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Today, Rivian R2 first reviews Canada to fund charges
and VW strikes tariff deal for CUPRA.
Plus stay tuned, later in the show,
I'll tell you Volvo's latest EV platform
and how it could pave the way
for more trademark low-slung wagons.
On EV News China today, our spin-off podcast
that's about 20 minutes long today
where we look at what's happening in the East
and what it means for the global EV industry.
It's not for everyone, I get it,
but it's got a big audience now.
It's smaller than this podcast,
but I didn't think that I'd be doing it for long
after we did it as a month, as a trial last summer,
and here we are still doing it.
There's a lot happening in China
which people want to understand
from a Western perspective,
and so that's the service
that I'm trying to offer in addition to this as well,
and it's going that okay.
Today, we're talking about China autosale
slumping in January.
The denser Z9, the Z9 GT,
getting massive batteries and more range and more power.
And the smart hashtag six.
Not wild about that hashtag naming,
but the vehicles blending what they say
is German precision design
and Chinese technology.
That's a G. Lee Mercedes partnership.
Very nice, big, big vehicle.
Twice the length of the original Smart 4.2, by the way.
I think it's the wheelbase is twice the length.
All right, let's move on.
Rivians R2 prototypes made their media debut
with their first test drives
including YouTuber Doug DeMiro.
Probably my favorite one.
There's loads of first drives out there,
but Doug's, I think it's probably the longest,
which I just want to consume EV content all the time
if I get any time away from my children.
And his was the first one that I watched.
He has over 5 million subscribers, hugely influential.
He raved about it.
In fact, on a subsequent podcast
that he was even more effusive with his praise.
The smaller SUV targets a base price of $45,000.
R1S, of course, starts at $80,000.
There's no saying that, guaranteeing that $45,000
will come anytime soon.
Why would you expect them to sell the cheapest,
stripped down one immediately?
But either way, the CEO, RJ Scarridge,
confirming in November, dual motor configuration
is the one they're launching with.
Full pricing, all the colors and all the options
are detailed in March, deliveries in spring.
So all the media drives of the R2s
were covered in some really cool,
it was actually a wrap, not even paint work or stickers.
It was, I think it was a full body wrap.
That looked really cool.
And Doug DiMiro says in his video
that the reason they did that was to not let you focus
on things like the final design studio paint choices,
which they're not ready to talk about.
And even things like panel gaps,
because he did do some close-ups
of where the panels weren't perfectly aligned.
Look, Rivian's still a startup in many ways,
and we can forgive them that
because these were pre-production vehicles,
which is why they painted them kind of funky colors.
They look, this is not the finished article,
but mechanically, we're pretty much getting there.
Now, his one that he was driving,
I'm not sure he gave these exact numbers,
I looked this up afterwards, 656 horsepower,
609 pound-feet of torque.
So, not to 60 miles an hour in 3.6 seconds.
They gave, obviously they gave the reviewers
the most powerful ones.
And you can always tell when car reviewers
are genuinely having fun,
smiling their face and stuff,
but they're talking to camera, Doug loved this.
So, 300 plus miles of range, battery pack size.
Not sure it was in the Doug video,
but again, I did some research
after I watched all of the Rivian R2 videos.
87.4 kilowatt-hour battery pack,
I think was the consensus.
Not too big, not too small.
Little Goldilocks pack, that one.
And so, a 30-minute charge, 10 to 80,
which has had pushback on that time
because China is doing like 12 minutes, 10 to 80,
15 minutes, 10 to 80.
The South Koreans with their 800-volt architecture,
and this isn't, by the way,
will do 18 minutes, 10 to 80% under ideal conditions.
Half hour is, that's Tesla territory,
which if you're in America, by the way,
and if you are comping this comparable with a Model Y,
then that might be your expectations on charging.
That's kind of slow for Europe
and it's incredibly slow for China.
But either way, I think for the US,
you're not a million miles away,
because that you're gonna be cross-shopping this with
for the most part on a half hour, 10 to 80.
That did have some pushback, not from Doug, from others.
How big is it?
