The Genesis GV60 Magma Edition is a powerful electric car that has two motors and can produce a lot of horsepower. It's designed to compete with other luxury performance cars.
BMW M is a special part of BMW that makes their fastest and sportiest cars. They are designed for people who love to drive.
Car
T03
The Leap Motor T03 is a small electric car made for city driving. It's meant to be affordable and easy to use in crowded areas, but it hasn't sold very well so far.
The Peugeot 408 is a car model that has been redesigned to look more modern and include new technology. It's a type of SUV that offers good space and comfort.
The EMP2 platform is a type of base structure used to build cars. It helps manufacturers create different models using the same basic design, making production easier and more efficient.
The STLA platform is a new type of base structure for cars that helps make them more efficient and adaptable for different types of engines, including electric ones.
Vehicle to load means that the car can provide electricity to other devices. For example, you could use it to charge your phone or power a small appliance.
Car
Skoda Peak
The Skoda Peak is a new SUV that can fit seven people. It's designed for families and has a spacious interior.
The Kia EV9 is a new electric SUV that has three rows of seats, which means it can carry a lot of passengers. It's part of Kia's effort to make more electric cars.
The Hyundai Ioniq 9 is a new electric SUV that Hyundai is making. It's part of their line of electric cars and is meant to compete with other similar vehicles.
The Tesla Model Y is a smaller electric SUV that can carry a lot of people. Tesla is making a version that has seven seats for families.
Car
Honda NE1
The Honda NE1 is a small electric car made by Honda, mainly for city driving. It's part of a category called K cars, which are tiny and efficient vehicles popular in Japan.
K cars are tiny cars in Japan that are made to be small and economical. They follow special rules about how big they can be and how powerful their engines can be.
Alloy wheels are special wheels made from a mix of metals that are lighter and stronger than regular steel wheels. They can make a car look nicer and help it perform better.
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Genesis has unfailed the GV60 Magma Edition,
a 650 horsepower dual motor Halo EV
that launches the Magma performance sub brand
to rival AMGs and BMWMs.
The car trades ultimate range and long distance
for things like design refinement and also sportiness.
Price positioning that will squarely establish
the GV60 Magma as a premium player in Europe
and the United States around $75,000.
Leap motor is fast tracking a refresh,
a second generation of its T03 tiny city car,
a segment vehicle, after somewhat muted sales,
exposed the limits of cheap Chinese EV cars
coming into Europe.
The reboot overhauls design, cabin and software,
and hoping that a more European focused T3
at still 16 grand or less can arrive
before new entrants make it look dated.
Peugeot has ditched the pure combustion version
of its 408 and updated the range
on its E408.
Using the older EMP2 platform,
not the newer STLA stuff from Stellantis,
they've added vehicle to load,
a tidy, a techier, fastback SUV shape as well
that charges at okay speeds
and offers good practicality and polish as well.
It looks a good car, this.
The Skoda Peak PEAQ.
Obviously Skoda car names have Q in them.
The Peak is their new seven seater.
This is gonna be their most expensive model,
more so than the Eniac.
On the MEB platform, it's gonna be a three row seven seater,
but a lot less money than a Kia EV9
or a Hyundai Enic 9 or a Volvo EV90, sorry, EX90.
Tesla is adding a seven seat version of the Model Y
in the United States,
but not the one that everyone was calling for.
This is not the Model Y L, the longer wheelbase,
proper three row car that the Chinese get.
This is just some folds down third row seats
for a two and a half thousand dollar option
refreshed in the US for the Model Y,
which is fine for people that don't have legs.
There really is no room back there to actually sit in them.
However, they've also done some other tweaks
like put the new dark headliner in to the US cars
and that's a good update
because it looked way, way better.
Honda has priced their new Super 1 EV.
This is the little Honda NE1 car that is in Japan.
Rolling out in Singapore, this will make you smile.
It's a little 30 kilowatt hour, K car, 70 kilowatts,
little 15 inch dinky alloy wheels
and some round headlights, so cute.
But it costs the equivalent of 140,000 US dollars
because of their rationing of their certificates
to put cars on the road over there.
That's S class money for a tiny car.
Chinese brands doubled their UK market share
in December last year to 18.2% MG Cherry BYD,
all powering a 50% sales jump.
Britain's refusal to copy the European Union's
additional tariffs make the UK a really interesting
experimental market for Chinese to roll into.
Prague is going to set some hard deadlines
to go electric with their taxi fleet.
Many Chinese cities did this years ago.
It works really well.
Ride hailing rules and taxi fleets
mean that Prague's taxi fleet has grown
from about 3,000 vehicles a decade ago to 16,000 cabs.
Now they're already old and they're dirty.
The old Euro four, Euro five rules.
And so setting a hard deadline of 2030
for any taxi or ride hailing vehicle
to be all electric in Prague.
That's a really good idea.
And finally, could this be an example
of politicians getting something right?
Here we have a really unfair system.
If I charge at home, I pay 5% VAT tax.
If I charge publicly, literally down the road,
I have to pay 20%.
And for people who don't have home charging,
whose apartment blocks don't let them have charges,
it's simply unfair.
The government has refused to look at this issue.
But new reports today say that ministers
are now seriously considering cutting the public charging rate
to make things equitable and fair.
And so they should.
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About this episode
Genesis unveils the GV60 Magma Edition, a powerful 650-horsepower EV aimed at the premium market. Leapmotor is refreshing its T03 city car to better compete in Europe. Peugeot updates its E408 with new features while Skoda introduces the PEAQ, a seven-seater at a competitive price. Tesla adds a seven-seat option for the Model Y, though not as spacious as expected. Honda's new EV in Japan comes with a hefty price tag. The episode also discusses the rise of Chinese brands in the UK market and Prague's push for an all-electric taxi fleet by 2030.
It's EV News Briefly for Tuesday 13 January 2026, everything you need to know in less than 5 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show.
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