vehicle:
- $35,000 commencing price
- 215 miles of range minimum on the base version
- Higher spectacle versions will be available with dual motor and even Ludicrous mode
- Hardware to enable fully self-driving capability will be standard (software is an option)
With over 400,000 reservations, the very first total year of production is virtually sold out at this point. Tesla will commence by delivering the vehicles to employees in California (with Tesla and SpaceX it could be up to as many as Ten,000 cars) and it will embark going east for there. Other countries will go after as the company goes through the decent homologation process, but it would be surprising if any Model three is delivered outside of the US in two thousand seventeen – even in Canada.
Two – two thousand eighteen Nissan LEAF with over two hundred miles of range
Nissan has been perceived as a leader in the electrified vehicle segment due to its early investment in the LEAF vehicle program, but the Japanese automaker has shown signs of falling behind. Industry watchers thought the company would announce a significant battery upgrade last year to bring the range of the vehicle to over two hundred miles, but the two thousand seventeen LEAF still has the thirty kWh battery pack announced earlier this year.
The two thousand eighteen Nissan LEAF is now expected to be the model receiving the update with a sixty kWh battery that the automaker has been testing for years.
Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn is scheduled to give a keynote speech at CES next month and he is expected to unveil an electrified vehicle. Whether it will be the fresh LEAF with the longer range or an all fresh car for later release remains to be seen, which leads us to our next upcoming vehicle…
Three – Nissan IDS all-electric concept with autonomous features
Since Tesla announced that all its vehicles going forward will be tooled with all the necessary hardware to enable fully self-driving capability, other automakers have to step up their game. The IDS concept is Nissan’s reaction to that.
The concept unveiled last year was fitted with the same sixty kWh battery pack that is expected to bring the range of the LEAF over two hundred miles. While it still looks very much like a concept, Nissan is now reportedly planning to bring a production version to market around 2019-2020.
Not much is known about the price range, but it wouldn’t be surprising if it was priced above the LEAF’s
$30,000 beginning price.
One of the largest complaints with the LEAF is its design, which is often described as bug-like, the IDS concept is certainly more stylish. The vehicle should also be the very first to feature Nissan’s self-driving technology while its other models, including the LEAF, will feature increasingly more advanced semi-autonomous features – not unlike Tesla’s Autopilot.
The quattro e-tron SUV is Audi’s response to the Tesla Model X and one of the very first electrical vehicles out of thirty fresh models the Volkswagen group plans to launch by two thousand twenty five as part of its fresh plan after the disastrous DieselGate Scandal. Additionally, VW is one of the uncommon automakers committing to volume production of EVs. It plans to build two to three million all-electric cars a year by 2025.
Audi has been reverse-engineering the Model X as part of the development of its very first all-electric vehicle from the ground up and it created a funny situation where company engineers were stuck at a Supercharger in Germany with the vehicle they imported from the US, which is not compatible with European Superchargers.
The German automaker claims that the e-tron quattro has a “range of more than five hundred kilometers (310 miles)”, but that’s NEDC-rated, the real world range should be closer to two hundred fifty miles.
The vehicle is likely to be badged ‘Q6′ and be priced at around
$75,000. The company has been making significant investments to prepare its Brussels factory to manufacture the vehicle, which should be ready for production in 2018.
Building on its e-tron electrical car program, the German automaker also plans to release a sedan following the SUV. The company confirmed the program and it will have similar specs as the SUV:
- 95 kwh battery yielding five hundred km (311 miles) NEDC-rated of range
- An eleven kw inductive charging plate option that will be suggested
- Mostly aluminum structure
- All-wheel drive. Three electrical motors (one up front, two in rear) for a total of four hundred twenty nine bhp, and a sport mode to boost it to four hundred ninety six bhp and five hundred ninety lb ft torque temporarily
- 0-100 khm (0-62 mph) in Four.6 seconds and a top speed of two hundred eleven kmh (131 mph)
- Level-4 autonomous driving technology
The vehicle is expected to go after the Q6 in 2019-2020.
Audi is not the only Volkswagen brand working on fresh electrical vehicles. Porsche is also powerfully investing in its very first all-electric vehicle: the Mission E. The concept has already been praised for its awesome design – it won the prestigious ‘Concept Car Design of the year’ at Car Design Night at the two thousand sixteen Geneva International Motor Showcase and Tesla hired the designer behind the vehicle’s interior.