Well, I'll tell you in American, figures 186 inches long,
which is 15 inches shorter than the R1S.
It's 2,000 pounds lighter than the R1S.
Okay, so it's inches and pounds.
But this is a global vehicle, eventually.
This will not be a European vehicle
to begin with, by any means.
Two-row, I should point that out
at the beginning of the review, two-row SUV.
And so, I think Tesla Model Y,
maybe Honda CR-V possibly.
So unibody construction, not body on frame.
Rivian replaced the R1's air suspension
with coil springs and active dampers,
which Doug says work brilliantly.
Yes, it's not the top of the line suspension,
but still very, very, very comfortable.
And the ground clearance is there.
It's almost 10 inches of ground clearance.
Model Y, which some people say in all-wheel drive trim,
you know, it could be kind of a utility vehicle.
Model Y is 6.6 inches.
And so this is very much about
a bit more soft-roading, possibly.
You're not going off-roading in this, but either way.
A power-operated rear window.
So the rear door and the rear window of that,
it drops down.
So you haven't got to open the tailgate
and the piece of glass physically goes downwards
in a downward direction inside the body of the door.
And that's really practical for a couple of reasons.
You can throw stuff in.
You can have maybe a surfboard sticking out of it
or some skis or something.
Or you can press a button inside the car
and it will drop like Fisker did.
May they rest in peace.
All of the windows and the back as well.
I think they call it California mode in Fisker.
Someone in the audience can correct me on that
if I'm wrong.
And that's just a really, really cool design touch.
Interior features include loads of storage.
Two glove boxes.
Why we call them a glove box?
I'm not sure I've ever put a glove in a glove box,
but we call them that, don't we?
Basically, large cabins to store your stuff.
For me, it's my spare glasses.
In case I lose them and I can't drive.
I don't know.
Lens falls out or something.
Spare glasses, insurance documents.
What else?
Charging cables.
There's no gloves in the glove box,
but it's got two big cubbies that you can put stuff
and shut the door on them.
Loads of cup, pull out, like pull out cup holders.
Even a little draw between the two front seats,
which they say is perfect for a box of tissues.
Didn't mention the brand of tissues that you'd have to buy,
but we designed it to fit a box of tissues.
I've no idea why.
And then some vertically mounted discs
on the steering wheel.
So these look really nice actually.
They look like they're machined metal.
I think some of the reviews they were metal.
And so these are basically scroll wheels.
So think about a computer mouse.
I mean, okay, so I use a Mac with one of these magic mouse
things that you charge underneath it, but it's fine.
And that hasn't got a scroll wheel on.
But think about a scroll wheel on a mouse
but made a lot bigger and really nice kind of metal quality.
They have got two of those on the steering wheel,
but they're big and chunky, not so little things.
And they look really, really good.
And you can use them to push,
you can put your hands, your fingers behind the steering wheel
and pull them towards you so they move.
Backwards and forwards up and down, you can scroll them.
And they do loads of vehicle functions
that looks really intuitive and clever and smart,
innovative and moving forward,
things like kind of the human and machine interaction.
I'm really excited for this.
Now, Doug is six foot four
and he had loads of room in the rear as well.
No central floor hump and there's loads of storage.
They say, Rivian said,
this is an interesting statistic in Doug's video
because he's a big lad.
They said that the rear seats, which fold flat,
so you can sleep in the vehicle.
A 95th percentile male in America
could lie in the back of it with the seats folded down.
And I took a short moment to process what that meant.
And I thought, oh no, I understand it.
Like, that's okay.
So apart from your real outliers,
nearly everybody could sleep in the back of this thing.
And which again is pointing towards
what they want to be known for,
which is adventure and using the vehicles
to maybe do some camping or head to the beach.
And yeah, this looks proper.
I must admit, I'm not gonna be first in line for an R2.
Don't need one, can't get one here.
But maybe right hand drive one day.
Maybe, maybe right hand drive one.
I've seen some Rivians in this country
that have been imported and they're very beautiful.
But I have, apart from my limited experience,
no desire to get a Rivian any time soon
because I can't get a Rivian any time soon.
