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

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DACIA MOVES €17,900 SPRING PRODUCTION TO SLOVENIA
Dacia's second-generation Spring shifts production from Wuhan to Renault's Novo Mesto plant in Slovenia, starting at €18,000 with the whole range under €20,000 before incentives, making it eligible for European-only subsidies and exempt from EU tariffs on Chinese-built EVs. Engineering stays Chinese via Renault's Shanghai centre, and the car uses 60 kW front motor and 27.5 kWh CATL LFP battery for up to 250 km WLTP.
GERMAN BEV SALES RISE 75.1% IN AUGUST
German BEV registrations jumped 75.1% year-on-year in August, lifting share from 19% to 32.4% while the overall new-car market grew just 2.6%, and year-to-date BEV sales up 53.1%, for a 26.2% share. Volkswagen led, followed unchanged by Mercedes, BMW, Skoda and Audi, while Chinese challengers grew fastest.
KIA PUTS EV3, EV4 AND EV5 GTS ON SALE
Kia has launched GT versions of the EV3, EV4 and EV5 in Europe, joining the EV6 GT and EV9 GT to cover hatchback and fastback, compact, midsize and three-row SUV formats, though the EV4 GT Fastback skips the UK and neither the EV4 GT nor EV5 GT is planned for the US. All three pair dual-motor all-wheel drive with an 81.4 kWh battery and electronically controlled suspension, plus Kia's Virtual Gear Shift and Active Sound Design simulating a gas guzzler.
FORD CONSIDERS COMPACT VEHICLE FOR UEV PLATFORM
Ford is weighing a compact model on its Universal Electric Vehicle platform, which it says supports body styles from B-car size up to commercial vans. I’ll whisper it quietly, but could the Fiesta make a comeback as an EV? Such a car would return Ford to a segment it abandoned long ago.
DUFFY URGES FORD TO RECONSIDER OR END CHINESE DEALINGS
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wrote to Ford CEO Jim Farley on September 3, released to media yesterday, urging Ford to reconsider or end dealings with Chinese companies including its CATL licence, a Geely arrangement, reported BYD talks, Lincoln Nautilus production in China and a proposed Chinese-US joint venture framework. Ford dismissed it as a wrongheaded attempt to capture headlines, noting the White House praised the Michigan plant days before.
ICAUR V25 TO MAKE AUSTRALIAN DEBUT IN SYDNEY
The iCaur V25, a boxy retro-styled electric SUV from Chery's youth-focused sub-brand, headlines what organisers call the largest new-model line-up in Everything Electric history at Sydney Showground from September 18-20. Also debuting are Hyundai's STARIA Electric van, GWM's Haval H7 and Cannon PHEV, Cadillac's LYRIQ-V —plus Lepas L6 and L4 previews.
SEVERAL 2027 CADILLAC LYRIQ MODELS RETAIN CARPLAY, ANDROID AUTO
Cadillac's configurator lists Apple CarPlay and Android Auto as standard on several 2027 Lyriq models, an exception to GM's 2023 decision to strip phone mirroring from all future EVs.
VOLKSWAGEN PLANS LONG-WHEELBASE ID. BUZZ CARGO
Volkswagen is preparing a long-wheelbase ID. Buzz Cargo stretching about 5,000 mm — roughly 300 mm longer than the standard van — with cargo volume up from 3.9 to 4.4 cubic metres and load length from 2,208 to 2,405 mm, but maximum payload falling against the short-wheelbase van.
83% OF SURVEYED DEALERS BACK UK EV SCRAPPAGE SCHEME
September's Startline Used Car Tracker found 83% of surveyed dealers backing a UK scrappage scheme to support EV sales, with only 6% opposing government intervention, 60% wanting the state to promote EV adoption, 61% citing affordability, 26% saying prices are out of reach for too many and 21% pointing to older polluting vehicles.
HOYMILES RELEASES 22 KW BIDIRECTIONAL EV CHARGER
Chinese energy-storage firm Hoymiles released its V2X DC Charger on 8 September, delivering up to 22 kW of bidirectional DC power so an EV can act as a home energy resource, providing backup via V2H during outages and enabling peak shaving and virtual power plant dispatch via V2G. It can draw directly from solar and battery storage, includes an EU MID-certified meter for energy monitoring, and claims 97% peak efficiency in both directions, with charging input of 240–980 V DC and output of 200–1,000 V DC, reversed during discharge.

