BRIEFLY: Pump Prices, Cupra, Ford & more | 05 Mar 2026

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1:01Capital One's tech team isn't just talking about multi-agentic AI. They already deployed one. It's called chat-concierge and it's simplifying car shopping using self-reflection and layered reasoning with live API checks. It doesn't just help buyers find a car they love. It helps schedule a test drive, get pre-approved for financing, and estimate trade-in value, advanced, intuitive, and deployed. That's how they stack. That's technology at Capital One. The Toyota Tundra and Tacoma are built to keep going, blending rugged muscle with precision engineering, all supported by Toyota's time-tested legacy of dependability. Step into a Tundra and feel the unyielding capability with the available iForce Max engine Tundra puts out impressive power, torque, and towing performance and the roomy high-tech cabin keeps you connected on the go. Or take a look at Tacoma made for drivers who push past the path. Agile, tough and relentless with available features like crawl control, portable JBL speaker, a power lift gate, so gear goes in fast and the adventure keeps moving. The Tacoma and Tundra are engineered

2:06to endure season after season, mile after mile. So drive one home today, visit Toyota.com or stop by your local Toyota dealer to find out more Toyota. Let's go places. It's EV News, briefly, for Thursday 5th March, everything EV in less than five minutes. If you haven't got time for the full podcast, Patreon supporters get the shows at free, save even more time and support the work that I do here. Check out the Patreon page if you'd be so kind enough, but no worries if not. We'll kick off the news with the Middle East conflict lifting fuel prices. Brent Crude has surged past $84 per barrel and people will be playing more at the pumps as soon as maybe a week or so goes past and they use the stocks that are in the ground as it were, but maybe now's not the time as an EV driver to be doing a lap of honor. First of all, there's a human cost of what's happening, the conflict in the Middle East. Plus, out for ends and our neighbors who drive petrol cars and diesel cars, it's not their fault. They have to pay more at the pumps and perhaps going around saying, I'm a smug EV driver. It's not the best way to talk to them about

3:07the benefits of driving EV. I don't know. That's just my opinion. Lots of articles have been taking that tack. I'm not sure that is very tacked full given the circumstances, but it is happening. A new EY report finds that fully electrifying Europe's corporate fleets could deliver almost 250 billion euros in savings and cut a billion tons of CO2 by 2030. Cooper has facelifted the bond with a new shark nose front end, Matrix LED lights and a continuous real light strip. Two battery sizes, 58 or 79 kilowatt hours and great material choice. The buttons are back on the steering wheel. It's a great steering wheel. It's a great double screen system. Bigger screens inside as well. Honestly, the bond. If you don't fancy the ID3, the Cooper Aborn, if you can get it where you're listening, is a really good choice for you to be checking out. Ford's US EV sales collapsed 71% in February compared to the same time last year. That's not surprising because they've got nothing new to sell

4:09to you. They discontinued the F-150 lightening. Federal tax credit is gone. The Ford Model E division lost $4.8 billion last year and Ford really have nothing new on the table for at least a couple of years with this new platform coming. Lucid has pushed a new software update to the gravity. Last time around, they fixed a bunch of annoying bugs this time there, pushing AC charging improvements and drive resistance improvements as well. Lucid has just closed the online configurator for the air and the gravity to clear some stock for getting ready for the 2020-27 model year as well. Mitsubishi is preparing its first all-new model since the Eclipse for dealerships. This is, effectively, their version of the Nissan Leaf. It's built on the same architecture, same platform, CMF EV, spy shots. At the minute still show it camouflaged, but it shares the Leafs roofline and proportions. And indeed will be made alongside the Leafs of the plant in Japan. Alpatronic has launched Series 2 of their HYC 400 Chargers. I love the Alpatronic hardware because in my experience, I know

5:15just my opinion, it just always works and it's reliable and it's good. 400kW maximum output sustained 600 amps up from 500 with new silicon carbide power packs they say. The screen's really big 22-inch touchscreen on the front of the unit as well. And they say a 97.5% charging efficiency as they generally improve that. 400kW is about as good as you're going to get outside of China for charging at the moment. Aptera, showing off a first photo of a vehicle off its validation assembly line. The three-wheeled soda-resisted EV that's been coming for, well, frankly, decades, is another step closer. Glee will launch their competitor to a Land Rover Defender or a Total Land Cruiser. They've given it an amazing name. Outside of China, so here in the UK, for instance, it'll be the Glee Galaxy Battleship and it looks proper as well. And finally, the European Commission has unfailed their new Industrial Accelerator Act. In other words, tying public subsidies to made in

6:20Europe conditions for the parts and how EVs get assembled, money off buying locally. And that's briefly. Capital One's tech team isn't just talking about multi-agentic AI. They already deployed one. It's called chat-concierge and it's simplifying car shopping using self-reflection and layered reasoning with live API checks. It doesn't just help buyers find a car they love. It helps schedule a test drive, get pre-approved for financing, and estimate trading value, advanced, intuitive, and deployed. That's how they stack. That's technology at Capital One. The Toyota Tundra and Tacoma are built to keep going, blending rugged muscle with precision engineering all supported by Toyota's time-tested legacy of dependability. Step into a Tundra and feel the unyielding capability with the available iForce Max engine Tundra puts out impressive power torque and towing performance and the roomy high-tech cabin keeps you connected on the go.

7:23Or take a look at Tacoma made for drivers who push past the path. Agile, tough and relentless with available features like crawl control, portable JBL speaker, a power lift gate, so gear goes in fast and the adventure keeps moving. The Tacoma and Tundra are engineered to endure season after season, mile after mile. So drive one home today, visit toyota.com or stop by your local Toyota dealer to find out more Toyota, let's go places. You know what they say. Early bird gets the ultimate vacation home. Book early and save over $120 with verbo. Because early gets you closer to the action, whether it's waves lapping at the shore or snoozing in a hammock that overlooks, well, whatever you want it to. So you can all enjoy the payoff come summer with verbo's early booking deals. Rise and shine, average savings $141 select homes only. Capital One's tech team isn't just talking about multi-agentic AI. They already deployed one.

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