The company says it is aiming for the Mission E to have “over three hundred ten miles of range” (500 km) on a single charge, but being based in Germany, Porsche is likely talking about the Fresh European Driving Cycle (NEDC), which is much more forgiving than the EPA rating and doesn’t truly reflect real-world range.
Porsche is also aiming for strong spectacle, which it claims will have nothing to envy of its gas-powered counterparts. It is aiming for a zero to sixty mph acceleration in Three.Five seconds. The automaker also claims that the Mission E will be tooled with a 800-volt charging system able to charge up to 80% in about fifteen minutes.
The Mission E is expected to go into production at Porsche’s Zuffenhausen plant in two thousand nineteen and the company expects to produce about 20,000 units per year, which is significant for the luxury automaker.
Jaguar is the latest automaker to invest in EVs and its very first entry, the I-Pace, has been well-received so far. The luxury SUV is the very first vehicle on a fresh EV platform developed by the British automaker.
Here are the main specs that we know about since the unveil last month:
- Range of “over five hundred km” NEDC-rated – so closer to
250 real-world miles
The automaker plans to bring the vehicle to production in 2018. We don’t know the price yet, but it should fit close to the F-Pace in Jaguar’s SUV lineup, which starts at $40,990.
Daimler is another automaker committing to volume production of electrified vehicles and the very first EV built from the ground up by the automaker, and without a powertrain built by Tesla, is the Mercedes-Benz Generation EQ.
The SUV is expected to be a direct competitor to the Jaguar I-Pace and coincidently, they are both guilty of adding some neon blue accents that have been regarded as unnecessary design cues for EVs, but otherwise, both vehicles have solid designs. Hopefully, they can lose those “EV design cues” by the time they hit production.
Mercedes says that the ‘Generation EQ’ battery pack will be scalable up to a total capacity of over seventy kWh for a range of ‘up to five hundred kilometres’ (310 miles). Of course, that’s based on the NEDC standard and the real-world range or EPA-rated range would be expected to be significantly less, as previously mentioned.
The production timeline and the price has not been disclosed yet, but rumors suggest the vehicle will hit production in two thousand eighteen or two thousand nineteen and it is expected to be around the same price as Mercedes’ GLC: 49,000-euro ($55,000 US).
Being smaller and cheaper, it is not expected to be a direct competitor to the presently only all-electric SUV available, the Tesla Model X, but it should be to Tesla’s next vehicle to come to market after the Model Trio…
The Tesla Model Y has been officially announced by CEO Elon Musk and other Tesla officials, but it hasn’t been officially unveiled yet which is why we only have unofficial renderings.
The electrified SUV will be built on the same third generation platform as the Tesla Model Trio. Musk said that the vehicle will feature ‘Falcon Wing’ doors like the Model X.
Model Y is an significant vehicle program for Tesla and it will help leverage the investment in the Model three program. Musk expects request for the vehicle to be equal or greater than the request for the Model Trio:
To be clear, the priority vehicle development after the Model three would be the Model Y, the compact SUV, because that’s also a car that we expect to see request in the 500,000 to one million unit per year level.
It’s not clear when Tesla will commence production of the Model Y, but its development program is believed to be closely following behind the Model Trio’s and production could begin as soon as 2018. Like the Model Three, the Model Y is being designed for manufacturability and it should share a greater percentage of components with the Model three than the Model S with the Model X.
The other question is when will they officially unveil the vehicle? That’s even less clear, but it’s likely to happen in the next few months.
Ten electrified cars coming in the next three years, Electrek
Ten electrified cars coming in the next three years
– Dec. 26th two thousand sixteen Five:26 am ET
2016 was my very first full-time year at Electrek covering clean-tech and primarily electrified vehicles. It undoubtedly was a excellent and titillating year for EVs with several automakers announcing fresh upcoming vehicles, some of them even committing to volume production and governments setting more ambitious goals for electrical vehicle adoption.
It obviously means that the next few years will be even more arousing in the segment and our coverage will inevitably become broader than mainly Tesla and a few EVs. Here we take a look at what’s on the roadmap for the next three years in the electrified vehicle world with ten fresh electrical cars.
It’s not a finish list of electrical vehicles coming to market by the end of the decade, but instead, I gathered details of the vehicle programs we know most about and those that have the best chances of making it to market.
Other vehicles like Faraday Future’s prototype or Lucid Motors’ fresh ‘Air’ sedan have potential and could very well get to market, but I stuck with electrical vehicle programs that have already been financed and therefore, they will almost inevitably hit the market at some point – albeit maybe not within the disclosed timeline.