ev.news China: NEVs Hit Record 65.2% Share, Zeekr Makes 200,000 7X & Denza Plans Cheaper Z9GT | 09 Sep 2026 Sep 09, 2026

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CHINA NEVS REACH RECORD 65.2% AUGUST SHARE https://evne.ws/egztt
ZEEKR MAKES 200,000 7X; IT HOME REPORTS PLANNED Q4 MODEL https://evne.ws/bk9xu
DENZA PLANS CHEAPER THREE-MOTOR Z9GT https://evne.ws/56lda
GEELY PANDA MINI GETS LIMITED-TIME 43,900 YUAN PRICE https://evne.ws/x4klk
SMART #2 APPEARS IN CHINA BEFORE PARIS PREMIERE https://evne.ws/z8gls
TESLA CHINA RETAIL SALES FALL TO 50,047 IN AUGUST https://evne.ws/fjr5b
CHINESE EV MAKERS EXPAND MUNICH R&D OPERATIONS https://evne.ws/zojst
XIAOMI AUTO AUGUST DELIVERIES FALL 17.15% https://evne.ws/k0as4
CHINESE BATTERY MAKERS OUTEARN EV MAKERS https://evne.ws/7ems7
AVATR REVEALS 9-SERIES SUV PLANNED FOR YEAR-END https://evne.ws/yejwo

ev.news Daily: Audi A2 Efficiency King, EVs Cost Third Less & Young Drivers Liken Petrol Cars To Landline Telephones | 08 Sep 2026 Sep 08, 2026

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AUDI A2 E-TRON STARTS AT €38,200 IN GERMANY https://evne.ws/qceb4
ICCT SAYS ELECTRIC CARS COST ONE THIRD LESS https://evne.ws/x0p0s
YOUNG DRIVERS SAY PETROL CARS ARE LIKE USING A LANDLINE TELEPHONE https://evne.ws/tdwbi
EUROPE’S EV FLEET HOLDS 600 GWH OF BATTERIES https://evne.ws/a47s2
LI AUTO PLANS EUROPEAN I6 DEBUT https://evne.ws/zkq2d
AVILOO EXTENDS BATTERY WARRANTY TO 24 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES https://evne.ws/h99k3
OSPREY GO STARTS CHARGING ON CONNECTION https://evne.ws/40rir
RUSSIA EV SALES MORE THAN DOUBLE IN SUMMER https://evne.ws/s0xry
PORT AUTHORITY LAUNCHES $45M ELECTRIC TRUCK PROGRAMME https://evne.ws/v8wov
TREK LAUNCHES ALLANT+ FS E-BIKE IN EUROPE https://evne.ws/tfkbm

ev.news China: Xiaomi Moves Into EREV Era with SkyNomad Series From $31,000 | 08 Sep 2026 Sep 08, 2026

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XIAOMI LAUNCHES SKY NOMAD EREV SUVS IN CHINA https://evne.ws/w6nth
LI AUTO PLANS 5C BATTERY ROLLOUT ACROSS RANGE https://evne.ws/mmdqw
WULING REVEALS STARLIGHT M PLUG-IN HYBRID MPV https://evne.ws/8el0n
AUDI PLAN WOULD SHIFT FOUR-RING BUSINESS TO FAW https://evne.ws/vecob
BEIJING TO HOLD SPECIALIZED 2027 EXHIBITION https://evne.ws/6t4yo
BYD SEEKS 2.5 MILLION OVERSEAS SALES IN 2027 https://evne.ws/57kmb
FANG CHENG BAO TI 6 SPOTTED IN CHINA https://evne.ws/3kre6
STELLANTIS IN MASERATI TALKS WITH HUAWEI AND JAC https://evne.ws/ugz4n

ev.news Daily: Rivian Rolls Out OS 2, ID.Polo See Early Demand and Hyundai Staria EV For Europe | 07 Sep 2026 Sep 07, 2026

