It's EV News briefly for Monday, 4th of March. Everything Evie in less than five minutes.

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ad-free. Be like them by clicking on a link in the show notes. Hyundai's Ironik 5 gets better

over the weekend on Sunday. It was unveiled in South Korea. A bigger battery for the Ironik 5

matching the Sporty N version.

So 77.4 goes to 84 kilowatt hours.

And that is, what, 321 miles was the old WLTP, and way under 300 EPA.

So that's new some really good stuff for the mileage.

But it gets better as well.

Better interior updates. New steering wheel. They have sorted out the software over-the-air updates for all

the EV systems. Hyundai famously having their map and navigation buttons, which do the same thing.

That's now one button. Hurrah! I always thought it was weird in my

Kona. Two buttons, one thing. And also some exterior and interior changes, which really bring the

Arnic Five up to its competitors. Now, Leaf owners in the UK not happy, waking up to emails

this morning from Nissan saying that about 3,000 owners of the leaf and the

ENV 200 from 2016 or before will lose their app access from the 1st of April.

This is no April Fool's joke because of the network's 2G shut down.

Now 2G is going to be turned on until 233, I think, according to Offcom in the UK.

So not like 2G is being closed down, but the 2G chips inside those Leafs are going

to stop being supported by Nissan.

And, well, I guess they could do a recall and add 4G chips to those 3,000 vehicles, but

that would be expensive and lengthy and they don't need to because they've sold the cars.

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