The Tesla Model Y is an electric car that looks like a small SUV and can carry six people. It's popular because it drives well, goes far on a single charge, and has cool features. People talk about it a lot because it helps make electric cars more common.
Front-wheel drive means the car's engine powers the front wheels to make it move. This can help the car grip the road better, especially in rain or snow.
The Zeekr 009 is a fancy electric van that can carry many people and has lots of luxury features. It’s made by a company from China and is for families who want a comfortable electric car. People talk about it because it’s a new kind of electric family car.
The Hyundai Ioniq 9 is a big electric car that will have space for many people and new technology. It’s made for families who want a large electric SUV. People mention it when talking about big electric cars coming soon.
The Kia EV9 is a big electric SUV that can carry many people and has lots of modern features. It’s designed for families who want a roomy electric car. People talk about it when comparing big electric SUVs.
The Hyundai Ioniq 5 is an electric car that looks modern and cool, with lots of space inside. It can charge quickly and is good for families. People talk about it when comparing electric cars that can carry more passengers.
The Volkswagen ID.3 is a small electric car that’s easy to drive and good for daily trips. It’s one of Volkswagen’s main electric cars and is popular in Europe. People talk about it because it’s a common electric car for regular people.
The Volkswagen ID Buzz is an electric van that looks like the old VW camper vans but runs on batteries. It's good for carrying people or stuff without using gas.
The Volkswagen ID.4 is an electric SUV that’s easy to drive and good for everyday use. It helps Volkswagen sell more electric cars to regular people. Many talk about it because it’s one of the popular electric SUVs.
The Volkswagen ID.7 is a bigger electric car that looks like a sedan and has a roomy inside. It’s made for people who want a comfortable electric car with good technology. People mention it when talking about new electric cars from Volkswagen.
The Renault 5 was a small, popular car many years ago in Europe. Now, Renault made a new electric version that looks like the old one but uses electricity instead of gas. People talk about it because it mixes old style with new technology.
The Renault 4 CV is an old, small car made a long time ago in France. It helped many people own cars after World War II. People mention it when talking about important cars from the past.
The Tesla Model 3 is a small electric car that many people buy because it’s cheaper than other Tesla models and drives well. Sometimes fewer people buy it in certain places, like Europe. It’s important because it helped make electric cars popular.
The Tesla Model S is a fancy electric car that can go very fast and travel a long distance without needing to recharge. It’s one of Tesla’s most popular and well-known cars. People watch how many are sold to see how well electric luxury cars are doing.
Public EV charging means places where anyone with an electric car can plug in and charge their car's battery. These spots help people drive electric cars without worrying about running out of power.
Electric vehicles are cars that run on electricity instead of gas. They use big batteries to power electric motors, which means they don’t pollute the air like regular cars.
Cars made in Japan that were sold in other countries, like the US. These cars were known for being reliable and using less gas.
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Australia approves the six-seat Model Y, MG hits a million, and VW tops Europe's charts.
Plus they tuned, because late from the show, I'll tell you about a mobile EV charging and roadside assistance vehicle
that builds high-powered DC fast charging right into the bed of the truck.
No EV News China today, as we do that weekdays, it'll return tomorrow morning.
Australia's road vehicle regulators approve the Tesla Model Y L for sale.
The green light landed on the 12th of February 10 days ago and surfaced publicly this weekend on Twitter.
The Model Y L adds a third row and brings seating for six.
Rover's approval covers both front-wheel and all-wheel drive variants.
Tesla's not confirmed the name it'll be in Australia, nor pricing, nor when it might arrive.
The Model Y L first broke cover in China last August with delivery starting in September.
In China it costs about $46,300 equivalent, that's $10,000 equivalent over the entry-level five-seat Model Y.
Tesla has already begun pushing the six-seat variant beyond China.
For instance, in December last year the Netherlands vehicle authority, the RDW, approved it.
A step that typically precedes a launch by a few months, though no date has been confirmed there either.
If Tesla brings the Model Y L to Australia, it'll go up against other expensive seven-seaters
like the Kia EV9, Hyundai Ioniq 9, Volvo EX90 and Zika 009.
Let's move on. MG Motor has chalked up one million customer deliveries in Europe.
The UK did much of the work with 386,000 deliveries here alone, more than any other European market for the brand.
The milestone cap say steady rebuild since MG re-entered the UK in 2011 with the MG6.
MG now sells in 34 European markets and works through 1,300 dealerships.
