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EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

26 Feb 2025 | Briefly

EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

Martyn Lee

Technology, Leisure, Automotive, Business

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

It's EV News Briefly for Wednesday 26 February 2025, everything you need to know in less than 5 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show.

I'll be back later but Patreon supporters get the episodes as soon as they're ready AND ad free. You can be like them by clicking here: https://www.patreon.com/EVNewsDaily

RAM REVEALS 2026 RAMCHARGER EREV SPECS https://evne.ws/4ifU7dv

ZEEKR REVEALS 007 GT SHOOTING BRAKE https://evne.ws/4iaWr5B

BYD INTRODUCES ATTO 2 ELECTRIC SUV IN FRANCE https://evne.ws/4hLcrLP

FARIZON SV ELECTRIC VAN NOW AVAILABLE IN UK https://evne.ws/4hQrbcn

TESLA FACES VANDALISM AND PUBLIC BACKLASH https://evne.ws/41uwKHM

TESLA FIRES SURGE IN GOTHENBURG LINKED TO SUSPECT https://evne.ws/3EWvZOT

STATE DEPARTMENT PAUSES TESLA ARMORED EV INITIATIVE https://evne.ws/4hSILfJ

ITALIAN AUTHORITIES INVESTIGATE MAJOR EV MAKERS FOR MISLEADING SPECS https://evne.ws/3CWYuLL

AFEELA EV PUBLIC VIEWING OPENS IN LA https://evne.ws/3QzW5tq

CIB PROVIDES $194M LOAN TO EXPAND EV CHARGING https://evne.ws/4hSIIk3

UK EXTENDS ELECTRIC VEHICLE GRANTS https://evne.ws/4khFmJe

VOLVO DISCONTINUES V60 POLESTAR ENGINEERED IN THE US https://evne.ws/41vzOTV

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's EV News briefly for Wednesday, 26th of February.

0:03.0

Everything EV in less than five minutes.

0:04.6

If you haven't got time for the full podcast, oh, it's a longie today over 26 minutes.

0:08.9

Don't blame you for listening to this short version of the show.

0:11.2

Patreon fans get them ad-free.

0:12.7

Be like them by clicking on a link in the show notes.

0:15.2

Ram has shared more details of the RAM Charger, the extended range electric vehicle that will have a 92 kilowatt hour battery,

0:22.5

but 70 kilowatt hours usable. That's a 20 kilowatt hour buffer. They don't want that thing

0:28.0

getting drained down to zero, do they? It's tagged to a 3.6-liter pent-star V6 engine for a total

0:34.3

of 700 miles or 12, 1100 kilometers, doing 145 miles on electric power alone

0:40.2

arrives before the end of this year. Zika revealed the 007 GT shooting break from the Zika brand

0:48.5

full of high-tech staff, so 800-volt architecture. It's like 4C or 4.5C charge rate on 100 kilowatt hour batteries.

0:57.1

So, you know, peaking at 400 or 450 kilowatts charge speed, it's crazy.

1:01.6

And all-wheel drive power, something like 640 horsepower on a vehicle that's maybe 35 or 40,000 US dollar's equivalent.

1:10.4

Will it come to Western market?

1:11.8

Zika-O7 GT will almost certainly not be called the 007.

1:16.1

Who owns James Bond these days?

1:17.9

I think the Broccoli family sold out to MGM, which is owned by Amazon.

1:22.2

So Bezos owns Bond now.

1:24.6

And I'm not sure Amazon will want it to be called the 007.

1:28.9

Almost certainly not.

1:34.8

But whatever they call it, just the Zika 7, GT, shooting break. Very, very nice if that arrives in Western markets. Now, B.YD is a car launching a Chinese car in France. So the Yuan

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