Welcome back to the podcast. Today, a quad motor BMW I.N3. The Bolt returns to the USA and California's subsidies. Plus, stay tuned. Later in the show, I'll tell you why a single YouTuber forced lucid into a software climb down. On EV News China today, our spin-off podcast, looking at what's happening in the East and how it's affecting the global EV industry.

We're talking about Leap Motors, 80-kilowatt-hour, E-REV, Zika's 8X plugin hybrid, and the X-Pung P7 Plus global vehicle.

Hey, no bonus show today to start the week, but check out some recent ones about the Tesla cyber truck trying

to get homologated for Europe and another bonus show about which countries are doing the

best job of encouraging EV uptake. I've called that one the Carrot or the stick. Both are in your

feed right now. Had some lovely comments about both over the weekend. BMW wants its new electric I-M-3 to feel like an M-car first and an EV-second, they say.

The company's talking about M-3-grade pace when it comes out in 2027, 800-volt system, made for fast-charging and sustained output.

The prototype first surfaced under heavy camouflage in 2024, but BMW now

describes the project as a full-blooded M model rather than a re-skin. It'll share the platform

with the petrol M3, though BMW implies similarity stop there. The headline hardware is a four-motor layout with one motor per wheel,

with two motors on each axle, obviously. BMW says the car can run in all-wheel drive or rear-wheel

drive and can disconnect either axle for efficiency, for example, only on motorways using the rear axle, saving energy. Software does much of the

heavy lifting, though. BMW says it's heart of joy. Control system juggles torque across four

motors in real time, keeping grip and balance where drivers need them. The battery pack will be over

100 kilowatt hours, with cell chemistry and

cooling tuned for high currents and repeated track use. BMW expects the pack to act as a structural

element, adding stiffness, rather than sitting in the chassis. This will not be an EV that

pretends sound and sensation. Don't matter, though, say BMW. They talk about

multiple driving modes, including simulated gear shifts like the Koreans do with the GT cars,

and dedicated, or the N cars from Hyundai, dedicated sound profiles aligned with its Neuja-Classar platform,

pricing, and on-sale data, I'm afraid I can't tell you.

This one's important, though. The Chevrolet Bolt, 27 model year. What are we? A couple of weeks into

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