It's EV News briefly for Friday 11th of October. Everything you see in less than five minutes if you haven't got time for the full podcast. And watch out this weekend. I'm going to pop a special podcast in the feed. All about Tesla's event called a Wii Robot. Wasn't really about cars. And so feel free to delete it. It was, you know, robocabs and, you know, 20-seater autonomous buses and robots and things. Tesla's such a big player in,

you know, in the EV world. I will talk about it, but I won't put it in the main podcast because there wasn't really anything to do with EVs in it. They've got no specs of, you know,

batteries, mention of inductive charging, but that's all. I'll pop a special podcast in your feed. There's a recall of 34,000 Porsches and Audi's, the Ticons, the ETRs and the RS ETRon GTs that are made

between 2022, 2024 and some earlier Ticons as well. There's a possibility because of a supplier part in the

traction battery, the high voltage battery could need a module replacement. They're going to limit

the charging to 80% in the meantime. It's a US thing, I think. Your dealer will be in touch good that they are sorting

that. The UK's largest battery storage facility just went online. This is 100 megawatts, 200 megawatt

hours. 30,000 homes served by this and Tesla was the main partner on this with their megapack 2xl lithium

batteries. Volvo, EX30s are on sale in Canada, like I told you three, four days ago on the podcast.

Got some pricing now, actually. They're in dealerships, a Canadian dealerships selling the

base spec core single motor EX30, 56,000 Canadian. It's about 41,000 US if you do the

conversion, a bit more expensive than we thought that vehicle was going to be, but it hasn't launched

in the US, so we'll wait and see. Which leads me nicely on to, they're going to make those

cars in Ghent, which is in Belgium, not in China, to avoid all the tariffs in Canada and the US. But that hasn't started yet.

But there is a big milestone today.

The Ghent plant in Belgium just made the one millionth XC40, as it's now called.

It was launched back in 2017.

I think it was in Milan.

And then the electric version came shortly after.

The European car of the year, first time Volvo won it with that.

X40 slash XC40, immensely popular car and a million of them coming out of that factory

that will soon be making the little baby one, the X30.

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