Sales momentum is still solid. MG's European sales reached 300,000 units last year,
up 30% year-on-year from 2024. Electric products drive a slice of the volume as well.
MG's delivered 317,000 BEVs across Europe to date.
MG4 cast as the stand-out BEV model, but the best seller for MG remains the MG ZS.
In all its various powertrain guises, almost half a million of those sold.
I owned a first-gen MG ZS EV, the mighty, mighty MG ZS.
Actually, I kind of miss that vehicle. It was kind of frustrating in so many ways
because they've improved the MG so much, but back then, mine was a 2019, 2018.
It had quirks that I didn't love, and sometimes I love quirks in cars,
and this one had ones I didn't, but I miss it when I'm sold it.
I kind of miss it. It would be great to still have that car
because I'd be a little less precious about all the stuff the kids throw at it.
And boy, did that take all of the kids' stuff.
I mean, maybe we only had the one when we had that MG.
But big boot, loads of space, got the job done, and I always like driving it as well.
Always felt fun to drive. All right, let's move on to VW.
Starting the year as Europe's top-selling electric car brand in January,
VW took the number one spot on just shy of 20,000 pure-bear registrations.
The figures come from Data Force, and they're pretty complete.
98% of the volume in the European Union and the UK and the EFTA countries as well.
Only Portugal and Bulgaria hadn't fully finalized January's data, but otherwise it's all in.
VW's volume spread across the ID3, which led the way.
ID4 then ID7, IDBuzz followed up.
Renault jumped into the number two spot with the Renault 5, E-Tech,
generating the most registrations followed by the Scenic, E-Tech, the McGanee, E-Tech, and the Renault 4.
Scotta climbed six spots to third with success from the LROC and ENIAC,
and further down BYD climbed six positions to eighth from fourteenth.
Tesla moved the other way in January.
It fell six places to tenth in the market as volume dropped down to just over 7,500 units.
The Model 3 slid to just over 1,000 Model 3s sold in all of Europe, EU, UK, EFTA countries,
which is down from 3,500 on the same month last year.
The data pointed to intensifying competition, hitting Tesla in exactly the segment,
the mid-sized segments in which they sell their vehicles now that the SNE-X are going,
as data from the United Kingdom and Germany both show
that potential buyers were pushed to competing brands by Tesla's chief executive,
publicly supporting far-right extremists in those countries.
As for how the numbers affect the tightened clean air regulations,
automakers can spread compliance over a three-year emissions window
as EU targets tighten January mark the start of year two.
Most automakers join emissions pools, but BMW and Renault didn't.
No emissions pools have been announced yet from 2026,
where those that have excess credits that sell only EVs can trade with other car companies,
cheaper than paying the fines for them to sell some credits
and join together and pool together.
Now, Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation, the Penn DOT,
which would be cool, has launched the community charging phase
of the federal NEVI program.
Now that the federal judges have ordered the illegal restriction
of the NEVI funds by Trump early on in the presidency,
that went through the court system for almost a year.
We got those preliminary rulings last year, last summer, a long time ago,
and then a federal judge recently kind of rubber-stamped that
and said, no, it's not the job of the whim of a president
to stop money the Congress has approved.
That's not how democracy works, so you can go and spend the money now.
So 100 million going into public EV charging across the state.
Penn DOT will roll the money out by region.
Southeastern Pennsylvania gets the first 34 million,
covering Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties.
Western Pennsylvania follows from April.
Eastern and Central regions come last from August onwards.
Local transport planning agencies will set site priorities.
Any publicly accessible location can apply.
The Penn DOT has also launched a matchmaking survey.
What that will do is link interested organizations with charging station builders
and operators that can put the application in joint.
The community charging pot builds on $54 million that the Penn DOT
had already committed to public charging under NEVI.
Pennsylvania got round to delivering 29 NEVI funded stations before it was halted.
There are 54 in planning and construction right now, which can go ahead.
The first NEVI funded site was opened in December 2023
since then drivers logged 80,000 charging stations across their NEVI funded network.
Now, if a plug-in hybrid is for you,
then JQ, another Chinese brand under Cherry,
has unveiled the largest vehicle so far for Europe.
That's the JQ-8, the SHS.
They call it Super Hybrid System.
It's not a lot super about it to be honest with you.
They say it'll charge the battery when it needs to
and it can run in electric mode only.
That's just called being a plug-in hybrid, but anyway.
I don't want to spoil their party.
They call it the Super Hybrid System, but still.
