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CLA guys worked magic - the EV stuff is a bolt on to the ICE platform AND its frunk and battery are bigger than Ioniq.
For CLA, Trade off is in battery size, CLA has 92kwh battery which is 20kWh less than iX3 which is on dedicated EV platform.
CLA is most similar to 2026 ES where they modified TNGA-K ICE platform to do EV.
CH-R, Solterra, etc on the other hand are EV platform first - battery is structural and will have more passenger room than TNGA-K.
I'm always impressed by Lightning - despite modified ICE platform, they changed the crash structure enough to have the whole front part of the frunk open and multiple 120V power.
GM's frunk is quite a bit smaller and worse capability.
Rivian doesn't even do that.
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Last edited by AstulzerRZD; 02-18-2026 at 07:34 PM.
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