Welcome back to EV News Daily coming up today.

US EVs sales are surging in Q3.

Tesla takes the top three spots, and affordable EVs are all the rage over here at the Paris Motor Show.

Plus stay tuned because later in the show, I'll tell you why the next hot hatch from Volkswagen could be the electric GTI.

Hey, you want to split £100 together, my UK listeners, if you move to Octopus Energy and use my referral code, you can help keep the lights on at the podcast and get yourself a great welcome bonus. Click on the link in the show notes you'll see at the very top. Well, good morning, good afternoon or good evening, wherever you are in the world. Welcome to Evie News Daily. Your trusted source of EV information for Tuesday 15th of October. I'm Martin Lee. I go through every EV story so you don't

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on a link in the show notes. Well, the Paris Auto Show is on this week, and if you haven't heard it and you're interested,

there's a special bonus podcast in your feed of all the cars I'm excited about seeing at Paris this year.

Plenty of discussions around electric vehicles, the Renault CEO, Luca de Mayo, saying yesterday,

and I quote,

the mood is not great around EVs right now.

There's not enough charging infrastructure.

There's volatility on price.

But let's see, we're really trying our best, end quote.

I'm sorry for dramatizing it a little bit.

But the head of Renault, and they've spent a fortune to beat there, and're launching vehicles and the stand looks amazing. And they're in France. There's really downbeat on EVs. Oh dear. Oh no. What's going wrong with electric vehicles? Unfortunately, nothing, unless you like really doom and gloom headlines which you'll see but you dig into the

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