I also didn’t include the Chevy Bolt EV since it already hit the market in California, but maybe I should have considering GM will only ramp up production and delivery to other markets in 2017.
Lightly the most anticipated one of the bunch, the Tesla Model three is also the vehicle with the most well-understood timeline to production. Tesla set the deadline for internal and outer components for July 1st, 2017. The company anticipates some delays from the motionless deadline and therefore, it is guiding for volume production to begin during the 2nd half of 2017.
The main things we know about the upcoming electrified vehicle:
- $35,000 beginning price
- 215 miles of range minimum on the base version
- Higher spectacle versions will be available with dual motor and even Ludicrous mode
- Hardware to enable fully self-driving capability will be standard (software is an option)
With over 400,000 reservations, the very first utter year of production is virtually sold out at this point. Tesla will embark by delivering the vehicles to employees in California (with Tesla and SpaceX it could be up to as many as Ten,000 cars) and it will embark going east for there. Other countries will go after as the company goes through the decent homologation process, but it would be surprising if any Model three is delivered outside of the US in two thousand seventeen – even in Canada.
Two – two thousand eighteen Nissan LEAF with over two hundred miles of range
Nissan has been perceived as a leader in the electrified vehicle segment due to its early investment in the LEAF vehicle program, but the Japanese automaker has shown signs of falling behind. Industry watchers thought the company would announce a significant battery upgrade last year to bring the range of the vehicle to over two hundred miles, but the two thousand seventeen LEAF still has the thirty kWh battery pack announced earlier this year.
The two thousand eighteen Nissan LEAF is now expected to be the model receiving the update with a sixty kWh battery that the automaker has been testing for years.
Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn is scheduled to give a keynote speech at CES next month and he is expected to unveil an electrified vehicle. Whether it will be the fresh LEAF with the longer range or an all fresh car for later release remains to be seen, which leads us to our next upcoming vehicle…
Three – Nissan IDS all-electric concept with autonomous features
Since Tesla announced that all its vehicles going forward will be tooled with all the necessary hardware to enable fully self-driving capability, other automakers have to step up their game. The IDS concept is Nissan’s response to that.
The concept unveiled last year was fitted with the same sixty kWh battery pack that is expected to bring the range of the LEAF over two hundred miles. While it still looks very much like a concept, Nissan is now reportedly planning to bring a production version to market around 2019-2020.
Not much is known about the price range, but it wouldn’t be surprising if it was priced above the LEAF’s
$30,000 beginning price.
One of the thickest complaints with the LEAF is its design, which is often described as bug-like, the IDS concept is certainly more stylish. The vehicle should also be the very first to feature Nissan’s self-driving technology while its other models, including the LEAF, will feature increasingly more advanced semi-autonomous features – not unlike Tesla’s Autopilot.
The quattro e-tron SUV is Audi’s response to the Tesla Model X and one of the very first electrical vehicles out of thirty fresh models the Volkswagen group plans to launch by two thousand twenty five as part of its fresh plan after the disastrous DieselGate Scandal. Additionally, VW is one of the uncommon automakers committing to volume production of EVs. It plans to build two to three million all-electric cars a year by 2025.
Audi has been reverse-engineering the Model X as part of the development of its very first all-electric vehicle from the ground up and it created a funny situation where company engineers were stuck at a Supercharger in Germany with the vehicle they imported from the US, which is not compatible with European Superchargers.
The German automaker claims that the e-tron quattro has a “range of more than five hundred kilometers (310 miles)”, but that’s NEDC-rated, the real world range should be closer to two hundred fifty miles.
The vehicle is likely to be badged ‘Q6′ and be priced at around
$75,000. The company has been making significant investments to prepare its Brussels factory to manufacture the vehicle, which should be ready for production in 2018.
Building on its e-tron electrical car program, the German automaker also plans to release a sedan following the SUV. The company confirmed the program and it will have similar specs as the SUV:
- 95 kwh battery yielding five hundred km (311 miles) NEDC-rated of range
- An eleven kw inductive charging plate option that will be suggested
- Mostly aluminum structure
- All-wheel drive. Three electrical motors (one up front, two in rear) for a total of four hundred twenty nine bhp, and a sport mode to boost it to four hundred ninety six bhp and five hundred ninety lb ft torque temporarily
- 0-100 khm (0-62 mph) in Four.6 seconds and a top speed of two hundred eleven kmh (131 mph)
- Level-4 autonomous driving technology
The vehicle is expected to go after the Q6 in 2019-2020.
