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Citroen is launching a van version of their little EC3. Think the Renault Zoe van EV,

or in combustion world, the little Ford Fiesta vans.

Ford have sold thousands of those things.

And with the 44 kilowatt hour battery and 200 miles of range and no rear seats,

if you don't need to carry a pallet, but you do need some sort of van for work and not a pickup truck or a transit,

Citroen say there's a market for this, and it costs

15,000 pounds, by the way, so that's pretty handy pricing. That is with the plug-in van

grant, which still exists. Cadillac is launching right-hand drive models, this time in Japan,

but remember right-hand drive is Aussie, New Zealand, here in the UK as well. Right-hand drive

version of the lyric starts at an

equivalent of about 65,000 euros equivalent. And so yes, it's on Chathamo and there's about 10,000

chattamo charges in Japan. They're pretty slow, 50s or 90s, 90 kilowatt charging. So not massive speeds there. And yeah, it's about 11 million

yen. So quite expensive to import those vehicles in, but I wouldn't mind a right-hand drive. Optic,

Vistic, Lyric here in the UK. Cadillac is expecting one third of their vehicles sold in the United

States this year to be pure electric as they aim for 30 to 35% of their

brand to be cars like the ones I've mentioned, the Escalade IQ, the optic, the entry level

crossover along with the lyric, the three-roadvistic.

And of course, there's the Celestic as well, which is $300,000 plus.

Volkswagen is considering an electric off-roader.

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