The Mercedes-Benz CLA is a small luxury car that looks good and has many high-tech features. It's a favorite among people who want a stylish and comfortable ride.
The Mercedes-Benz CLA is a smaller luxury car that looks very stylish and offers nice features. It's a good option for people who want a fancy car without going for the biggest models.
The Tesla Model 3 is an electric car that is very popular because it can go far on a single charge and has cool technology like self-driving features. Many people like it for being eco-friendly.
NEO is a car company from China that makes electric cars. They focus on using smart technology and being environmentally friendly.
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Kia EV2
The Kia EV2 is a new electric car from Kia. It's designed to be small and efficient, making it a good choice for people who want an electric vehicle that is easy to drive and park.
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Škoda L-Rock
The Škoda L-Rock is a car model from Škoda, a brand known for making practical and affordable vehicles.
The Alpine A290 is a small, sporty car that focuses on being fun to drive. It's designed to be lightweight and quick, appealing to those who enjoy a more exciting driving experience.
WLTP is a testing method used to measure how far a car can go on a full charge or tank of gas. It helps give a better idea of a car's efficiency and emissions than older tests.
DC charging is a way to charge electric cars quickly. It uses direct current to send power to the car's battery much faster than regular charging methods.
The CLA 250 Plus is a small luxury car made by Mercedes-Benz. It's designed to be stylish and comfortable, making it a popular choice for people who want a nice car without going for a larger model.
Auto-steer helps keep the car in its lane while driving. It's like having a helper that gently steers the car for you, making it easier to drive straight on the road.
18-inch alloys are the car's wheels, which are made from a special metal mix. They are lighter and look nicer than regular wheels, and their size can affect how the car drives.
Tariffs are extra fees that countries charge on products coming from other countries. If a car avoids tariffs, it means it can be sold for less money because there are no extra taxes added to its price.
The Tesla Model S is an electric car that looks like a luxury sedan. It's special because it can go really far on a single charge and has cool features like self-driving capabilities.
The Ford Mustang Mach-E is an electric SUV that carries the Mustang name. It’s designed to be sporty and fun to drive, while also being environmentally friendly.
The Chevrolet Equinox is a type of car called a crossover SUV, which means it combines features of cars and trucks. It's popular because it has a lot of space inside for passengers and cargo, making it a good choice for families.
The Toyota RAV4 is another SUV, which means it's built to carry more people and cargo. It's well-liked for being dependable and having a lot of space inside.
The Chery Tiggo 7 is another SUV, but it's made by a Chinese company. It's designed to be a good option for people who want a nice car without spending too much money.
The Cadillac Escalade is a big, fancy SUV that offers a lot of space and luxury features. It's known for being very comfortable and powerful, making it a popular choice for those who want a high-end vehicle.
The BMW iX3 is an electric SUV that is similar to the regular X3 but runs on electricity instead of gas. It can travel a long distance on a single charge, making it a great option for eco-friendly driving.
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Mercedes-Benz CLA is winning the European Car of the Year award for 2026.
Announced at the Brussels Motor Show, the CLA scored 320 points.
Now, that might mean nothing to you,
because it meant nothing to me, but I'll put it in context.
Now, it was 100 points ahead of the second place car,
which was a Škoda L-Rock.
That was on 220.
And the Kia EV4 coming on 208 points.
Citroën EC5 aircross one point behind.
It is Mercedes-Benz's first win in the award since 1974.
Then the 450 SE took the title.
The CLA succeeds last year's winner, which was the Renault 5 and its Alpine A290 sibling.
This year's short list made a point without meaning to.
All seven finalists arrived with electric powertrains,
and most were actually full bevs as well in a competition
that normally rewards clever low-cost transport than big engineering swings.
The voting system leaves little room for tactical games, though.
There's 59 motoring journalists on the jury from 23 countries.
They begin with 35 eligible cars.
The finalists go down to seven.
Each jury gets 25 points to distribute and a maximum of 10 points per car.
So the Mercedes-Benz CLA absolutely smashed this one by a country mile.
So this is on an 800-volt EV architecture, silicon carbide inverter,
heat pump, two-speed transmission.
