DAILY: Lucid Bets On Small SUV, Trump Defeated Over Charging and Jaguar Confusion | 26 Jan 2026
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The BMW iX1 is a new electric SUV from BMW. It's designed to be efficient and practical, perfect for people who want an environmentally friendly vehicle.
Lucid Motors is a company that makes luxury electric cars. They are known for their high-tech features and long driving range, especially with their model called the Lucid Air.
Level four autonomy means that a car can drive itself without needing a person to take control in certain situations. It's very advanced and can handle most driving tasks on its own.
A robotaxi is a self-driving taxi that can pick you up and take you to your destination without needing a human driver. It's like a regular taxi, but it drives itself.
The Lucid Gravity is a new electric SUV that will be made by a company called Lucid Motors. It's important because it's part of a trend of fancy electric cars that are becoming more popular.
An E-rev is a car that uses both a small gasoline engine and an electric motor. The gasoline engine helps charge the battery so the car can drive longer distances without running out of electricity.
A Grand Tourer is a type of car made for long trips, focusing on comfort and speed. They are usually luxurious and can carry more people and luggage than regular sports cars.
400 miles of range means the electric car can drive up to 400 miles before needing to be charged again. It's an important feature for people who want to travel long distances without stopping to recharge.
A range extender is a small engine in an electric car that helps charge the battery while driving, allowing the car to go further before needing to be plugged in.
The Dodge Charger is a big car that looks sporty and can go really fast. It's popular because it combines a cool design with a lot of power, making it fun to drive.
An 18-wheeler is a big truck that has 18 wheels. It's often used to carry large loads across the country.
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Ford F-Line E
The Ford F-Line E is a new electric truck from Ford that will help transport goods in cities and regions, making deliveries easier and more environmentally friendly.
A kilowatt hour is how we measure energy. If you have a battery that can store 98 kilowatt hours, it means it can power something that uses one kilowatt of energy for 98 hours.
Rest breaks are times when drivers stop to take a break from driving. For truck drivers, these breaks are important to stay safe and not get too tired while on the road.
Virtual off-roading guides are tools that help drivers know what to expect on off-road trails. They give information about the terrain and obstacles before the driver even starts driving.
A V4 supercharger is a new type of charging station for Tesla cars that can charge them very quickly. It helps you get back on the road faster by providing more power to the car's battery.
Kilowatts are a way to measure how much power something uses or produces. In charging stations, it tells you how quickly they can charge an electric car's battery.
The Tesla Cybertruck is a new type of electric truck that looks very different from regular trucks. It's made by Tesla and is designed to be tough and useful for many tasks.
Test EV is a company that checks how well electric car batteries are working. This helps car owners know if their battery is still good.
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Welcome back to EV News Daily.
Today, Lucid bets on a small SUV,
Trump is defeated over charging,
and Jaguar's confusion, plus stay tuned
because later in the show,
I'll tell you where Tesla just lit up
their second true V4 Supercharger.
On EV News, China.
Earlier today, I was talking about the BMW iX1 arriving,
the Yang Wang EV that'll do over 1,000 kilometers
on battery power, and China denying Tesla FSD.
Let's get into it.
Lucid Motors has just built its first prototype
of a new mid-size SUV.
They did it at their Arizona plant,
and this vehicle's aimed squarely
at the $50,000 bracket.
That puts the crossover 20,000 less
than the current entry-level air.
Production is due by the end of the year.
The car matters more than its simple price.
Lucid casts the SUV as the very future of the company.
It's moved into high-volume segments.
It has to halt losses.
It lost $978 million in Q3,
but shares rose after the Saudi Arabian
Public Investment Fund confirmed ongoing support.
The new model will follow the principles
of existing Lucids.
So, space, efficiency, dynamics, big range.
That's all good.
Yet the firm now stresses manufacturability,
cost efficiency, a shift from its earlier,
more rare-refied, perhaps a little more hand-built offerings.
Production is confirmed for Lucid's Saudi plant as well,
and a new mid-size platform underpinning the crossover
will then spawn three future SUVs,
including one with an off-road tilt.
