Car news today: Polestar slashes pricing on 2 and 4 models, Audi’s third-generation Q5 SUV makes its global debut, and more – 02 September 2024

Thanks for joining us this Monday 2nd of September, 2024. Seriously in car info right this moment time: Polestar 2 update and mute Polestar 4 each and each get hang of ticket cuts, and Audi debuts the mute third-know-how Q5 midsize SUV.

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• Polestar drops 2 and 4 pricing by $5K apiece
• Third-gen Audi Q5 midsize SUV debuts
• Honda “refreshes” HR-V miniature SUV for 2025
• Hyundai planning ‘prolonged differ’ EVs marketed as hybrids

Polestar cuts pricing for updated 2 and mute 4 objects

• Polestar Australia has dropped the pricing of all three 2 variants for 2025 by $5000, whereas adding in extra popular equipment, including security tech capabilities.
• Within the MY25 Polestar 2 differ, the Original Differ Single Motor now begins from $62,400 and capabilities the previously now not essential ($3500) Pilot Pack now as popular equipment. The Prolonged Differ Single Motor kicks off at $66,400, whereas the Prolonged Differ Twin Motor begins from $71,400.

• The pricing adjustment device that all MY25 variants can now be had under the Luxurious Vehicle Tax threshold. It comes as Polestar affords an aggressive prolonged-time period minimize ticket on MY24 Polestar 2 stock
• Meanwhile, the mute Polestar 4 electrical SUV has additionally purchased a ticket minimize right as the 2-variant newcomer mannequin hits native showrooms for the first time.
• The entry Prolonged Differ Single Motor version of the 4 has dropped by $3000 in opposition to earlier printed pricing, now from $78,500. But the flagship Prolonged Differ Twin Motor gets a deeper chop by $4700 and is now priced from $88,350 sooner than on-roads.

Audi’s third-know-how Q5 makes global debut

• Audi has whipped the covers off its third-know-how Q5 midsize SUV, debuting globally in each and each petrol and diesel types (where irregular number nomenclature now designates internal combustion objects).
• The change of the seven-Three hundred and sixty five days-feeble second-know-how is treated to Audi’s most contemporary exterior create language, that comprises slim-line headlights, a abundant grille and cues first viewed on Audi’s electrical objects similar to the E-Tron GT.

• In a international country the Q5 will debut with a different of turbocharged 2.0-litre petrol or diesel engines, each and each offering 150kW with the oiler offering 400Nm in opposition to the petrol’s 340Nm. Adopting a seven-tempo DCT, the petrol affords front- or all-wheel power, whereas the oiler is completely quattro pushed.

• This time spherical, the efficiency SQ5 suits a petroleum 3.0L V6 bringing 270kW and 550Nm.

• Timing and pricing for an Australian free up is yet to be printed by Audi’s native arm.

Honda updates HR-V miniature SUV for 2025

• Honda Australia has “refreshed” its HR-V miniature SUV for 2025, including a variant shake-up that will encompass a mute minimize-priced hybrid version called the e-HEV X.

• The e-HEV X will sit under the flagship e-HEV L, each and each that comprises Honda’s unusual two-motor single-axle hybrid power, whereas the entry show cloak the differ, the Vi X, will address petrol energy completely.

• Minor styling revisions, a collection of mute paint colors, selective upgrades to the Honda Sensing suite and mute equipment in (hybrid-simplest) visitors jam support and adaptive riding beam are all changes for 2025.

• The updated HR-V is consequently of land locally by the end of the Three hundred and sixty five days, though Honda Australia has now not yet printed accurate timing.

Hyundai pondering “prolonged differ” EVs marketed as hybrids

• Studies are that Hyundai Motor Firm is planning to bolster its entirely electrical and petrol-electrical hybrid ranks with ‘EREVs’, or “prolonged differ electrical car” know-how.
• In an announcement at the firm’s recent 2024 CEO Investor Day, HMC explained a mid- to prolonged-time period scheme to introduce EVs that undertake internal combustion to price/recharge the onboard batteries, an utility equivalent to Nissan’s mute e-Energy structure.

• Said to be aimed basically at the Chinese and North American markets, EREV know-how is claimed to give as a lot as 900 kilometres of differ on a single ticket and when entirely fuelled.
• The scheme, within the interim proposed in a twin-motor AWD structure, is claimed to be underpin HMC’s plans to enlarge its existing ‘hybrid’ lineup real thru Hyundai and Genesis manufacturers and is residing to debut globally in pick markets in 2027.

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