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RIVIAN OS 2 REACHES BOTH R1 GENERATIONS https://evne.ws/nggu3
REPORTED ID. POLO ORDERS TOP 30,000 BEFORE LAUNCH https://evne.ws/ubjuj
HYUNDAI OPENS STARIA ELECTRIC ORDERS IN EUROPE https://evne.ws/nwo62
ELECTRIC VEHICLES OUTSELL PETROL CARS IN AUSTRALIA https://evne.ws/0bwba
UK ELECTRIC VAN SHARE HITS RECORD 16.3% https://evne.ws/32taf
US DIESEL AVERAGE REACHES $5.85 A GALLON https://evne.ws/pjxvo
BYD OFFERS UK DISCOUNTS OF UP TO £2,500 https://evne.ws/84xt0
SPD BACKS EU TARIFFS ON CHINESE PLUG-IN HYBRIDS https://evne.ws/r5nfn
BC2BC LAUNCHES WEST COAST TRUCK CHARGING CORRIDOR https://evne.ws/g0dbg
TESLA AND BYD DRIVE KOREAN IMPORT GROWTH https://evne.ws/pdk2x
STELLANTIS OFFERS REFURBISHED BATTERIES FOR MOST EV MODELS https://evne.ws/ctfwu

ev.news Briefly: Rivian, VW, Hyundai & more | 07 Sep 2026 Sep 07, 2026

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It's ev.news Briefly for Monday 07 September 2026, only todays headlines and nothing else, in just 4 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show.

