The Best New Electric Cars Coming in 2023

 between now late 2022 and the end of 2026 150 new cars will be introduced in the US

that have a plug pure battery electric or plug-in hybrid that's amazing think that's some kind of a record for Auto industry history in this country let's make it more manageable just want to talk about the ones that are coming out in 2023

that 111 be keeping an eye on in particular this isnt every single one but the ones that think are the most important to monitor the market

let's start with GM because they arguably have the most weight of announcements in 2023 beginning with the Cadillac lyric now this one is kind of a cheat on my list because its been slightly available at the very end of 22. it's really a 23 story it's the first GM car to use their new uitium battery platform they're making a huge bet on this it's a modular shrinkable expandable platform that can stick under anything in the future it's different than what's underneath the bolt and certainly what was underneath the volt they use pouch cells instead of cylindrical cells like almost everyone else uses and of course the magic will be in all kinds of patented technology they've got for good charging delivering actual range as stated and making sure the battery stays healthy and stable for a very long time of probably multiple owners all of that is part of what ultium is all about the lyric itself is a hot looking little thing that will bring the message think very credibly now yes altium's been attached to things like the coming so verado which we'll talk about in a minute or the Hummers which are pretty Niche but this one is a big bang both for Cadillac and GM

now Act 2 for ultium is arguably going to be the Chevy Equinox this one's really aimed at mainstream America it's a compact crossover that's the vehicle we love in this country that either looks great or tacky depending on the paint Scheme I'm not loving that two-tone blue and white thing but in other colors it's a sharp looker it'll start around 30 grand for its lowest base configuration that's with the smaller of two batteries that gets you 250 miles higher trim models can get you to 300 miles and critically 51 miles of range per hour when you're charging at home and I find that factor important because as people look to live with EVS not just imagine one itd be great if you can say you know what forgot to charge the car I'm about to get in the shower if plug it in now by the time leave I have all the mileage need for the day never mind a full battery that's a key understanding think a lot of people are going to come to and start to shop around (Music) okay now the new Chevy Blazer is often mentioned in the same breath as the Equinox but they're pretty different this is a bigger more stylish vehicle Chevy says based on the Camard's Inspirations that means it's kind of their answer to the rather successful Ford Mustang Mach e now note that its a completely different vehicle from the current gas burning thing that they call a Blazer this one will have 557 horsepower 648 pound-feet of torque 60 in under four seconds using what they call the wow mode and is expected to have between 247 and 300 miles of range depending on configuration by the way I'm not getting a lot into ranges in this story because almost everyone's in the same place low two to three more or less

now early in 23 will get the first variance of the electric Chevy Silverado this doesn't need any explanation does it between Silverado F-150 and think later in 24 electric Ram we really reset what was thought to be the most stubborn part of the car market to move to electrification and no longer think that's the case I think they're some of the biggest pent-up demand around electric pickup trucks a whole lot of variants are coming on the Silverado of course as there are on the gas engine one I can say this without getting into the Weeds on pricing it'll probably be higher than initially promised just as we've seen Ford's F-150 Lightning have two major price increases since introduction but for both of these I don't think

that dampens appeal just yet

okay Nissan Aria technically not qualified for my list because it's already on the market but the all-wheel drive versions will be arriving in 2023, this is from the company that brought us the Nissan Leaf and prior to Tesla they were the big bang brand around electrification of cars in terms of pure battery architecture so this is worth watching Nissan knows a bit about electric vehicles and the Aria is a good looker I never said that about the leaf [Music] now BMW's line of cars began with a bunch of weird oddballs the 13 little

Transportation Appliance the 18 pseudo Supercar since then

mean something completely different IX 14 17 it now means the mainstreaming of electrification across recognizable BMW form factors the 15 same thing it electrifies the 5 series now normally it's saying okay it's an electric sedan it's outside the bullseye of the American car market but with BMW it's a little different the three and the five are absolutely critical cars in terms of appeal sales and the image of the company they are literally legendary Vehicles so when you see a 5 series go electric its a bigger story than just a German sedan going electric this one's a little bit rumored and a little less concrete as of my taping today but we should see it in late 23. [Music] 23 is also going to bring us a dose of fun in electrification with the Dodge Hornet RT it's a good looking compact crossover right off the bat that in itself is not hard to find these days but Dodge says it's going to be the fastest quickest sub 30 thousand dollar compact utility that's a nice set of attributes simple understandable and compelling I think they've also got a cool gimmick it's called PowerShot you pull back on both paddles and stomp the paddle as understand it and you get 25 more horsepower for a 15 second burst it's just gonna be

