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I'm Martin Lee, and I go through every EV story, so you don't have to, but you can if you want to have a look at the Patreon page at PATREON.com slash EV News Daily to get your podcasts ad-free. Well, Tesla won't bring the

cyber truck to China. Tesla has said that it will not sell the cyber truck in China, despite

talk of it earlier this year when the vehicle arrived on show. Tesla previewed the

cyber truck a few months ago in some Chinese cities using the term crossover in lieu of the term pickup truck. Well, back in

January, Elon Musk said on social media that it would be difficult to make the cyber truck

legal to drive in China. But recent speculation said that they would bring the cyber truck to

the world's biggest EV market. Well, in China, you see, pickup trucks are actually considered light trucks.

They have more regulations than passenger vehicles, sedans or SUVs.

Pickups are also much a smaller market because of this.

Between January and October this year, China sold 427,000 pickups,

but 17.8 million passenger cars.

So it's very much in Tesla's interest to argue with the Chinese authorities that the

cyber truck is actually a crossover.

I'm not sure they're going to buy that, are they?

Anyway, passenger cars in China can do 75 miles an hour on the highways.

Pickup trucks, because the way they're classified, are limited to 62 miles an hour, or 100 KPH.

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