ev.news Briefly: Dacia, Germany, Kia & more | 09 Sep 2026

0:00It's even used briefly for Wednesday 9th of September, only today's headlines and nothing else in just 4 minutes. If you haven't got time for the full show, let's get into it. Dachia, move spring production from China to Slovenia, the 18,000 Euro second generation spring. Is shifting production from Wuhan to the Novermesto plant in Slovenia, starting at 18,000 euros. The whole range they sailed beyond 20,000 euros before incentives, making it eligible for European only subsidies and exempt from the EU tariffs on Chinese-built EVs. Engineering stays Chinese, though via Renault's Shanghai Centre. The car has a single 60 kilowatts front-mounted motor, a 27.5 kilowatt hour CATL-LFP pack, and should be good for 250 kilometers WLTP or 155 miles. German BEV registrations jumping 75% year on year in August, lifting the share from a 19 share to a 32.4 share of the new car market.

1:02Now the overall car market in Germany was up a couple of percent. So EVs clearly outperforming it. The bev sales are up now to a 26.2 share year to date. When you smooth out all the months that go up and down, that's huge. Overrequiter. Volkswagen still lead there. Volkswagen is... Sorry, Kia has launched the GT versions of the EV3, EV4 and EV5 in Europe, joining the EV6 GT and EV9 GT already on sale. So everything from hatchbacks to passbacks and compacts and mid-sized isn't even a big 3-row SUV. If you want yours quick in GT trim, you can outget it. But it's not universal. Like the EV4 GT and EV5 GT not going to the US. Some trims not coming to the UK. And 81.4 kilowatt hour battery stays with some new fancy-pans suspension and their new Whizbang technology which simulates a gas guzzle. If you really can't handle going fast in an EV without some room, room noises.

2:03Ford is weighing a compact car model on its universal electric vehicle platform, which it says would support everything down to a B size segment. I'll whisper it quietly. Could the Fiesta come back as an EV? That used to be a huge deal here in the UK. We can get a small, pure magene at the moment. But that would return Ford to a segment that they've long abandoned and are quite famous for. Now, the US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has written to Ford CEO Jim Farley on September 3rd, but then released the letter to the media for some reason, urging Ford to reconsider or even end any dealings that it has with Chinese companies. So there's the CATL deal with licensing their IP to make LFP packs on US soil at their Michigan plant. There's BYD talks, there's GD arrangement in Barcelona, there's the Lincoln Nautilus production and Ford dismissed it as a wrong headed attempt to generate some headlines for

3:04himself because just days before the White House itself praised the Michigan plant for US investment from US company, creating US jobs on the ground, not Chinese. I don't know. Icar, which in China is an Icar, but they can't because of Apple Ls. So the Australian debut of the ICA you are is happening at everything electric Sydney. It's a boxy retro style electric SUV from Cherries youth focused sub the brand. There's going to be loads of everything electric Sydney, the show ground from the 18th to the 20th of this month, everything from great wall motors to G-Lease and more. Looks like Cadillac are bringing back Apple CarPlay because the 2027 configurator of the Lyric has Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on it. I thought that was gone. It's back. Volkswagen are planning a long wheelbase version of the ID buzz cargo if you want to fit things 2.4 meters long. And a new survey in September of car dealers used car dealers here 83% say that the government

4:05should bring back a diesel scrapage scheme to get people into EVs and that is briefly.