It's EV News briefly for Friday, March the 7th, Everything EV in just over four minutes.

If you haven't got the full 27 or so minutes needed for today's big old podcast,

this will get you up to date with everything you need to know in super quick time.

Let's start with Volkswagen unveiling the ID, everyone made in Europe for Europe.

And they described it as the car the world has been waiting for.

Wow, that's setting some expectations, isn't it?

It's going to cost around 17,000 pounds and be slightly larger than an up, but they'll retire the up at some point and it'll be the smallest car they make.

Cadillac, on the other hand, launched the biggest car, and that is the Escalade IQ made bigger.

The IQL, not made the wheelbase longer like they often do with making stretch cars, but they've added

a big old bottom onto it, so adding boot space and third row leg room that way. Reno 4's

E-Tech is now on sale in Germany

from 29,400 euros. In the UK, we still don't, we still buy the Renault 4 pass to get a queue.

But if you are in Europe, you might be to buy this vehicle now. Two versions, urban range with a

40-kil-watt hour pack and the comfort range with a 52 kilowatt hour pack.

Staying in France, the Alpine 390 crossover.

This is going to be a high-end 100 grand vehicle, by the way.

Trimotor, one on the front, two on the rear axle.

It's going to be a very high-end vehicle built on Renault Group's Amper medium EV platform,

even with an F1-style driver's mode where it'll move the pedals and the seat in a Formula One position. Wow. BYD is updating the Atto3 and the Dolphin models. They're adding

the letters B-YD on the back, rather than writing, Build Your Dreams, which I think is a shame.

I like seeing Builders. But more importantly, they're adding their ADAS system, which they're bundling with it. Now, it's different versions of either God's

eye or Dye pilot, depending on what it's called. However, the camera-based system, even on their

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