It's EV News briefly for Tuesday, the 19th of November.

Everything EV in less than five minutes.

If you haven't got time for the full podcast, Patreon supporters get the shows ad-free.

Be like them by clicking on a link in the show notes.

Daimler Buses is unveiling the Mercedes-Benz E. Inturo.

Its first, full battery electric intercity bus, with two batteries, literally two,

either the 207 kilowatt hour battery or two of them

on board, charging just 70 minutes for the single battery, 90 minutes for the dual battery,

and over-the-air software updates like cars really to reduce the workshop visits and keep those buses

on the road enabling

intercity transport and linking up urban and rural community that's great catl the world's biggest

battery maker for e vs is talking about their second generation sodium battery out in 2025 charging

down at minus 40 degrees Celsius wow but also how it's perhaps being delayed a little bit

because of the falling lithium prices, impacting development of these alternative technologies,

BID doing the same thing with sodium ion battery building out of factory. And even Cherry and

JAC have sodium batteries in vehicles right now

on the roads in China. North Vault is weighing Chapter 11 U.S. bankruptcy protection. That's not

insolvency, of course. It's simply a way to carry on trading and negotiating to get more money,

but also protect the business. It's not come to that yet, but it's a Reuters report with

two sources, so I'm kind of comfortable passing that information on. Mercedes-Benz and the

CLA will feature dual charging ports. This won't be like the Audi Eatron that had two ports

and two flippy flappies either side.

...