Car news today: Electric Vehicle Council criticises Coalition promise, Volkswagen’s third-gen Tiguan pricing and specs, and more – 14 April 2025

Thanks for becoming a member of us this Monday, April 14th 2025. Notably in vehicle news on the present time: Australian Electric Automobile Council outraged at claims from LNP, Volkswagen prices third-generation Tiguan.

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• Electric Automobile Council slams Coalition for “Toothless” vehicle efficiency requirements
• ‘All new’ Volkswagen Tiguan pricing and specs printed
• Mitsubishi rumoured to accomplice with smartphone manufacturer to provide an EV
• MG teases expansive, boxy SUV with LandCruiser Prado physique lines

Electric Automobile Council slams Coalition for “Toothless” vehicle efficiency requirements

• The Electric Automobile Council has criticised guarantees from the federal Coalition, which it claims will greatly weaken the Contemporary Automobile Efficiency Fashioned (NVES) Act. The NVES is a regulatory physique which sets limits on CO2 emissions from new autos. Manufacturers are fined for exceeding these limits.

• The opposition celebration is taking a watch to abolish the fines vehicle manufacturers obtain for exceeding CO2 emission limits on new autos. Electric Automobile Council CEO Julie Delvecchio claims that the NVES received’t work without a credit rating and penalty machine.

• Delvecchio claims that doing away with penalties from the NVES will “prevent Australians from saving money on the bowser” in conjunction with that fuel ambiance pleasant and EV autos would “slice costs” for Australian’s by “as a lot as $3,000 yearly”.

• The NVES Act went into discontinuance on January 1st 2025 and may perchance per chance well presumably restful be enforceable in June (if Labour maintains federal govt energy), with Delvecchio claiming that it’s blueprint to “keep Australians $114 billion in fuel and repairs savings”. She furthered that “scrapping fines (will construct Australia) a dumping floor for the area’s unwanted, fuel-guzzling, inefficient autos.

‘All new’ Volkswagen Tiguan pricing and specs printed

• Volkswagen’s third-generation Tiguan is made up our minds to begin imminently in Australia, and facets a wealth of within technology upgrades, red meat up for price new adaptive dampers, and greater-output engines.

• The injurious mannequin 110TSI Existence is priced at $44,990 before on-motorway costs – a $1000 upward thrust over the earlier generation in response to VW Australia. Fashioned equipment now involves 19-proceed alloy wheels, a higher 12.9-proceed infotainment machine, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, energy tailgate, and surround-test digital camera.

• Topping the 2025 Tiguan differ is the flagship 195TSI R-Line for $70,490 – a third generation Tiguan R has no longer but been introduced. The 195TSI R-Line produces 195kW/400Nm, and claims a  0-100km/h time of 5.9 seconds.

• Despite being supplied in world markets, Australia will as soon as againmiss out on a hybrid variant of the Tiguan, on the least for now. Key competitors in conjunction with the Toyota RAV4 and Hyundai Tucson each provide on the least one hybrid variant.

Mitsubishi rumoured to accomplice with smartphone manufacturer to provide an EV

• Taiwanese manufacturer of the iPhone, Foxconn, will birth a exact EV to the Australian market. The crossover liftback is developed under the Foxconn automotive sub-price ‘Foxtron’, and may perchance per chance well presumably restful be wearing Mitsubishi badges.

• Foxtron chief approach officer Jun Seki divulged the firm’s plans to work with an “unnamed” Jap manufacturer, which changed into as soon as reported to be Mitsubishi by plenty of Jap publications. The ‘Mannequin B’ is rumoured to come assist to Australia in the first half of 2026.

• If world hypothesis about the Foxtron-Mitsubishi partnership is good, it couldn’t come at a bigger time for the Jap automaker. Mitsubishi is but to raise an EV to Australia, and rigidity is mounting with new NVES regulations.

• The Foxtron ‘Mannequin B’ made its first world appearance in 2022 on the Taiwan Hon Hai Tech Day. It facets Pininfarina styling, a 60kWh battery, claimed 500km differ and a sequence of either one or two electric motors.

MG teases expansive, boxy SUV with LandCruiser Prado physique lines

• MG will unveil a new elephantine-electric SUV dubbed the “Cyber X” at this three hundred and sixty five days’s Shanghai motor portray, opening to the media on April 23. MG has described the Cyber X as a “groundbreaking innovation”, which is at risk of make employ of E3 electric structure.

• The E3 modular EV platform, developed by MG guardian firm SAIC Motors, facets semi-solid-convey batteries, which guarantees to raise longer differ, higher battery density, and faster charging when when in contrast with earlier platforms.

• While it’s unconfirmed if the Cyber X might be electric, MG’s electric Cyberster efficiency sportscar is the correct diversified mannequin to don the ‘Cyber’ prefix. A expansive center of attention on futuristic LED brightwork and absence of cooling machine ventilation brings credibility to this hypothesis.

• The MG Cyber X is one among eight autos to be rolled out in MG’s two-three hundred and sixty five days product offensive, which has a heavy electric influence. While this rollout is targeted on the Chinese market, it’s possible Australia may perchance per chance well presumably also see almost all these future items.

The next grunt of Automobile Recordsdata Lately might be printed on Tuesday 15th April at 4.30pm Sydney time.