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January 2026. Yes we are very much into the new year now so I hope you've all had a good start
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let's welcome Roland and Riz. Hello Roland how are you? Good evening Tom, hey Riz,
good evening everyone, I'm Will, how are you? Very well nice to see you of course and nice to
see you as well Riz. Hello. Yeah good to be on um I think what is it nearly uh the end of January
well it's two-thirds of the way through anyway. Yeah I know right it's crazy it's going quick
unfortunately or fortunately maybe you can we should say lots of good things happening
this year I'm sure you're the horse you're the fast horse maybe we're talking EVs of course
well let's uh say hello to uh some of our regular viewers of course there are so many 78
joining already it's so nice of you all to to join us this evening for chat on all things EVs
hello to Snip3D he's got a question for us actually he says his Model Y long range
release is coming to an end great question thoughts on the top of the line Zika7x as a
refined replacement or anything else so leave your comments below for Snip3D
Gents I think honestly you know I think that Zika7x is probably up there in terms of the
substitute for Tesla Model Y particularly because it's uh it's the all-wheel-drive variant
you know I think the X-plane G6 is not bad but there's still no all-wheel-drive variant just yet
Gents what do you think? I agree good fantastic competitor go for a drive
compare the pair
nice yeah I've got obviously the other option is BYD C-line 7 as well I think that's
that's worth a mention too so yeah lots of options there uh hello Xander hello Pauline
hello for the Burbs hello Quavehead from British Burn hello Richard from Melbourne hello Senecro
uh hello Tassie Evie hello Sean Douglas hello it's only Dale all you early joiners thanks for
joining us today uh hello Andrew hello Midge hello Evie Az hello A1 Peck hello hello if you've uh
if you're joining us live leave a comment and if you're watching us very fully leave a comment
as well and hello to our listeners on audio podcast as well all righty well uh look I
might actually put the story up first I know this is not really news news but we kind of missed it
because I I was away in December so we might just refresh your memory that the Geely EX2 is confirmed
for Australia in the second half of 2026 which I think of all the small hatchbacks
Gents I'm going to call it now I think this is the one to look out for personally I think this is
the the one I've got my eye on it's a real drive it's very well priced it's in Thailand
at the moment for about 19 to 20 thousand Australian dollars equivalent so this could be the
one uh agree or disagree we'll start with Riz um yeah it's Sean's best-selling electric hatch it's
really nice I haven't actually had a chance to drive it Tom you may have already done so
um yeah and then you've got you know the new MG4 that's going to be front wheel drive
apparently um and yeah I think as a real drive car it's quite nice it just depends on what their
price is at I think if their price at anything more than 25 grand um it might not sell as well
but yeah Roland what do you reckon it doesn't look fast but I'm sure that it drives well
like if it's real drive it definitely drives well I'd be curious to know how the turning
circle would be though because with tiny cars I would expect a fantastic turning circle and if it
doesn't do that it's going to be very upset so what's a practical way of testing this turning
circle Roland when you like a standard metric some some car park somewhere which one so in my
in my head I don't have a specific car park but just on a uh quiet residential street where
you've got just two lanes as in you could drive down another car could drive up there's no room
for cars parked if there is a car parked then it's only one way and then you've got to give way
so basically where two cars get if you could do a three point turn in a tiny car then that's
pretty much okay in a big car you know if you get close to even four points on the right
tight street I think that's somewhat okay anything and that's pretty much where I play with the
numbers from there yeah nice you can do a full turn straight away then I don't even know I would
lost for words when we sing the praises yeah somewhere like maricville or somewhere in the inner
city of sydney right yeah yeah I mean yeah in a big car I know the streets you're talking about
where you got to give way that's uh it's exactly yeah right out yeah look it's we've got so many
small cars coming in the country at the moment uh in the next few months so Geely x2 obviously the
addo one it's already launched and the you know the ion uh ut as well that's also going to be
entering the country in I think quarter two this is here to g ac ion ut g ac ion obviously you've
got the v as well the v is in the country the bigger suv but I think this one could be a quite a