All will use NVIDIA's Drive AGX Thor computing system,
which Lucid targets at level four autonomy
and robotaxi use down the road.
The teaser image shows a low-slung shape
like a gravity SUV in its shape.
Lucid plans to unveil its third EV model
sometime around middle of this year.
Perhaps there's an investor day in March.
They might talk more about their strategy then.
Okay, a federal judge just ruled
that the Trump administration broke the law
when it halted funding for America's EV charging network.
The decision restores the money
under the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure,
NEVY program, a $5 billion pillar
of infrastructure investment.
This was signed in 2021.
US district judge, Tanya Lin,
sided with 20 states and the District of Columbia,
which sued after the DOT suspended the money in February.
She held that the DOT
and the Federal Highway Administration
had flouted law when they froze the program
and tried to treat the funding pause as a temporary measure.
The statute, she said,
does not allow stops and starts.
The ruling matters for two reasons.
It locks in federal backing and it constrains
a trigger-happy White House
that makes no secret of its preference
for petrol over EVs.
Judge Lin's order permanently bars the DOT
from ever withdrawing funds
or cancelling previously approved plans.
That gives new certainty to the states
which sued in May last year.
We had a preliminary ruling anyway,
which was along the same lines as this.
Environmental groups hailed the judgment as vital
to keep infrastructure projects on track.
The fight continues.
Legislation pending in the Senate
would divert $880 million
from NEVY's EV charging budget to other work.
The court has blocked the administration
from shutting down the program by stealth.
The Congress has the ability to shrink it in plain sight.
Now Jaguar is all in on battery power,
according to their words.
Yet the firm is reportedly exploring
an E-rev, a petrol-electric hybrid.
Now this is a claim made by the Sunday Times yesterday,
which is incredibly confusing.
They say in the setup,
a small petrol engine works as a generator
to charge a battery.
You and I know that.
They also call them Reeves,
our EEV when they're called E-revs.
So already the reporting, the writing, the editing
is showing a little bit of naivety around the topic.
So that's why I'm confused
why the Sunday Times have written this.
Electric motors drive the wheels, they point out.
Backers say this stretch is the real-world range of EVs
without relying on public chargers.
Yes, but you do have to go to the petrol pump
and spend lots of money on fossil fuels.
The interest in E-revs, or Reeves,
as they insist on calling them, are EEVs,
that follows a rough spell.
Jaguar's push for an EV-only future drew public backlash.
There was a cyber-attack,
attack management churn has not helped things.
The first test will come in the summer.
Jaguar will unveil their new electric model,
a Grand Tourer priced up to £140,000,
fresh from cold weather trials
and they want to target 400 miles of range.
Now, this is designed in a way with a huge bonnet
that a range extender could easily be packaged
in there somewhere
and that would easily beat 400 miles of real-world range
if you were still burning fossils.
But it would be a curious U-turn for a brand
that's been so insistent on going electric.
And Jaguar has certainly had a series of missteps
over recent years and now he's under new leadership.
This would be a very, very odd thing for them to do.
But other car makers are doing it.
We see it with the Ram Charger
and General Motors Ford,
all talking about how they want to reintroduce engines
to their electric vehicles.
E-Revs have gained ground in China, as you know,
where some models claim more than 600 miles of range,
says the Sunday Times.
Yeah, a lot more, actually.
Some E-Revs are claiming 1,400, 1,500, 1,800 kilometers
when you put both power sources together.
So it's a curiously written piece,
oddly sourced because they don't name the source
and it's a very confusing claim to make.
If it's true, that's a big U-turn by Jaguar,
but I'm not sure I believe this one.
I've been wrong in the past, let's face it,
so I could be completely wrong on this.
It just doesn't sound believable anyway.
Let's move on.
Ford is lining up an electric semi-truck for Europe.
We just call them trucks
because we don't have truck culture over here.
So we don't have pickups, we have vans.
And so when we say truck, we mean truck,
which is what you might call an 18-wheeler,
but of course, smaller ones are good
for regional distribution, urban logistics
and municipal work.
