It's ED News briefly for Sunday 1st of September. Everything EV in less than five minutes.

If you haven't got the 23 minutes needed for today's full podcast, Patreon supporters get the shows ad free, be like them by clicking on a link in the show notes. Here we go. Neo is topping the JD Power EV vehicle customer experience value index study for the sixth year in a row in China.

But it's not like they're walking it.

They're only a few points.

It's a score of a thousand.

They're on 798.

And there are only a few above Lee Auto, Ex-Pung, Zika, GAC and BYD.

All scoring in the late 700s, looking at customer satisfaction, collection, delivery, showroom,

the service and the process, things like that.

But Neo still leads the way their customers love their vehicles in China.

And meanwhile, here in Germany, I say here, I mean here in Europe, but in Germany,

BYD, I think it's fair to say, their success

and failure rate so far with selling in Germany, in Germany in Europe, has probably not been

the numbers they wanted. It hasn't been a disaster, but I think they've got much bigger plans,

and so they have announced plans to acquire the distributor that they've been using until now. It's like the middle now

that sits between them and the dealers that sell the BYDs in Germany. They're called

Heiden and they're going to require them to get direct control, which will give BYD the chance

to, they say, enhance their market share and have a direct relationship with the dealers

that sell them. Now, what do we know about the Model Y?

Juniper from Tesla.

Well, we think it's coming very soon.

Elon Musk recently said it's not going to come in 2024, but, well, he would say that,

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