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Volvo sales growth is driven by the EX30 and $2 billion of US tax credits. Plus, stay tuned.

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Now, headline story today came as a surprise to many people.

Enel X-Way is an odd name,

but Anel X-Way is the North American bit of the energy giant Anel,

and they suddenly announced the termination of their EV business.

They make EV charges and software as well in both the US and Canada effective in a week.

So October the 11th, the company had planned to install 10,000 DC fast charges across North America

by 2030. So what happened? What went wrong? What's changed? This new decision marks a huge

change in direction. As a result, all residential charges, the juice box charges, will become dumb chargers. So they will dispense energy

and do no more. But they say basic operations is how they described it. They lose any kind of smart

functionality. Similarly, commercial charges, and this is a big deal, will stop working. There's no

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