BRIEFLY: Volvo EX60, Renault Twingo, GM Sales and more | 08 Jan 2026
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🗓️ 10 January 2026
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It's EV News Briefly for Thursday 08 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 | It's EV News briefly for Thursday 8th of January. Everything EV in less than five minutes. |
| 0:04.9 | We haven't got time for the full podcast. Let's get you up to speed. Volvo's EX60 is going to be revealed in a couple of weeks' time, but they've given us some early numbers. Range 505 miles on European WLTP, 400 or so on the EPA. |
| 0:27.2 | DC fast charging at 400 kilowatts, adding 210 miles in just 10 minutes. That is BMW IX3 territory. And we'll get to and find out more in a couple of |
| 0:35.5 | weeks' time with the full reveal of Volvo's X60. Talking to Volvo, their ex-designed chief, Thomas Inganlath, who left to go and make |
| 0:44.6 | Polestar its own thing, and then he went on to Gile, the mothership, to advise on design there |
| 0:50.7 | for everything from Volvo to Zika and Polestar on the rest is returning as Volvo's |
| 0:55.9 | chief designer and reconnecting with the former chief executive who had retired but they brought him |
| 1:01.8 | back at least for a couple of years. How can Samuel some to maybe get the band back together |
| 1:07.5 | and rekindle some of the magic. Renault have unveiled more details of the |
| 1:12.9 | Twingo E-Tech Electric. Twingo, very small car, by the way. So smaller than, I think, smaller than |
| 1:19.5 | Nissan Micro, but definitely that A-segment vehicle, very small, AMPR small platform, less than |
| 1:25.4 | 20,000 euros. About 30 kilowatt hour, LFP pack in this, 260 miles, |
| 1:32.3 | sorry, 230 kilometers, WLTPed on this, very much a use case car. 11 kilowatts, AC charging, |
| 1:41.2 | 3.7 kilowatt, vehicle to load, vehicle to to grid capable, and orders are open now. General Motors |
| 1:48.3 | EV sales slumped at the end of the year as the tax credit went away. Their EV sales down 42% |
| 1:55.5 | in the United States. Econox still leading the way. Mercedes is betting on guided driving, unveiling their new $4,000 option, MB Drive Assist |
| 2:05.5 | Pro. |
| 2:06.8 | It's arriving in their EVs in America with Nvidia technology. |
| 2:11.6 | Of course, in China, they're adding it to their CLA electric, but with Momentor chips. |
| 2:17.4 | EV sales in Australia topped 100,000 for the very first time last year. |
| 2:22.2 | Even as Tesla, the dominant player slumped. |
| 2:24.6 | Tesla was down 25% in Australia. |
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