BRIEFLY: Lucid, Charging Win, Jaguar & more | 26 Jan 2026
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Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 28 January 2026
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It's EV News Briefly for Monday 26 January 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 | This is Sarah's last game before she does her self-assessment. |
| 0:03.9 | Like her last last-last game, and the last-last-game before that? |
| 0:08.1 | Classic. |
| 0:09.7 | Come on, Sarah! The deadline is 31st of January. |
| 0:12.5 | Less distraction, more action. |
| 0:14.3 | Don't be like, Sarah. Visitgov.uk.org. |
| 0:16.4 | Forenslasessment today. |
| 0:18.5 | Payment support may be available. |
| 0:20.1 | This is Sarah's last game before she does her self-assessment. Like her last, last, last game, and the last, last, game before that? Classic. Come on, Sarah! The deadline is 31st of January. Less distraction, more action. Don't be like, Sarah. Visitgov.uk.org. Forward slash self-assessment today. Payment support may be available. It's EV News briefly. For Monday 26th of January, Everything Evie in less than five minutes if you're short a time. Here we go. Lucid's betting its future on its $50,000 SUV and they just made their first prototype at their Arizona plant. We should get details this summer, maybe some strategy update on an investor call in March, |
| 0:57.9 | and the car should be out by the end of the year. |
| 1:00.5 | A federal judge just ruled, a final ruling, we knew this was incoming, |
| 1:05.0 | that the Trump administration broke the law when, without justification, |
| 1:10.0 | it immediately halted funding for the NEVI |
| 1:13.2 | NEVI charging program in America. U.S. District judges have now said that they have to reinstate |
| 1:20.3 | the funding that have been agreed since 2021, and they didn't have the ability to just suddenly |
| 1:25.6 | withhold money from the states that were halfway |
| 1:27.7 | through the programs of putting charges in the ground. |
| 1:30.0 | That money will now be released. |
| 1:32.0 | But Congress could do it the legitimate way and try and divert almost a billion dollars from Nevy's EV charging budget to what they call other works, which is probably what they should have done in the beginning. But a judge has now rebuked |
| 1:46.6 | Trump and said that was illegal. Release the money. Jaguar is flirting with hybrids. According to the |
| 1:52.2 | Sunday Times yesterday, I don't believe this report. A lot's gone wrong at Jaguar recently. Miss steps |
| 1:58.7 | in that crazy marketing campaign. Okay, so it got attention. But then also |
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