nice drive as well this one's got a slightly bigger battery too gents so if you want that
extra range this could be it uh this one is front wheel drive though as opposed to uh
I suppose the ex2 which is uh rear wheel drive what are your thoughts on on richard's statement here
the addo one will be easier in a gum tape death match but the addo one over the ex2 because
rear wheel drive is just not needed in the small city car yeah yes or no uh you know I kind of
agree you're not going to go that quick but you know what sometimes when it's your own car
when no one else is in the vehicle role it's I'm looking at both of you you just want to
just want to have a good go at it right sometimes
hmm I think looks wise it's probably a little bit too conventional I mean sorry not the ut
I was talking about the ex2 but the ut looks a little bit more classy I've seen even the
there was a at one of the shows I think it was shanghai um they had a ion ut ultra
which looked like a xiaomi su7 ultra um so it can be looked you know made to look a bit more
performance hatch uh but yeah I guess we'll have to compare these cars and also speaking of hatchbacks
knee of our fly potentially uh coming in the second half of this year and in New Zealand they have
the dong feng box or the nami box which you know I think uh could also be on the cars for Australia
yeah it'd be nice for neo to uh to give us some sort of uh official statement like you know we
know addo one officially here Geely that's from the Geely correspondence the ex2 and ion ut of
course uh officially announced this week as well so yeah hopefully in neo will give us their
announcement I think they're looking for for dealer partners really last time I heard neo yeah
distributors dealer partners that was sort of the the rumors anyway I'm not sure how far that's
progressed but the last official word was one of their executives mentioned something along the
lines of you know Australia and New Zealand is a key market and it's likely closer to the second
half of this year if not in the second half of this year so we'll see yeah what the neo do marketing
very well having seen neo at the Guangzhou and also the Shanghai show like they dress up the
firefly really well they put all sorts of skins on it looks fabulous so hopefully we'll see some
of those options in Australia as well um yeah he's uh coming for you riz riz drives like a
grandma i mean yeah it's a bit harsh i think isn't it i i do i have different fears i do drive in chill
mode most of the time and i've never tried that now roland you're very much like richard there
so basically you know i think richard has a joke that uh even you know when when his
daughters drive the model 3 performance they drive faster than me so it's it's all good
i i take that as a badge of honor no absolutely look like riz is giving plenty of lifts over
the last few years and he drives very safely so yeah no problems at all try stars always riz
um his question for us shorn is asking limited fund option choice question 2026 g6
versus 2026 s05 all-wheel drive good question i think the g6 is
is it is has it got an all-wheel drive version yeah yeah and here too yeah here too okay yeah
i was thinking the performance yeah um but s05 i think is a slightly smaller car
yeah i think s05 will be more like like uh the small to mid-sized right 4.5 4.6 meters whereas g6
is like a full mid-size for 4.7 so yeah it's kind of apples and oranges in my opinion but um
yeah i mean look i think it's so far from what i saw in in um in xiong xing last so a couple
years ago and oh the last year last year when i drove that car i think that's that's a real
drive as well i think that'll be a really good option i'm surprised it's not even here yet
actually um need more rural drive kind of mid-sized cars i thought they were showcasing that at
everything electric last year they were from memory that s05 was being previewed so yeah it's
and then again at the melbourne motor show in april so yeah maybe it's not too far
it's being spotted around in sydney i think s05 so fingers crossed soon yep fingers crossed
exactly this all the s05 will compete against the lights of the uh leap motor b10 mgs5
even the gsc i on v even the g lex e x5 even so yeah lots of lots of cars to play with
there in that sort of 40 to 50 000 price range so that's i think that's hotting up this year
has the pricing been announced for s5 i don't think so it's only down i don't think so
so guesses what do you think it's 40 45 it has to be under 40 now with all the competition even
this week um after just before christmas jake who had their j5 um e v for the first thousand
customers it was 36 990 drive away they've just extended that to the first 2000 customers
and now black interior is available as well so apparently there's been amazing demand for
that car that they've extended it further but i guess we will have to wait and see the sales figures
yeah fantastic i'll just just start finish producing that video today so that video is coming
