All right, what's up y'all? Welcome back people of the internet to another episode of the waveform podcast. We're hosts. I'm Arches.

I'm Andrew. No, I'm David. In this week's episode, we're talking some fun new EV announcements plus I'm going to sneak in a non EV announcement. We're also going to test Google's barred

because it's available now. It just started rolling out really quickly. We got to test it and wow, do we have thoughts? And we're going to wrap it up by rating the nothing year two event, which we obviously all saw and we'll have some trivia answers of course at the end.

Like we usually do. But first let's talk about some new cars because there's there's more new cars. It's that fun time. Yeah, we haven't started a pod with the EV news in a little while. Welcome back to the week. That's probably only like three weeks, but yeah. Yeah.

Well, okay, so the first one here is Volkswagen's ID 2. Now anytime you look at like the overarching electric car world, I think the question a lot of people keep asking is when are we going to get a cheap, small, efficient, affordable electric car.

This one seems like it's going to be pretty sweet, although it's not coming out right away. So what we know is it looks like the ID golf. Sorry, it looks like the Volkswagen Golf. But with the ID ID.

Yeah, it's like a ID. It's like a. It's like a.

Okay, next. Anyway, so it looks like an ID on the front. It's electric. It's a concept now, but it's slated to be in production in the European market in 2025.

So I hear that and I go, okay, add a year carry the one. It'll probably come out a little late. That's fine. We'll see.

2027, but it is a smaller EV and it's supposed to start the goal is for to start under 25,000 euros. The golf is already a really popular car for people who want something of that size. It's smaller.

This concept is a two door, but four cedar is if I'm saying it's four door. It's just confusing because there's like no door handle on the back door. It is four doors concept. I got it. Okay.

So it's got four doors, four seats, but it's compact. Obviously in Europe, even cars like the model three are a pretty big car. So I see this doing better in places that buy smaller cars has a calculated WLTP range of around 280 miles.

I don't know how you have that for a concept car, but that's a good goal to have. And of course, we're we're some time away. So there could be a four forward wheel drive and an all wheel drive variant potentially with different ranges and power profiles.

But seems pretty cool. Yeah, they said they're looking to do front wheel drive, not real. That would be okay. Yeah, that would be the efficient one is the front wheel drive one. Yeah.

And then if you want a little more pep, maybe a little less range, all wheel drive could be cool to yeah. And I also I know you said that you're like Europe, these are super popular, but the golf and the GTI are also still insanely popular in the US. They're very, very common cars here.

It's kind of like whoever gets to make a really good $25,000 electric car first in the US, it will be popular here too. I think I just mean in terms of like the size of it. Yeah, not even price. Yeah, right. Yeah, but I mean like and 25,000 euros is approximately 27,000 USD.

If it comes out there 280 miles, the only thing it's really competing against is like a Chevy Bolt, which is what like same price 28 27 28 and 240 miles. So pretty similar. I think this looks better.

Like I said, it's already crazy popular and I I the front end of it looking like the ID for I think looks way better on this smaller version of it. But I like the giant front. Have you seen an idea and ID for at night? It's super easy to spot.

It's one of the most wrecking so it's one of most recognizable faces of a car alongside the Rivian where if you see it on the other side of the highway from a long ways away, you can see that bar and then the lights in the shape in the way they are.

I always recognize that I always recognize a Rivian. I always recognize maybe two or three other cars that have very distinct faces with the headlights. Actually, he is one of them funny enough, which is what we're talking about next, but that I think it's a good look.

And I would I would take this over a bolt if they both existed today. So yeah, that's a pretty good sign. Me too. I also wonder like I know two years away. It probably will be late, but this does look so similar to cars they already manufactured. So I wonder how much of that manufacturing might be similar and might be a little easier for this to come into production. I don't again, this is like you said a concept. We don't know what if we'll actually look like is it just going to be a golf with a new front face and like yeah, cramming a ton of battery into a small car.

But it's funny. There's so many variables now with these EVs like if if theoretically stay with me if Tesla made their model to which is like a smaller model three.

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