BRIEFLY: Ford UEV, France, Ferrari & more | 17 Feb 2026
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Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
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It's EV News Briefly for Tuesday 17 February 2026, everything you need to know in less than 5 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show.
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| 0:00.0 | It's EV News briefly for Tuesday, 17th to February. |
| 0:03.0 | Everything EV in less than five minutes. |
| 0:05.1 | Let's get you up to speed as quick as we can if you haven't got time for the full podcast. |
| 0:09.2 | Ford has set out its platform for the UEV, universal EV platform. |
| 0:15.3 | The first vehicle on it will be a $30,000 pickup, mid-size pickup. |
| 0:19.9 | Think Maverick. |
| 0:22.0 | Of course, this will be for the smaller version the smaller battery version. They'll be bigger batteries. They'll be higher-specked versions, but you'll be |
| 0:27.3 | able to get into one from $30,000. And that's important because Ford need to make money at that |
| 0:33.2 | price point. And it doesn't need to have the biggest payload or towing capacity. It's not |
| 0:37.4 | going to be a large truck at all. This is going to be a 400-volt platform to keep the costs down. They say that every nut and bolt has been worked on, quite literally in terms of things sinking beneath the surface for a completely flat floor, moving to a 48 volts low voltage system, |
| 0:56.5 | thinking about how slippery the vehicles are as well, every marginal improvement to get |
| 1:01.3 | every last bit of range, which makes the battery smaller and cheaper. They say the battery is |
| 1:07.1 | still 40% of the vehicle cost and 25% of vehicle weight, and they have run a bounty |
| 1:11.8 | program to reward anybody on the project who's able to find those gains, not just the bit of |
| 1:17.1 | the business that they're working on. Well, on Ford, let's get into the rest of the news. |
| 1:22.0 | France has Bev Sales in January, up 50% year-on-year. In terms of private passenger cars, now 28.6%. We're heading |
| 1:33.1 | towards a third of France being pure Bev in January. That's great news. Ferrari have put a date |
| 1:39.5 | on their first electric car, the Luce, full public reveal in May, designed by Johnny Ive, former Apple |
| 1:48.2 | Design Chief, who was given, by the look of it, free rein. He says that we've designed |
| 1:53.1 | the car cohesive and singular, with the interior and exterior, the whole vehicle being designed |
| 1:58.9 | and not by committee. That's interesting. |
| 2:02.0 | The European Union are getting closer to floating this idea of a small class of EV, the M1E |
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