guys uh the j5 it is a very good car and and uh it's hard to believe that price actually as rich
said that drive away of 36 990 for uh you know like it it we're just chatting off camera being
rolling it it's it looks like the range Rover evoke um to the point where it doesn't get any looks
because it looks like very much like that car right um and probably for half the price maybe even more
so um yeah it's very good value um let's keep going with the comments uh yeah expung is certainly
discounting their g6 so they clearly want to give away the current stock before announcing the
refresh in Australia can't be far away guys shortly the new g6 yeah i i don't think it is i've also
seen that is um on new zealand's website expung new zealand's website they've got the new g6
i don't know if the configurator is live yet but they're showcasing the new car and i don't
believe it's the case in australia yet so they're still running out the the last of the last
gen stock so yes it's not far at home yeah having seen the new g6 look to be super honest i
don't think there's a huge difference in terms of how it looks just cosmetic wise the drive quality
is better it is better um but like we just after the specs and the looks um yeah it's probably
very similar i think um you get nice touches like interior lighting uh manual vents so those kind
of things but yeah the drive quality will be the will be the clincher i guess to see whether you
you think it's worth the extra or waiting for the new car i should say it looks like out of one test
drives uh rolling out which is good um great to see looking forward to testing that car of course
i haven't driven that car yet uh little lambo as someone said earlier especially with the yellow
color uh we'll explain bring fsd this year well as an xn gp i i'm not sure i think they need to
first of all test xn gp in australia first i haven't seen or heard in doing any of that yet in the
country we know tesla spent a couple of years doing that testing for fsd so xp need to get
their act together i think i think the other part as well is that a lot of these cars aren't
equipped with the chips needed to do the xn gp i guess in the way you've experienced
that in showcase that tom in guangzhou with their touring chips so no no as far as i know the current
generation that is being sold in australia hasn't got the touring chip that came a bit later so um
and i'm not even sure if the new g6 has the i think it does i know the g7 has the touring
chip and the x9 does i'm not sure if the new g6 does maybe it has one others have two i don't
yeah i lose track as well um i know the g7 is pretty up to date so basically the i think it's
three even three touring chips chips i think so why have we'll have two when you have three three right
three months ago did i also see that um the xp x9 has been launched in indoe as well indonesia
i think it's being assembled there okay but when we see i think it was it was it last week
we showed the x9 uh it's from a sponsored i think augury it was yeah that's right it was your peak
roller that's right you couldn't join us last week but uh we did show that picture that's right
yeah good i mean look i think people move is uh probably going to take off as well pretty soon
so yeah good to see that and also obviously to compete with the zika 009 and the like as well
denser d9 i think has been approved as well
yep good that's uh that's a hybrid doesn't it like a hybrid
for me i think it was the electric version that got is electric and hybrid but i think the electric
electric one was definitely ideal yeah that got approved i think that's first cab off the rank
and then we'll see what else follows good good um here we go and as says the new g6 doesn't have
the chewing trip so far no overseas model has x and gb yep that that room that's actually yeah i think
that's what i heard as well on our last trip yep okay well let's uh let's keep pushing on so this
is not a full ev but we will mention anyway this is the bydc line eight which is a seven-seater
asking 56 990 uh so yeah uh not too many seven-seater plug-in hybrids i think jett so this is um
first of its kind too i think yeah one of the first ones i believe in um having sort of
seen it it's it's a it's quite a nice car i know this is the plug-in hybrid version
there's also rumors that we might get the full electric one later this year depending on how
the demand for this car goes uh because of course byd makes it nothing it's like something along the
lines of 800 kilowatts of power and a whole lot of other things so also i think in march they're
going to reveal the new um byd tang and harm which you know this is based on the tang um so
maybe there's more changes coming new battery tech and potentially even faster charging because there is
version two of flash charging has been sort of teased in china so how much faster can you go
than one megawatt but apparently somehow byd with their batteries in the hans and the tangs