Audi is not the only Volkswagen brand working on fresh electrical vehicles. Porsche is also intensely investing in its very first all-electric vehicle: the Mission E. The concept has already been praised for its amazing design – it won the prestigious ‘Concept Car Design of the year’ at Car Design Night at the two thousand sixteen Geneva International Motor Demonstrate and Tesla hired the designer behind the vehicle’s interior.
The company says it is aiming for the Mission E to have “over three hundred ten miles of range” (500 km) on a single charge, but being based in Germany, Porsche is likely talking about the Fresh European Driving Cycle (NEDC), which is much more forgiving than the EPA rating and doesn’t indeed reflect real-world range.
Porsche is also aiming for strong spectacle, which it claims will have nothing to envy of its gas-powered counterparts. It is aiming for a zero to sixty mph acceleration in Three.Five seconds. The automaker also claims that the Mission E will be tooled with a 800-volt charging system able to charge up to 80% in about fifteen minutes.
The Mission E is expected to go into production at Porsche’s Zuffenhausen plant in two thousand nineteen and the company expects to produce about 20,000 units per year, which is significant for the luxury automaker.
Jaguar is the latest automaker to invest in EVs and its very first entry, the I-Pace, has been well-received so far. The luxury SUV is the very first vehicle on a fresh EV platform developed by the British automaker.
Here are the main specs that we know about since the unveil last month:
- Range of “over five hundred km” NEDC-rated – so closer to
250 real-world miles
The automaker plans to bring the vehicle to production in 2018. We don’t know the price yet, but it should fit close to the F-Pace in Jaguar’s SUV lineup, which starts at $40,990.
Daimler is another automaker committing to volume production of electrical vehicles and the very first EV built from the ground up by the automaker, and without a powertrain built by Tesla, is the Mercedes-Benz Generation EQ.
The SUV is expected to be a direct competitor to the Jaguar I-Pace and coincidently, they are both guilty of adding some neon blue accents that have been regarded as unnecessary design cues for EVs, but otherwise, both vehicles have solid designs. Hopefully, they can lose those “EV design cues” by the time they hit production.
Mercedes says that the ‘Generation EQ’ battery pack will be scalable up to a total capacity of over seventy kWh for a range of ‘up to five hundred kilometres’ (310 miles). Of course, that’s based on the NEDC standard and the real-world range or EPA-rated range would be expected to be significantly less, as previously mentioned.
The production timeline and the price has not been disclosed yet, but rumors suggest the vehicle will hit production in two thousand eighteen or two thousand nineteen and it is expected to be around the same price as Mercedes’ GLC: 49,000-euro ($55,000 US).
Being smaller and cheaper, it is not expected to be a direct competitor to the presently only all-electric SUV available, the Tesla Model X, but it should be to Tesla’s next vehicle to come to market after the Model Trio…
The Tesla Model Y has been officially announced by CEO Elon Musk and other Tesla officials, but it hasn’t been officially unveiled yet which is why we only have unofficial renderings.
The electrified SUV will be built on the same third generation platform as the Tesla Model Trio. Musk said that the vehicle will feature ‘Falcon Wing’ doors like the Model X.
Model Y is an significant vehicle program for Tesla and it will help leverage the investment in the Model three program. Musk expects request for the vehicle to be equal or greater than the request for the Model Three:
To be clear, the priority vehicle development after the Model three would be the Model Y, the compact SUV, because that’s also a car that we expect to see request in the 500,000 to one million unit per year level.
It’s not clear when Tesla will begin production of the Model Y, but its development program is believed to be closely following behind the Model Trio’s and production could commence as soon as 2018. Like the Model Trio, the Model Y is being designed for manufacturability and it should share a greater percentage of components with the Model three than the Model S with the Model X.
The other question is when will they officially unveil the vehicle? That’s even less clear, but it’s likely to happen in the next few months.
Ten electrical cars coming in the next three years, Electrek
Ten electrical cars coming in the next three years
– Dec. 26th two thousand sixteen Five:26 am ET
2016 was my very first full-time year at Electrek covering clean-tech and primarily electrified vehicles. It undoubtedly was a good and arousing year for EVs with several automakers announcing fresh upcoming vehicles, some of them even committing to volume production and governments setting more ambitious goals for electrified vehicle adoption.
