[ARCHIVE] ev.news Briefly: Genesis, AUDI, EV Charging & more | 20 Aug 2026

0:00It's EV news briefly for Thursday 20th of August only today's headlines are nothing else in four minutes if you haven't got time for the full show. Genesis has revealed the final production version of the GV90 spectacular flagship SUV and a production version of the Neolun concept. It's largest most luxurious model yet 5.3 meters long 123.5 kilowatt hour battery 800 volts hardware architecture charging at 350 kilowatt so hits all the right spots. What is fascinating about this vehicle is it's on sale this month in South Korea early next year in Europe and the US 100 grand plus obviously but they've done away with the B pillar they've engineered it in a way as the both front and rear coach doors which can open independently pass all the crash tests and yet the two front seats driver and passenger can rotate round 180 degrees to make this kind of open lounge space it really quite incredible

1:01very premium very high end hope it finds some buyers. Auto China is importing homologating and registering Chinese market outies not the outies with four rings that new joint venture that's done away with those and is stylized a UDI in capitals there's two vehicles they make in China and they're going to bring them in but what about spare parts in case you're ding one of them or even the software which will be in Chinese or the A-DAS system and the LIDAR which is meant for Chinese roads so many questions they want to bring them into Germany and sell them here 68% of Australian EV owners are worried about charging infrastructure in a new survey in Australia plenty of people are not as worried about the range anxiety thing any more of EV drives very happy with price parity lower total cost of ownership but charging is still flagged up in infrastructure is something that Aussie's fear is lacking G Lee's new chief who has succeeded the founder

2:05and previous boss has said that they will use Volvo plants in Europe to build other G Lee vehicles premium ones like Lincoln Coase and Zekers from 2028 they got a plant in Gent for instance in Belgium that makes all those that could make premium G Lee vehicles and of course that would then do away with the Chinese import tariffs on VV's. Cherry will open a R&D center in Bedfordshire a county in the United Kingdom later this year tuning A-DAS systems and chassis for British roads they say Cherry is also going to launch in Germany early next year a new German headquarters of Frankfurt Gateway Gardens and a new place to show off vehicles but there's not actually going to be any electric cars to show off they're going to bring some hybrids and plug in hybrids in the first cherry electric car bev is I think the cherry Q that's a small more compact vehicle like a Renault 5 sized

3:09vehicle we should find out more we'll get all the details in October at the Paris Motor Show Hyundai and Genesis drivers in the United States are getting a new sweet deal charging at IONUP you can stack two 10% discount one of them expires end of September one of them is ongoing to get just 31 cents per kilowatt hour rate plus taxes and that can be done either through the app or through plug and charge not every car can do that there's eligible models like Arnick 5, 9 the new Cona electric I think can do that Genesis GV60 GV70 as well Hyundai and Kia are also partnering with colluser on smart charging adding some details to what I've told you about recently vehicle to grid should start in 2027 beginning in the UK but no more details and a Dutch insurer could unify which covers 1.8 million members has listed 14 car brands they won't ensure the likes of Changan, Voyer, KGM, Jeku, Omoda

4:10many of the Chinese names that's briefly