DAILY: Mercedes-Benz CLA Shooting Brake, Tesla Hits A Wall In Europe and BMW Eyes Range Extenders | 26 Nov 2025
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Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 26 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the podcast. Today, Mercedes-Benz's CLA shooting break. Tesla hits a wall in Europe and BMW-I's range extenders. |
| 0:08.3 | Plus, stay tuned because later in the show, I'll tell you why the next frontier of electric racing will be on the water. |
| 0:14.8 | And on EV News China today, our new spin-off show, we're talking about BYD taking the global sales crown. |
| 0:22.3 | Xiaomi, SU7's Bonnet Saga heads to the courts and Zika's hardware retrofit. Let's get into it. |
| 0:30.5 | Mercedes has built an estate car that'll do almost 500 miles of range on a charge. |
| 0:35.6 | The new CLA shooting brake lands in the UK as a pure |
| 0:40.4 | EV first with prices from 47,750 pounds and a brief to tempt both long-distance private drivers |
| 0:48.0 | and premium fleets. Both models use an 85 kilowatt-hour battery. In the 250, there's a single rear motor with 268 brake |
| 0:58.0 | horsepower and, on paper, at least, 469 miles of range. This is the longest range of any estate |
| 1:05.0 | car in the UK. The 350 Formatic adds a front motor for 349 brake horsepower and cuts range only slightly |
| 1:14.0 | to a claimed 451 miles. Either way, this is a car built to crush distance rather than chase |
| 1:21.0 | drag times. Charging backs that up. The CLA shooting brake can rapid charge at 320 kilowatts, and that puts it among the fastest |
| 1:29.8 | charging EVs you can buy in Britain. Find a suitable DC charger, and big top-ups should take a coffee |
| 1:37.2 | stop, not a lunch break. For drivers used to diesel wagons that knock off hundreds of motorway miles |
| 1:43.0 | a day, this new mix of range, |
| 1:45.6 | space and charge speed will matter more than raw power. Put it together, and Mercedes is trying |
| 1:51.3 | to bridge two worlds. On one side sits the firm's own long-running premium estates, and on the other |
| 1:58.1 | a new wave of long-range EVs. Oh, and I should mention, it's also |
| 2:03.1 | very, very pretty. It's on sale now. We've got two more stories to go on Mercedes-Benz today. |
| 2:09.7 | The second one is the same car, actually, the CLA, but this time it gets its US spec. It wants its |
| 2:16.4 | new CLA to land where many rivals have fumbled, |
| 2:21.4 | long range, fast charging, and a price that doesn't scare off owners of current gas models |
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