Edmunds highlights top car-tech trends from CES 2023 - WTOP

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CES (formerly known arsenic the Consumer Electronics Show) successful Las Vegas tends to showcase vehicles and exertion that are further retired than 1 mightiness find astatine a accepted car show. Edmunds attended this twelvemonth and reports connected the astir notable vehicles and what caller exertion car shoppers mightiness spot successful the coming years.

BMW’S TALKING CAR

BMW had 1 of the much forward-thinking concepts astatine CES. The one Vision Dee is simply a talking electrical sedan with an artificial quality that BMW says “will spell acold beyond the level of dependable power and operator assistance systems we are acquainted with today.”

The sanction “Dee” stands for Digital Emotional Experience. One notable diagnostic is an precocious head-up show that tin show operator accusation connected the afloat windshield astatine a basal level and is susceptible of projecting virtual world connected the windshield. BMW says the AI tin get excited erstwhile it sees you and tin explicit its temper via screens connected the beforehand grille.

If that wasn’t enough, the one Vison Dee is covered successful 240 e-ink panels, including the wheels, that let it to displacement colors astatine will. You tin person a purple car 1 time and a checkerboard signifier different day.

These whitethorn dependable similar far-fetched features, but BMW says these are existent products that are coming down the pipeline, starting successful 2025 and beyond.

HONDA AND SONY ARE HOOKED ON AFEELING

These 2 well-known brands are hoping to excite car shoppers with their caller associated task brand, Afeela. At CES, they showed disconnected their different unnamed prototype electrical midsize sedan. They didn’t supply immoderate important accusation astir scope oregon powerfulness but did accidental the sedan volition beryllium equipped with astir 45 cameras and sensors to springiness it a fig of automated driving features. Afeela besides promises “best successful people entertainment,” and it volition person a tiny show connected the grille to supply accusation to some pedestrians and the vehicle’s owner.

It is unclear however Afeela volition impact different upcoming electrical vehicles from Honda but preorders volition unfastened successful the archetypal fractional of 2025, with deliveries starting successful outpouring of 2026.

RAM’S ELECTRIC REVOLUTION

The Ram Revolution conception is simply a preview of what we mightiness expect to spot from the brand’s archetypal electrical pickup. Some of the much notable features see third-row leap seats, a retractable steering wheel, a solid extortion with the quality to set the shadiness of tint, and an 18-foot pass-through that allows for agelong items to beryllium placed from the furniture each the mode to the beforehand trunk.

Stellantis, Ram’s genitor company, didn’t remark connected the Revolution’s scope oregon power. Since this was a proof-of-concept prototype, immoderate of the Revolution’s high-tech features mightiness not spot production, but we’ll cognize much erstwhile the accumulation exemplary is revealed aboriginal this year. The Revolution is expected to spell connected merchantability sometime successful 2024.

VOLKSWAGEN DOUBLE DOWNS ON SEDANS

Volkswagen returned to CES aft a six-year hiatus to debut its archetypal electrical sedan, the ID.7. The ID.7 volition beryllium a important size; its 116.9-inch wheelbase is astir the aforesaid arsenic the Tesla Model S’. Volkswagen says the ID.7 has a scope of astir 435 miles, but that is based connected the European investigating cycle, truthful the fig volition disagree erstwhile it comes to the U.S.

The ID.7 boasts a fig of high-tech features specified arsenic a 15-inch touchscreen, digitally controlled aerial vents, and an augmented world head-up display. VW volition uncover the last accumulation mentation sometime successful the 2nd 4th of 2023.

VOLVO FOLLOWS AN HD MAP

The Volvo EX90 is simply a seven-seat electrical SUV that the institution calls a “highly precocious machine connected wheels.” Volvo says the EX90 volition person an estimated scope of astir 300 miles and an electrical centrifugal producing up to 496 horsepower. At CES, however, Volvo chiefly focused connected showing disconnected the EX90′s Google HD representation integration.

HD maps supply a greater level of item astir roadworthy landmarks and much to amended the consciousness the conveyance has of the road. When combined with the EX90′s suite of cameras, radars and sensors, the much elaborate maps let the SUV to person a much close knowing of its presumption connected the road. Volvo says the EX90 is equipped with each the exertion to alteration hands- and eyes-free driving. It won’t beryllium a diagnostic astatine launch, but Volvo says it volition alteration the diagnostic erstwhile it tin guarantee its safety.

Customers tin configure their EX90 starting this fall, but deliveries won’t statesman until aboriginal 2024.

EDMUNDS SAYS: We’re skeptical of immoderate of the autonomous driving claims being made since this remains a pugnacious seed to crack, but we’re excited astir high-tech trucks and color-changing assemblage panels that volition get successful the adjacent future.

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This communicative was provided to The Associated Press by the automotive website Edmunds.

Ronald Montoya is simply a contributor astatine Edmunds.