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The BMW I4 gets better.

The base models, the 35 and 45 trim, get silicon carbide inverters, 4.5% better efficiency.

It's a small improvement,

I know, but it all stacks on top of other improvements. So more range, more WLTP Miles, and their new power topper as well, an M60, replacing the M50. Okay, it's 70,000 pounds, but that's a lot cheaper, for instance, than the combustion powered M4 CS, and it has like 50 more horsepower.

Jeep's new Wagon Air is going to be a plug-in slash electric extended range car.

You can plug it in.

It has got an engine.

It has got a big battery like the RAM charger. That's been spotted

testing and of course you'll be driving on electric motor power even if you have to sometimes

rely on that motor, that combustion motor to generate some electrons. The Kia EV-4 is out in South

Korea already. Should be out everywhere globally by the beginning of next year at least.

And then sometime in 2026, Kia confirming EV4 gets all-wheel drive and GT models as well,

like the Kia EV6 GT, is proper. And so we look forward to that. So EV4 is more of a Tesla Model 3

competitor, like a Model 3 performance.

G Lee's got another sub-brand.

This time it's pickups, and this time they call it an outdoor lifestyle sub-brand.

That's called Radar.

And one of their new pickups is called the Radar King Kong for work or personal use.

But these things start at like 20,000 US dollar equivalents or 160,000, 150,000 yuan.

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