DAILY: Nissan Shelves Cheapest LEAF, BMW Readies Electric iX4 and Spain’s Bid To Become Europes EV Factory | 23 Feb 2026
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Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 23 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. Nissan shelves its cheapest |
| 1:03.7 | leaf. BMW readies the electric IX4 and Spain's bid to become Europe's EV Factory. |
| 1:11.5 | Plus stay tuned. |
| 1:19.6 | Later in the show, I'll tell you which famous Michelin-starred chef has been taking his million-dollar plug-in hybrid out for a spin in London. |
| 1:26.0 | On EV News China, our spin-off podcast today, we're talking about MG selling a million of their cars to Europeans, |
| 1:47.5 | Cherry's diesel-yute hybrid,-Y-D's budget people carrier. This is E-V-News Daily, and you can check us out on Patreon if you want to, p-A-T-R-E-O-N.com slash EV-N-N-Daly to get the show's ad-free. Otherwise, just stay with the free show. There's some ads in it, I know, but this podcast will always be free to spread the word about electric vehicles. |
| 1:56.2 | Nissan has shelved the base LeafS variant for the 26 model year in the United States, leaving buyers with a higher entry point. |
| 2:06.0 | Nissan confirmed the entry level LeafS trim with its 52 kilow-hour battery and 174 horsepower motor will not reach US showrooms. |
| 2:09.7 | The US-Nissan Leaf lineup starts at 29990. |
| 2:12.7 | That's for a car with 303 miles of range. That matters because the Leaf S spec would have undercut the starting price of the Chevy Bolt, which is, |
| 2:18.8 | I think, in its proper base trim 28995. Nissan now hands a little bit of breathing room to its rival, |
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