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DACIA MOVES €17,900 SPRING PRODUCTION TO SLOVENIA https://evne.ws/j3dz5

GERMAN BEV SALES RISE 75.1% IN AUGUST https://evne.ws/m5jn0

KIA PUTS EV3, EV4 AND EV5 GTS ON SALE https://evne.ws/f0rne

FORD CONSIDERS COMPACT VEHICLE FOR UEV PLATFORM https://evne.ws/znztx

DUFFY URGES FORD TO RECONSIDER OR END CHINESE DEALINGS https://evne.ws/qnat4

ICAUR V25 TO MAKE AUSTRALIAN DEBUT IN SYDNEY https://evne.ws/va1ut

SEVERAL 2027 CADILLAC LYRIQ MODELS RETAIN CARPLAY, ANDROID AUTO https://evne.ws/umwq2

VOLKSWAGEN PLANS LONG-WHEELBASE ID. BUZZ CARGO https://evne.ws/lpu2d

83% OF SURVEYED DEALERS BACK UK EV SCRAPPAGE SCHEME https://evne.ws/rhw89

HOYMILES RELEASES 22 KW BIDIRECTIONAL EV CHARGER https://evne.ws/99gls

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DACIA MOVES €17,900 SPRING PRODUCTION TO SLOVENIA
Dacia's second-generation Spring shifts production from Wuhan to Renault's Novo Mesto plant in Slovenia, starting at €18,000 with the whole range under €20,000 before incentives, making it eligible for European-only subsidies and exempt from EU tariffs on Chinese-built EVs. Engineering stays Chinese via Renault's Shanghai centre, and the car uses  60 kW front motor and 27.5 kWh CATL LFP battery for up to 250 km WLTP.

GERMAN BEV SALES RISE 75.1% IN AUGUST
German BEV registrations jumped 75.1% year-on-year in August, lifting share from 19% to 32.4% while the overall new-car market grew just 2.6%, and year-to-date BEV sales up 53.1%, for a 26.2% share. Volkswagen led, followed unchanged by Mercedes, BMW, Skoda and Audi, while Chinese challengers grew fastest.

KIA PUTS EV3, EV4 AND EV5 GTS ON SALE
Kia has launched GT versions of the EV3, EV4 and EV5 in Europe, joining the EV6 GT and EV9 GT to cover hatchback and fastback, compact, midsize and three-row SUV formats, though the EV4 GT Fastback skips the UK and neither the EV4 GT nor EV5 GT is planned for the US. All three pair dual-motor all-wheel drive with an 81.4 kWh battery and electronically controlled suspension, plus Kia's Virtual Gear Shift and Active Sound Design simulating a gas guzzler.

FORD CONSIDERS COMPACT VEHICLE FOR UEV PLATFORM
Ford is weighing a compact model on its Universal Electric Vehicle platform, which it says supports body styles from B-car size up to commercial vans. I’ll whisper it quietly, but could the Fiesta make a comeback as an EV? Such a car would return Ford to a segment it abandoned long ago.

DUFFY URGES FORD TO RECONSIDER OR END CHINESE DEALINGS
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wrote to Ford CEO Jim Farley on September 3, released to media yesterday, urging Ford to reconsider or end dealings with Chinese companies including its CATL licence, a Geely arrangement, reported BYD talks, Lincoln Nautilus production in China and a proposed Chinese-US joint venture framework.  Ford dismissed it as a wrongheaded attempt to capture headlines, noting the White House praised the Michigan plant days before.

ICAUR V25 TO MAKE AUSTRALIAN DEBUT IN SYDNEY
The iCaur V25, a boxy retro-styled electric SUV from Chery's youth-focused sub-brand, headlines what organisers call the largest new-model line-up in Everything Electric history at Sydney Showground from September 18-20. Also debuting are Hyundai's STARIA Electric van, GWM's Haval H7 and Cannon PHEV, Cadillac's LYRIQ-V —plus Lepas L6 and L4 previews.

SEVERAL 2027 CADILLAC LYRIQ MODELS RETAIN CARPLAY, ANDROID AUTO
Cadillac's configurator lists Apple CarPlay and Android Auto as standard on several 2027 Lyriq models, an exception to GM's 2023 decision to strip phone mirroring from all future EVs.

VOLKSWAGEN PLANS LONG-WHEELBASE ID. BUZZ CARGO
Volkswagen is preparing a long-wheelbase ID. Buzz Cargo stretching about 5,000 mm — roughly 300 mm longer than the standard van — with cargo volume up from 3.9 to 4.4 cubic metres and load length from 2,208 to 2,405 mm, but maximum payload falling against the short-wheelbase van.