last year could do it and apparently the next channel be even better yep china go big or go
home right one megawatt because never enough but um yeah that's where they've already got
they've already got two chargers one on each side or something i remember seeing the pictures
yeah look if if uh if byd bring an electric version of this i mean you'll compete with
obviously the likes of boba ex 90 uh ionic nine from Hyundai um kia ev 9 um yeah it's good could it
be one of the cheapest seven seaters if the top spec i think of this plug-in hybrid is around
seventy six seventy six yeah yeah so 77 that's what they've got a beat for a fully electric one
70 75 yep would be really good because it's considerably cheaper than any of those other
cars and then also model y l is available in south korea so it's only being manufactured in
Shanghai which means that it there's they're opening up for international markets and they've
also seen some approvals in europe for that car so that will be a six-seater that i suspect we might have
by the second quarter of this year i have no doubt it'll be the cheapest seven-seater ev if it if
and when it does arrive given that the kia ev 9 is about 90 plus grand still so that is the
cheapest i think cheapest seven-seater ev um so yeah i've no w rd will definitely undercut them all
no doubt might quickly touch on this story which some of you follow world politics might have seen
canada uh suddenly have well not suddenly but you know after some negotiation with with china
we'll be seeing more evs in their markets having dropped their tariff on chinese cars from 100 to
now six percent which was what it was pre pre pandemic well at least two or three years
ago before the current us administration so this is limited to 50 i think 50 000 uh evs coming into
canada and i think half of them must be below 35 000 uh canadian dollars so that's you know
pretty good deal for canada i think and um they will soon experience what we've been experiencing
here in uh in australia guys seeing more chinese evs so yeah i'm curious to see how this will
pan out for them um i'm sure the appetite for cheaper and better cars will probably you know
improve that deal as as time goes on too so that's good to see as john says yeah just highlighting
what i said 50 percent of models must cost below 35 000 ms rp so the likes of byd guys i'm sure
addo one addo two maybe the gili x2 as well those kind of cars will be entered the country soon
well i was on a meeting at 4am because you know i never sleep on the global ev association
and one of the committee members there is from canada and he was saying that they're very excited
for this change um but at the same time what the mainstream or general media over there's covering
is that the biggest beneficiary is actually going to be tesla because they're already
shipping cars from shanghai into canada and they already have logistics set up they have
close to 40 showrooms already there um so he was sort of mentioning that it's going to be tesla and
if they're lucky even byd so hang on that's in chinese made teslas chinese teslas right
so will the model three be sub 35 000 is that what they're expecting they could get the model three
standard all right which is starting production very soon in shanghai apparently already underway
three standard and why standard but don't know if that's going to be the case but
even if it's above sort of a little bit above 35 000 they won't face the 106 percent tariffs
it will be just 6.1 percent yeah i guess only 50 percent need to be under 35 so the half the
other half can be tesla i guess yeah yeah that's true that's a good loop hopeful them um
yeah that's that's very true um yes michael says just about any chinese car will be less
expensive than any uscv yeah that's very true for what we've seen here as well
interesting isn't it um i think setting up operation in any country is very expensive
and that's what some of these manufacturers will have to weigh up unless they can get
certainty that uh what happens after that 49 000 vehicle cap because just to put in the
perspective byd sold 52 000 around 52 000 cars in australia last year so you know byd can very easily
produce and deliver that many cars so yeah it will be quite interesting to see what the
what what happens after that to give certainty and whether these guys actually go and put
um factories and operations in canada which you know the way things are going it's the right thing to do
yeah i have no doubt that cap of 49 will will rise very quickly i suspect once we see more cars enter
i think that's a good market to keep tabs on there guys i think for the next few years for sure
um this question for riz do you think we'll see the model y long range rural drive in australia
uh very likely um i think it will what teslas done with the model three is quite interesting
they've obviously realized that not a lot of people really value the all-wheel drive component of it
