07 Feb 2025 | VW ID.1 and ID.2 City Cars, Nissan/Honda Merger Is Off and Europeans Shun Tesla In January
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Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:50.3 | All innovation starts with an idea, a spark of inspiration that can take us to places we never thought possible. |
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| 1:02.9 | With an average funding award to UK businesses of over £500,000 and the chance to build a network of like-minded collaborators, Horizon Europe can help |
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| 1:40.1 | Welcome back to EV News Daily. |
| 1:41.3 | Coming up today, the VW ID1 and ID2 City Cars. Nissan's Honda merger is off and European's Shun Tesla in January. Plus stay tuned because later in the show, I'll tell you why plug-in hybrids are being reassessed by the regulators because the owners don't always charge them. Well, good morning, good afternoon or good evening, wherever you are in the world. It's EV News Daily. Your trusted source of EV information for Friday 7th of February. I'm Martin Lee, |
| 2:04.0 | and I go through every EV story so you don't have to. Patreon supporters get the shows out free. |
| 2:08.2 | Be like them by clicking on a link in the show notes. We'll start with news of two new |
| 2:12.4 | city cars. Well, the big headline is the smaller one, actually, the VWID1. Volkswagen will introduce a new car next month that will lead to an affordable electric vehicle priced around £17,000 or 20,000 euros. |
| 2:25.3 | This new entry-level model referred to as the ID-1, but possibly an ID-Up is going to start production in two years' time. |
| 2:32.7 | ID1 will share a platform with ID2, which is similar in size to Volkswagen's polo. |
| 2:37.3 | This platform is shorter than the MEB modular architecture. |
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