And Ford are gonna unveil their battery-powered semi
this summer.
Roots are often predictable,
often have frequent stops,
and it'll come into layouts,
both rated at 26 tons, towing up to 10 tons as well.
The F-Line E uses modular batteries.
Each one is 98 kilowatt hours,
NMC, and up to four of them in a pack
for 392 kilowatt hours.
Charging, either 285 kilowatts or 200 kilowatts,
depending on version, which seems a little slow
for a pack that's 400 kilowatt hours big.
Ford says they'll do 80% in 45 minutes of charging.
And that's perfect.
45 minutes fits into the standard rest breaks
that you have to build in to truck driving over here,
and not quite the wild west to some other countries.
Europe and in here as well,
we have pretty strict limits on the amount of time
you can drive for and drive a fatigue
and things like that to ensure road safety.
Ford has turned the F-Line E into bodybuilder use as well.
An electric power takeoff
allows zero emission operation of auxiliary equipment.
Now, Cherry, the Chinese maker,
could build cars with its own badge in Britain.
According to three sources,
this is cited by the Financial Times
and talks are due to move forward.
So our Prime Minister, Sir Kiyostama,
is visiting Beijing
and the first visit by a British Prime Minister in eight years,
the government wants Cherry
to actually make the vehicles in Great Britain.
Business Secretary Peter Kale,
Kyle said that according to the partnerships
that would be in place, it makes sense
if a plant has spare capacity
so they could use Jaguar Land Rover,
for instance, with spare capacity.
We have higher energy costs,
a lot of renewables on our grid,
but the higher energy costs
and higher labor costs, obviously,
that's the big blocks to making vehicles over here.
Though, Omoda, the executives there have not ruled out
even building their own plant,
manufacturing partnerships between global automakers
and Chinese rivals are rare outside of China.
Maybe Chang'an Mazda is an exception.
Yet, European tie-ups are likely to grow
as local firms wrestle with weaker demand
and rising costs and having capacity in factories.
Cherry comes with momentum.
It's Omoda and Jaku brands
were the fastest growing Chinese brands in Britain last year,
prompting the launch of the Cherry brand
sometime in the summer.
Starmer's trip signals a wider thaw between the countries
as we navigate, well, everyone that's around us.
We are but a small island
somewhere between the Atlantic and the North Sea
and Great Britain has to navigate
a very volatile relationship with the United States,
with the European Union who we left
but are looking to forge closer economic ties
with NATO allies as well, but also with Beijing
and Canada, obviously a huge part of that.
We have a very close relationship trading
but also I think just generally
the sort of the national psyche, if you like,
very similar to Canada.
And so Canada has a more pragmatic approach
to Chinese EVs.
They just cut their duties from 100% to 6%
for 49,000 vehicles a year.
So we'll wait and see what happens there.
We'll take a break, we'll come back.
We'll talk about Michigan and Rivian and,
we'll talk about Tesla,
having some problems in Sweden still, back in a bit.
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Michigan has turned its EV growing pains
into a legal assault on big oil.
Last Friday, the state's attorney general,
Daniel Nestle, filed a 126 page
federal antitrust lawsuit against BP,
Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell,
and the American Petroleum Institute.
Michigan claims that those firms
ran a decades-long conspiracy
to keep fossil fuels dominant in transport and energy
while blocking EVs from reaching scale.
The complaint alleges unlawful collusion
to cut innovation and output
and to inflate prices in Michigan's markets.
Michigan says oil companies
over the years have deliberately slowed things
like charger deployment.
They could have put them at their own fueling stations
on their own land, and they've been dragging their feet
on new technology.
It also accuses the industry of bank-rolling misinformation,
but we know the industry as a whole does that.
There are some very, very dark forces
with very deep pockets.
Not necessarily those individual companies,
but the fossil fuel industry as a whole
is an incredibly evil thing
that'll do whatever it can.
It will fight tooth and nail
to keep the money in their own pockets.
They hate electric vehicles, of course,
any innovation that moves electric.
