TV news briefly for Friday the 14th of June.

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The Jeep Renegade EV will be revived as an electric car in 27, transforming it to a $25,000 vehicle.

Though at the launch, it was unclear to me, even though Stalanta CEO Carlos DeVarres was speaking,

whether that $25,000 figure was before or after an included federal tax credit.

But either way, it's exciting for Jeep fans.

If you haven't rethought your definition of what a smart car is, the smart brand, as it were,

you need to change your brain a bit because it's no longer about small city cars.

The smart, hashtag 5, I think I have to call it, not number 5, but hashtag five is an electric SUV that's got

some big dimensions. It's 4.7 meters long. That's 185 inches. And it's two meters wide. That's

over 76 inches. This is a proper big family SUV that could well be a three-row vehicle if they

wanted to squeeze some in, but it'll be a five-seat, a hundred kilowatt-hour battery and all that

kind of stuff. So you need to rethink what Smart is doing these days. The Ford Explorer pricing for the

UK reveals that it starts at £40,000, but it will go up. The Explorer offers a real-world range

on the single motor version of 320 miles. That is

515 kilometers. A single motor recharging at 135 kilowatts and 15 kilowatt. Peak charge speed on

the dual motor. No surprise based on the VWMEB platform. Ford from the 1st of July is authorising all of its dealers

to sell the company's electric vehicles ending the Model E certification program, which had required

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