01 Nov 2024 | Scout Motors To Use Rivian Software, VW Suggest 10% Pay Cut and BYD Overtakes Tesla In Q3
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Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 1 November 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to EV News Daily. Coming up today, Scout Motors will use Rivians software. |
| 0:05.8 | VW suggests a 10% pay cut and BYD overtakes Tesla in the third quarter of this year. |
| 0:11.8 | Plus stay tuned because later in the show. I'll tell you why Nissan and Renault are still working together to make new EVs. |
| 0:18.5 | Well, good morning, good afternoon or good evening, wherever you are in the |
| 0:21.2 | world. Welcome to EV News Daily, a trusted source of EV information for Friday the 1st of November. |
| 0:26.6 | Pinchpunch and all that. I'm Martin Lee and I go through every story I can find online about electric |
| 0:31.6 | vehicles so you don't have to. I'm here to save your time. And if you want to support the show, |
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| 1:03.2 | And first, you can be like Philip 1L by clicking on a link in the show notes. So there's a conference going on in the US right now by TechCrunch, the outlet that writes about technology. |
| 1:09.7 | It's called Disrupt 2024. Lots of leaders in technology |
| 1:13.9 | are on stage doing keynotes and things like that. And we found out yesterday that Scout Motors, |
| 1:18.7 | Volkswagen's new EV branch, has introduced its first two models. We know that the SUV and |
| 1:24.8 | the pickup are coming. And the company will use software and zonal architecture |
| 1:30.6 | developed by Rivian. |
| 1:32.5 | Wasim Ben-Said, Rivian's chief software officer, set on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, |
| 1:38.0 | that production of Scouts vehicles is expected in 27 using Rivian's technology. |
| 1:43.9 | The collaboration is part of a $5 billion agreement |
| 1:46.4 | anticipated to complete by the end of the year. And that was news to me when he said that they |
| 1:51.2 | hoped to complete the deal by the end of the year. I thought that was a done deal. That was an |
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