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Welcome back to the podcast.

Mitsubishi launches an electric eclipse cross.

Hyundai will try E-Revs and an entry-level Audi EV.

Plus, stay tuned.

Later in the show, I'll tell you what sort of e-mobility vehicle the Rivian-backed also has leaked ahead of its October official reveal.

And if you don't know that their spinoff company is called also, then yes, that sentence made very little sense to you.

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Mitsubishi has revealed the second-generation Eclipse Cross.

It is a re-engineered Renault Scenic, giving the brand a battery-electric model.

Mitsubishi's returning to Europe.

The Outlander was pretty successful here, but Mitsubishi are no more at the minute anyway, but they will be soon.

Exterior changes from the Scenic include the Mitsubishi, what they call Dynamic Shield Grill,

a new streak-like daytime running light, and rear lamps that match the Scenic,

but linked by a new gloss black plastic panel.

All inside, the car has different seats with diamond-shaped quilting while keeping the Scenic's infotainment screen.

So they're on the platform, aren't they? It's like a Scenic, so it is a 12.3-inch infotainment touchscreen

with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto mirroring.

The Eclipse Cross will have, again, technically, it's like the Renault Scenic,

87 kilowatt-hour battery using NMC, nickel, manganese, cobalt chemistry,

and it's got a great rating on it, 372 miles of WLTP range.

That's almost 600 kilometres.

Charging is 150 kilowatts peak, and 22 kilowatts AC.

That's really good for some European countries.

A single electric motor that's rated at 215 horsepower, 160 kilowatts, is on the rear axle.

Medium-range variant could come, like Renault do the entry-level Scenic with a 60 kilowatt-hour battery.

Production will be done by Renault at their plant in France

because leaning in there, Mitsubishi leaning into the Renault partnership alongside Nissan as well.

Let's talk Hyundai.

And their eye has been turned by the current EREV FAD in China

at its annual CEO investor day.

Hyundai Motor Group just told investors its first EREV will go on sale sometime,

maybe towards the end of 2027, maybe two years away.

So EREV is extended-range electric vehicle.

And while the definition of that is not really, you know, it's not a dictionary definition,

but it tends to mean an engine that is a generator,

so like the old BMW i3 Rex, that typically the engine is not connected to the wheels,

although some of them are, and that it always has a plug socket on

so you can add electricity, clean green electrons, because they typically have large batteries.

And typically it's 30 to 60 kilowatt hours.

So typically, really decent range.

And that tends to be what we define now as an EREV,

or you'll see it, Reeve, our EEV, very unhelpfully.

So they say they will use high-performance batteries and motors to deliver

an EV-like experience, but with an engine.

So if you're desperate to mimic an EV, just buy the EV!

Anyway, it's all the rage in China over the last eight to nine months

and so maybe a year, actually.

And so they get to advertise the big number, the big range, 12, 14,

1600 kilometers is the big number, because you add liquids and electrons.

So Hyundai clearly feel that there's a market there.

They said that their EREVs should require smaller battery packs than their current EVs.

The Arnec 5 would have maybe a 40 kilowatt hour battery

and a small generator that emits dirty carbons and why get the engine.

But in two years' time, if this EREV fad has all died away

and all of a sudden we've got next-generation batteries,

because China will lead with this, by the way,

maybe solid-state, semi-solid states are already out there.

And so you just don't need the engine,

because you can do 12, 14, 1600 kilometers with battery power.

Then why are you doing something with belts and pulleys

and catalytic converters and emissions and all these things

that mean that your ownership experience is going to be blighted

by oil changes just by the EV.

A lot of companies in the West are now going,

oh, okay, let's announce our EREV plan.

I'll put it out there now in 2025.

By the time they arrive in two, three years' time,

maybe China's moved on.

Or maybe not.

I mean, maybe it's all the rage.

Maybe they're late to the party

and then they have to sell Western consumers

on the benefits of burning stuff.

Well, let's wait and see.

Let's move on.

Audi.

Well, talk up an entry-level electric vehicle

due for production next year,

sitting beneath the Q4.

Each one, that's the word I'm looking for.

I don't know where my brain suddenly failed me.

The company is giving few details.

But spy photographers have caught a test mule

based on the Volkswagen ID3 GTX.

It is inside VW clothing, by the way.

No real body changes on the outside,

but different wheels and a totally camouflaged interior,

which is being speculated, is the new Audi A3.

Audi CEO called the model an electric vehicle

in the same class as the A3,

but he stopped short of calling it the A3 e-tron.

Maybe they call it the A2 e-tron.

It'll use the MEB Plus platform.

Audi calls the architecture the next evolutionary stage

of the EV platform.

Planned to offer two battery capacities,

four power outputs.

The current Audi A3 Sportback is about 4.3 meters long.