So the sweet part of the range is always being used.
Mercedes-Benz say a WLTP range of 484 miles, or 779 kilometers,
from an 85 kilowatt-hour pack.
DC charging at 320 kilowatts.
The car's long been out here.
It's coming out in other markets like the US this year.
The company also says the CLA can add 200 miles.
That's 322 kilometers in 10 minutes.
And that the mid-range CLA 250 Plus does 4.97 miles per kilowatt hour.
That's a nice even 8 kilometers per kilowatt hour.
Congratulations to the team there.
That CLA really is a cracking vehicle.
Now, good news if you are after a cheaper Tesla Model 3
to get into that whole ecosystem.
Tesla's launched the cheaper Model 3 standard, it's called.
It costs 37,990 pounds here.
That's 2,000 pounds, or 2,700 US dollars,
below the previous entry-level rear-wheel drive version.
This is the same feature trim that we've seen elsewhere
around the world.
And it finally arrives here.
The saving starts where owners notice them.
Fo leather becomes cloth.
The enclosed center console becomes just an open bucket.
And the audio system loses the subwoofer.
In fact, it loses AM and FM.
Radio disappears completely.
A supply chain inconsistency, as other standard versions do get it,
depends with the car's mate.
The cost-cutting reaches the parts that drivers touch too.
The seat and the steering wheel are all manual adjustments.
There's no rear-passenger touchscreen.
Not the end of the world.
There's no physical key, though.
So your entry depends on the Tesla phone app,
which is really modern and slick and works well until it doesn't.
And you have no battery on your phone.
The essentials stay largely intact.
Auto-steer remains standard.
That's just Tesla's lane-keep assist.
And the car is on 18-inch alloys.
As usual these days, Tesla doesn't disclose battery capacity,
but the standard is rated for 332 miles WLTP, or 534 kilometers.
It's the same as the rear-wheel drive hardware.
Tesla has, however, slowed it down.
Top speed drops from 125 miles an hour to 110.
That's 200Ks to 177.
That's not the end of the world,
because if I get caught doing 110 in this country,
it's still a very difficult conversation with the judge in court.
That pushes the standard, though, into a lower insurance group
at the insurance group 32 here.
Deliveries in Britain begin next month in February,
when buyers will decide whether fewer frills
feels like a fair trade for 38K.
Tesla has also slipped a cheaper Model Y into its Canadian lineup.
It surfaced on the older page on Thursday evening
last night.
Model Y standard costs 49,990 Canadian.
That is 35,900 US.
That's around 15,000 Canadian,
less than the Model Y Premium all-wheel drive.
Now, the Model Y Premium all-wheel drive is 64,990 Canadian.
That is about 46,500 US equivalent.
Tesla rates the Model Y standard at 463 kilometers,
or 288 miles of range.
Unlike the other Canadian Model Y versions,
this one comes from Giga Berlin.
And that matters, because it avoids tariffs.
Now, hitting US-built cars entering Canada,
it also leaves the car around 4,000 US dollars cheaper
than the same car in the United States.
Options are sparse, as ever, with Tesla.
Buyers get three paint choices.
Stealth gray, which is the free color, and looks pretty good.
Or there's pearl, white, multi-coat, or diamond black.
And one wheel set, the new Aputure rims, the 18-inch Aputures.
Not my favorites, but they look very efficient.
Berlin-built cars do have a radio, FM radio, and autopilot,
both of which are emitted from the US Model Y standard.
So, the cheaper Canadian Model Y
arrives 15,000 Canadian dollars below the all-wheel drive version,
but slightly better equipped than what you get south of the border,
even though it's built an ocean away.
Right, Tesla's grip on the American EV market
stayed firm last year.
The Model Y was, again, the country's best-selling EV,
topping the EV charts for the fourth year in the row.
Model E3 took second place, obviously,
giving Tesla the top two spots.
Just below, it gets livelier, though.
Equinox, the Chevy Equinox, did 58,000.
Ford Mustang Mach-E, 52,000.
Honda Enix, 547,000 last year.
