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• World debut of the all-new battery electric Toyota C-HR+
  
• https://www.motortrend.com/news/2026-toyota-c-hr-plus-ev-first-look-review/
• Toyota gets serious about EVs with new all-electric C-HR+ | Electrifying.com
• https://www.roadandtrack.com/photos/g64163068/new-electric-vehicles-toyota-and-lexus-revealed-europe/
• Toyota debuts two all-new EVs, facelifted BZ4X -...

Toyota's also a partner in iONNA,
EVgo and Toyota launch new fast charging stations in CA
IONNA | Juicin' Up North America One Rechargery at a Time

InsideEVs has an article I know many people will agree with.
https://insideevs.com/news/752720/ev-12-volt-battery-problems/

The 12V battery has shown to be a big issue with Hyundai Ionic 5, Kia EV6, Rivian R1S, and Rivian R1T. The article suggests it may be how engineers are not using the DC-to-DC converter correctly or even fault the DC-to-DC converter itself. I did a quick search on this forum and got 100 posts with 12V battery dead.

I can relate with past experience. All my past Prius suffered from dead 12V batteries within 2 or 3 years, my 2017 Prius Prime's 12V died within the 1st year from a shorted cell. The 12V in my Lexus NX 300h took 5 years before it died but while the article opines it may be the DC-DC converter, I have to disagree, somewhat. It's not the battery location either. The 12V batteries in my 2nd gen Prius and 1st gen Prius Plugin were in the rear, the Prius Prime's was located in...

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It is PHEV like my 2017 BMW i3-REx only much bigger and well designed. I could see me buying one with a camper in the bed.

The specs:


Bob Wilson

• kWh/100 mi - this is the cost to operate the car. Suddenly, the Luicid gained an 8% advantage
• range miles - changed only 1 mile
• 2025 vs 2024 model years - what did they do?
  • Same gross weight ... Huh? Any mechanical or aerodynamic changes should change weight.
  • Lucid reduced battery from 88 kWh to 84 kWh!

What they did is "sandbag" the battery capacity which increased the apparent efficiency, kWh/100 mi. But it is the same battery in a car whose weight did not change. The clue, they didn't change the estimated miles. A more efficient car should increase the range.

If Lucid reported a change in the vehicle such as; more efficient electronics; motor; weight reduction; or drag reduction; no problem. But Car and Driver and Motor Trend do not report any design changes. It looks like Lucid...

"Stellantis has introduced STLA AutoDrive, an advanced autonomous driving technology offering hands-free, eyes-off driving up to 37 mph. The new SAE Level 3 system is designed for ease in dense urban traffic, enabling drivers to engage safely in activities like watching a movie, reading, or catching up on emails."
Stellantis Unveils New Hands-Free and Eyes-Off AI Driving Tech – DNyuz

GM backs out of deal with LG for an LG plant that was going to make Ultium cells for GM and Toyota has stepped in and made a deal with LG to keep the plant going and provide Toyota with cells instead.

Get ready for your Ultium powered Toyotas folks!

So, why would someone declare the “socialists” the enemy and then act like the biggest socialist president ever? MAGA becomes MIGA—make inflation great again. Goodbye to Toyota and all the other foreign males.

Trump plans 25% auto tariffs to reshape US trade policy

Now that's something different.
Meet the Chevy Blazer EV.R with over 1,300 horsepower

It is really frustrating when you have a screw or nail in your tire, let alone a blowout, if you don’t have a spare. Getting tires repaired or shopping for tires is stressful, especially if you cannot streamline it due to the lack of a spare.

https://insideevs.com/features/750652/ev-spare-tires/

Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/republican-senators-call-1000-tax-new-ev-sales-pay-road-repairs-2025-02-12/

EV performance in winter much lower than advertised, CAA test finds

Without enough new people, us old farts will die off and the car market will (is) collapse:


Bob Wilson

America’s Hugely Popular Toyota RAV4 To Finally Go Electric In 2026

I just bought my first Prius--a 2014 Prius C- and I reconditioned and serviced thd battery. Love the car, and now I'm looking for a 2017 to 2019 model.
Are the Lithium battery packs in the newer models rebuildable?
I'm thinking that you can only recondition and tweak and extend the NIMH battery packs and replace individual cells but you can't do much with Lithium cells...
Is my thinking incorrect? Should I really be looking at Gen 3 years instead of later generations?
Thanks

The National Electrical Code is updated every 3 years. They are proposing mandating a 5mA GFCI on all (hardwired & plugin) 240 volt circuits, Any reser would likely be located in the electrical panel, perhaps in a locked room.

There should be a carveout for L2 chargers because they have their own GFPE (Ground Fault Protection of Equipment), which is intended to protect equipment and is permitted to trip at values larger than 5mA, often in the 15–20mA range.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/national-electric-code-revision-threatens-ev-charging/

Good news for EV rebates and tax credits. It looks like he won’t be able to get rid of the existing EV rebates and tax credits.

https://insideevs.com/news/748170/trump-ev-tariff-china-cm/

I have always seen the usual OCC setups

All with different locations but leading to the same PCV location.

I recently have been looking around and stumbled on a few images that seem to show an entirely different setup.

The first two images are of the ZVW30

The other images are of the ZVW50

My question is...will running this setup be the same as the other setup going to the PCV

Seems much easier to work with and remove if needed.

Sheesh you can even run both setups and be double protected.