83% OF SURVEYED DEALERS BACK UK EV SCRAPPAGE SCHEME
September's Startline Used Car Tracker found 83% of surveyed dealers backing a UK scrappage scheme to support EV sales, with only 6% opposing government intervention, 60% wanting the state to promote EV adoption, 61% citing affordability, 26% saying prices are out of reach for too many and 21% pointing to older polluting vehicles.

HOYMILES RELEASES 22 KW BIDIRECTIONAL EV CHARGER
Chinese energy-storage firm Hoymiles released its V2X DC Charger on 8 September, delivering up to 22 kW of bidirectional DC power so an EV can act as a home energy resource, providing backup via V2H during outages and enabling peak shaving and virtual power plant dispatch via V2G. It can draw directly from solar and battery storage, includes an EU MID-certified meter for energy monitoring, and claims 97% peak efficiency in both directions, with charging input of 240–980 V DC and output of 200–1,000 V DC, reversed during discharge.

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CHINA NEVS REACH RECORD 65.2% AUGUST SHARE https://evne.ws/egztt

ZEEKR MAKES 200,000 7X; IT HOME REPORTS PLANNED Q4 MODEL https://evne.ws/bk9xu

DENZA PLANS CHEAPER THREE-MOTOR Z9GT https://evne.ws/56lda

GEELY PANDA MINI GETS LIMITED-TIME 43,900 YUAN PRICE https://evne.ws/x4klk

SMART #2 APPEARS IN CHINA BEFORE PARIS PREMIERE https://evne.ws/z8gls

TESLA CHINA RETAIL SALES FALL TO 50,047 IN AUGUST https://evne.ws/fjr5b

CHINESE EV MAKERS EXPAND MUNICH R&D OPERATIONS https://evne.ws/zojst

XIAOMI AUTO AUGUST DELIVERIES FALL 17.15% https://evne.ws/k0as4

CHINESE BATTERY MAKERS OUTEARN EV MAKERS https://evne.ws/7ems7

AVATR REVEALS 9-SERIES SUV PLANNED FOR YEAR-END https://evne.ws/yejwo

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AUDI A2 E-TRON STARTS AT €38,200 IN GERMANY https://evne.ws/qceb4

ICCT SAYS ELECTRIC CARS COST ONE THIRD LESS https://evne.ws/x0p0s

YOUNG DRIVERS SAY PETROL CARS ARE LIKE USING A LANDLINE TELEPHONE https://evne.ws/tdwbi

EUROPE’S EV FLEET HOLDS 600 GWH OF BATTERIES https://evne.ws/a47s2

LI AUTO PLANS EUROPEAN I6 DEBUT https://evne.ws/zkq2d

AVILOO EXTENDS BATTERY WARRANTY TO 24 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES https://evne.ws/h99k3

OSPREY GO STARTS CHARGING ON CONNECTION https://evne.ws/40rir

RUSSIA EV SALES MORE THAN DOUBLE IN SUMMER https://evne.ws/s0xry

PORT AUTHORITY LAUNCHES $45M ELECTRIC TRUCK PROGRAMME https://evne.ws/v8wov

TREK LAUNCHES ALLANT+ FS E-BIKE IN EUROPE https://evne.ws/tfkbm

ev.news Briefly: Audi, Money Saving, Outdated Petrol & more | 08 Sep 2026

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AUDI A2 E-TRON STARTS AT €38,200 IN GERMANY
Audi's cheapest EV starts at €38,200 in Germany, above the €34,000 VW ID.3 Neo it shares MEB+ underpinnings with, and launches at the end of 2026 with orders opening in fall and deliveries in December. It claims up to 401 miles WLTP and a best-ever Audi efficiency of 4.85 miles/kWh on the 188-hp efficiency-package version, with rear-wheel drive only, 52/61 kWh LFP or 84 kWh NMC batteries charging at 183 kW (10–80% in about 29 minutes), a Q4 e-tron wheelbase for extra interior space, and standard bidirectional charging.

ICCT SAYS ELECTRIC CARS COST ONE THIRD LESS
An ICCT report published on September 6 found electric cars cost a third less to run in Europe in 2025 than petrol or diesel equivalents, or 28% less for drivers relying on public charging, with combustion energy costs rising 12–36% at the start of 2026 during the US-Iran Hormuz oil crisis while BEV energy costs held steady. The ICCT also found price parity with petrol cars in Germany's three largest segments based on data covering 100,000 vehicles, and lead author Marie Rajon Bernard expects European BEV adoption to scale up provided current policies survive growing political pressure to reverse them.

