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By clicking on a link in the show notes, the GMC Hummer is updated for 2026, with new carbon-fiber edition versions coming out that actually quicker, not to 60 miles an hour, just less than 100 KPAH,

than a Tesla Model 3 performance. Isn't that crazy it weighs over twice? A Model 3 does.

Anyway, they've stripped some weight somehow out of the Hummer. It's got a big 200-kilwatt

hour pack, and it's got a new crab mode where the rear wheels are a bit more responsive as well, called King Crab mode.

And actually, that update will come to all Hummer owners with a free over-the-air update as well.

DS, the swanky-pants bit of CitroWM, has launched the updated number four, a premium compact hatchback with a new facieer.

BYD has announced they're going to base themselves

in Europe. Their European headquarters will be in Hungary in announcement alongside the Prime

Minister, Victor Orban in Budapest. The centre will create 2,000 jobs and service sales and after

sales, testing and development of local versions of BYD vehicles due to head to the European market.

Vin Fast is launching a new van in Vietnam. It's a little ditty one. It's about 12 feet long or about 3.8 meters.

And it's got a tight turning circle. It's got 2,000 litres of cargo space. It's called the ECVAN, E-City van, available in Vietnam by

VINFAST. RAM has once again postponed their EV trucks. They swapped them around.

The RAM 1500 Rev, that's a full EV, by the way, is going to be second. That's looking like

it's going to be a 2028 model year now. Wow, that was announced in 2023. But the RAM charger, which is the one with the big 100 kilowatt hour battery button engine to top it up if you need a range extender. That is now being pushed back to the first half of next year. But while they're talking extra validation testing

and stuff like that, I mean, better be safe than sorry, I guess, but that's another delay.

Europe car is boosting their vehicle rentals. They had 1.24 million electric rental days last year,

if that makes sense. It does, yeah, does it? And so that's going to get bigger in 2025,

they say. They're also dropping off electric vehicles in EVs and using e-bikes for delivering and collecting their rental cars as Europe car has their zero emission goals well and truly in sights. Gloucester Services in the UK has been named the best EV charging hub in Europe. Not in the world because that went to

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