It's EV News briefly for Wednesday, July the 9th, everything EV in less than five minutes.

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We'll start with news today of Kia's EV-5 getting its pricing in the UK, starting well under the 40,000 pound tax bracket for the so-called luxury car tax supplement. Keir EV-V-5, if you've seen the Keir-EV-9,

the big boxy three-row large version, it's like that, but on a hot wash and shrunk a little bit.

And if you like the styling, and I do, it's very much like that. Kia has a design language.

It's all very similar at the moment.

And it goes up against the combustion version of the Sportage.

So it's that segment.

Tesla Model Y, E5OH, Scott ENIAC, NIAX, new Nissan Leaf at the lower end, ARIA at the top of end,

ID4, ID5 combo.

So only one battery to pick from.

78 kilowatt hours usable, 81.4 gross.

An only front wheel drive, 400-volt version of the platform.

So peaking out about 150 kilowatts DC fast charging max on this.

Very important segment, very important vehicle.

And it's starting at 38,500 pounds for the air trim. Rivian is adding a kick

turn feature to their new quad motor R1Ts and R1S's. So hold down a left button on the steering

wheel, jab the accelerator and even when you're traveling up to 15 miles an hour in a forward

direction, the thing will pivot, turn, pivot, and do the same in the right direction as

well, which is an improvement on things like the G-Wagon, the Chinese cars we've seen that

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