YOUNG DRIVERS SAY PETROL CARS ARE LIKE USING A LANDLINE TELEPHONE
Research commissioned by E.ON Next among 1,500 drivers found more than half of those aged 17 to 20 want their next car to be electric, against a UK BEV new-car share of 26% from January to August, with cost the main draw: 56% think EVs save money, 20% cite day-to-day affordability, 19% home charging and 18% avoiding forecourts. Petrol is increasingly seen as obsolete, with 23% calling petrol ownership as outdated as a landline telephone, 21% unable to imagine owning one, 63% expecting petrol and diesel cars to disappear in their lifetime and 53% believing they are the last generation to routinely drive them.

EUROPE'S EV FLEET HOLDS 600 GWH OF BATTERIES
Bruegel estimates Europe's EV fleet holds around 600 GWh of battery capacity, ten times the continent's grid-connected storage and theoretically enough to power the European grid for almost two hours, though that depends on vehicle-to-grid technology and smart integration still under development. Stationary storage is growing separately, with SolarPower Europe reporting cumulative European capacity passing 100 GWh by the end of 2025 after 36 GWh was added during the year, 48% more than in 2024, and calling for a tenfold increase by 2030.

LI AUTO PLANS EUROPEAN I6 DEBUT
Li Auto will unveil its i6 electric SUV in Europe at the Paris motor show in October, with founder and CEO Xiang Li saying European sales begin in the fourth quarter and right-hand-drive sales start by year-end, making a UK launch likely though it has not been confirmed. Britain matters as an export market because it does not apply the EU's additional tariffs on Chinese cars, and the 4950mm i6 will compete with the BMW iX3, Mercedes GLC and Volvo EX60.

AVILOO EXTENDS BATTERY WARRANTY TO 24 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
AVILOO added 14 markets to its Battery Warranty on September 7, 2026, including Spain, Italy, Poland and Greece, taking coverage to 24 countries in response to used-EV buyer confidence lagging market growth and to manufacturer battery-health figures being neither independently verified nor standardised. The one-year warranty, separate from AVILOO's battery certificate and managed by dealers, fleets and remarketing platforms through the AVILOO Connect dashboard, sets an individual State of Health threshold per vehicle from proprietary diagnostics data that the battery must still meet at 20,000 kilometres.

OSPREY GO STARTS CHARGING ON CONNECTION
Osprey has launched Osprey Go, an Autocharge-based function that starts a charging session as soon as a driver plugs in, requiring no app or payment card at the charger after a one-time setup in the Osprey app, and automatically applying the best available price for that location and time. Users can view receipts, live prices, charger availability and offers, and Osprey says the Autocharge choice maximises vehicle and driver compatibility and makes it the country's largest network offering the technology.

RUSSIA EV SALES MORE THAN DOUBLE IN SUMMER
Autostat reports Russian sales of new electric and plug-in hybrid passenger cars reached 26,543 units from June to August 2026, more than double the 12,187 sold a year earlier, as Ukrainian strikes on major refineries forced some to suspend operations and cut gasoline production to about 70% of domestic consumption by the end of August. Drivers facing hours-long fuel searches turned to EVs or gas conversions, though Autostat said sales were capped by supply because manufacturers and importers were unprepared, and the vehicles sold were mainly Chinese-made.

PORT AUTHORITY LAUNCHES $45M ELECTRIC TRUCK PROGRAMME
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has launched a $45m programme for zero-emission drayage trucks and terminal tractors at the Port of New York and New Jersey, the busiest seaport on the US East Coast, combining vehicle purchase support with charging investment near its marine terminals. CALSTART will design and administer the Clean Truck Incentive Program and the Green Drayage Accelerator, with up to $39m in point-of-sale vouchers covering vehicles and charging infrastructure at hubs within a 10-mile radius of the Port Authority's marine terminals.

TREK LAUNCHES ALLANT+ FS E-BIKE IN EUROPE
Trek has launched the 2027 Allant+ FS in Europe, a full-suspension SUV-style e-bike aimed at Specialized's Turbo Vado 3X, using the same Bosch Performance Line CX mid-drive with 250 W nominal and 750 W peak output, 120 Nm of torque and assistance cutting out at 25 km/h. A Bosch PowerTube 800 Wh battery gives a claimed 180 km (112 miles) per charge, with the R11 priced at €5,999 and the R10 at €4,999.