Welcome back to Evie News Daily coming up, the BMWI3 saloon.

Tesla UK drops 37%, and EVGO hits 5,000 stalls.

Plus stay tuned.

Later in the show, I'll tell you why Lotus has introduced the ElectraX, a plug-in hybrid range

extender of its electric SUV.

On EV News China today, we're talking about BYD's next-gen tech,

1,500 kilowatt charging, that's 1.5 megawatt, and all the cars,

which get their new Blade 2.0 battery.

Plus, I'll do a whole special show about that, maybe 10, 15, 20 minutes long when I've written it.

That'll be in

your podcast feed. It's really impressive. We talk about new Xiaomi SU7 arriving in dealerships

ahead of launch and the 900 volt Zika 009. All right, let's get into it. BMW will unveil the new

I3 saloon. We now have a date the 18th of March. And if you are online on

YouTube, you may have seen that the I3 videos are now appearing. It's an embargo is when a

manufacturer or, I mean, in journalism terms, an embargo can be anything where they ask you,

don't release your content, your article until this date. And often with car reviews,

the agreement is that because some people have, I don't know, a team of five editors and

some do it all themselves, that you might review a car, but you can't put the video out

for a couple of weeks and everyone plays by those rules. And so, Embargo must have lifted,

all the videos arrived. The I-3 is the second model in BMW's Neuer-Classer-Classer-Classer-EV family

following the recently launched I-X-3, still not with a lot of customers yet. I think some early, maybe

employees or fans of the brand, regular BMW buyers are getting some of the early ones in Germany

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