It's EV News briefly for Friday 19th of July, everything EV in less than five minutes, and it needs to be, because today's podcast is 28 minutes long.

So save yourself some time and listen to this version.

We'll start with news today about the Tesla Cybertruck.

Now, these are monthly registrations, and this isn't official data, but this does look like it outsold the Ford

F-150 Lightning in the month of May, which would make it the US's most popular electric pickup truck,

I guess. Over the year, the F-150 Lightning still beats the cyber truck. It was interesting.

Starbucks and Mercedes-Benz announced a new charging network in

California's I-5 using 400-kil-wodd-C-fast chargers, both NACs and CCS plugs on those, and they will go in

the ground from next year so you can recharge yourself and your car. Here in the UK, the new Arnick 5 has gone on sale.

You can now order that, and it's got a

price reduction of £3,500 as well for the base model, and that's got even better, because

the batteries have got bigger. So the old 58 and 73 kilowatt hour batteries are now at 63 and 84 kilowatt

hours, and you get a rear wiper. What's not to love?

And lots of good improvements.

New goodies on the Aronic 5, which I think this kind of midlife refresh was probably needed.

But like I say, the base model, even getting a discount as well, we love that.

Audi also reintroducing the smaller Q435 spec, which went a couple of years ago, that whole supply chainy

semiconductor thing which was going on when the world was a bit weird. They're bringing it back,

and it's on sale now in Germany for 45,000 euros. It was previously offered with a 52 kilowatt

hour battery, is now back with the 55 kilowatt-hour battery. It's now back with the 55-kilow-hour battery. 52-usable. 22-27 miles. That's 365 kilometres of range. And that's the new 35 trim of the Q4-E-Trom. Volvo had some stellar financial results in Q2 this year.

Their best ever operating profit on a quarter of 776 million US dollars, that's 8.2 billion

Swedish crona.

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