JLR is looking to make major moves in the electric car space, which started with Jaguar’s announcement about becoming electric-only by 2025 last year. Now, information about the British carmaker’s new in-house electric platform is beginning to emerge, including its name – “Panthera”. More on this here.
Autonomous vehicle technology has a long way to go before it is accessible to all people and safe enough to be taken seriously. If you thought self-driving cars only belonged on protected freeways, the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) has been engineering a vehicle that takes extreme maneuverability to new roads. See Toyota’s autonomous drifting Supra in action here.
General Motors is clearly going all the way in on electric vehicles. Take the Hummer, Silverado, Equinox, Blazer, and Lyriq, and you have just the start of their plan to become the largest producer of EVs. CEO Mary Barra told investors Tuesday that the plan now is to deliver 400,000 EVs by the end of 2023, quite a jump over their 25,000 sales performance last year. More here.
Like Mercedes-Benz, Maserati wants its U.S. and Canadian customers to have access to more colors, materials, trim pieces, you name it, in order to further belabor the exclusivity of its vehicles. As such, the Stellantis marque will be bringing its Fuoriserie customization program here, allowing customers to choose three different collections to give their vehicles distinct themes. Learn more over here.