But I'm excited for this vehicle.
Okay, let's move on.
We've been almost 10 minutes
talking about this set of reviews.
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as the country pursues their EV transition.
The funding package includes $5.7 million
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targeting truck emissions
and $7.2 million for EV education initiatives.
There's 30 of those.
That's really important.
You can call this podcast an EV education initiative
if you want and people have done over the years.
So that's a really important part
of raising the level of knowledge about EVs.
That's why we like EV news daily.
I get it, I do it
because I love you and I having this conversation
about electric vehicles.
And I guess we do, to an extent,
inform and educate.
Possibly occasionally entertain.
However, spending proper government money
on campaigns is really important.
Now get some of it wrong.
You throw government money at stuff.
It can't be perfectly efficient
to the last sense of spending.
I think you get more right than wrong
and you can chalk it off as a win.
This spending forms part of the broader strategy
of $1.5 billion of commitments in the auto industry.
The energy minister, Tim Hodgson,
confirmed a national charging infrastructure strategy
will be coming out later this year.
The political landscape is complex.
Prime Minister Mark Carney repealed Canada's EV sales mandate,
yet the Liberal government maintains a target of 75% EVs
by 2035.
Wouldn't worry too much about that.
It's a direction of travel.
It's an understanding of where we'll end up.
If we do it in 2032, 2037,
does it really matter?
As long as companies have a direction of travel for investment,
that's what we need.
Volkswagen's next in the news,
they've secured the European Union's first tariff exemption
for their Coupre Taviscan.
Now the Coupre Taviscan,
now obviously VW German company,
Coupre, the Spanish bit of a German company.
The Coupre Taviscan, electric SUV,
very good car by all intents and purposes,
a very European car.
But it's assembled in China.
And so it's going to avoid a 21% duty
by meeting a minimum import price,
accepting an annual import quota
and committing to battery electric investments in Europe.
The European Commission published the decision yesterday
following Volkswagen's application in December.
The framework emerged from an anti-substitue investigation
which is going to put tariffs on Chinese EVs.
And now the EU established individual tariff rates
for different automakers alongside the existing 10% surcharge.
Tesla negotiated down BYD, also down SAIC for instance,
got the 35% increase of tariffs on top of 10%.
Chinese EV makers now have three options,
pay the tariff, negotiate minimum price undertakings.
So basically price flaws,
hey, I'm an economist,
or establishing more European manufacturing,
which many of the Chinese names are doing.
The Taviscan delivered 36,000 units last year.
That's 11% of Cooper's business.
And the Taviscan tariffs coming in from China
affected them, they really affected their operating profits.
This is a huge bit of news.
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Now, if you'd like your eyes to water,
imagine being the finance team at Ford.
They've had to admit that their Model E division
lost $4.8 billion last year.
They reduced its 2025 operating loss
to just $4.8 billion from $5.1 billion previously.
Though the unit continues to burn cash model
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So Mustang Mach E, F-150 Lightning.
Over here, we have the European Capri and Explorer
built in Cologne.
Not fantastically formalness with you
because they're very expensive for what they are.
Good vehicles.
And for people that I know that have got them, love them,
and they look great.
They're just not the cheapest.
Ford pulled back on its electric plans.
The company discontinued F-150 Lightning.
They paused it, then they halted it.
The canceled T3 next-gen truck electric pickup won't enter.
The market segment they were going to.
Revenue at Ford has actually been doing all right.
And the general numbers at Ford have been doing all right.
But the electric division has made some missteps.
I think we'll call them that and facing issues.
Kia's next in the news, the EV2.
The EV2 prototype actually did that L-shaped thing
that I've talked about a couple of times in Norway,
where they go through the Norwegian mountains in winter.
The little prototype under camo.
Still, did 310.6 kilometers in the coldest addition on record.
Temperatures were minus 21 degrees Celsius,
where the vehicle operated.
Minus 31 was recorded on the route.
The GT Line prototype has a 61 kilowatt-hour pack,
runs on 19-inch wheels, the 400-volt version of their architecture.