The current ID3 is about 4.3 meters long.

You can see where we're going with this.

All right, let's move on and talk about a Chinese start-up

targeting the European micro car market.

A Chinese Ibibrand, which is starting up,

is hoping to cash in on the craze with BYD,

NEO, X-Pung and more,

moving into the European market,

with European buyers more open to Chinese brands now.

This player, Linktor, or Linktor Automotive,

is targeting the small car market in Europe.

Let me be clear.

It's the quadricycle market.

Linktor have two electric small cars for the city.

The L6, the L7.

2.6 meters long, about 8.5 feet.

So two-door vehicles and classified as a quadricycle.

That means top speed 28 miles an hour for the L6,

45, no, 56 miles an hour for the L7.

As quadricycles get exempted from the European Union's import

tariffs, ding-ding, no extra tariffs to pay.

There's demand for micro cars in some parts of Europe,

but Linktor faces competition from Citroën,

Renault, both small EVs.

The L series will debut in November.

They'll start with Italy.

They want 20,000 sales a year.

The L6 will do 75 miles.

The L7, 112 miles, or 180 kilometers of range.

Interior features include a 10.25-inch touchscreen

and a five-inch intelligent panel for functions

like carplay and remote control.

Tesla is next in the news confirming that they are going

to redesign their door handles.

So this week I told you earlier in the week on the podcast

about the US NHTSA, National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration.

On Monday, they opened an official investigation

into Tesla's door handles that opened electronically.

This probe targets the Model Y from 2021 onwards.

After a flood of complaints to the agency about the

exterior door handles failing to open when somebody

or something is trapped inside the vehicle,

this at its most serious is if you put your baby

inside the vehicle and the door closes and then

you can't get into your vehicle,

or an animal or a pet.

If there's nobody in it and the car won't open,

it's an inconvenience.

And those inconveniences may not have been reported

to the NHTSA, but they had enough to then launch

an investigation and by the look of it,

Tesla wanted to head this one off completely early,

not let the bad news cycle run away with it.

So what happens is there is a voltage drop,

voltage sag, a lack of power from the 12-volt

battery, which in some Teslas can be 16 volts.

But either way, the low voltage system

and that low voltage warning was not flagged

to the driver before.

There's nothing on the dashboard saying the system is faulty.

The Tesla design chief, Franz von Halshausen,

who's been with Tesla forever, very senior,

often talks on behalf of the company in Elon's absence.

Sorry, Mr. Musk's absence.

I don't know the CEO.

Let's not be too informal.

Todd Bloomberg, the company is now going to work

on a new door release design that will make them

easier to operate in a panic situation,

describing Tesla's standard electronic button

with a mechanical latch when the car loses

power and designing a single lever,

which makes perfect sense.

So he said, and I quote,

we actually have a mechanical release that's basically

right at the electronic one too,

and we're combining the two, end quote.

So yeah, obviously inside Teslas, if you know,

you can pull the mechanical release,

but a baby or an animal wouldn't be able to.

The NHTSA is now evaluating whether Tesla's

exterior door handles, which lack a manual backup

on the outside, pose a safety risk,

and if so, would need to be recalled,

and that would be a big engineering refit

to sort it out.

I don't know what day I said it this week.

I'm pretty sure I said it on a podcast this week,

because one of the CEOs of either one of the

Volkswagen brands, I should look back before I start

these digressions, shouldn't I, on my notes,

said he really hates the door handles that

disappear in.

It's great for aero.

It gives you another couple of miles on aerodynamics,

but really doesn't like flush door handles

because door handles are a solved problem.

So yeah, you'll eke out the tiniest bit of range

by having them disappear, and it's better for aero.

It's like wing mirrors, you know, you can put cameras

on there, and you get a bit more range,

but can't we do that with making the vehicles

lighter, better battery technology, more efficient

motors, rather than chasing marginal gains,

which automakers are always doing.

They're never going to stop chasing, you know,

range gains.

But in these situations, we are over

engineering situation, you know, solutions

for a solved problem, and so

door handles have worked, like the door handle

on your front door, or your car, it just

works, it's a solved problem. Let's move on

and talk about Germany. Well, in August

last month, I'm delighted to tell you

some really good news from Germany, and

that is EVs, and now 30.6, 30.6%

of new passenger car registrations.

Bevs were 19, plug-in hybrids

11.6. Year-on-year, for the month,

combined EVs were

20.6, and Bevs

at 14%. The Volkswagen ID.3

was the best-selling Bev in August,

two and a half thousand units, almost,

holding the number one spot for three months

in a row. Volkswagen ID.4, ID.5,

also doing really well.

VW's ID.7, she's got an L-Rock,

that's the top four. In the small

affordable segment, LeapMotor's T03

is doing well in Germany,

and the Citroën EC3

posting a record last month.