For General Motors, the Equinox EV is both a mass-market crossover
and proof that the LTM baseline up,
well, not meant to use the LTM name anymore,
can compete on price and scale.
The Equinox EV's performance helped transform GM's position
in the EV market to number two,
jumping 48% year-on-year for General Motors,
and still well behind Tesla,
but ahead of their other established rivals.
After another year in which Model Y topped the charts,
the real contest is no longer who leads,
but who's going to be Tesla's biggest challenger.
Electric cars will take a bigger slice of the pie
in Britain's new car market this year.
EV registrations will reach 580,000 in 2026.
That's 29% of our new car market on the presumption
that two million vehicles are sold once again.
And that's the projection of the leasing firm, Drive Electric.
That would be up from 23.4% of the new market
in the year just gone.
And December's, I've mentioned this a couple of times,
December's total was really encouraging.
December's pure bev share was 32.2%.
So we signed off last year on a really big number,
and we'll wait and see what January does.
But Drive Electric expects the full-year share
to rise by almost 6 percentage points.
On those numbers, EVs would fall short
of the government's mandate, which is 33% for this year.
The rules are looser than they appear,
and I won't go into the details.
They're a little bit dry and boring,
but manufacturers that outperformed their obligations
in previous years can bank that surplus.
Electric vans count for double as well,
like commercial vehicles are treated as two ZEVs or ZEVs
for compliance reasons.
Drive Electric points out that there are three things
that are supporting EV growth here in Britain,
more compact and cheaper models,
and that's my big thing for 2026.
The market's going to explode under 25,000 pounds.
And that's a huge thing,
because when those vehicles become second and third hand,
and I'm looking at 2030,
when those vehicles come off three-year agreements,
whoo! Oh my gosh, there's no reason
to buy a combustion car ever again.
Second, the government's electric car grant,
almost 4,000 pounds off some models.
And thirdly, competition is intensifying
as the big groups flesh out their line-ups as well,
and a lot of Chinese coming in too.
We don't have those tariffs since Brexit,
and we left the EU.
Bevs will probably miss the 33% government mandate this year,
but if we do get 580,000, 600,000 registrations,
double-accounting electric vans as well,
the industry may well avoid paying fines
for missing the target slightly,
as they have done the last couple of years once again.
Argue amongst yourselves whether mandates
are a good thing or a bad thing,
but here, the car makers absolutely hate it.
There's a very strong lobby against it as well,
saying, look, 2035 is absolutely impossible,
2030, which is what the UK has a big stretch goal to.
We're never going to do it.
And then we look across the water over the North Sea at Norway.
And you go, well, they've done it.
So I'm not saying we have to use the same rules,
we're a massive car market in comparison to Norway,
and they had different levers to pull,
but you know, just say it.
We'll take a break, we'll come back,
we'll talk about German sales,
and Ford's cheap motors as well stick around back in a bit.
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Now, electric car uptake in Germany moved forward last year
after a bit of a slowdown.
Registrations of pure BEVs last year were 43% higher than 2024,
according to the KBA, the vehicle authority there.
The jump followed a sharp dip
after the abrupt end of purchase subsidies.
Over a longer period, growth is a little more modest
compared with 2023.
It's only 4% higher.
So Germany was doing very well.
The subsidy suddenly went.
There was a pullback for a period of time
and now it's bounced back stronger.
Where else might that happen?
Everyone's talking doom and gloom about America.
And Q4 was bad in the United States.
Don't get me wrong, with the subsidies ending.
But people recalibrate and now it's bounced back even stronger.
Once again, just saying not so doom and gloom
compared to everybody else.
I'm pretty positive here on EV News Daily.
Battery electric vehicles made up 19.1% of new registrations.
So it's one in five new cars in Germany, pure BEV.
Now once again, Europe's biggest car market.
The government plans to introduce a new subsidy scheme
for EVs this year.
Industry associations and researchers
expect the share of BEVs in Germany
to keep climbing to be 25% by the end of this year.
Okay, moving on.
Ford says it's building the world's cheapest EV motors
set for the midsize pickup in 2027.
The project is called the Universal EV Platform
and the price ambition is $30,000.
The bet sits in the architecture, the drive units.
