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It's EV news briefly for Saturday, August 23rd.

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Kia will make the EV2 at its plant in Europe in Slovakia, starting in February.

Told you this week that the EV4 hatchback version started on August 20th.

Now, confirmation the EV2 will also be made over here in Europe.

European plug-in sales surged in July, doing really well.

Who did well?

The Chinese makers in Europe were strong, but growing more slowly.

Cherry was up and BYD was up, though.

Tesla was down 37%.

I'm sure they'd love to see a turnaround in their business

in the second half of the year.

Volkswagen Group leading the Euro market up 12%.

Tesla's six-seat Model Y L may not come to the US for a while.

And if ever, the CEO taking to Twitter to say the Model Y variant wouldn't be

produced in the US until next year, if at all, because self-driving technology

makes it obsolete, but didn't explain how self-driving technology means

that somebody wouldn't want to buy the six-seat version of the Model Y

in the United States.

I think that's a really, really good form factor.

Longer wheelbase on that vehicle.

It's physically longer by a foot with a proper third row.

Not quite a Model X, but the Model Y L, I think,

would sell really well in Europe and the US.

Tesla faces a federal audit over a delay in their crash reports.

The NHTSA now investigating Tesla

into why they're taking so long to do what they have to do with him.

I think it's one to five days they're meant to deliver a report

where their self-driving technology is involved.

This is taking months at a time.

Tesla say it's a data collection issue.

Tesla's facing a class-action lawsuit.

A judge this week, US District Judge Rita Lin,

giving the go-ahead for a class-action lawsuit.

Those claim that the CEO made for eight years claims

about the self-driving technology at Tesla,

which, let's say, rather overregged the pudding,

suggesting it could do more than it can,

and also that cars on sale since October 2016

had all the hardware needed for full self-driving technology.

Mercedes is going to bring forward

the launch of their E-Class successor, the EQE sedan.

It's going to come in 2027 on a new platform,

and it's following next year's refresh to the EQE.

To make it a little bit more,

a little more E-Class-like,

which is what the buyers of those vehicles

really want a three-box sedan.

China's oldest car maker, FAW,

is getting 10% of the Leap motor

and suggesting that other state-owned car makers

are going to be supporting startups.

More and more,

Tota's BZ4X gets a £6,000 price cut in the United Kingdom.

It brings it £5 under the £37,000 threshold

to now qualify for the UK's car grant incentive,

either £1,500 or £37.50 off a new electric vehicle.

Electric vehicle growth accelerates in Turkey,

300,000 registered EVs there now.

You won't be surprised to hear that TOG, TOWG,

the domestic car maker,

is the second biggest EV brand in the country.

Australia Post has about 5,000 EVs around Australia,

now adding 36 new Mercedes-Benz EV toes

in the largest single trial of electric vans.

EV charging is going to peak over the weekend.

We have a bank holiday here on Monday.

BP Pulse is saying best times to avoid, if you can,

9-11 in the mornings and 6-8pm in the evenings

when the network gets the busiest

as people take a few more journeys,

up 5% road users over the bank holiday weekend.

NIO confirming that they are upping the stakes

in terms of their legal action against people

that say things online, social media,

that defames brands like NIO and Envo,

of course, whether you say something

in a newspaper, a television station, a podcast

or your Twitter account, it's still publishing

and you can still get in trouble if you lie.

And Nicola's hydrogen trucks have been picked up,

113 of them for just $4 million

by an Austin company that runs them, and that's briefly.

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Briefly | 23 Aug 2025

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