they're just one more range uh we don't have a lot of the snowy conditions than things where you do
need you know that assurance of an all-wheel drive system um so yeah um i'd say probably q
early q2 i mean makes sense we've got the long range uh rural drive model three as you said we
don't need all drive really i mean it's nice to have that extra grip on rainy days but most of time
like rural drive long range is just a great great value buy uh so here is a nice picture from one
of our viewers mark h this is in foster uh in new south weles getting additional charges um
is that ampol i can't quite see my eyesight it's am charge yeah i'm charged so looks like it's not
far from being commissioned um foster's a great spot of course to stop all the new south world
new south wales mid north coast it's on the way up and down our coast so good thanks for that mark
and keep those pictures coming to you guys and girls if you see anything uh very close to being
opening or anything at all on the roads camouflaged cars uh riz or roland even if your spot
no just kidding if you see anything unusual let us know um all right so that's good that is a charger
and here's a bit of tesla news guys so this is uh i've seen this on x as well this week so looks like
looks like tesla might might be finding a way to uh bring fsd to hardware three owners which we
know are very keen to experience fsd um at the moment fsd is only available for hardware four
of course but hardware three owners hopefully we'll get some reprieve if tesla can work out a way to
bring the fsd software to hardware three owners uh quick question why is it that we only see really
patterns out of tesla and we don't see them out of any other brand as openly put out there
is it that innovation is not really there or it's not as open as it is with tesla i'm not
sure but it is good news for hardware three owners maybe this is that fsd light in the works
what's fsd light i'm curious to explore that uh what would that involve
well yes um and also in the same week um ilan has said they've pretty much finalized the
design of their hardware five ai5 chip which is expected to go into production next year
sometimes and ai4 aka hardware four is more than good enough for um fsd unsupervised which is what's
going to be in the robo taxis and the cybercaps um as well as uh optimus for what they're trying
to do at the moment so yeah the chip development is happening and i think um you know all the
chinese brands are really putting out their three chips four chips eight chips in a car
but we i think hardware four has only got two chips and i'm not sure what the five looks like so
five chips five chips yeah yeah look as long as it works it doesn't matter how many chips right
it's all uh technical must translate to reality or clinical in my opinion it's got to work
speaking of mr musk uh he did say this week that uh fsd uh will be will be sold i guess
in its entirety after february 14 uh which means it's only be subscription thereafter so
the question begs uh you know if the opportunity arises now to buy that outright for 10 grand
is it worth doing or is it just just subscribe as needed right this is the question
yeah i think the tech is getting like you know there will be hardware five
there'll be new things coming up uh i think being on a subscription makes a little bit more sense
um i had somebody i think i saw on x someone pulled up where like a tesla website from 2016
with model s on it and it said something along the lines of all the all our vehicles today
i have fsd or something along those lines it was one of the headlines on the website itself
so it's almost 10 years ago so you know technology is continuously changing and
i think now they're getting very very close but in my opinion subscription is the way to go
yeah yeah 100 subscribing is the way to go indeed look at music look at movies look at tvs it's
all subscription even software on the computers right you want to buy something from adobe it's
all subscription uh i suspect autopilot or fsd is probably the way to go for subscription
so i'm gonna start around adobe
i've opened their rob you this daytime robbery that one what have i done no
i was gonna say also take into consideration how long you have to keep the car
or there's a subscription cost because it's not transferable you might be able to be gloss
yep so true so true um subscription robots hey if you need a robot for a week
okay well speaking of which tesla changed their mission statement today
and it's no longer i think transit what was it transitioning the sustainable
yeah sustainable thing it's uh i think something along the lines of abundance for all so really
pushing for robotics and fst so abundance wow it's it's official it's it's official if anyone
spots it you can share it whatever they said okay it's very very vague very all-encompassing
well basically optimus will do everything for everyone at such an affordable price
and cars will drive themselves so you know every nobody would need to work because everything
