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EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs
Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 5 March 2024
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| 0:00.0 | It's evening news briefly for Tuesday 5th of March. |
| 0:02.8 | Everything you've been in less than five minutes. |
| 0:04.2 | If you haven't got time for the full podcast, Patreon supporters get the episodes first and add free. |
| 0:08.6 | Be like then by clicking on a link in the show notes. |
| 0:10.7 | Porsche previews the high performance Tycon. |
| 0:13.0 | We don't know what it's going to be called, but I'd have a guess at something like the Turbo GT. |
| 0:17.6 | It's going to have a big old swing on the back, a new front splitter. It's going to be lower. |
| 0:22.6 | It's just going to be this insane electric monster on March the 11th. That's coming. |
| 0:27.3 | Volkswagen-Hevian assembly at their Emden plant and also line 2 at Zvikauk because of a shortage of the new fancy pants motors, the AP550s, |
| 0:35.5 | those cars which have the original motors, like the ID3 and Cooper |
| 0:38.8 | Born, unaffected. VW is going to gain access to Tesla superchargers when they |
| 0:43.2 | release their J-3400 to CCS1 adapter by the end of the year. Now, they were late to the party |
| 0:48.8 | anyway, so not surprising that they'll be one of the last ones to get the adapter. |
| 0:52.2 | Ford's sales surged in February compared to the same month last year. |
| 0:56.8 | And what drove it? |
| 0:57.8 | This can't be right. |
| 0:58.9 | EVs and hybrids. |
| 1:00.0 | But we've been told all along that no one wants EVs anymore. |
| 1:03.7 | No. |
| 1:04.2 | Ford F-150 Lightning doing very well, MacE doing very well. |
| 1:07.6 | And of course, recent price cuts have those both those vehicles even more attractive. Mercedes-Benz EQVs had a bit of a midlife refresh before the new custom van |
| 1:16.3 | comes on their their new platform, the van v-a platform in 2026. This will do until then. All the |
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