And so they fund everything from think tanks,
political lobbying, bloggers even,
YouTube content creators,
and sympathetic legacy media.
They spread false stories around electric vehicles
and clean power technology.
We've all seen these odd stories
that pop up in the newspapers.
You might be able to think of examples
that I've mentioned recently on the podcast
where weird legacy media articles
that aren't even that well written
pop up that throw doubt and confusion
around car makers that have got very clear plans to go electric.
Isn't money a funny thing?
Without this alleged plot,
Michigan argues electric vehicle adoption
would have scaled years earlier,
saving residents and government billions of dollars in energy
and may I add,
may editorialize a little bit on this part,
in healthcare costs as well.
The Trump administration rolled back
strict fuel economy rules,
handing a big advantage to companies
that want to make less efficient cars
that burn more fuel and cost Americans more at the pump
because the cars are not gonna be as efficient anymore.
They canceled federal electric vehicle charging funding
and then the courts made them put it back
because that was what was agreed.
And they scrapped EV tax credits.
Well, they could get away with that.
And they filled the cabinet with officials
that are funded by the fossil fuel industry.
All right, let's move on.
Rivian has secured a patent for virtual off-roading guides
that tell its vehicles how to tackle trails
before the drivers even hit the turn of the trail.
Now, this was filed back in September, 2022,
but it was published a couple of days ago
by the US Patent and Trademark Office.
What a brilliant idea.
Helping novice off-road drivers
or even drivers that haven't done
that particular trail before avoid trouble.
It lets veterans and those that are great at,
you know, driving up trails,
spend less time tweaking the settings.
Rivian notes that every trail has a quirk.
Its guide draws on crowdsourced data
from vehicles that have already completed a given path.
It will adjust the driving parameters
and the vehicle settings providing on-screen guidance
and even tailored coaching
for someone who might be driving up a trail
but is still learning a bit more inexperienced.
After the trail run, vehicles upload its tracing
to the online portal,
which keeps metadata like vehicle type condition,
modifications, terrain details, and driver experience.
A vehicle that arrives that wants to learn
from other people that have driven up that trail
can request the data if it wants.
The portal filters and selects the most suitable traces.
Drivers can pick modes if they're a beginner,
if they're intermediate, if they're an expert off-road
and dashboard messages will serve up specific tips,
including how to deal with something
that they might be about to come across.
That's a brilliant idea.
And if nothing else, they can market this,
which further entrenched Rivian
into this kind of electric adventure brand.
I think it could actually be very useful in the real life though.
Now, Donald Trump threatens a 100% tariff
on Canadian goods over the weekend
if Ottawa does a trade deal with China
over electric vehicles after eight days of backing the deal.
This wild swing from one position to another
is nothing new for an administration
that sometimes keeps people on their toes on purpose.
Over 75% of Canadian exports go to the US.
A blanket 100% duty on all Canadian goods entering America
would hit every Canadian sector,
unsettle cross-border supply chains,
and really impact pretty much every Canadian
that relies on the economy.
And so Trump says that Canada
is gonna become a Chinese drop-off port for its EVs.
The Rao Stems from Canada's move
to allow 49,000 EVs into the country from China
made in China, so Teslas made in China,
Polestar's made in China,
Lotuses made in China.
These aren't random Chinese brands
that we're talking about,
but still critics say that the drop in tariffs
from 100% to 6.1% are a bad idea.
The stark reversal in Washington is amusing
because Trump had until then been praising Canada
for that exact deal.
He said that if he could have done the deal,
then he would have done a paraphrasing here,
but saying if you can get the deal, you should do.
After eight days of praise,
then came the complete opposite
and said we'll put 100% tariffs on all Canadian goods
unless you stop the Chinese cars coming in.
Anybody would think that perhaps the policy
is not being properly thought through.
Shocking claim, sorry about that.
At the World Economic Forum,
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney,
who is widely regarded by many journalists who have had
pretty much the most impactful speech on stage,
cast this spat as a symptom of the decline
of the post-war international order.
Interesting.
Now, a couple of Teslas stories to finish off.
