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BRIEFLY: Jeep Grand Wagoneer, GV70 EREV, Aptera Secures $75M & more | 15 Oct 2025

EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

Martyn Lee

Technology, Leisure, Automotive, Business

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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It's EV News Briefly for Wednesday 15 October 2025, everything you need to know in less than 5 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show.

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REFRESHED JEEP GRAND WAGONEER GETS A RANGE-EXTENDED HYBRID VARIANT https://evne.ws/48r05GZ

MERCEDES REVEALS VISION ICONIC CONCEPT IN SHANGHAI https://evne.ws/3LboTJa

GENESIS GV70 ADDING HYBRID AND EREV https://evne.ws/3W69OLw

APTERA SECURES $75M AHEAD OF NASDAQ LISTING https://evne.ws/46U8Jg4

US CANCELS $7.6BN CLEAN ENERGY PROJECT GRANTS https://evne.ws/4n5pRnM

CALIFORNIA EVS REACH 29.1% OF NEW SALES https://evne.ws/4nPtD5M

SIEMENS LAUNCHES SICHARGE FLEX MEGAWATT DC CHARGING https://evne.ws/4q7Zwbg

NISSAN LEAF GETS ANOTHER RECALL OVER ITS BATTERIES https://evne.ws/3W58OqU

US AVERAGE NEW CAR PRICE TOPS $50,000 https://evne.ws/3IIjuJ6

GM ENDS HYDROTEC NEXT-GENERATION HYDROGEN DEVELOPMENT https://evne.ws/3J4aq1c

TESLA RAMPS SHANGHAI OUTPUT FOR Q4 2025 https://evne.ws/4oEryKf

VW TESTS QUANTUMSCAPE SOLID-STATE BATTERY IN DUCATI https://evne.ws/4q1ffZI

LUCID AIR SAPPHIRE WINS 2026 GERMAN PERFORMANCE CAR OF THE YEAR https://evne.ws/4ojTHG6

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's EV News briefly for Wednesday, October 15th. Everything EV in less than five minutes,

0:04.9

if you haven't got time for the full podcast. Here we go. The refreshed Jeep Grand Wagonier.

0:10.0

We'll be the only one you can get, by the way. They're getting rid of the standard wagon here.

0:13.2

And they're going to put an E-Rev power train into it. Now, this comes from the old RAM-1500 RAM charger, which is no more.

0:22.9

That's been officially cancelled.

0:24.7

I think it's now been called RAM-1500 REV or REV, which is annoying because it's an E-REV,

0:31.8

extended range electric vehicle.

0:35.1

Quite popular solution in China in the last 12 to 18 months. This uses an engine

0:38.9

as a generator never drives the wheels. 92 kilowatt hour pack, we think, going into the grand wagon here.

0:45.2

That'll be coming in 2026. Mercedes have been showing off their new vision for what EVs should look

0:50.6

like. And it looks awfully like a 1930s Mercedes coupe.

0:55.1

Huge bonnet, just an enormous hood.

0:57.3

That's not what you would make an EV look like if you were optimizing for the EVs.

1:02.5

Strengths, so I wonder what they're doing here, but either way, they've talked about how

1:06.4

the lane side will be a lounge for autonomy and all the things that they talk about with

1:10.3

concept cars.

1:11.2

Genesis is launching the GV70 with an extended range EV option.

1:16.6

There they say it'll have a total range of 620 miles or 1,000 kilometers when the small

1:21.9

combustion engine charges the battery. Electric motors drive the wheels again. GV70 getting

1:26.9

an EREV variant coming in

1:28.9

2026. App Terra say that they have secured access to $75 million ahead of a NASDAQ listing.

1:36.9

It's not an IPO or an SPACC that we've seen before, we've got a SPAC listing, but they say

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