Car news today: Nissan confirms 2025 Micra EV global release, Volkswagen confirms ID.2 X small SUV, and more – 18th February 2025

Thanks for becoming a member of us this Tuesday, February 18th 2025. Critically in automobile news nowadays: Nissan’s novel EV Micra confirmed for a 2025 global liberate, most modern Jaguar Form 00 render in response to opinion images.

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• Nissan’s novel EV Micra confirmed for a 2025 global liberate
• Volkswagen ID.2 X confirmed as EV different to T-Shocking little SUV
• Jaguar Form 00 sedan rendered in response to opinion images
• Peugeot may maybe well merely re-introduce the 208 GTi as an EV

Nissan’s novel EV Micra confirmed for a 2025 global liberate

• Nissan has confirmed that its novel Micra will doubtless be ready for global liberate this year. Offering a doubtless low-fee entry level for the tag’s rising EV lineup right here in Australia.

• Constructed on the novel Renault 5’s CMF-BEV EV platform, the Micra will doubtless portion the same 52kWh and 40kWh powerplant choices, with a most estimated vary of 305 and 399 kilometres respectively, in response to the WLTP same old.

• The Micra is anticipated to fee between $30,000 and 40,000AUD, with a Eastern market tag vary of 2.8 million to 3.5 million Yen launched by BestCar. The Micra’s fundamental opponents in Australia may maybe be the GWM Aura, Volkswagen ID1, and BYD Dolphin.

• The Micra will doubtless be sold alongside the Nissan Leaf and may maybe well merely agree with the void as an cheap, compact electrical automobile for Nissan. The 2025/26 Leaf is anticipated to come abet to the global market as a compact SUV.

Volkswagen ID.2 X confirmed as EV different to T-Shocking little SUV

• The Volkswagen ID.2 X has been launched nowadays alongside a teaser portray. The ID.2 X is a raised, relaxed-roader model of the ID.2 and may maybe well merely be a fully electrical different to the Volkswagen T-Shocking.
• Constructed on the same MEB Entry platform as the Volkswagen ID.2, ID.1 and heaps extra, the ID.2 X is doubtless to love a 38kWh and 56kWh battery on hand, with a 320 and 450 kilometer most vary respectively.

• The ID.2 X will essentially rival the Toyota bZ4X and Hyundai Kona in Australia. No longer a lot may maybe well very nicely be confirmed referring to pricing, however it definitely is identified that the sister ID.2 will fee roughly $39,000 AUD, and the ID.2 X will doubtless fee extra.
• The Volkswagen ID naming convention follows a shift from the tag to designate fully electrical autos with extra extinct, pedestrian names.

Jaguar Form 00 sedan rendered in response to opinion images

• Following detailed opinion images of a Jaguar Form 00 efficiency checking out in Sweden, Nikita Chuiko of kolesa.ru has created a render of what the manufacturing Form 00 may maybe well merely glance love.

• At the origin unveiled to the public by Jaguar as a coupé, it may maybe maybe maybe perhaps seem that a extra extinct 4 door sedan variant of the Form 00 may maybe be the fundamental rendition on hand in global markets.

• As an upmarket, fully electrical luxury sedan, the Form 00 will doubtless be competing with the Porsche Taycan, BMW i7, and extra.
• The Form 00 is the fundamental automobile unveiled as piece of Jaguar’s Contemporary Technology, below the make philosophy of ‘reproduction nothing’. No longer a lot knowledge has been revealed surrounding the Form 00, except for 2 coloration variants and a fully electrical powertrain.

Peugeot may maybe well merely re-introduce the 208 GTi as an EV

• Peugeot’s 2025 E-Lion day supplied a probability for tag novel CEO Alain Favey to account for his eagerness to connect Peugeot to its heritage, and embraced hypothesis surrounding a doubtless 208 GTi revival.
• If a brand novel generation of 208 GTi had been to be confirmed for the global market, it may maybe maybe maybe perhaps nearly definitely be a tubby electrical EV built on the same platform as the e-208.

• Peugeot has no longer sported a GTi badge on any of its novel autos since the final sales of the 308 GTi in 2021.

• There may maybe well very nicely be extra to the 208 GTi than hopeful hypothesis; dad or mum firm Stellantis already produces same hot EV’s alongside with the Lancia Ypsilon HF, Alfa Romeo Junior Veloce, and  Abarth 500e.
• If the 208 GTi uses the same powerplant as the Lancia Ypsilon HF, it may maybe maybe maybe perhaps contain a single 177kW motor mated to a 51kWh battery. This implies a most vary of approximately 400 Kilometers.

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