Teslas' newest supercharger outside Stockholm
is drawing more than motorists to it.
This time it's legal attention.
Swedish labor unions say that the science power
could breach the energy market rules.
And are now pressing regulators
and maybe even the police to act on Tesla.
You see the station in Arlenstadt opened just before Christmas
and there's a mega-pack battery on site.
And I love it when battery packs power EV charging.
They can effectively be a bucket
and you can connect them to a small grid connection.
They charge the battery when no one's at the EV charger
and then maybe five cars turn up at once,
you can dump a load of power into those cars.
It's a brilliant idea
and I think Tesla do it better than most.
The design offers resilience.
And also in Sweden,
where there is still a union dispute going on,
they can't connect up traditional charging stations
because the electrical unions are also supporting
the other unions in their fight against Tesla
who is fiercely anti-union in Sweden
that's been going on for two years.
But this is a sharper question.
Who's allowed to sell and supply electricity?
Now, IF Metall is at the centre
of the broader dispute with Tesla,
has now filed this report
with the energy market inspectorate
because they want to look into
where's the electricity coming from
to feed the Tesla battery?
The local provider has not been disclosed
and you have to be licensed to sell electricity to Tesla.
Now, the ombudsman at IF Metall
said that if you don't have a permit
it's called illegal trading
which is when they have to involve the police.
The Swedish Electricians Association
have noticed some electrical cables
being routed from a property that's 500 metres away
a police report could now be filed.
And finally, this is great news.
Tesla has switched on its second true V4 supercharger.
It's 500 kilowatts,
which is very fast outside of China.
It's in Utah, in Taylorsville,
marking another step towards next-gen charging.
Earlier V4 sites, version four in North America
actually used the existing V3 power cabinets.
So when you go to a charger,
if you're new to VVs,
you have the charger that you plug into
and sometimes a lot of the heavy lifting
is done inside the charger.
Sometimes they're simple pedestals
and then further away you'll see some
often white or cream-coloured,
big metal kind of boxes,
chipping containers sometimes,
often hidden behind a fence
or some foliage to disguise them.
They're called the power cabinets
and they do the real heavy lifting.
So this new one has 16 posts,
only eight are working for now.
They think that it's actually a software issue at Tesla
that'll be resolved,
same as the existing V4 sites.
That's only got some of the posts up and running.
And so that's seen Redwood City in California.
That's open since September
and it's still not fully open.
The Taylorsville hub uses obviously the NACS connector.
So Tesla cars and approved Naxx partners.
And so new V4 locations like this one
add a central payments kiosk.
If you need to do billing that way,
pricing is always competitive with Tesla.
The owners in Taylorsville pay, it changes
from 27 cents to 37 cents a kilowatt hour.
If you're a non-Tesla, 38 to 52 cents per kilowatt hour,
according to time of day,
but I still think that's incredibly cheap
compared to what we pay for electricity.
The hardware can deliver 500 kilowatts of power.
In Redwood City,
Tesla previously showed a Cybertruck drawing the full power.
Though only for a short, very short period
before it ramped down,
almost negating any benefit.
The Cybertruck just slowed down so quickly.
My friend Tom from State of Charge,
Tom Malogany from State of Charge YouTube channel
and EVchargingstations.com website
just flew out to California
and took a lucid gravity,
which can obviously pull a lot of power,
to Redwood City did that last week.
The video came out over the weekend or Friday
and it's, I won't spoil the number, but it's really big.
The lucid pulled well over 400 kilowatts.
Very, very impressive.
Go check out Tom's channel.
It's a great video.
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About this episode
Lucid Motors has unveiled a prototype for a new mid-size SUV aimed at the $50,000 market, marking a significant shift towards high-volume production as they aim to reduce losses. A federal judge ruled against the Trump administration's funding freeze for EV charging infrastructure, restoring $5 billion in federal support. Meanwhile, Jaguar is reportedly considering a petrol-electric hybrid, raising eyebrows given their commitment to an all-electric future. The episode also covers Rivian's new off-roading technology and Tesla's expansion of its supercharger network, including a new V4 charger in Utah.