Car news today: Apple kills electric car project, MG4 could gain a wagon variant, and more – 28 February 2024

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Critically in vehicle records this day: Apple has reportedly killed its decade-long electric vehicle mission in favour of rising generative AI, and UK experiences display conceal that MG’s MG4 electric mannequin might per chance per chance also spawn a wagon variant in the kill.

Browse this scenario:

• The Apple vehicle mission reportedly gets axed
• MG4 might per chance per chance also gain wagon model in the come future
• Upcoming Mercedes EQS to supply unusual S-Class check as option
• Polestar 3 production begins, due in Australia by center of 2024

Apple vehicle mission reportedly axed

• Tech extensive Apple has reportedly axed its electric vehicle is understood as Titan, which used to be being labored on by a team of roughly 2000 folks.

• The mission that has been in trend for no longer no longer up to a decade would per chance be no more, with workers informed to walk onto work on synthetic intelligence (AI), as an different.

• Reuters reported reduction in 2020 that Apple had planned to release an electrical vehicle, purported additionally self sustaining succesful, as soon as 2024 or 2025.

• The source additionally states that a slowdown in demand for pricier electric vehicles has compelled several automakers to lower EV production.

MG4 might per chance per chance also fill an property/wagon variant in 2025

• In conserving with experiences by Autocar, MG might per chance per chance also develop a wagon model of its most up-to-date MG4 electric vehicle.

• Primarily the most up-to-date walk by the Chinese language automaker is more seemingly to interchange the contemporary MG5 SW EV which is equipped in markets equivalent to the United Kingdom, but no longer Australia.

• The unusual UK experiences out of the Geneva Motor Show display conceal that it’d be more inexpensive for the MG imprint to expand the MG4 relatively than develop an completely unusual mannequin

• If created, the MG4 Estate, or MG5 because it can most likely even very effectively be known as, might per chance per chance also spawn a performance model, utilizing MG4 XPower running instruments

• As for Australian potentialities, MG’s native arm informed Chasing Automobiles that it is extraordinarily no longer going that an MG wagon would attain to Australia.

Mercedes-Benz to supply unusual styling for EQS to attract more sales

• German automaker Mercedes-Benz will offer a peculiar grille invent for its EQS luxurious electric vehicle as sales launch to trail for the mannequin.

• Two suggestions would per chance be accessible for investors: a peculiar grille with three-pointed star on the bonnet, or the most up-to-date sleeker discuss over with the star printed onto the ground.

• The EQS is additionally space to feature a better battery pack – now a enormous 118kWh – and the unusual option of executive seats which is more seemingly to rob away the rear bench, changing it with two separate seats for added comfort.
• Autocar experiences that EQS sales fill fallen by 17 p.c in the UK, whereas in Europe sales fill almost halved.

• Final yr, Mercedes-Benz Australia sold 67 EQS examples, besting BMW’s 63 devices of its connected luxurious electric sedan, the i7.

Production begins for Polestar 3, due in Australia by mid-2024

• Polestar has officially begun production in Chengdu, China, for its upcoming all-electric 3 SUV.

• The Polestar 3 will additionally be manufactured in South Carolina, USA, with the mannequin being the first of its form in Polestar historical previous to be produced on two continents.

• Australian-delivered Polestar 3s are anticipated to be produced at the Chinese language facility, and might per chance per chance also launch from $132,900 sooner than on-twin carriageway charges for the long-differ twin-motor variant.

• The Polestar 3 will come in Australia around the center of 2024, with potentialities encouraged by Polestar to sit down in and skills the three SUV at one amongst the imprint’s Areas showrooms in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

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