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🗓️ 26 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | It's TV news briefly for Wednesday, November 26th, everything you need to know but without listening to the 24 minutes on today's full podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | Mercedes-Benz have three stories at the beginning of the podcast today. |
| 0:11.9 | The first one is the CLA shooting break. |
| 0:15.2 | That's almost 500 miles on a charge in a state form or shooting break form. |
| 0:20.2 | But it starts at £47,000 here in the UK for an 85 kilowatt-hour battery, single motor on the cheaper version, still 268 horsepower and big range. |
| 0:32.3 | There's also a 350 version of that too, which is all-wheel drive. |
| 0:35.7 | And that's the same specs for the saloon version, |
| 0:38.3 | and the saloon version is now confirmed in terms of its EPA rating. So it's coming to North America, |
| 0:44.9 | its EPA at 374 miles. EPA is always a bit more realistic than WLTP. Still a very, very good number, |
| 0:53.3 | an 800-volt architecture, 320 kilowatt DC fast-charging. |
| 0:57.0 | And Mercedes-Benz teaming up with Starbucks. |
| 0:59.4 | If you pull off Interstate 5 in Red Bluff, California, you'll not only get a coffee stop, |
| 1:04.3 | but also in a 400-kilwatt caffeine boost equivalent for your car. |
| 1:10.3 | Mercedes-Benz high-power charging and Starbucks opening the first DC fast-charging hub there |
| 1:14.8 | with many, many more to come. |
| 1:17.4 | Tesla has hit a wall in Europe. |
| 1:20.2 | October's numbers halved on October last year, if you look at the year-on-year data, |
| 1:25.6 | and the market share of Tesla, which was 3% at one point. |
| 1:29.6 | That was a heyday. |
| 1:30.5 | Now we look back on it is 0.6%. |
| 1:34.2 | They sold only 6,964 cars across all of Europe in October, down from almost 14,000 for the same month last year. |
| 1:43.6 | So where are buyers going now? Well, |
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