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EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

07 Feb 2025 | Briefly

EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

Martyn Lee

Business, Leisure, Technology, Automotive

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

It's EV News Briefly for Friday 07 February 2025, everything you need to know in less than 5 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show.

I'll be back later but Patreon supporters get the episodes as soon as they're ready AND ad free. You can be like them by clicking here: https://www.patreon.com/EVNewsDaily

VOLKSWAGEN ID.1 TARGETS 2027 LAUNCH AND €20K PRICE https://evne.ws/3QcQidf

UK NEW CAR MARKET DECLINES FOR FOURTH MONTH https://evne.ws/3CUJs90

NISSAN PULLS OUT OF MERGER TALKS WITH HONDA https://evne.ws/3WS0Hig

NISSAN SHIFTS BATTERY SUPPLIERS FOR FUTURE ELECTRIC VEHICLES https://evne.ws/3EqgSgq

TOYOTA EXPANDS ELECTRIC VEHICLE PLANS IN THE U.S. AND CHINA https://evne.ws/3CGZmUx

NEW EMISSIONS RULES CHALLENGE PLUG-IN HYBRIDS https://evne.ws/4aNIiJ7

TESLA'S POPULARITY DECLINES AMONG EV BUYERS https://evne.ws/3CTXuYx

TESLA SALES PLUMMET IN EUROPE https://evne.ws/4hPjm6d


NEW DS NO8 ELECTRIC FASTBACK LAUNCHES IN THE UK https://evne.ws/4jPVPDV

INSTAVOLT OFFERS CHEAPER EV CHARGING RATES AT NIGHT https://evne.ws/3CJmsK6

Transcript

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0:00.0

All innovation starts with an idea, a spark of inspiration that can take us to places we never thought possible.

0:08.0

And Horizon Europe is here for ambitious businesses with big ideas.

0:12.0

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0:26.0

Get started today at Horizon Europe UK.org.

0:30.7

Got a side hustle, like making money from a hobby, selling stuff online or doing a bit of dog walking outside your day job.

0:39.3

You might need to tell HMRC so you don't get any tax surprises.

0:44.3

To take the hassle out of your side hustle, search HMRC help for hustles.

0:50.3

All innovation starts with an idea, a spark of inspiration that can take us to places we never thought possible.

0:58.5

And Horizon Europe is here for ambitious businesses with big ideas.

1:02.9

With an average funding award to UK businesses of over £500,000 and the chance to build a network of like-minded collaborators, Horizon Europe can help turn your ideas into reality.

1:16.1

Get started today at Horizon Europe, UK.org.

1:20.1

It's EV News briefly for Friday the 7th of February.

1:24.6

Everything you be in less than five minutes.

1:26.0

If you have got time for the full podcast, Patreon supporters get the shows ad free. Be like them by clicking on a link in the show notes.

1:30.9

The Volkswagen ID1 is coming in 2027. I'd like VW to call it the ID up, please, or just the

1:37.2

up, E, or something, or the E up as he used to. That'll be a 17,000 pound car, 20,000 euros. Please, VW, de-content this as much as possible.

1:46.6

Make me use my own phone. Just give it wireless Android and Apple, because heck, my phone's going to get better yearly or every two years or whatever.

1:54.0

But don't put a trashy infatement system in that's horrible to work with.

1:57.7

Bring your own device. Just make this as cheap as possible so that you can

2:01.4

advertise that big entry price into the Volkswagen brand. It would be amazing. Please do that.

2:06.9

And you know, you can compete with those cheaper Chinese cars, the Romanian, the Daciers of the

2:12.8

world, the Situan AC3s, the Renault, 5s, the Fiat Pandas, the ID up, please call it that, against the ID2, both built on the smaller MEP platform, which, if you ask me, please call it the ID Polo. Just use those names you've got. That'd be amazing. It's two years away. But that'll be so cool if VW do deliver something that, yeah, it doesn't have to be cheap as chips,

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