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EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs
Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | TV news briefly for the 5th of September, everything you be in less than five minutes, |
| 0:05.0 | if you haven't got time for the full podcast today. First up, well done, Tesla in China. |
| 0:09.2 | Had a really good month last month in August. Sales were surging. Sixty-three thousand vehicles |
| 0:14.5 | is a 37% increase on July, and that's good news. In an economy in China, which has wobbled a little bit recently, |
| 0:22.3 | they are still behind BYD, though, who are on a complete rip right now. EV knowledge is hindering |
| 0:29.2 | adoption, according to new data coming out of a UGov poll by the Energy and Climate Intelligence |
| 0:35.1 | Unit. The poll finding that more than half, so 57% of petrol and diesel drivers, |
| 0:40.7 | scored terribly when asked about electric vehicles, just general knowledge, questions, |
| 0:45.0 | about range and pricing. |
| 0:47.5 | And most people who drive a gas car thinking that EVs are more expensive to run, |
| 0:52.6 | burst into flames all the time, and that the electric grid |
| 0:56.4 | will be destroyed if they buy one and plug it in because they'll not be able to generate enough |
| 1:00.7 | electricity, showing that knowledge is indeed lacking at the moment, and we need more, more |
| 1:06.3 | ways of reaching those people. I'm not sure this podcast is a great way to reach those people, |
| 1:11.2 | because it sort of tend to go a little bit deep sometimes. You need to find ways to reach the |
| 1:16.9 | doubters and the haters and just engage in a very nice way to help educate. Now, what's the |
| 1:24.0 | best car to buy in the US if you're looking for value? Well, it could be the Lucid Air. |
| 1:28.4 | Not so good if you're trying to sell one, because looking at some prices at the minute. |
| 1:34.1 | Okay, so take a high-end version like the Lucid Air Grant touring. |
| 1:38.4 | That was recently sold for $68,000. |
| 1:42.1 | That was a $155,000 car five minutes ago. Well, I'm going to go two years ago, |
| 1:47.9 | but still, looking across them, across models and across the range, the lucid air seeing some |
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