ev.news Briefly: UK Record, Jeep, PHEV Lies & more | 04 Sep 2026

0:00It's EV News briefly for Friday 4th of September, only today's headlines are nothing else. In four minutes, if you haven't got time for the full show, battery electric vehicles BEVs just took 30% of the UK's car market last month in August. That's up from 23% a year earlier, and that now makes BEVs the largest single-power train in this country ahead of anything else. Now, the UK until recently was even Europe's number one EV market. Germany's retaken. That's accolade, but still the UK is a huge car market in Europe, and for BEVs to be the biggest single-power train, it's a moment we should mark on the calendar. Now, if you had plug-in hybrids as well, it's almost 50%. Of cars, sold last month, passenger gas with a plug socket on the side, and that is comfortably ahead of the effective target for this year, which is 24.6%, according to new automotive. The actual target is a little higher, but car makers can do some trading and credits and stuff like that. So we're easily going to hit the UK

1:00target by the end of this year. It comes at a time when the car-making lobby are ferociously lobbying the UK government to lower those targets, because apparently they can never possibly hit them, they're losing billions. The targets are pie in the sky. Oops! He did not want to see August's numbers. By the way, the Chinese plug-in hybrids are selling really, really. Well, so the car-making industry should be careful what it wishes for. They want more leeway to sell more hybrids for longer, fast-2030. I think people who buy the Chinese versions of those, anyway, at least according to current numbers. Stellantis is next in the news. A supplier memo reviewed by automotive news. Schedules the E-Rev versions of the Jeep Grand Wagoneer for November, and the E-Rev Ram 1500 for mid-April. That's slipped by nine months. Plug-in hybrids, registered in 2023, emit almost five times their official CO2 amount. According to European Union rules, the regulators presume plug-in hybrids

2:01are travelling on their battery 80% of the time. The people actually bother to plug them in, turns out the real number is about 21%. And the car makers are getting a ton of CO2 credits for cars that are way more polluting than people think. Remind you of anything, cough, diesel gate, cough. It's that all over again. The Ford Fathom, the new electric truck. One report today from the Wall Street Journal says that internal estimates at Ford put that at 100,000 first-year sales. Now it is a 30-grand vehicle. I think that's with delivery, by the way, if the dealers play fair in the United States. But that would mean that easily slots in just behind Tesla, as an easily the number one non-Tessler, EV in America. Bevs in Australia, outsold both pure petrol and pure diesel in August, hitting over 27,000 bevs and guess what, of the top eight they were all made in China. Battery electric trucks could

3:01undercut diesel on total cost of ownership by up to 90% of kilometers traveled in Germany by 2030. It depends on certain baseline scenarios though, things like infrastructure being added in the right places. Wave and Uber just launched. Autonomous rides in London. It's the first partnership. It's the first autonomous cars that we've got in London actually. And beating Waymo to the punch, it's Ford Mustang, Muck E's with all the sensor suite attached to them. Although there is a safety driver in them for now, licensed by Transport for London. Barcelona is launching a 4 million euro subsidy scheme for electric bikes. Pedal electric bikes over the next four years. You can get 400 euros off one or 800 euros off a freight bike. Up to 40% of the pre-VAT cost to help people get on the road with electric bikes. And Xiaomi has done it. They have said we will enter Europe next week with our car next year with our cars. They're launching the announcement of the IFA show,

4:02which kicks off this today. They've signed eight agreements in Germany for Xiaomi to bring their EVs over here. That's briefly.