will be so cheap what am i gonna do just sit on my butt all day like the that movie wally right
command the robot i just talked on tesla's website and the about us it says building a world of
amazing abundance so yes that's official oh don't go on amazing abundance very catchy right
okay look what would you would you attend a concert uh an ai concert that's what i'm asking
right would you still want to see humans before one stage or a robot before one stage
tom we have been to that remember the great wall motors event oh yeah in Sydney where there were all
these robots dressed in neons which are basically just people dressed up as robots so it's happening
and you go to the any of the auto shows all car companies are making robots i think cherry had
a real person in a robot sort of costume which i thought was actually a robot and then
they started talking to somebody else so then yeah so it's it's all getting very blurry now
we look at the recent ces show in Vegas right it's all about ai and robotics
dancing robots dancing dogs um saw this cute very very cute robotic toy i think that's
the future of toys remember the tamagotchi back in the 90s yeah so it feels like an extension
of that where ai is uh running this robot to engage with the children so it's it's happening
for sure um yeah someone richard wants to replace me with optimus would you would you watch optimus
for an hour or you can watch me fumble around for an hour it's up to you
i can i can have i can drink wine somewhere else um okay yeah let's uh let's keep going um
and i think someone mentioned earlier the uh the uh volvo ex 60 there's some leaked pics
according to a roland let's have a look there we go uh is this a five-seater or seven-seater
should be five five yeah only the 90s the seven-seater so this is sort of like your mid-sized
suv basically it looks a little bit like the um pulse star three almost almost
they're starting to merge together the pulse star design and the volvo design
so apparently this is going to be and this is apparently the australia's longest range eerie
that's what they're going for supposedly 810 wotp 810 how big is the battery
i think it's about 95 or 100 so it's decent size pretty big yeah okay i mean look if you can get
a battery that can do 600 k's even if it's say 800 wotp let's say 650 on the road that's not bad
that'll get you halfway to um what's that town the halfway town i always forget uh takata
between sydney and melbourne one charge and then off you go that has anyone done one charge yet
between sydney and melbourne i don't think that's possible yet is it someone so surely
someone's done it in the comments i've tried for years i just always have to stop twice
like i still need to pee that's the problem on two stops one one is pushing it even with our kids
so this would be quite interesting to see if it's 9500 kilowatt hours or whatever the pack is
800 kilometers a range um apparently it's uh it's the next version of android automotive so it
powered by gemini i hope it can do a lot more than what the previous version could with voice
recognition um but yeah this is going to be quite cool to see i've got my alarm set at
345 for a 4 a.m. live stream so we'll find out what it's like in a couple of hours
we know you don't sleep risk so yeah you can report back next week that's it
i'll be asleep i'll just call this tomorrow have a chat tomorrow uh yeah that should be good
i mean volvo obviously make good products um i guess honestly it's anything is the price right
volvo is pricey compared to what's price on the premium end it sure is it sure is and look it's
is it justified look it's got the brand obviously they do make nice products as roland and riz you
guys know ex 19 very nice car to drive around in um and uh some people just want the batch so yeah
okay i really hope they fix the software in this car because the software in the previous
cars hasn't been that's been the big let down everything else that do really well sorry roland
yeah i was going to say keep us informed that picture even though it's late doesn't have lighter
i'm just fingers crossing it doesn't matter yes good point because the ex 90 has that box in
australia which even volvo admitted to me does nothing it's uh and it certainly doesn't help on
the highway as i said with the cruise control sometimes it just just dies and you gotta
just stop on the highway and come you know start the car again so they have to fix that for sure
all right we'll keep an eye on i'm sure that'll come to australia eventually um
and i also wanted to share this so this i came across this post today um look you know there's
so many so many brands in china you know those of you travel to china you know how many
there are it's just hard to keep track of just car spotting on the road but check out this
image here so this is kind of a a mix of uh chinese own brands and foreign owned brands in china and
