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EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

10 Aug 2024 | Briefly

EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

Martyn Lee

Business, Leisure, Technology, Automotive

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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It’s EV News Briefly for Saturday 10th August, 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

CHARGEPOINT'S OMNI PORT: A UNIVERSAL SOLUTION FOR EV CHARGING https://evne.ws/4cnQb72

USED ELECTRIC CAR SALES SKYROCKET AMID NEW MARKET SLOWDOWN https://evne.ws/3M0BCvs

MG MOTOR'S STRATEGIC EV EXPANSION INTO MEXICO https://evne.ws/3WH6Gpc

DODGE'S UNUSUAL FRUNK FEE FOR CHARGER EV https://evne.ws/4cn6rW0

TOYOTA'S HYDROGEN CAR EXPERIMENT CONTINUES TO CRUMBLE https://evne.ws/3yE7Zgx

BYD'S SEAL EV RAISES STAKE IN FIGHT WITH MODEL 3 https://evne.ws/3M339fP

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's EV News briefly for Saturday 10th of August, Everything Evie, in less than five minutes.

0:04.0

If you haven't got the 22 minutes needed for today's full podcast, charge point have launched their Omniport, a bit like Tesla's magic dock.

0:12.3

So any EV can now charge at a charge point.

0:15.0

Obviously Nissan Leaf owners look away now.

0:17.0

It's not Chadimo.

0:18.1

But CCS1 or J-3400, aka Nax, aka Tesla, then charge, the dock is all built in to charge point's new charges. Omniport, they've called it. They'll do this for home use as well to go up against the Universal Wall Connector from Tesla. I love this solution because, you know, it's their technology.

0:37.9

Firstly, it's their liability.

0:39.1

Everything goes wrong.

0:39.7

But also, you're not having to carry your own adapter round.

0:42.2

You know that you go to a charge point Omniport system, and then you can either select it on screen

0:47.2

or in the app.

0:48.2

You tell the app what car you've got.

0:49.6

It'll automatically give you the correct adapter to stick into your car.

0:53.2

That's a fantastic idea.

0:55.1

Used TV sales are skyrocketing in the UK, where 80%, let's remember this, by the way, in the UK

1:01.7

at least, 80% of the car market is used vehicles and used EV sales are flying. Now look, the market

1:09.5

share is now 2.4%. And it's funny, we talk about

1:12.9

the new market share, Norway being 90%, China being 50% last month. But the used EV market,

1:19.9

man, it's so far behind the new EV market, but I'm so excited about the used TV market,

1:24.2

where we all buy our cars, apart from those that can, either

1:27.6

to know, business cars, lease cars and stuff. The rest of us, I just bought a used

1:31.9

EV, the Boll Star 2. It was three years old. Coming off that lease agreement, got a great deal

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