BRIEFLY: New Chevy Bolt, NHTSA Probes Tesla, Audi A4 EV & more | 11 Oct 2025
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Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 11 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | It's EV News briefly for Saturday, October the 11th. |
| 0:03.6 | Everything EV in less than five minutes, if you haven't got time for the full podcast on location today, if I sound a little bit different. |
| 0:11.5 | Right, we'll start with news of the new Bolt announced at the end of this week. |
| 0:15.3 | The new Chevy Bolt is going to be a really big deal because it will become the United States cheapest electric vehicle. |
| 0:21.6 | And the specs are really good. The battery pack has stayed the same size, that's 65 kilowatt hours, but it's gone LFP in terms of its chemistry, which is cheaper. |
| 0:29.6 | It also charge a lot faster, 150 kilowatt plus, that's two and a half times faster than the old bolt. And yet if you look at the pictures and think that's the same bolt EUV. |
| 0:39.5 | Well, you'd be right. |
| 0:40.7 | They've used the same sheet metal, the same stamping to get the vehicle to market a lot |
| 0:45.7 | quicker. |
| 0:46.0 | But with a vastly different tech stack underneath, running Google operating system, that's |
| 0:53.9 | really good stuff. Native NACs, |
| 0:56.5 | J-34 inlet on the side as well. Should come to dealers, less than 30 grand, or 29,000 or 29-990 |
| 1:03.3 | destination included early next year. Germany has committed $3 billion euros to new EV purchase incentives for low and middle income households. |
| 1:16.0 | The NHTSA, the US Traffic Safety Administration, opened an investigation this week into 2.88 million Tesla vehicles. |
| 1:24.3 | Now, this is to do with full self-driving, reports coming into the administration |
| 1:28.8 | from drivers who, under full self-driving, even though it's a system that very clearly says |
| 1:35.3 | you must be ready to take over, also promises a lot and often delivers a lot, but these are |
| 1:41.1 | cars that have been running red lights, going up one-way streets. And now the |
| 1:45.7 | NHTSA has opened an official investigation into cars misbehaving when they're using Tesla's |
| 1:52.3 | ADS systems. Kia is trialing cell level battery passports. And this would be a way to have real-time updates as well on your battery pack, |
| 2:04.2 | but at cell level. Now, if that information is available to you, that's great. They're talking |
| 2:10.2 | about how it would be available to things like technicians, dealers, maybe even central government |
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