It obviously means that the next few years will be even more titillating in the segment and our coverage will inevitably become broader than mainly Tesla and a few EVs. Here we take a look at what’s on the roadmap for the next three years in the electrified vehicle world with ten fresh electrical cars.
It’s not a accomplish list of electrified vehicles coming to market by the end of the decade, but instead, I gathered details of the vehicle programs we know most about and those that have the best chances of making it to market.
Other vehicles like Faraday Future’s prototype or Lucid Motors’ fresh ‘Air’ sedan have potential and could very well get to market, but I stuck with electrical vehicle programs that have already been financed and therefore, they will almost inevitably hit the market at some point – albeit maybe not within the disclosed timeline.
I also didn’t include the Chevy Bolt EV since it already hit the market in California, but maybe I should have considering GM will only ramp up production and delivery to other markets in 2017.
Lightly the most anticipated one of the bunch, the Tesla Model three is also the vehicle with the most well-understood timeline to production. Tesla set the deadline for internal and outward components for July 1st, 2017. The company anticipates some delays from the immobile deadline and therefore, it is guiding for volume production to commence during the 2nd half of 2017.
The main things we know about the upcoming electrical vehicle:
- $35,000 kicking off price
- 215 miles of range minimum on the base version
- Higher spectacle versions will be available with dual motor and even Ludicrous mode
- Hardware to enable fully self-driving capability will be standard (software is an option)
With over 400,000 reservations, the very first total year of production is virtually sold out at this point. Tesla will embark by delivering the vehicles to employees in California (with Tesla and SpaceX it could be up to as many as Ten,000 cars) and it will begin going east for there. Other countries will go after as the company goes through the decent homologation process, but it would be surprising if any Model three is delivered outside of the US in two thousand seventeen – even in Canada.
Two – two thousand eighteen Nissan LEAF with over two hundred miles of range
Nissan has been perceived as a leader in the electrified vehicle segment due to its early investment in the LEAF vehicle program, but the Japanese automaker has shown signs of falling behind. Industry watchers thought the company would announce a significant battery upgrade last year to bring the range of the vehicle to over two hundred miles, but the two thousand seventeen LEAF still has the thirty kWh battery pack announced earlier this year.
The two thousand eighteen Nissan LEAF is now expected to be the model receiving the update with a sixty kWh battery that the automaker has been testing for years.
Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn is scheduled to give a keynote speech at CES next month and he is expected to unveil an electrified vehicle. Whether it will be the fresh LEAF with the longer range or an all fresh car for later release remains to be seen, which leads us to our next upcoming vehicle…
Three – Nissan IDS all-electric concept with autonomous features
Since Tesla announced that all its vehicles going forward will be tooled with all the necessary hardware to enable fully self-driving capability, other automakers have to step up their game. The IDS concept is Nissan’s reaction to that.
The concept unveiled last year was fitted with the same sixty kWh battery pack that is expected to bring the range of the LEAF over two hundred miles. While it still looks very much like a concept, Nissan is now reportedly planning to bring a production version to market around 2019-2020.
Not much is known about the price range, but it wouldn’t be surprising if it was priced above the LEAF’s
$30,000 kicking off price.
One of the largest complaints with the LEAF is its design, which is often described as bug-like, the IDS concept is certainly more stylish. The vehicle should also be the very first to feature Nissan’s self-driving technology while its other models, including the LEAF, will feature increasingly more advanced semi-autonomous features – not unlike Tesla’s Autopilot.
The quattro e-tron SUV is Audi’s response to the Tesla Model X and one of the very first electrical vehicles out of thirty fresh models the Volkswagen group plans to launch by two thousand twenty five as part of its fresh plan after the disastrous DieselGate Scandal. Additionally, VW is one of the infrequent automakers committing to volume production of EVs. It plans to build two to three million all-electric cars a year by 2025.
Audi has been reverse-engineering the Model X as part of the development of its very first all-electric vehicle from the ground up and it created a funny situation where company engineers were stuck at a Supercharger in Germany with the vehicle they imported from the US, which is not compatible with European Superchargers.
The German automaker claims that the e-tron quattro has a “range of more than five hundred kilometers (310 miles)”, but that’s NEDC-rated, the real world range should be closer to two hundred fifty miles.
The vehicle is likely to be badged ‘Q6′ and be priced at around
$75,000. The company has been making significant investments to prepare its Brussels factory to manufacture the vehicle, which should be ready for production in 2018.
