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We'll start with news of Volkswagen factories around Europe,

fighting, vying for the honor of making the new affordable EV.

From 27, when we get a global launch of the new 20,000 euro, that's about $22,000,

so-called ID1. And why wouldn't they call it that? Because that's what they call their cars,

the facilities either in Portugal or Poland or maybe the Scoda factory in Czech Republic could

all make, or even the Slovakian plant, could all make this budget model.

VW goes into their planning round now to work out what cars they'll make where.

And this is going to be very, very important vehicle to go up against the cheaper Chinese cars.

This is going to be smaller, by the way, than the cars I've been talking about recently,

which were probably more like the ID2s, if you like, the Cooper Rival and cars like that.

This is the real cheaper entry-level urban budget model.

Now, let's talk about UK EV sales bucking the trend in Europe.

We've heard a lot about how Germany just suddenly got rid of their subsidies and caused a real

crash in their EV market overnight, which Germany is really suffering

from. Here in the UK, we've got this thing where 22% of the cars that the carmaker sells

got to be zero emission, and if not, massive fines. And so a lot of the car makers are really

focusing on our right-hand drive market of the UK at the moment. and it's really paying off for us, so selfishly,

delighted to see more EVs on the road. And last month in September, EVs were 20% of new car sales

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