It ran for five hours before running out of juice.
And that's 24% off of what they say it's WLTP target is.
That's not bad.
In extreme cold, combustion cars suffer.
Fluids and oils get more sticky.
The tires get harder on all cars.
So for an EV, to be down 25%, it's incredible.
It put the prototype first in running time.
It put the prototype first in range retention
among all participants in the test.
So they run all the vehicles in the same place,
identical roads, same conditions.
Kia addressed winter charging performance at the event.
The EV2 did 10 to 80 in 36 minutes,
in those sub-zero temperatures, by the way,
six minutes longer than ideal conditions.
This is amazing.
This is the 400-volt version of EGMP.
And this result, admittedly of the prototype vehicle,
shows how far EV engineering has come.
The EV4 was also in the same test, by the way.
EV4 is the European one they make in Slovakia.
That has an 81.4 kilowatt-hour pack.
And that did 390Ks against its WLTP of 594.
So again, same platform, but not as efficient.
So they'll make the EV2 at Autoland Slovakia
for the European market.
Standard range will be 42 kilowatt-hour pack.
Long range and the GT versions will be the bigger battery pack.
We should get those vehicles in June.
Now, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration
to unfreeze five billion US dollars in nevy funding.
That's national electric vehicle infrastructure money.
This happened yesterday on February the 10th,
after an unlawful suspension attempt.
The legal victory for charging deployment now faces a new threat.
The US Department of Transportation
wants to raise domestic content requirements
of the federally funded charges
from the current 55% of domestic content.
So how do the Republicans block the nevy money?
Now they've been told the president couldn't do it
with the stroke of a pen.
What is within their power is they
can raise the content requirements
to 100% of the vehicle charges.
So we can argue between you, whether that's
a good or a bad thing.
No charging station operating today, though,
meets that threshold of 100% of components
being American made.
So most EV charging supply chains at some point
run through or near China.
And that has supplied the majority of parts installed
in the US and Europe.
Many heavy subsidies have put charges in the ground.
The Plugin America organization, Ingrid Malmgren
from Plugin America, said that while things like enclosures,
cables, final assembly, it's all domestic.
The actual power modules themselves,
like the big circuit boards, if you like,
the power modules and the advanced electronics
come from global sources.
The Americans can't produce them.
And so the idea of 100% rule on charging stations,
everything coming domestically, is not realistic
with American manufacturing capability.
And so it can't be done.
And therefore, they found a way around it
to kill, once again, the nevy funding
to be charged in the ground for real, honest,
hard work in Americans to charge their EVs,
which is cheaper than going to buy gas
and to drive their car of choice.
But again, should federal money ever be done
to be subsidizing the oil industry,
subsidizing the gas industry,
subsidizing the EV industry?
That's all the same, surely, isn't it, right?
And yet a lot of government money gets spent
on the oil industry in various ways,
paying for cleanup, paying for tariffs,
and subsidies, and so it's hard not to read this
in any other way than a purely ideological hatred
of electric vehicles for a reason
that I've never truly understood.
Although, the only thing I can think is that
when Trump stumbled into his kind of EV,
because Trump version one didn't hate EVs
when he was faster.
Trump version two, all I can guess
is when they started talking about it
in the campaigns, it must have resonated
with a core audience or a base,
and they just really lend into it.
And either that, or just the oil industry funding,
Musk's millions that got him elected
have had no effect on seeing EVs in a favorable way.
And so, yeah, I've never quite worked out,
I just don't understand the political aspect of EVs.
Who cares?
Like, I don't really care if it's petrol,
or diesel, or electric, or hydrogen,
or how you take your kids to school.
Time to understand it.
But something changed in America
where EVs got politicized.
You know, it hasn't happened around the world.
So I wonder, I'll have the time to think about it,
and maybe we'll, I'm just guessing
it was a confluence of factors possibly.
Let's move on.
LISIS and the European Investment Bank
have signed a 600 million euro deal,
a financing agreement,
to put 24,000 zero emission vehicles in 10 countries,
Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, and more,
into the LISIS fleet.