cool but you know how many social videos are going to be done about this it's a built-in free marketing campaign foreign Hyundai only has one electric only name plate or model so far and it's the ionic 5 which we in through Bay Area style call hella impressive now they need to show if they can do it twice that will lead to the sonic 6 which has almost no visual relation whatsoever to the ionic five mean it's a very controversial whatsoever to the lonic tive mean it's a very controversial design looks to me like a Porsche Panamera had a collision with a Citron DS don't love it I'll be quite honest think it's kind of an odd and sort of an attractive looking thing however Hyundai has a track record as does Kia as does Genesis of surprising people who think they don't know what they're doing when it comes to style and taste and setting themselves apart this might be a sleeper hit

now the Kia eve is going to be exciting because it follows in the general footsteps of their wildly popular Kia Telluride they're not the same vehicle and The Styling is notably different in the details but the volumes and a lot of the cues say yeah this is the electric Telluride if that's what you've been looking for they say the car's style and shape was inspired by water have no idea what the hell that means but I do know this is going to be a vehicle that's going to take a footprint set by a surprisingly popular conventional SUV that snapped a lot of heads and step in there with a big battery [Music] next up are the Genesis electrified gv60 and gv70 now the gv60 just makes my list technically because it is shipping but it's really going to be a 23 story at volume svelte slick looking crossover that we give High kudos to now look at the electric version of the larger gv70 put those two together and you've got a tight one-two punch from a company that's getting taken quite seriously lately as a luxury Challenger as they call it

now Volvo is an interesting story they've been very aggressive on Alternate powertrains for a number of years now and yet they really only have one electric car the C40 recharge two variants of that and they're kind of overweight on plug-in hybrids of which they have an enormous number for a relatively small company that should be adjusted in 23 as they are expected to bring out a large utility that is pure electric let's say it's like an XC90 that's pure electric and believe and always have thought that Volvo's audience is one of the most accepting and ready for cars that are electric very sparse inside and have a technology message think they have an easier road then a lot of other brands

now the Mazda mx-30 is really interesting and needs some explanation this is a plug-in hybrid range extender that means it has a combustion engine and also a good size battery and you plug the thing in regularly but it's also using that

combustion engine not to drive the car directly or conventionally but to run a generator that creates more power to put into the batteries as you're driving essentially an updated Chevy Volt although they'll hate me saying that the key here is they're using a rotary engine as that combustion motor not an inline piston engine that's good because rotary engines are smoother smaller lighter quieter those are excellent attributes for a range extender engine that does electricity generation here's the downside most people don't know what a range extender is don't understand all the minutia I just explained to you and they're just going to want to ask about the bottom line figures of range charge cost now the Tesla cyber truck is kind of like a Twitter acquisition on Wheels you never really know what's happening with it but Elon Musk says it is coming out in 2023 this time assuming it does it is probably going to be Story number one around electric cars in 23. not because it's the most important vehicle but it'll be the most talked about fascinated debated and anticipated because it's no radical because it comes from such a successful electric car maker still don't think it has mass Market appeal but let's see what happens

while we're talking about hype got to mention that the Hummer electric SUV body style is coming out in 2023 and 1 find the Hummer electrics to be apropos of nothing it's just another vehicle that's going to have all kinds of hype without even getting out of bed in the morning so want to mention that it is coming out next year 

Toyota Prius Prime in 2023 and it has to do two things in my mind and I'm pretty sure it's going to one a radically different style that's a little more attractive no one ever looks at a Prius Prime and says oh nice looking car un no and it needs to step up its electric only range before the gas engine has to kick in to something closer to 40ish maybe 50 knowing Toyota because that means you've got a plug-in hybrid that can almost certainly handle all the daily driving for a large number of motorists and now you've got a very different proposition than the current 25 mile range plug-in hybrid Prius Prime Toyota knows how to do hybrids and plug-in hybrids they've got to nail this

believe it or not the Lexus RZ will be Lexus first pure electric

car I don't think realized that until went and looked over their

line again they don't actually have a pure battery electric unt

this one comes out in 23. It's a compact crossover that shares

underpinnings with the Toyota Buzz Forks which is bz4x1 can never remember and the Subaru soltere the RZ has that traditional handsome Lexus good look though the body does have more edges than your kitchen knife drawer inside they do have that prominent Central tablet but at least it's not that Spartan look of a prison cell around it the Lexus has a traditional would say cabin that has beautiful luxury touches and they promise a new high water mark of the interaction between dedicated steering wheel buttons and the head up display for things like vehicle status audio or media selection and navigation input and display look forward to seeing that [Music] car has a key introduction in 2023 it's called the pole star 3. the pole star one was kind of you know off the beaten path it was a large luxury sedan that was a plug-in hybrid fun then came the pole star 2 which is kind of this utility sedan looking thing that looks like it's not happy being that the pole star 3 is finally going to hit us with a nice mid-size utility Great Looks pure electric that's what I'm talking about and then a little later on