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Well, Clean Technica are out with their August global sales. Obviously, we're into October now, but it takes

a while to collate everything,

and global registrations of plug-in vehicles rose by 19% compared to August last year,

reaching 1.5 million new registrations. So how does it split? Battery electric vehicles were

up 6% year-over-year, plug-in hybrids, up 51% year- year over year. That's 500,000 plug-in hybrids on the

month of August, and the rest are pure beves. So it's a two-to-one split still in favour of

pure battery-electric vehicles. Overall, plug-in vehicles were 22% of the global automotive market, with Pure Bev's 14% on a global scale.

You know what? We've had a lot of bad news this year about EVs. The narrative seems to be that

nobody wants them anymore, but they're selling 1.5 million of them every month, and 14% of the

global automotive market is EV. Pure EV. Ah, you know what, I'll take 14%

at this stage in 2024 and the adoption curve heading into the second half of the decade and

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