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RIVIAN OS 2 REACHES BOTH R1 GENERATIONS
Rivian began rolling out update 2026.31 on Friday, extending RivianOS 2 to R1T and R1S models from both R1 generations alongside R2, adding a vertical status bar, quick controls and media player placeable on either side of the centre display, a rebuilt Settings 2 app with universal search, Real-Time Route Alerts for speed cameras and police presence in Google Maps navigation, and Rivian Unified Intelligence behind a "Hey Rivian" assistant that can control vehicle functions. Hardware still divides the platform: R2 and second-generation R1 vehicles run Unreal Engine 5 for real-time 3D visualisations while first-generation R1s stay on Unreal Engine 4 to preserve screen responsiveness, reflecting the first-gen's 17 electronic control units against the 2024 second-gen's seven-unit zonal architecture, dual Nvidia Drive AGX Orin processors and roughly ten times the processing power.
REPORTED ID. POLO ORDERS TOP 30,000 BEFORE LAUNCH
More than 30,000 orders for Volkswagen's ID. Polo, priced from €24,995 (about $29,000), have reportedly been placed across Europe before the hatchback's official sales launch, with pre-sales open since late April, demand strongest in Germany and most buyers ordering without having seen or driven the car. A major VW dealer group says the range is effectively sold out with waits of at least ten months, while Volkswagen attributes the delays to strong demand and capacity planned in advance at its Martorell plant in Spain, where it is progressively increasing production.
HYUNDAI OPENS STARIA ELECTRIC ORDERS IN EUROPE
Hyundai has opened European orders for the Staria Electric from €57,450 (about $66,800) for the German Trend nine-seater, using an 84 kWh battery, a 160 kW (218 hp) front motor, up to 430 km (267 miles) WLTP range and an 800V architecture that charges 10-80% in about 20 minutes at 350 kW, plus internal and external 16-amp V2L. At 5,253 mm it is 200 mm longer than the IONIQ 9 and larger than the Kia PV5 and VW ID. Buzz, with up to 1,303 litres of luggage space in nine-seat form, a Prime version adding electric sliding doors, powered tailgate, Highway Assistant 1.5 and a 230V socket, and a Calligraphy seven-seater from €66,950 ($77,800) with Nappa leather, BOSE audio and reclining second-row seats.
ELECTRIC VEHICLES OUTSELL PETROL CARS IN AUSTRALIA
Fully electric vehicles outsold petrol cars in Australia for the first time last month, with 27,078 EVs registered against 25,824 petrol and 23,608 diesel vehicles, taking one in four new-car sales. Including plug-in hybrids, battery-powered vehicles reached 36% of the market while petrol and diesel together fell below 50%, a shift BYD's Paul Ellis put down to falling reluctance and an influx of cheaper Chinese models, leaving public charging capacity as the open question.
UK ELECTRIC VAN SHARE HITS RECORD 16.3%
UK electric van registrations rose 25.9% to 2,395 units in August, a record 16.3% share of the light commercial vehicle market, with battery-electric vans at 11.0% of new LCV registrations in the year to August. August is traditionally a low-volume month ahead of September's numberplate change, so the share gain may overstate the trend and September will be the clearer test of sustained fleet demand.
US DIESEL AVERAGE REACHES $5.85 A GALLON
US diesel hit a record national average of $5.85 a gallon on Friday, according to AAA data cited by the New York Times, 55% above the level at the start of the US war against Iran in late February and above the previous peak set in 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine. Diesel powers heavy-duty pickups, commercial fleets and farming, so the rise feeds through to supermarket prices, landing weeks before the midterms in a political climate hostile to EVs despite the household cost relief that switching away from the pumps could deliver.
BYD OFFERS UK DISCOUNTS OF UP TO £2,500
BYD will cut UK prices by up to £2,500 ($3,300) across its DM-i plug-in and electric range from 10 to 21 September in what it calls its biggest-ever sales event, covering the Dolphin Surf, Dolphin, Sealion 07, Seal U DM-i and Atto 2 DM-i, as the UK's record 25.6% BEV share for the first eight months of 2026 still sits below the 33% mandate. The brand has registered more than 110,000 UK vehicles since March 2023, with registrations up 98% to over 48,000 through August and market share rising to 3.48% from 1.92%, and the Europe-specific Dolphin G DM-i arrives this month from £250 ($330) a month.
SPD BACKS EU TARIFFS ON CHINESE PLUG-IN HYBRIDS
Germany's Social Democratic Party has backed extending EU tariffs to Chinese plug-in hybrids, closing a gap in measures that levy up to 45% on Chinese-built electric vehicles but leave hybrids untouched, setting out the position in an economic-policy paper calling for more resolute protection against "unfair practices". The stance is a notable shift for the CDU's junior coalition partner, given Germany opposed the 2024 EV tariffs and has long resisted tough measures on China for fear of retaliation against key industries.
BC2BC LAUNCHES WEST COAST TRUCK CHARGING CORRIDOR
The British Columbia to Baja California ZEV Corridor, or BC2BC, has launched along the I-5, linking California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Baja California with an initial deployment of 20 EV charging stations and three hydrogen fuelling stations for the estimated 10,000 trucks using the route daily. CalSTA, CALSTART/Drive to Zero and UC Davis's Institute of Transportation Studies are coordinating planning and investment, with Volvo Group North America, Southern California Edison, Tesla, EV Realty and King Fio Trucking represented at the Port of Long Beach launch.
TESLA AND BYD DRIVE KOREAN IMPORT GROWTH
Imported vehicle sales in Korea rose 9.2% year on year to 29,817 units in August, driven largely by Tesla and BYD, while all five domestic carmakers recorded declines. Union walkouts from July into August lasted around 60 hours and were estimated to have cost about 55,000 vehicles of production, contributing alongside fewer summer holiday production days to a 7.6% fall at Kia, and growth in a market long led by BMW and Mercedes-Benz came mainly from lower-priced EVs.
STELLANTIS OFFERS REFURBISHED BATTERIES FOR MOST EV MODELS
Stellantis is making refurbished high-voltage batteries available for most battery-electric and plug-in hybrid models across its brands, remanufactured to OEM specification with the same performance characteristics and warranty terms as MOPAR original parts. The company says the approach extends product life and prevents waste, saving up to 80% of raw materials and up to 40% of CO2 emissions against new parts, building on its earlier supply of refurbished EV batteries for stationary storage including at Rome Airport.

ev.news China: Xiaomi Storms Past 800,000 Deliveries, Aistaland’s Triple-Motor EREV & Voyah Dream 9 Pre-Sales | 07 Sep 2026 Sep 07, 2026

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XIAOMI AUTO PASSES 800,000 DELIVERIES https://evne.ws/o4mw2
XIAOMI TO DEBUT DRAGONSCALE BATTERY WITH SKYNOMAD https://evne.ws/6elq4
VOYAH OPENS DREAM 9 PRE-SALES IN CHINA https://evne.ws/arn24
AISTALAND GX7 PRE-SALES START AT $37,000 https://evne.ws/cou57
CHANGAN OPENS QIYUAN Q06 PRE-SALES https://evne.ws/1nfmx
DENZA N8L EV SET FOR SEPTEMBER 14 LAUNCH https://evne.ws/my3ck
LI AUTO PLANS 2.65 BILLION YUAN SUNWODA EVB STAKE https://evne.ws/49yog
PROLOGIUM BEGINS 381 WH/KG CELL MASS PRODUCTION https://evne.ws/8ixyb
GEELY E2 REACHES BELGIAN DEALERS BEFORE LAUNCH https://evne.ws/rrhg3
CHINA IMPOSES LITHIUM BATTERY TAX https://evne.ws/dmkoh
CHINESE BRANDS OVERTAKE JAPANESE ON THREE-YEAR VALUES https://evne.ws/lmegx

