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🗓️ 18 February 2025
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0:00.0 | It's TV news briefly for Tuesday, February 18th. |
0:02.2 | Everything you be in less than five minutes. |
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0:10.3 | You can be like the Patreon supporters by clicking on a link in the show notes. |
0:13.7 | Now the electric and plug-in versions of the VW transporters and caravels begin deliveries this week in honor of the 75th anniversary of the VW bully, |
0:21.5 | a true commercial legend. |
0:23.7 | The new transporters and caravels have either the plug-in hybrid, e-hybrid version, |
0:28.8 | or the fully electric e-transporter and e-caravelle. |
0:32.6 | They are the Ford commercial vehicles. |
0:35.4 | That's the deal that VW have got. |
0:36.8 | They've VWed it in terms of the shape and the |
0:39.2 | inside and the experience and the materials, but these are engineered by Ford otherwise. |
0:44.5 | The E-hybrid version started at 46,000 euros in Germany for the transporter panel van. |
0:52.4 | The E-caravelle starts at 55 grand. |
0:54.8 | A hybrid version, but only coming in 2026, I think. |
1:00.7 | Otherwise, the electric versions have 64 kilowatt-hour battery, |
1:03.5 | which might be okay for maybe last mile deliveries and things like that. |
1:06.7 | But if you're looking for maybe a family vehicle |
1:09.1 | that could do everything from the school run to |
1:11.1 | heading across continent for a ski trip, you're going to want a bigger battery than 64-kilow-hours |
1:15.1 | and VW say. They might even bring a smaller urban battery and a bigger long-range battery if there's |
1:21.3 | demand. It's the final day to tell the UK government what you think about the zero-emission vehicle |
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