this is kind of like sales figures from 2025 right so last 12 months you can see byd's way ahead
that's no surprise there but uh for those who are questioning you know the likes of geely and the
others coming to australia how long will they last well just to give you an idea these are
big brands in china okay so you've got geely uh cherries number three uh boltzwagen obviously
we all know changan is up there so d-pal right d-pal made by changan mazda will be under changan as well
chat obviously gm Toyota then dong feng s a i c which is mg g w m b i c uh and and tesla is
all the way down here so that's that's where tesla stands in china so this is hopefully
they'll give you some scale of what what these brands are like in china i think seeing this
you know in graphic form surely that's enough to say look they should hopefully stay in australia
with these with a huge company like that backing them in china well dong feng i think is likely to
come and i also saw um well b a i c is very interested in our market as well so they've
got brands like ark fox and a couple of others um so yeah watch this space b i c maybe looking at
entering maybe in the second half of this year that's good yeah it's interesting times isn't it
i mean look at voltswagen at number four who would have thought voltswagen would be overtaken by these
three companies uh ten years ago right voltswagen Mercedes were huge in china before even toadah
toadah gm uh just languishing down there in the fifth and sixth seventh so interesting interesting
times ahead and uh look really i think you know coming up the beijing order show once again
we'll see more of this in action
should be good to your staff
all right well um look it's still january so uh yeah i'm sure there'll be more news of
evs coming very shortly that the year is still uh about you know not quite kicked into gear yet
but uh look i'm sure uh we'll see more announcements more events that we can cover
as the year goes on um you guys have any any news you want to share or any sort of
exciting vehicles you're loading in the next few weeks i haven't got anything lined up for a little
while um but you know uh i'm keen to see anyone that gets the add-on one uh that'd be cool um
your staff rolling anything happening nothing lined up but actually i saw earlier today i
haven't made a post about it so you're probably hearing it here first at adr approved something
snuck through a couple of days ago i don't know how widely it's known but we and we spoke about
the car earlier on on the show the x-fing g6 there is a standard range that actually snuck
through and got approved so now there is a standard range uh long range and like performance
that's coming well at least that's been approved so approved and actually what they say is getting
sold is obviously two different things but my guess is if they've spent the effort the time
and effort to get it approved why would you not sell it yeah totally yep yep yep the downside
based on paper numbers is the standard range is five kilowatts less than what it previously was
what's that the range or the uh no one terms of um the power output oh power of course that's
what rolling cares about i haven't looked at the rest but you heard it here first so i did they did
put it through the approval and there is now three okay okay good to see x-fing getting serious but uh
yeah look i'd like to see some sort of announcement uh on the new range of course that'd be good um
yeah and obviously the near firefly we talked about that earlier as well hopefully your announcement
soon um yeah lots of cars to see this here which is good um and i should have my jkuj5 video launching
very soon as well so wait for that should be hopefully launched after the stream so uh roll on
riz thank you very much for joining us as always uh riz thank you uh thanks for having me tom
it's been it's been good and uh i'm sure we've had plenty to chat about if anyone sees anything
once again on the road um charging site rolling tom themselves take a photo share it with us and uh
yeah and i'm looking forward to it absolutely yes always tag us and thank you rolling again
no thank you always great to be on thank you indeed we shall see you all next week everyone
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About this episode
Exciting developments in the EV market are highlighted, including the confirmation of the GAC Aion UT electric hatchback for Australia and the anticipated arrival of the Geely EX2. The hosts discuss various electric vehicles, their specifications, and potential competitors, such as the BYD C-line 7 and Zika7x. They also touch on the impact of tariff changes in Canada on EV imports and the future of Tesla's Full Self-Driving technology. The episode is packed with insights on upcoming models and market trends in the electric vehicle landscape.
Catch up on the latest in Electric Vehicle news from Australia and around the world! Hosted by Tom Gan of Ludicrous Feed, Riz Akhtar from Carloop and Roland Lam from Zapped