The Pan-European Clean Fleet Transport Project splits evenly
with the European Investment Bank providing 300 million
and LISIS matching the other 300 million
for that even split.
It's a joint venture between Stellantis
and a French credit agreement,
and road transport accounts for about a quarter
of the greenhouse gas emissions here in,
or at least in the European Union,
of which we're not part since Brexit.
But the passenger cars are by far and away
the largest shares.
This is a great bit of news for people getting into EVs
and leasing electric vehicles
and reducing emissions as well.
Now finally, Volvo's new platform,
SPA3 or SPA3, as I've heard it called,
this new platform, which is only underneath
the most recent EX-60.
And Volvo say we designed it as a Volvo thing.
Not as a Geely thing, not as a China thing,
but as a Volvo, it's a Swedish thing.
So they say this could mean we can make low-slung estates
that we're famous for, like the S60, V90,
the sedans and estate cars in an EV world.
So this is a shift because five of Volvo's
six current models are SUVs.
The ES90, Saloon, has to sit a lot higher
because it's a skateboard battery pack
and all EVs that have a skateboard
have a little bit of a height disadvantage.
The platform debuted on the EX-60 as I say
and it decouples the battery capacity from vehicle height.
The chief technology officer Anders Bell
said the SPA3 platform designed for EVs
is no compromise.
So they have no constraints like exhaust or fuel tanks
to think about on a platform war
that has to be used for both.
And so they say that they can have
a very low profile configuration of it
and therefore maybe that could be a return
of the low slungest state car, the wagon
that Volvo's famous for.
SPA3's front crash structure
because there's no engine accommodation
means the battery cells get spread across the floor plan
and forward of the scuttle.
The battery doesn't sit exclusively within the wheelbase
and so let's Volvo position seven kilowatt hours
of the pack further forward
but the crash structure is even safer.
And so the result next gen Volvos
can match the proportions of previous Volvo estates
and who knows maybe the next Volvo estate
that's all electric could return them
to what they're famous for.
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she knows the only thing more important
than having the right safety gear
is having it there when you need it.
That's why she partners with Granger for auto reordering.
So her team members can count on her
to have cut resistant gloves on hand
and each shift can run safely and efficiently.
Call 1-800-GRANGER, click Granger.com
or just stop by.
Granger for the ones who get it done.
If you're an HVAC technician and a call comes in,
Granger knows that you need a partner
that helps you find the right product,
and you know that when the first problem of the day
is a clanking blower motor,
there's no need to break a sweat.
With Granger's easy to use website and product details,
you're confident you'll soon have everything humming
right along.
Call 1-800-GRANGER, click Granger.com
or just stop by.
Granger for the ones who get it done.
If you're an HVAC technician and a call comes in,
Granger knows that you need a partner
that helps you find the right product, fast and hassle-free.
And you know that when the first problem of the day
is a clanking blower motor,
there's no need to break a sweat.
With Granger's easy to use website and product details,
you're confident you'll soon have
everything humming right along.
Call 1-800-GRANGER, click Granger.com
or just stop by.
Granger for the ones who get it done.
If you're the purchasing manager
at a manufacturing plant,
you know having a trusted partner makes all the difference.
That's why hands-down you count on Granger for auto-reordering.
With on-time restocks,
your team will have the cut-resistant gloves
they need at the start of their shift.
And you can end your day knowing they've got safety
well in hand.
Call 1-800-GRANGER, click Granger.com
or just stop by.
Granger for the ones who get it done.
About this episode
Rivian's R2 SUV prototype impresses reviewers like Doug DeMuro with its powerful dual-motor setup, 300+ mile range, and practical design features such as a power-operated rear window and ample storage. The R2 targets a $45,000 base price and aims for spring deliveries, offering a smaller, lighter alternative to the R1S with coil spring suspension and nearly 10 inches of ground clearance. Meanwhile, Canada plans funding for EV chargers, and VW secures a tariff deal for its Cupra brand. The episode also teases Volvo's new EV platform that could inspire low-slung wagons.