ev.news Europe: Volkswagen Just Put Four EV Factories at Risk Sep 06, 2026

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Volkswagen is preparing to quit building cars at four German factories. Every one of them builds EVs.
On Thursday this week, in Wolfsburg, Volkswagen's supervisory board voted unanimously — a day ahead of schedule — to approve something called Future Plan 2030.
50,000 more job cuts by the end of the decade. The model range gutted and cut roughly in half by 2035. And four German plants placed under a review that could end vehicle production at all of them.
Those four plants are Emden. Zwickau. Hanover. And Audi's Neckarsulm.
Zwickau was the first large car factory in Europe converted entirely to electric vehicles and Emden was the second. Hanover currently builds the ID. Buzz whilst Neckarsulm builds the e-tron GT and the A6 e-tron.
Volkswagen spent something like 2.2bn euros converting Zwickau and Emden alone.
Six years later, the company says it cannot demonstrate a competitive future use for either of them.
So the question isn't "is Volkswagen in trouble."
We knew that already.
The question is why the factories it electrified hardest are the ones it now says it can’t justify - and what that tells you about how Europe built its EV industrial policy.

ev.news Daily: BEVs Become UK Favourite For First Time, Jeep/Ram EREVs Delayed & Hybrids Revealed As Hidden Polluters | 04 Sep 2026 Sep 04, 2026

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BEVS BECOME UKS LEADING POWER SOURCE DESPITE INDUSTRY PUSHBACK https://evne.ws/yacje
STELLANTIS SETS NOVEMBER JEEP, MID-APRIL RAM PRODUCTION https://evne.ws/upt50
PHEVS EMIT 4.6 TIMES OFFICIAL CO₂ VALUES https://evne.ws/6kkvf
FORD AIMS FOR 100,000 FATHOM SALES https://evne.ws/jlarm
BEVS OUTSELL PETROL AND DIESEL IN AUSTRALIA https://evne.ws/rarkh
BATTERY TRUCKS PROJECTED TO BEAT DIESEL COSTS https://evne.ws/bpm7x
MAN PARTNERS PLAN AROUND €400M FOR EUROPEAN SERVICE SITES https://evne.ws/wyh3d
WAYVE AND UBER OFFER LONDON AUTONOMOUS RIDES https://evne.ws/47nxs
BARCELONA OFFERS FOUR MILLION EUROS ELECTRIC BIKE SUBSIDIES https://evne.ws/o7rvv
XIAOMI SIGNS EIGHT GERMAN DEALER ARRANGEMENTS https://evne.ws/ikay0

ev.news Tech: When It Comes To Battery Health, High Mileage Is Not A Scary Number Sep 04, 2026

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Buying a used EV still comes with one major concern: what condition is the battery actually in?

A major new dataset from Austrian battery diagnostics company AVILOO, covering more than 500,000 battery-health tests across 20 popular EV models, suggests the picture is considerably better than many buyers might expect.

Even at 150,000 kilometres, median usable battery capacity across the models studied remained at roughly 87–94%.

But averages only tell part of the story.

Individual cars of the same model, age and mileage can have substantially different battery health, making traditional measures such as mileage a surprisingly poor guide to the condition of a used EV.

In this episode of ev.news Tech, I speak with Nathan Gore-Brown from TestEV, AVILOO’s distributor in Australia and New Zealand, about what actually determines EV battery ageing and how buyers can protect themselves.

TestEV is a Premium Partner of ev.news but this is not a paid promotion. I genuinely wanted to get Nathan's view on this as an insider.

The central conclusion is not a simplistic one: high mileage doesn't automatically mean a worn-out EV battery. Most batteries in this dataset appear to be ageing relatively slowly, but individual condition matters far more than the odometer alone.

For anyone buying a used electric car, an independent battery-health test may therefore be one of the most useful checks to make before money changes hands.

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