It pushes deeper into Europe after the JQ's seven success
and the JQ-5 as well.
I know it's only anecdotal,
but I do tend to see a lot of JQ's in a motors around
and maybe I'm just looking out for interesting EVs
that are a little bit out of the ordinary.
But over the last year, I keep seeing them driving around
and the finance deals are good.
I think they do 0% finance on those, which is very attractive.
At 4.8 metres long, that's almost 16 feet,
the JQ-8 aims at large family plug-in hybrids
like the Hyundai Santa Fe and Volkswagen's Tayron.
Europe gets one trim level.
It's called the Exclusive Trim.
And as you can imagine, these Chinese cars are loaded
with gadgets and gizmos.
And all the tech, panoramic roof, 20-inch wheels,
full LED lighting, dual 12.3-inch screens,
head-up display, a nice Sony audio system,
leather seats with massage, ventilation,
heating in the first and second rows.
I'm not buying this. I'm not getting my kids massage seats.
What? I don't like them that much.
Buyers can also choose a seven-seat layout
with independent third-row adjustment
and added comfort features.
The powertrain is a 1.5-litre engine
and three electric motors.
34.46 kilowatt-hour.
We'll call it 35 kilowatt-hour, probably.
Battery. WLTP range, 83 miles.
Look, if you plug the thing in every night,
I'm not a fan of plug-in hybrids,
but if you do use it like that
and plug it in every night,
and I don't do 83 miles a day ever,
apart from for special reasons anymore
now that I work from home,
that would be a zero-emission vehicle.
And in fact, the car is a zero-emission classification
because the battery is big enough
to grant it unrestricted access to
many of the zero-emission zones,
congestion-charged zones
that are springing up in European cities.
Order book's open next month in March.
Customer deliveries in April.
Now, let's talk about Subaru
and a company called Easy.
Completing an off-grid EV charging pilot
in Canada's Northwest Territories,
charging a Subaru Salterra off-grid.
They used four portable solar panels,
links to battery storage,
and the inverter.
The trial ran in February
when daylight is scarce.
Even so, the system delivered 25%
of the output of a standard
7 kilowatt home or public charger.
The pilot was to test smart charging,
renewable generation,
and storage on a micro-scale,
working together to power electrification
in a very remote location
and for off-grid communities.
And that matters in a region where Arctic warming
is running at
three times the global average.
And it's causing wild swings in weather.
Recent wildfires and drought
add pressure on communities that rely
still heavily on imported fossil fuels.
Local leaders watched the trial
and are exploring how clean energy
and EVs with a bit of storage
and renewable generation
improve resilience, citing the region's
strong solar potential.
We'll take a break, we'll come back
and we'll talk Sao Paulo
and what's happening in the U.S. auto industry.
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Let's go to Brazil.
São Paulo's state law 18403
took effect two days ago.
It gives apartment owners in São Paulo
state the right to fit
individual EV charging stations
in their own parking spaces
parking areas that sit in a common
use space
even if those common use spaces get
assigned to an individual
unit or I'd call them
flats or apartments
even when it's
classified as a private area.
Now that carve out matters because many condominiums
built in recent decades in Brazil
use the common use parking model.
EV charging disputes in those buildings
have been going on.
They're set to carry on as well with no clear legal
insight for now real estate developments
in São Paulo whose project
win approval after the law takes effect
must build in minimum electrical
supply capacity for future
EV charging at the point of building
the executive branch will set
the technical specs for that requirement.
All right, let's move on. Now this is an
interesting article I saw in The Verge.
Now The Verge is a very well
regarded tech website
and outlet that does, you know, writes about
science and AI and many more things as well
and they penned a really interesting
article that caught
my eye because
it was in contradiction to a thing that I've talked
about recently a couple of times
where, you know, clearly America
because of the political situation
has backed away from electric vehicles
and I've said a couple of times I don't
believe that America
is going to become this kind of stagnant
place where EVs
just simply don't exist
because I don't think it's how technology
works. Once it gets
invented, if China has
cars that charge at a thousand kilowatts
well then look, Europe's putting in a thousand
kilowatt charges and all of a sudden you've got
BMW and Mercedes and more, all
releasing cars that charge at four, five hundred
kilowatts and so
someone's always going to lead. But once
a thing has been invented in the world
you can't un-invent it. We're not going
back to the dark ages just yet.