Doug Field is Ford's chief of EVs, digital and design.
Says his team benchmark motors from around the world
and expects Ford's in-house units
to beat even China's high volume units on price.
Around 500 engineers are now on the program.
Most of them in a facility in Long Beach, California,
kept completely apart from Ford, Michigan.
Mr. Field says the savings will not come
from exotic breakthroughs,
but from giving good engineers the permission
to redesign the car unburdened by the past.
The truck is set to launch as a four-door crew cab
with rear-wheel drive and all-wheel drive options.
Rear axle uses a single permanent magnet motor,
up front an induction motor,
a pairing that Tesla once used
when Mr. Field was working there.
Geely is next in the news.
They will introduce the Starray EMI Super Hybrid
to the UK next month.
There's the first plug-in hybrid model.
Price is starting at $29,990,
looking to undercut established rivals.
The Starray, being a plug-in hybrid,
combines strong electric range,
but long overall distance for those that need it.
Geely is obviously familiar.
Well, actually, maybe not.
Geely is familiar to you
because they own Volvo and Polestar and Lotus and more,
but to the average buyer, maybe not.
In the UK, the EX5 electric SUV is already here.
They won 100 dealerships by the end of the year.
The Starray will be the brand's second UK model,
but its first plug-in hybrid
aimed well and truly at, let me think,
Kia Sportage, Toyota RAV4,
MGHS, see a lot of those around.
Even Chinese newcomers like the Cherry Tigo 7.
At 4.7 metres long, it's a mid-sized SUV,
1.5-litre 4.0-litre petrol engine and an electric motor,
either an 18.4-kilowatt-hour pack,
or a bigger 30-kilowatt-hour pack.
So that is up to 84 miles of electric-only range,
and 618 miles, if you add the fuel.
I don't really count that as a metric,
but some people do.
The electric range is way more
than a Sportage plug-in hybrid, double it, actually,
and Cherry Tigo 7's 56 miles, so a big advantage there.
They say Lotus Engineering has tuned the chassis for UK roads,
which should help the car feel a bit more composed
on our broken tarmac and the motorways.
Three trims, Pro, Max or Ultra, will arrive,
launching below £30,000,
well within the reach of mainstream buyers.
It always comes down to the monthly cost,
isn't it, with family cars,
and that's almost 100 miles on battery power alone,
if you do a lot of stuff around town,
but occasionally want to do long family holidays,
road trips, and are less confident
on the UK's charging network.
I don't think you should be,
but I understand it as a point of view.
Then it could be an option.
Wouldn't be for me, but it could be an option.
Now, at General Motors, a Ryan plant.
In Michigan, the lines that were meant to build
all electric cars are going to be gearing up
for the sort of petrol-heavy metal
that still sells for GM, full-size SUVs and pickups.
General Motors says they will record
a $6 billion impairment charge
because of their EV push, falling short,
unwinding some plans.
Of that total, $4.2 billion is cash charges
tied to having to settle with suppliers
for contracts that now won't be fulfilled,
terminating contracts as well.
GM Blaine blames a colder policy climate.
The US Clean Vehicle Tax Credit ended.
Looser emissions rules have taken urgency
out of going EV in the United States,
and the operational response, well, it's pretty blunt.
A Ryan will move away from EVs and towards full-size pickups
and SUVs like Silverados and Escalades.
The company is also slimming its battery ambitions.
GM sold its stake in the Altium Cells site in Lansing, Michigan,
to LG, and its cut shifts at factory zero
in Detroit Hamtrammack.
This is not the first bill from their reassessment.
If you remember, they recorded $1.6 billion of a charge
in 2025 because of unused equipment
and canceled contracts as well.
GM reports Q4 results on 27 January.
Right, we'll finish off with two different data points.
Funnily enough, coming out today.
One from HSBC, one from Deloitte,
and make of it what you will.
The first one says that Americans will buy
battery electric vehicles when car makers offer models
that fit their needs and not fitting government targets.
That is the blunt view from HSBC Global Research.
The bank expects the US EV market to cool this year
as incentives thin and cautious consumers
stop treating early adoption like a badge of honor for some people.