Tesla's Model Y is, of course, built

in Germany, but it saw

August volumes at about a third

of where they have been a year ago.

Careful on monthly data with Tesla.

It can fluctuate up or down, but if you

are comparing August to August

2024 to 2025, that's a little

more robust, so that's not great

news for Tesla's sales there.

They'll obviously be looking at what they

can do to reduce things a little bit

in the run-in to the end of the year,

even to the run-in to the end of the quarter.

Let's take a little break. We'll come back.

We'll talk about the Envo L90,

Ontario, wanting to

change their EV tariffs

in Canada and

some new good news around charging,

getting quicker in the hardware

sector. Stick around. Back in a moment.

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are. Now, whenever I

tell people what I do, sometimes they say

oh, I've read in the newspapers about

the future of cast. It's hydrogen,

isn't it? And I'd smile and I nod

and I'm not up for an argument. But

hydrogen in Europe

is finally on its way out

after the great experiment. Austria

now ending its public hydrogen refuelling

network, OMV, which operated

the country's four, said it will close them

by the end of this month. Germany's cut

the network too after early investment

and carmaker support. Lots of people told me

like if Germany's going for hydrogen

then, you know, you're completely wrong

then Germany will lead it, Europe

will follow. H2 mobility

built a public network that at its peak

up to 100 public charging stations

the problem is nobody used them.

They have been pulling back

22 stations closed and a couple

of rounds of closures. 11 were taken off

line in March and now another

11 were scheduled

to close. Public station counts

for hydrogen across Europe rose

in

2015 to 2019

period and then continued to rise. However

then the fall started

and now it's

not an all-time low because it's heading

back to zero. The

network in Europe I think will be about 172

hydrogen stations

in total by the end

of this year in Europe and more scheduled

to close. Demand for

hydrogen refuelling has completely

is out of line with the projections

that have been offered by hydrogen fans

building a station can cost millions of euros

nobody can use it because there's no cars out there

on a per kilometer basis. Hydrogen is more expensive

than just plugging your car in at home

and the cars are worse and don't go as far

and the stations can't refill more than

a couple of cars in a short period of time

with a little rest, bless them, the hydrogen refuelling stations

and I see online

I'm largely not on social media now

I know it's a problem, I've got to go back on social media

but when I was on Twitter

that's how far we go back

when I was on Twitter there would be fights between

the hydrogen people and the EV people

and I tried to say hydrogen has a place

in shipping, in aviation, in heavy duty

you know transport

it's a great store of energy

like combustion fuels are a great store

of energy just terrible to burn

and so it has its place but let's not fight

about passenger vehicles

it's a terrible idea for passenger vehicles

I like to charge my car at home, not go to some filling station

that some other massive corporation

dictates the price that I pay and I don't know

till I get there, that's called

petrol and diesel

and I'm delighted to not be under their thumb anymore

okay let's talk about the Envo L90

this is a really good SUV

Neo's sub-brand

Envo

the chief

said yesterday that pure electric vehicles

are extending their lead over hybrids and range extenders

after he shared the ranking comparison

of a new comparison in China

a three-row

six-seat SUV

test

there was ten of them in the test because China's got so many models

to choose from

but you can just pick ten SUVs

that have three rows and six seats

and do a little comparison test

local media outlet Dong Chedi

did this

and

Shen added that if Neo's ES8

had participated

the top three would all be pure electric

the ES8 is a really great vehicle as well

the

evaluation covered multiple dimensions, the cabin space

braking distance, acceleration

energy efficiency, handling, ride comfort, intelligent features

active safety

the Envo L90

launched earlier this year

placed first in the performance tests

and ranked it first in four categories

for cabin space, braking and intelligent features

and then it came second in some others as well

the Leauto i8

was the runner-up in performance

there were extended range and hybrid models in this

top ten shootout

but it was pure EVs that won the race

in this one, yeah the L90

is a really really interesting vehicle from Envo

the whole sub-brand from Envo is very interesting

that's the family bit

of Neo by the way

but like Firefly is the cheap bit

Neo makes some fabulous vehicles

and you can always keep up on what's happening in the China market

with EV news China

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it's now daily after a trial earlier in the year

and it's something that I'm doing every day

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I hope I can continue doing it for a long time

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and it's all about the crisis

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it all appears to be going well on the surface

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at its most extreme

this 20 year experiment in China

will at the end

when it all shakes out through all the pain

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they realised they couldn't beat Detroit and Germany

