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if you haven't got time for the full podcast. Let's get into it. Stalantis of America will drop plug-in

hybrids. They say they're moving to mild plugless hybrids, but also extended range vehicles in time.

Whereas in Europe, Stalantis and Jeep completely the opposite, they used the Brussels Motor Show last week to push deeper into plug-in hybrids.

Fascinating how different geographies and regions are kind of moving in different directions,

also showing off a black edition of the Little Avenger that sold most a quarter of a million units now.

The Compass 4x E leaning into being off-road, they raised it a little bit, and the all-electric

global Wagoneer S flagship vehicle, 600 horsepower, over 100 kilowatt hour pack in that.

Keir also used the Brussels Motor Show to sharpen their electric range at the top end,

going GT, not GT line, because that's a

trim line. These are the proper GT versions of the vehicles. Kia EV3, EV4 and EV5 getting the

GT treatment. So that means they get performance tuning. Same power train, so same platform,

same battery, which in the three and the four is

81.2 kilowatt hours. In the EV5, quite a big SUV, that is actually an 85, 88 kilowatt hour

pack, sorry, but otherwise, yeah, tuned suspension, different drive characteristics, and the

proper GT treatment for those vehicles. They go on sale this

year. Stronger motors, all-wheel drive, but not particularly performance Tesla specs, as in

0 to 60 in 7 seconds, pretty much for all of those. And so, yeah, they're a bit warmer, but they're not really hot versions.

BMW have now left the test track and turned up on public German roads, all bit covered

in camouflage with the IX4.

So with this, they're going to mirror the X3 and the X4 from the power train, playbook,

straight into a V-World, so taking that IX3, that Neuer-classer vehicle, all the great tech, all the great

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