It's TV News briefly for Thursday, July 18th.

Everything you need to know in less than five minutes if you haven't got the half an hour needed for today's full podcast.

Sorry about that.

Which is why we do the short version, because I know you're busy.

Lucid.

Have set a new efficiency standard with the 2025 version of the Air Pure.

It's also the most affordable version.

They sell 430 miles of range from just 84

kilowatt hours in the battery. That's 5 miles per kilowatt hour efficiency, making it the most

efficient and therefore sustainable, EV on production, EV on sale. Porsche have unveiled a new

base version of the electric mann. Single motor, first time

they haven't driven all the wheels on a McCann. It starts at £67,000 in the UK.

Base model will start at $77,000 US dollars. Still the 800 volts electrical system, 100 kilowatt

hour battery, but more range and all the goodness from all the new

McCann stuff on that new platform that shares its lot of stuff with the Audi Q6, E-Trom.

Genesis will make their own luxury platform, and until now they've been using the EGMP architecture

that Hyundai's, Kiers and Genesis have all run on. But from next year, the Genesis

GV6 to be the last one using that shared platform and Genesis going their own way for more

premium vehicles. Kia has been seen in the US testing, Kia EV6, with a native J-3400, that

otherwise known as NAC, the Tesla connector, on the side of their vehicle.

Now, we think that their cars will come out sometime early next year with native NACsports,

and so that's about the right timeline for those cars to be out there testing.

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