18 Nov 2024 | Briefly

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Martyn Lee

Technology, Leisure, Automotive, Business

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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It's EV News Briefly for Monday 18 November 2024, everything you need to know in less than 5 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show.

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FORD'S KENTUCKY BATTERY PLANT TO OPEN EARLY https://evne.ws/4ezV91L

FORD'S PATENT FOR EXTENDED-RANGE ELECTRIC VEHICLE https://evne.ws/4hTxRqC

FORD BOOSTS YEAR-END EV DISCOUNTS https://evne.ws/3V04gSm

ELON MUSK'S 4680 BATTERY TECHNOLOGY CRITICISED BY CATL https://evne.ws/3YYaVOk

RENAULT 5 E-TECH ELECTRIC OFFERS SMALLER BATTERY https://evne.ws/4hWWdjm

VOLKSWAGEN UK UPGRADES ID. LINEUP AND REDUCES PRICES https://evne.ws/48YIJ2v

MINI COOPER ELECTRIC AND ACEMAN DELAY IN U.S. MARKET https://evne.ws/48YE9RR

FERRARI'S REPLACEMENT BATTERY POLICY FOR FIRST ELECTRIC CAR https://evne.ws/3Zc7Zid

LUCID WON’T MAKE A BUDGET EV BUT COULD LICENCE TECH https://evne.ws/40Xkakj

TESLA REDUCES MODEL Y LEASE PRICES TO BOOST SALES https://evne.ws/3YYBeE9

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0:00.0	It's EV News briefly for Monday 18th of November. Everything EV in less than five minutes.
0:04.9	If you haven't got time for the full podcast, Patreon supporters get the shows first and ad-free.
0:09.2	Be like them by clicking on a link in the show notes.
0:12.9	Ford's Kentucky Battery Factory will open early.
0:16.8	Construction's ongoing at Ford's Blue Oval City in Tennessee and Blue Oval Battery Park in Kentucky.
0:22.0	Now, Battery Park was meant to open in mid-2025, but Kentucky Governor Andy Bashir announcing
0:26.2	production will begin in the first quarter of next year, two and a half thousand new jobs
0:30.7	being created there. Ford is boosting its year-end EV discounts with a zero percent financing
0:37.0	offer, a $5,000 cash bonus.
0:40.3	Of course, the free EV-charge-a-deal I've told you about, an installation as well, part of their
0:44.5	Power Promise program, which began back on the 1st of October, and one of the best EVSEs out there
0:50.2	coming with the vehicles. Also, 10.5,000 lease cash, whatever that is, being offered on the F-150, no, sorry, on the
0:58.3	Mustang Mac E and six and a half grand, extra leasing off the F-150 Lightning.
1:03.8	So that you can get into a lightning from about 62 grand and into a Mackey for about
1:06.8	40 grand.
1:08.1	Elon Musk, according to CATL, has a blind spot, and that is batteries.
1:13.5	Interesting piece of criticism, this, because, well, Tesla indeed are a customer of CATL.
1:19.3	They pay them quite a lot of money for batteries, and yet the founder of CATL doesn't seem to care
1:25.8	very much. He said that Elon Musk's dependence on their
1:28.8	own battery project, the 4680s, and I quote, is going to fail and never be successful, end
1:35.0	quote. Wow. Now, there might have been some, that's according to a conversation with Reuters,
1:39.4	maybe something lost in translation there, but still, punchy. Also, he talked to the journalist about a meeting
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