BRIEFLY: Volvo Leak, Škoda Success and Irish EV Ownership Up 50% | 20 Jan 2026
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Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
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It's EV News Briefly for Tuesday 20 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 a new day, a blank slate. |
| 0:03.0 | Your mind wanders as you think about your future and all its possibilities. |
| 0:08.0 | You want to find out what your potential career could be like. |
| 0:11.0 | So you decide to do a T-level qualification. |
| 0:14.0 | Designed with employers, it'll help you land a job, a place at uni, |
| 0:18.0 | a higher technical qualification or a higher apprenticeship. So go on. Make today your day. |
| 0:25.2 | It all starts with skills. See how you can get started. Search skills for life. It's a new day, |
| 0:31.4 | a blank slate. Your mind wanders as you think about your future and all its possibilities. |
| 0:40.3 | You want to find out what your potential career could be like. So you decide to do a T-level qualification. |
| 0:43.3 | Designed with employers, it'll help you land a job, |
| 0:46.3 | a place at uni, a higher technical qualification or a higher apprenticeship. |
| 0:51.3 | So go on. Make today your day. |
| 0:55.3 | It all starts with skills. |
| 0:57.1 | See how you can get started. |
| 0:58.8 | Search skills for life. |
| 1:00.1 | It's EV News briefly for Tuesday, 20th of January. |
| 1:03.7 | Everything EV in less than 5 minutes. |
| 1:05.2 | If you haven't got time for the full podcast, it's 25 minutes long today. |
| 1:08.5 | Let's get you up to speed. |
| 1:09.7 | Volvo will show off the X60 tomorrow. Very important because the XC60. The incumbent sold 230,000 units last year. Well, it's leaked already. Someone has taken screenshots of the promo video. They're going to show up the launch tomorrow. And, you know, it's a big deal that it's leaked, but you'll be pleased to hear it looks like an electric Volvo. You know how the X-90 and the X-30 look? Well, if they had a baby, it's kind of halfway between them. We'll get the full launch details tomorrow. Scotter's surge into Europe's top tier is happening. They were up 12% last year. Scotter in Europe's doing really well, doing really |
| 1:45.1 | well worldwide. Bev deliveries, B-EV, doubled to 175,000 total plug-in vehicles at Schauder. |
| 1:54.4 | 220,000 almost for 2025. And that's without the two new launches they've got coming. There's the |
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