DAILY: German Subsidies Add Hybrids, Rivian Makes R2 and Mercedes-Benz EQ Cars Back In U.S. | 19 Jan 2026
EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs
Martyn Lee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Potential. |
| 0:02.0 | Potential can sometimes feel daunting, scary. |
| 0:06.0 | But today's the day you decide to act on it, |
| 0:10.0 | with a higher technical qualification. |
| 0:13.0 | Designed with employers, it will give you the skills you need to land the job you want, |
| 0:18.0 | because today is your day. When anything is possible, if you make it happen. |
| 0:25.3 | It all starts with skills. See how you can get started. Search skills for life. Potential. Potential can |
| 0:33.5 | sometimes feel daunting, scary. But today's the day you decide to act on it with a higher technical qualification. |
| 0:43.2 | Designed with employers, it will give you the skills you need to land the job you want |
| 0:47.8 | because today is your day. |
| 0:51.5 | When anything is possible, if you make it happen. It all starts with skills. See how |
| 0:57.4 | you can get started. Search skills for life. Welcome back to EV News Daily. Today, German subsidies, |
| 1:04.2 | the Rivian R2 is being made in the factory. And Mercedes-Benz EQ cars are back on sale in the United States. |
| 1:11.8 | Plus, stay tuned because later in the show, I'll tell you which car is one of the first |
| 1:16.1 | to have Google's Gemini AI so you can talk to your car just like it's a human and pretend |
| 1:22.4 | you're in Knight Rider. |
| 1:23.7 | On EV News, China today, we're talking about BMW banking on China, Mercedes-Benz defying the market and Sunwoda being under the microscope. |
| 1:33.0 | Let's get into it. This is huge news. Germany will pay drivers to buy plug-in hybrids again. |
| 1:38.9 | This was a real surprise. Berlin widened their planned electric vehicle support. We knew the subsidies were back. And earlier today, |
| 1:45.8 | we now had confirmation of the finer details that I said we've been waiting for. And Germany will pay |
| 1:52.3 | its drivers to buy EVs and plug-in hybrids and EREVs. The scheme matters on three fronts. Social, |
| 2:04.3 | industrial and trade. Grants of up to 6,000 euros, that 7,000 US equivalent per new car purchase, targets low to middle income |
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