🥷🚘📦 Customers are receiving delivery of Lucid's blacked-out "Stealth" Air EVs. Year over year, deliveries were up 290% for the brand in Q1. Profits will surely increase as delivery of the $3,000 "Stealth" options continue to go out.
✅💰🕘 VinFast says it received 3000 reservations for its $23K VF 5 Plus EV SUV within nine hours of opening orders. Since hitting the US market, the company has cut prices to compete with Tesla. The Vietnamese company says the debut of its most affordable EV will help them attract new customers and overcome steep competition in a shifting market.
🏃♀️⛽️🔋 Toyota says it's updated its attitude toward the Chinese EV market from *wince* to *cringe*. The company revealed a collection of EVs as part of a plan to urgently reconnect with its customer base in China. They are not abandoning hybrids anytime soon. The Prius Prime plug-in will hit the US market in May as a more "practical electric vehicle."
🗓️📈⚡️ California has reached its 1.5M EV sales milestone two years ahead of schedule. The rapid success follows various incentive programs, infrastructure developments, and policy-making that have attracted automaker investment and consumer interest.