Building on its e-tron electrical car program, the German automaker also plans to release a sedan following the SUV. The company confirmed the program and it will have similar specs as the SUV:
- 95 kwh battery yielding five hundred km (311 miles) NEDC-rated of range
- An eleven kw inductive charging plate option that will be suggested
- Mostly aluminum structure
- All-wheel drive. Three electrical motors (one up front, two in rear) for a total of four hundred twenty nine bhp, and a sport mode to boost it to four hundred ninety six bhp and five hundred ninety lb ft torque temporarily
- 0-100 khm (0-62 mph) in Four.6 seconds and a top speed of two hundred eleven kmh (131 mph)
- Level-4 autonomous driving technology
The vehicle is expected to go after the Q6 in 2019-2020.
Audi is not the only Volkswagen brand working on fresh electrical vehicles. Porsche is also strenuously investing in its very first all-electric vehicle: the Mission E. The concept has already been praised for its amazing design – it won the prestigious ‘Concept Car Design of the year’ at Car Design Night at the two thousand sixteen Geneva International Motor Showcase and Tesla hired the designer behind the vehicle’s interior.
The company says it is aiming for the Mission E to have “over three hundred ten miles of range” (500 km) on a single charge, but being based in Germany, Porsche is likely talking about the Fresh European Driving Cycle (NEDC), which is much more forgiving than the EPA rating and doesn’t truly reflect real-world range.
Porsche is also aiming for strong spectacle, which it claims will have nothing to envy of its gas-powered counterparts. It is aiming for a zero to sixty mph acceleration in Trio.Five seconds. The automaker also claims that the Mission E will be tooled with a 800-volt charging system able to charge up to 80% in about fifteen minutes.
The Mission E is expected to go into production at Porsche’s Zuffenhausen plant in two thousand nineteen and the company expects to produce about 20,000 units per year, which is significant for the luxury automaker.
Jaguar is the latest automaker to invest in EVs and its very first entry, the I-Pace, has been well-received so far. The luxury SUV is the very first vehicle on a fresh EV platform developed by the British automaker.
Here are the main specs that we know about since the unveil last month:
- Range of “over five hundred km” NEDC-rated – so closer to
250 real-world miles
The automaker plans to bring the vehicle to production in 2018. We don’t know the price yet, but it should fit close to the F-Pace in Jaguar’s SUV lineup, which starts at $40,990.
Daimler is another automaker committing to volume production of electrified vehicles and the very first EV built from the ground up by the automaker, and without a powertrain built by Tesla, is the Mercedes-Benz Generation EQ.
The SUV is expected to be a direct competitor to the Jaguar I-Pace and coincidently, they are both guilty of adding some neon blue accents that have been regarded as unnecessary design cues for EVs, but otherwise, both vehicles have solid designs. Hopefully, they can lose those “EV design cues” by the time they hit production.
Mercedes says that the ‘Generation EQ’ battery pack will be scalable up to a total capacity of over seventy kWh for a range of ‘up to five hundred kilometres’ (310 miles). Of course, that’s based on the NEDC standard and the real-world range or EPA-rated range would be expected to be significantly less, as previously mentioned.
The production timeline and the price has not been disclosed yet, but rumors suggest the vehicle will hit production in two thousand eighteen or two thousand nineteen and it is expected to be around the same price as Mercedes’ GLC: 49,000-euro ($55,000 US).
Being smaller and cheaper, it is not expected to be a direct competitor to the presently only all-electric SUV available, the Tesla Model X, but it should be to Tesla’s next vehicle to come to market after the Model Three…
The Tesla Model Y has been officially announced by CEO Elon Musk and other Tesla officials, but it hasn’t been officially unveiled yet which is why we only have unofficial renderings.
The electrical SUV will be built on the same third generation platform as the Tesla Model Trio. Musk said that the vehicle will feature ‘Falcon Wing’ doors like the Model X.
Model Y is an significant vehicle program for Tesla and it will help leverage the investment in the Model three program. Musk expects request for the vehicle to be equal or greater than the request for the Model Three:
To be clear, the priority vehicle development after the Model three would be the Model Y, the compact SUV, because that’s also a car that we expect to see request in the 500,000 to one million unit per year level.
It’s not clear when Tesla will embark production of the Model Y, but its development program is believed to be closely following behind the Model Three’s and production could embark as soon as 2018. Like the Model Three, the Model Y is being designed for manufacturability and it should share a greater percentage of components with the Model three than the Model S with the Model X.
The other question is when will they officially unveil the vehicle? That’s even less clear, but it’s likely to happen in the next few months.