4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to EV News Daily. Coming up today, Jaguar revealed their EV concept. Honda's prolog can't stop selling. |
0:06.3 | And Norway continues their EV tax breaks. Plus, stay tuned because later in the show, I'll tell you why VW are dealing with worker walkouts this week. |
0:14.3 | Well, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you're listening around the world. |
0:16.7 | Evie News Daily is your trusted source of EV information. For Thursday, 5th of December, I'm Martin Lee, and I go through every EV story, so you don't have to. |
0:25.5 | We'll start with the news of Jaguar, and they just unveiled and introduced their Type Zero, |
0:31.7 | or maybe I say Type I double O, concept car. |
0:34.0 | Look, this is very much a concept car. |
0:36.7 | This is a million years away from being |
0:39.5 | production ready. It differs significantly from its current models that Jaguar had on offer. |
0:46.4 | A very long body, a very long bonnet, as if there's like a massive V12 under it, a very low roof, handy for washing on a Sunday, |
0:56.9 | haven't got to climb up, and a very blocky, pretty much a squared off, I would say, square front |
1:02.3 | and square rear. It's kind of built out of Lego blocks, really. It's very unfinished, kind of a |
1:08.9 | computer design. It's got brass bars on the side, an oval steering wheel, |
1:14.4 | retractable screens, butterfly doors, a stone area that separates the driver and the passenger |
1:21.2 | areas, yes. It follows their philosophy that they're calling copy nothing. Well, they don't think |
1:26.6 | they have copied much out there |
1:27.9 | because this isn't a car that you can go buy, and it is a long way from what you would think a Jaguar |
1:33.4 | would look like. Jaguar's chief creative officer said that this approach is similar to the brand's |
1:38.9 | peak period with models like the E-Type and the XJS. Yes, but they were beautiful vehicles. And this is kind of a strange |
1:46.0 | concept car. It's bright pink as well, because they wanted to make a statement, I guess. |
1:52.6 | The rebranding has received some criticism over the last couple of days. Jaguar said they want |
1:57.8 | to innovate in the market and keep the brand relevant and desirable for the |
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