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okay it's got a Canada

Ontario Premier Doug Ford wrote an open letter

to Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday

saying Canada must keep its 100% tariff

on Chinese EVs

to secure a US trade deal

and protect the auto sector

he wrote, if the federal government removes its tariffs

against Chinese made EVs

you will contradict and undermine

months of engagement with US officials

and lawmakers about the need to protect

and enhance our highly integrated cross-border

automotive supply chains

wow what a sentence

protects 157,000 jobs

and 46 Canadian

billion dollars

invested in Ontario

Ontario and the federal governments

in EV and battery supply chains since the year

2020 there's a growing voice

in Canada by the way

because of the tariffs

the China retaliation on the canola industry

a lot of people in Canada are going

you know what I'd like to buy some cheap Chinese cars

thanks they're really safe they parcel the European

Euro NCAP 5 star

ratings

and so if it's good enough for the really stringent

Euro rules that Canada doesn't really fall in line

with then I'm sure the Chinese cars

are safe enough for us and they're cheap

so let's buy some there's a growing

voice a bit of a groundswell

that I'm seeing online from people saying

you know Canadians and I want to buy some Chinese cars

and so it's not

like a white day issue is it

now Autel Energy is integrating Phoenix

contacts 1,000 amp

liquid cooled CCS2 cable

into their maxi charger series

the Phoenix contact CCS2

hardware uses a

water glycol

cooling loop and that's for thermal stability

during prolonged high charging current

and supports 800 amps continuous

thousand amp boost

it includes temp sensors, insulation monitoring

IP67 rated

Autel's maxi charger

DT1000 series uses modular power electronics

for a common now architecture that scales

all the way up to

a very high power

the combined system aims to narrow the performance gap

between CCS and megawatt

charging this is going to be the story

I predict if not of 2026

maybe of 2026, 2027

you can say I'm wrong in a couple of years time

I think the story in Europe is going to be

of some very very fast

as in megawatt passenger

car charging

it's going to be fascinating to watch now

over here in the UK the

AA automobile association

recovery service the AA predicts

1 in 3 driving tests will be taken

for an automatic

license next year

which is going to force fleets to buy more EVs

last year

26% of all driving tests

were for an automatic license that's up from

6% 10 years ago

the AA said that falling

interest in learning to drive stick

as my American friends would say

a manual car as we would say

driven by electric vehicles

because over here we have two licenses

it used to be incredibly rare

that someone would have an automatic license

and if you've got an automatic license and you get pulled over by the police

and you're driving stick

you weren't trained to drive a manual car

so everyone just learned to drive a manual car

nobody had an automatic license

apart from

I don't know maybe those that had some additional

needs some mobility needs

those that perhaps wanted the mobility

of driving their own personal car

perhaps for whatever reason

using both hands, both feet

didn't suit so then you have an automatic license

because you were only licensed to drive an automatic car

now not only is it increasingly

common it's going to be

a third next year

and the reason why

because kids learning to drive now

7 you can take your test at 17

learn to drive at 17 here

saying do you want to drive a manual car ever

or will you have any other drive EVs

they're like which is TV

are you ever going to drive a combustion car

apart from as a hobby

to learn science and engineering

I don't know

but they're only going to drive EVs

aren't they and so that's fascinating

look at what I don't know what Gen this is

Gen A what's a 17 year old

is it Gen Z I don't know

but when they say what license do you want

I just want an automatic license

because I'm never going to drive anything but an EV

isn't that really really interesting

look at these kind of things haven't you

the industry Toyota

is trying to nudge their owners of plug-in hybrids

to plug in

plug-in hybrids only provide any value

if you actually plug the things in otherwise

you're carrying around a battery and it's really inefficient

Toyota's research institute have built

a smartphone app called ChargeMinder

that'll give you a little nudge

to charge your plug-in hybrid

it sends a just-in-time charging reminder

based on the time of day and data points

pulled from the vehicle adds gamification

like streak summaries and quizzes

to reinforce the fact that you need to plug your car in

and finally there's a Rivian

backed spin-off that's doing

micromobility and they're called also which is

really frustrating because in print

it kind of works because you can capitalize the A

but also if you're doing a podcast

and you say the word also it makes no

blinking sense so thanks a lot

for that but anyway if you see

it spelt on the page

capitalized A

it kind of makes sense to the I

but when you're listening to me talk and I say

also you're like yes what else

no no also is the company name

also

capitalized A

the spin-off is chaired by

the Rivian founder and

CEO RJ Scarridge if I ever see

if I ever meet RJ

why'd you call it also it's terrible for

podcasters

he is promising an announcement by October 22

but shock horror some pictures have been

now leaked to this is a techsite

theverge.com

techreporter as well

micatoll analyzing a recent video

frame by frame recovering some

images these frames that were

shock horror leaked show a compact

pedal assist e-bike

that would be maybe a utility

vehicle with a cargo rack as well

with some integrated lighting revealed

the revealed form resembles

a hybrid compact

go cycle if that makes any sense

to you also

capital A

also said

it plans

to launch its first

flagship product early 2026

hey I'm telling you

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that's your podcast for today

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