Electric Jeep Compass Revealed, Mercedes-Benz CLA Constraints and Rivian Expands In Illinois | 07 May 2025
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🗓️ 7 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to EVE News Daily. Coming up today, new plug-in electric Jeep compass revealed. Mercedes-Benz-CLA has some weird charging constraints, and Rivian expands in Illinois. |
| 0:12.0 | Plus stay tuned because later in the show, I'll tell you which company has just started making large cylindrical cells as wide as those in the Tesla cyber truck. |
| 0:21.6 | Well, good morning, good afternoon or good evening. |
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| 0:28.0 | It's Wednesday 7th of May, I'm Martin Lee, and I go through every EV story, so you don't |
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| 0:44.3 | by clicking on a link in the show notes. We'll start with news of the all-new electric Jeep compass. |
| 0:50.4 | This is for Europe. There's three options. Electric plug-in and a mild hybrid as well. The dual motor, |
| 0:57.8 | all-electric compass, is the most powerful one they'll make at 375 horsepower. So, power train options |
| 1:03.4 | start with 142 horsepower. That is a 1.2-liter three-cyl petrol engine paired with a 48-volt mild hybrid system and a 6-speed dual-clutch |
| 1:14.9 | transmission but we don't want to worry about that do we because you can't add electricity to it next up |
| 1:20.3 | a 191 horsepower plug-in hybrid version that has a 1.6 litre four-cylinder petrol engine a much |
| 1:27.4 | stronger electric motor and it has a 1.6-liter four-cylinder petrol engine, a much stronger electric motor, |
| 1:29.2 | and it has a 17.9 kilowatt-hour battery pack. Not the biggest we've seen lately on plug-in hybrids. |
| 1:36.6 | I'm loving the new plug-in hybrid technology from Volkswagen Group. You can do almost 100 miles of |
| 1:41.4 | electric range. This one, they say, would be estimated at about 64 kilometers of range. |
| 1:48.4 | So, you know, not the biggest, but it's what is in that platform from Stalantis. |
| 1:53.1 | And we do know from cars like the Peugeotrerere 108, E5O8 on STLA medium, |
| 1:59.5 | about the battery sizes that you can get in these as well. |
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