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RIVIAN OS 2 REACHES BOTH R1 GENERATIONS https://evne.ws/nggu3

REPORTED ID. POLO ORDERS TOP 30,000 BEFORE LAUNCH https://evne.ws/ubjuj

HYUNDAI OPENS STARIA ELECTRIC ORDERS IN EUROPE https://evne.ws/nwo62

ELECTRIC VEHICLES OUTSELL PETROL CARS IN AUSTRALIA https://evne.ws/0bwba

UK ELECTRIC VAN SHARE HITS RECORD 16.3% https://evne.ws/32taf

US DIESEL AVERAGE REACHES $5.85 A GALLON https://evne.ws/pjxvo

BYD OFFERS UK DISCOUNTS OF UP TO £2,500 https://evne.ws/84xt0

SPD BACKS EU TARIFFS ON CHINESE PLUG-IN HYBRIDS https://evne.ws/r5nfn

BC2BC LAUNCHES WEST COAST TRUCK CHARGING CORRIDOR https://evne.ws/g0dbg

TESLA AND BYD DRIVE KOREAN IMPORT GROWTH https://evne.ws/pdk2x

STELLANTIS OFFERS REFURBISHED BATTERIES FOR MOST EV MODELS https://evne.ws/ctfwu

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RIVIAN OS 2 REACHES BOTH R1 GENERATIONS
Rivian began rolling out update 2026.31 on Friday, extending RivianOS 2 to R1T and R1S models from both R1 generations alongside R2, adding a vertical status bar, quick controls and media player placeable on either side of the centre display, a rebuilt Settings 2 app with universal search, Real-Time Route Alerts for speed cameras and police presence in Google Maps navigation, and Rivian Unified Intelligence behind a "Hey Rivian" assistant that can control vehicle functions. Hardware still divides the platform: R2 and second-generation R1 vehicles run Unreal Engine 5 for real-time 3D visualisations while first-generation R1s stay on Unreal Engine 4 to preserve screen responsiveness, reflecting the first-gen's 17 electronic control units against the 2024 second-gen's seven-unit zonal architecture, dual Nvidia Drive AGX Orin processors and roughly ten times the processing power.

REPORTED ID. POLO ORDERS TOP 30,000 BEFORE LAUNCH
More than 30,000 orders for Volkswagen's ID. Polo, priced from €24,995 (about $29,000), have reportedly been placed across Europe before the hatchback's official sales launch, with pre-sales open since late April, demand strongest in Germany and most buyers ordering without having seen or driven the car. A major VW dealer group says the range is effectively sold out with waits of at least ten months, while Volkswagen attributes the delays to strong demand and capacity planned in advance at its Martorell plant in Spain, where it is progressively increasing production.

HYUNDAI OPENS STARIA ELECTRIC ORDERS IN EUROPE
Hyundai has opened European orders for the Staria Electric from €57,450 (about $66,800) for the German Trend nine-seater, using an 84 kWh battery, a 160 kW (218 hp) front motor, up to 430 km (267 miles) WLTP range and an 800V architecture that charges 10-80% in about 20 minutes at 350 kW, plus internal and external 16-amp V2L. At 5,253 mm it is 200 mm longer than the IONIQ 9 and larger than the Kia PV5 and VW ID. Buzz, with up to 1,303 litres of luggage space in nine-seat form, a Prime version adding electric sliding doors, powered tailgate, Highway Assistant 1.5 and a 230V socket, and a Calligraphy seven-seater from €66,950 ($77,800) with Nappa leather, BOSE audio and reclining second-row seats.

ELECTRIC VEHICLES OUTSELL PETROL CARS IN AUSTRALIA
Fully electric vehicles outsold petrol cars in Australia for the first time last month, with 27,078 EVs registered against 25,824 petrol and 23,608 diesel vehicles, taking one in four new-car sales. Including plug-in hybrids, battery-powered vehicles reached 36% of the market while petrol and diesel together fell below 50%, a shift BYD's Paul Ellis put down to falling reluctance and an influx of cheaper Chinese models, leaving public charging capacity as the open question.

UK ELECTRIC VAN SHARE HITS RECORD 16.3%
UK electric van registrations rose 25.9% to 2,395 units in August, a record 16.3% share of the light commercial vehicle market, with battery-electric vans at 11.0% of new LCV registrations in the year to August. August is traditionally a low-volume month ahead of September's numberplate change, so the share gain may overstate the trend and September will be the clearer test of sustained fleet demand.

US DIESEL AVERAGE REACHES $5.85 A GALLON
US diesel hit a record national average of $5.85 a gallon on Friday, according to AAA data cited by the New York Times, 55% above the level at the start of the US war against Iran in late February and above the previous peak set in 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine. Diesel powers heavy-duty pickups, commercial fleets and farming, so the rise feeds through to supermarket prices, landing weeks before the midterms in a political climate hostile to EVs despite the household cost relief that switching away from the pumps could deliver.

BYD OFFERS UK DISCOUNTS OF UP TO £2,500
BYD will cut UK prices by up to £2,500 ($3,300) across its DM-i plug-in and electric range from 10 to 21 September in what it calls its biggest-ever sales event, covering the Dolphin Surf, Dolphin, Sealion 07, Seal U DM-i and Atto 2 DM-i, as the UK's record 25.6% BEV share for the first eight months of 2026 still sits below the 33% mandate. The brand has registered more than 110,000 UK vehicles since March 2023, with registrations up 98% to over 48,000 through August and market share rising to 3.48% from 1.92%, and the Europe-specific Dolphin G DM-i arrives this month from £250 ($330) a month.

