Welcome back to EV News Daily. Today's Atlantis. Just can't decide on plug-in hybrids,

Keir's GT models and the BMW IX4 coupe. Plus stay tuned. Later in the show, I'll tell you why

Turkey is driving EV sales with a lot of togs and Tesla's no EV News China today. It's the weekend,

our spin-off podcast looking at China happens weekdays and no bonus shows this weekend.

But next Saturday, we'll have our latest sponsor on Nathan Gore-Brown from TestTV,

talking about why used TV markets need battery certificates. If I may as well, if you get a chance

to listen to some of the bonus shows I've done since I came back from holidays. I mean, I don't know if what I do is any good,

but there's a big one about Tesla Cybertruck and a big one about how we can get more

EVs on the roads in different parts of the world. I've called it the carrot or the stick.

Is it incentives or rules for the carmakers? Those shows took so much work over the holidays and Christmas and New Year.

And a few people have said, oh, that was an interesting one. So maybe check it out if you have

time. But they're long and they are what they are. Now, for America, Stalantis doesn't want

EVs, plug-in hybrid. Stalantantis will drop its entire plug-in hybrid range for North

America, including America's best-selling plug-in hybrid, the Jeep Wrangler 4xE, the Grand Cherokee

4-E, and the Chrysler Pacifica plug-in hybrid is the one I'm really surprised about, all discontinued

as they drop their EV plan in America.

The move is a strategic shift, not a product refresh.

Stalanta says it will phase out plug-in hybrids, beginning with the 2026 model year,

and focus on competitive, electrified solutions.

Buh, hybrid, soft hybrid, mild hybrid things. It's pivoting from plug-in hybrids to non-plugging

hybrids and in time, e-refs. So using an engine, because they've got a lot of engine technology,

they still want to sell you, remember, as range extenders. Charging a battery, electric motors

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