{"podcast":{"title":"ev.news","slug":"ev-news-daily-technology-and-business-of-evs-63030","podcast_index_feed_id":63030,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5051980.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5051980","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43770470.png","author":"Martyn Lee","episode_count":500,"summary":"Daily news about the technology and business driving electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and sustainable e-mobility. Daily 20-minute episodes, concise updates, and expert commentary.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T20:19:42.333257+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ev-news-daily-technology-and-business-of-evs-63030"},"episode":{"title":"ev.news Briefly: Dacia, Germany, Kia & more  | 09 Sep 2026","slug":"ev-news-briefly-dacia-germany-kia-more-09-sep-2026","published_at":"2026-09-10T23:13:57+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ev-news-daily-technology-and-business-of-evs-63030/ev-news-briefly-dacia-germany-kia-more-09-sep-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ev-news-daily-technology-and-business-of-evs-63030","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8951605","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8951605.mp3?modified=1789082049&sid=5051980&source=rss","summary":"It's ev.news Briefly for Wednesday 09 September 2026, only todays headlines and nothing else, in just 4 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show. Patreon supporters fund this show, get the episodes ad free, as soon as they're ready and are part of the ev.news Community. You can be like them by clicking here: https://www.patreon.com/evnews 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…","meta_description":"It's ev.news Briefly for Wednesday 09 September 2026, only todays headlines and nothing else, in just 4 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":255,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ev-news-daily-technology-and-business-of-evs-63030/episodes/ev-news-briefly-dacia-germany-kia-more-09-sep-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ev-news-daily-technology-and-business-of-evs-63030/ev-news-briefly-dacia-germany-kia-more-09-sep-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}