SPD BACKS EU TARIFFS ON CHINESE PLUG-IN HYBRIDS
Germany's Social Democratic Party has backed extending EU tariffs to Chinese plug-in hybrids, closing a gap in measures that levy up to 45% on Chinese-built electric vehicles but leave hybrids untouched, setting out the position in an economic-policy paper calling for more resolute protection against "unfair practices". The stance is a notable shift for the CDU's junior coalition partner, given Germany opposed the 2024 EV tariffs and has long resisted tough measures on China for fear of retaliation against key industries.

BC2BC LAUNCHES WEST COAST TRUCK CHARGING CORRIDOR
The British Columbia to Baja California ZEV Corridor, or BC2BC, has launched along the I-5, linking California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Baja California with an initial deployment of 20 EV charging stations and three hydrogen fuelling stations for the estimated 10,000 trucks using the route daily. CalSTA, CALSTART/Drive to Zero and UC Davis's Institute of Transportation Studies are coordinating planning and investment, with Volvo Group North America, Southern California Edison, Tesla, EV Realty and King Fio Trucking represented at the Port of Long Beach launch.

TESLA AND BYD DRIVE KOREAN IMPORT GROWTH
Imported vehicle sales in Korea rose 9.2% year on year to 29,817 units in August, driven largely by Tesla and BYD, while all five domestic carmakers recorded declines. Union walkouts from July into August lasted around 60 hours and were estimated to have cost about 55,000 vehicles of production, contributing alongside fewer summer holiday production days to a 7.6% fall at Kia, and growth in a market long led by BMW and Mercedes-Benz came mainly from lower-priced EVs.

STELLANTIS OFFERS REFURBISHED BATTERIES FOR MOST EV MODELS
Stellantis is making refurbished high-voltage batteries available for most battery-electric and plug-in hybrid models across its brands, remanufactured to OEM specification with the same performance characteristics and warranty terms as MOPAR original parts. The company says the approach extends product life and prevents waste, saving up to 80% of raw materials and up to 40% of CO2 emissions against new parts, building on its earlier supply of refurbished EV batteries for stationary storage including at Rome Airport.

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XIAOMI AUTO PASSES 800,000 DELIVERIES https://evne.ws/o4mw2

XIAOMI TO DEBUT DRAGONSCALE BATTERY WITH SKYNOMAD https://evne.ws/6elq4

VOYAH OPENS DREAM 9 PRE-SALES IN CHINA https://evne.ws/arn24

AISTALAND GX7 PRE-SALES START AT $37,000 https://evne.ws/cou57

CHANGAN OPENS QIYUAN Q06 PRE-SALES https://evne.ws/1nfmx

DENZA N8L EV SET FOR SEPTEMBER 14 LAUNCH https://evne.ws/my3ck

LI AUTO PLANS 2.65 BILLION YUAN SUNWODA EVB STAKE https://evne.ws/49yog

PROLOGIUM BEGINS 381 WH/KG CELL MASS PRODUCTION https://evne.ws/8ixyb

GEELY E2 REACHES BELGIAN DEALERS BEFORE LAUNCH https://evne.ws/rrhg3

CHINA IMPOSES LITHIUM BATTERY TAX https://evne.ws/dmkoh

CHINESE BRANDS OVERTAKE JAPANESE ON THREE-YEAR VALUES https://evne.ws/lmegx

Volkswagen is preparing to quit building cars at four German factories. Every one of them builds EVs.

On Thursday this week, in Wolfsburg, Volkswagen's supervisory board voted unanimously — a day ahead of schedule — to approve something called Future Plan 2030.

50,000 more job cuts by the end of the decade. The model range gutted and cut roughly in half by 2035. And four German plants placed under a review that could end vehicle production at all of them.

Those four plants are Emden. Zwickau. Hanover. And Audi's Neckarsulm.

Zwickau was the first large car factory in Europe converted entirely to electric vehicles and Emden was the second. Hanover currently builds the ID. Buzz whilst Neckarsulm builds the e-tron GT and the A6 e-tron.

Volkswagen spent something like 2.2bn euros converting Zwickau and Emden alone.

Six years later, the company says it cannot demonstrate a competitive future use for either of them.
So the question isn't "is Volkswagen in trouble."

We knew that already.

The question is why the factories it electrified hardest are the ones it now says it can’t justify - and what that tells you about how Europe built its EV industrial policy.

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GENESIS GV90 DROPS THE B-PILLAR https://evne.ws/pfmrd

GENESIS UNVEILS GV90 ELECTRIC FLAGSHIP https://evne.ws/exjvc

CHINESE AUDI EVS REACH EUROPE THROUGH IMPORTER https://evne.ws/xptav

EV OWNERS FLAG CHARGING GAP https://evne.ws/p4r3p

VOLVO PLANTS MAY BUILD GEELY MODELS https://evne.ws/4f2z3

CHERY SETS OUT BRITISH R&D PLAN https://evne.ws/gljo4

CHERY PREPARES GERMAN LAUNCH FROM FRANKFURT https://evne.ws/ln5bl

HYUNDAI AND GENESIS GET IONNA CHARGING DISCOUNTS https://evne.ws/f6n2d

HYUNDAI AND KIA LINK WITH KALUZA https://evne.ws/iqj0n

UNIVÉ LIMITS COVER FOR FOURTEEN BRANDS https://evne.ws/gcwqg