And so when The Verge wrote their piece
which I noticed titled
America is at risk of becoming
an automotive backwater
they published this two days ago
an author called Andrew J. Hawkins
wrote this
I thought it was interesting to talk about because
this is in contradiction to what I've said
recently. I won't
read the article out but I'll briefly
tell you what it talks about. They go back
to the 1970s where they say that Detroit's
latest wobble
whilst it is self-inflicted can be traced
back to the fuel crises
of the 70s which allowed
reliable, efficient
Japanese imports
which harmed the US auto industry
then when Detroit got around to making EVs
seriously they were behind
the likes of Tesla and the startups
that had much better polished
software and they often built their
EVs on combustion platforms
and many had missteps
as well and made some bad cars
or priced them at, frankly, prices
that Americans balked at. And so
Ford booked a 20 billion
write-down, GM took
7.6 billion charge, Stellantis 26
billion charge, combined
over 50 billion in charges and write-downs
things like compensating
supplies for contracts and
factories that would no longer be needed and things like
that and then the dealers add drag
in America. Very powerful dealer lobby
the network profits from servicing combustion
and some of those in
America's dealer network work hard
to undermine the EV shift
and not all do. Washington
then
if you like the final
nail in the coffin was Washington
and Trump eliminating the $7,500
federal tax credit
rolling back federal emissions rules
challenging California's right to set
its own emissions clean air
standards telling the EPA
to rescind the endangerment finding
that's the very legal cornerstone
that recognizes
emissions rules and so without that
place with the endangerment finding
gone now automakers face
no federal emission standards no
fines for non-compliance and no
no paying Tesla to buy some
of their clean credits anymore
and so the US
no longer has emission standards
of any substance or meaning and
no other countries
no other developed countries large economies
have zero
emission standards and so
the verge make a good point and they argue against
the point which is I don't believe America
becomes a backwater I believe America
will catch up and so
China is what a 50%
Europe the big car
markets here UK Germany France
25 30% depending on
which month you look at pure Bev
China can be 60% some months
obviously got Sweden 65%
Denmark 68%
Norway almost 100% pure Bev
but analysts argue that automakers
that use this current
breathing room of
regulatory
to abandon the investment
will ultimately risk the final
collapse they will be swept aside by
those that are carrying on their
R&D and their the EV
investments and the Chinese
competition aren't going to go
away we're coming into Canada
at 50,000 cars a year now
that lower tariff rate they're already
BYD's all over Mexico
they're on America's borders
I think I still stick to my point
I don't see how America becomes
an EV
backwater so I understand
the other side of the argument as well and that's a
deep deep shame for the many
Americans that are that are
forward-thinking I want to move to this
wonderful new technology that the rest
of the world is
is not only embracing
but moving towards at a breakneck
speed oh well we'll wait and see how it
all shakes out now finally
California's L charge
is an off-grid charging company
they've launched their new mobile EV charging
assistance vehicle that builds high-powered DC
charging into the back of a truck
L charge says that they make full use
of the bed for standard service kit
and they don't have to
tow an EV charger around
it sends on a 60 kilowatt
DC fast charger
they say it's a compact unit that relies
on the vehicle's onboard power takeoff
not sure how it fully works
but obviously it's a gas truck that's
you know burning fuel
L charge says the system
needs no batteries
and works off grid and it can add up to
50 miles of range in 10 minutes
and that's important because if for any
reason a vehicle does need to be
charged well towing
it can be quite expensive and it also
has some considerations in EV as well
and recharging
the vehicle is often just
the simplest solution
and so they say
saves fleets money many thousands
of dollars and it's
preempts
having to tow an EV if you can add a bit of
charge and see if it can make it under its
own steam if it has just run out
of charge. I don't really
see EV stranded
by the roadside I'm not driving past thousands
of EVs on my journeys of people
who've run out of charge and I don't really hear about
I see it on the forums or Reddit or
I don't see it on social
media people going oh I can't believe I run out
of charge but obviously it's a business case
and they must come across it in California
and so they're doing that with an
integrated unit all in one
truck without having to pull
big heavy kind of battery
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About this episode
Australia has approved the six-seat Tesla Model Y, expanding options for larger EV families. MG Motor celebrates one million European deliveries, with strong sales in the UK and a focus on electric models like the MG4 and ZS. Volkswagen leads Europe's EV market in January, while Tesla faces declining sales amid growing competition and controversy. Pennsylvania advances its public EV charging infrastructure with $100 million from the NEVI program. Additionally, Chinese brand JQ introduces a large plug-in hybrid for Europe, and Subaru completes an off-grid EV charging pilot in Canada using solar power.