HSBC also sees Washington stepping back,
the end of the EV credits,
the removal of the Cafe Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards,
and the EPA also relaxing targets.
With less regulation and fewer subsidies
doing the heavy lifting,
the sales pitch moves from lawmakers to households.
Higher interest rates and higher vehicle prices
make buyers more cautious, more choosy,
and the ones who once stretched for a premium EV
and perhaps got hit by depreciation might be hesitating.
Two obstacles keep showing up.
Customers told HSBC price and range.
Car makers have started to adapt in the only way that counts
by building and talking about cars that people will pay for.
GM have got the big bolt launch this year
with dealers already $30,000 car.
Ford admittedly two years behind
now saying that their universal platform,
$30,000 car coming in 2027, we'll wait and see.
But lower cost platform, smaller battery, simpler cabins.
After years, when policy pulled demand forward,
the next phase looks a little more pragmatic,
something that the Rivian CEO, RJ Scarra,
has talked about.
He said, look, the cream rises to the top.
We make great EVs.
We're not worried about the tax credit going.
We don't need the market to be artificially stimulated.
Right, our second data point comes from Deloitte.
American drivers will buy electric cars,
but they still see them as a hassle.
Convenience, not cost, is the hurdle
that decides how fast we go electric in the US.
American drivers see electric vehicles
as less convenient at the moment.
A new Deloitte study finds that worries
about range and charging time,
and now the number one concern, more so than price.
At least in this Deloitte survey study,
even as tax credits and the falling cost of buying a car
does make them more competitive.
Nearly half of the respondents to this, 47%,
said driving range was the deterrent for buying an EV.
44% pointing to charging time,
only 40% now saying cost.
But you and I know bigger batteries,
more public charges, more policy incentives,
because they're still there for the public charging.
The White House tried to stop that,
and the court stamped it out pretty quickly and said,
no, no, that funding has been a guaranteed already
to put charges in the ground.
You have to unlock the funds, and it is happening.
Purchase intent is creeping up.
7% of respondents say their next car will be fully electric.
Last year, that was 5% in this study.
Charging access is splitting the market
into winners and skeptics as well.
Drivers with home chargers, who can save time
and save money as well, are much more likely.
Those that don't have home chargers are more cautious.
Deloitte's findings suggest that American EV buyers
will keep going up when charging convenience
catches up with cost parity.
Once drivers trust they can recharge as easily
as they can refuel,
price may no longer be the decisive argument,
just the excuse that's already fallen away.
I get it.
I think this is obviously you're asking people,
what do you think about electric vehicles?
Now, they don't pay the attention that you pay
to electric vehicles.
And you know that the BMW iX3 does 500 miles,
WLTP, that the new Volvo EX60 coming January 21st,
we'll find out more, does 505 miles WLTP.
That's about 400 miles EPA.
And then big range EVs like Mercedes Benz,
CLA, Mercedes GLC, and more that we've been talking about.
500 miles is a long way to drive.
Now, obviously, if you live in a big country like America,
you might think, well, I need 500 miles and a bit more.
Okay.
I live on a small island.
I have a smaller world view,
but still that's a long way to go.
And the charging is there as well.
And they charge really quickly.
So all I'm trying to say is that perhaps the public level of knowledge,
not yours or mine,
but I think out there perhaps need to be raised a little bit.
Hey, tell them to listen to EV News Daily,
spread the word,
tell people that there's a podcast
I want to listen to.
It's only 20 minutes a day and he's not too bad.
Why don't you subscribe to the podcast?
They might learn a thing or two.
Everyone's welcome.
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About this episode
Mercedes-Benz CLA clinches the European Car of the Year award for 2026, showcasing its impressive electric range and advanced features. Tesla introduces a more affordable Model 3 standard in the UK, cutting costs while maintaining essential features. Meanwhile, Germany sees a resurgence in EV registrations, with a projected increase in market share. Discussions also highlight Ford's plans for a budget-friendly EV platform and the challenges facing American consumers regarding EV adoption, focusing on convenience over cost. Insights from recent studies reveal consumer concerns about range and charging times.
