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EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs
Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 11 April 2025
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| 0:00.0 | It's EV News briefly for Friday, the 11th of April, everything EV in less than five minutes. |
| 0:05.0 | If you haven't got time for the full podcast, Patreon supporters get the shows ad free. |
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| 0:10.7 | Mazda revealing the EZ60. |
| 0:13.1 | Maybe it'll be called the... |
| 0:15.3 | Well, maybe not EZ60 when we get that. |
| 0:17.5 | Maybe it'll be the CX6 electric, perhaps. |
| 0:22.9 | It's a global vehicle, launching first in China, sharing a platform with Chang'an's D-Pal S-O-7, which is Mazda's Chinese partner. Foxcon, |
| 0:29.5 | firming up their plans for the US market with the Model A, the Model B, the Model C, the Model D, |
| 0:34.4 | and the Model E, and the Model U, a minibus. They say Foxcon, of course, famous for being a very good assembler of electronics like Apple iPhones. They know they're doing in terms of assembly. Over the years, have made many promises about entering the EV market with joint ventures and partnerships. Nothing's happened yet. So maybe this time they're not crying wolf and it's the real deal. |
| 0:57.0 | We'll wait and see. |
| 0:58.0 | BYD is unveiling that megawatt charging system. |
| 1:01.1 | Those vehicles, which are now on sale, the Hanel, that's a big sedan, bigger than a Model S, for instance. |
| 1:07.7 | And the Tang, which is the same vehicle in an SUV form, with a bigger battery, 100 kilowatt hour battery, these are the ones that have a 10C charge rate. It'll do hundreds of miles added in five or six minutes. It's like 300 miles in six minutes or something ridiculous. A 70% charge happens in six minutes, and it's 20 minutes to fall, but you've got to find two charges next to each other. |
| 1:30.8 | It's a dual gun system, so two 500 kilowatt charges both plugged in, two plugs at once. |
| 1:38.3 | And that's how you get your 1,000 kilowatts on a thousand volt system on that architecture, crazy, b y d's dolphin mini or seagull as it may |
| 1:47.4 | be no uh 9,000 of them now loaded onto a car carrier and heading to europe it'll begin left-hand drive sales |
| 1:53.9 | in spain they say that's a very popular vehicle and a very cheap vehicle in china b yd explaining |
| 2:00.0 | their expanding their plug-in hybrid lineup in |
| 2:02.4 | Europe as well. They say bringing plug-in hybrids at a faster clip than they planned to. Vehicles |
| 2:08.1 | like the CLEUDMI, a plug-in hybrid now outsells the full electric version. Jeep's upcoming |
| 2:16.2 | Wagoner 4xE, probably using the same power |
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