Welcome back to EV News Daily coming up today. The Zika 9X ultra long range plugin, Lucid's new concept, and a 3,000 horsepower EV.

Plus stay tuned. Later in the show, I'll tell you where one Tesla cyber truck recently suffered a rather embarrassing breakdown.

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Right, let's talk Zika 9x and I'll tell you why it's special. It's an SUV, which is not special.

It's a plug-in hybrid, which is not special. But Gili's premium electric brand Zika has launched its first plug-in hybrid, a full-size

SUV weighing over three tons, built on the SEAS modular platform, has a 2-liter turbo engine,

205 kilowatts of power, three electric motors.

All right, now it's getting interesting.

Three silicon carbide electric motors. All right, now it's getting interesting. Three silicon carbide electric

motors. Total output, 130 kilowatts. That is 1,381 horsepower. Now it's getting interesting.

Nort 602 miles an hour, 3.1 seconds. Top speed 150 miles an hour. Okay, but it's still a plug-in hybrid,

and it's not for everyone. I wouldn't be for me, but lots of people do want plug-in hybrids.

It comes with CATL's free void battery, and it's 70 kilowatt hours in a plug-in hybrid.

It offers 302 kilometers or 188 miles of range on Chinese cycle, but whether that's realistic

or not, and it's not, it's a 70 kilowatt hour battery. And so whatever the efficiency of that

vehicle is, and it'll be good. Silicon carbide motors, very efficient, 900-volt architecture, very

good, fast charging on that plug-in hybrid battery of 6c. This is a plug-in hybrid that's better than every single EV that I could buy here in the West.

20 to 80%? A 9 or 10 minutes charge. And it's a plug-in hybrid. So I'm left wondering about this. What's the point of the engine?

So, okay, it's a 70-kil-watt hour pack and that's not going to be big enough for many people. But why are you buying a plug-in hybrid with a 70-kil-watt-hour pack that'll do, you know, 150 miles, easily, on a range, if not more. I don't know what the efficiency is. It's a heavy, it's a heavy beast

this thing. So it's not going to be, you know, four miles per kilowatt hour. But whatever it is, that's a big boy battery. And it comes with an engine. And I think this is partly to do with the race in China to advertise big headline ranges. I've seen these adverts in China, 1,300, 1,400, 1,500 miles of range.

And there's just an arms race going on for who can make the long... I've seen these adverts in China, 1,400, 1,500 miles of range.

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