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EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

11 Apr 2025 | Briefly

EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

Martyn Lee

Business, Leisure, Technology, Automotive

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

It's EV News Briefly for Friday 11 April 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

MAZDA REVEALS EZ-60 CROSSOVER FOR GLOBAL LAUNCH https://evne.ws/4luHcXO

FOXCONN EXPANDS EV PRODUCTION FOR U.S. MARKET https://evne.ws/4coq1CU

BYD UNVEILS HAN L AND TANG L WITH RAPID CHARGING https://evne.ws/4lro90q

BYD DOLPHIN MINI BEGINS EUROPEAN JOURNEY https://evne.ws/4i9UaqM

BYD EXPANDS PHEV LINEUP IN EUROPE https://evne.ws/4j2AkPs

JEEP’S UPCOMING WAGONEER 4XE PROTOTYPE SPOTTED https://evne.ws/3RHBrrR

GERMAN AUTOMAKERS PREPARE FOR SHANGHAI EV SHOWCASE https://evne.ws/42iu5kZ

GERMANY’S GOVERNMENT SHIFT SUPPORTS CAR INDUSTRY AND DEFENSE  https://evne.ws/4j3y8Y2

ITALY'S EV SALES SURGE IN MARCH 2025 https://evne.ws/4lF1iP8

ENERGYHUB AND GM PARTNER ON EV INTEGRATION https://evne.ws/3RcVuhS

REDWOOD MATERIALS LAUNCHES SAN FRANCISCO R&D HUB https://evne.ws/4i9V2M4

KIA UNVEILS NEW NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC PICKUP https://evne.ws/4j7njV3

Transcript

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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.

0:08.5

Be like them by clicking on a link in the show note.

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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