It's EV News briefly for Thursday, 19th of September.

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Ford is introducing karaoke mode to its F-150 Lightning and then the Mac E, which will be useful if you're plugging in to charge and want to have a little sing-song for 15 or 20 minutes.

Electric vehicle sales are forecast a surge over the next year or so by the end of 25.

Transport and Environment, the organisation T&E, expecting the European B-EV market to be between 20 and 24% by the end of next year,

all thanks to the new carbon dioxide reduction goals set by

the European Union carmakers doing that 60% will be achieved through B-EVs. The rest will be done

with plug-in hybrids and hybrids themselves. The revamped Scoda IV plugin is impressing the car

reviewers. Car magazine particularly rated the new 25.7 kilowatt

hour battery for 84 miles of all electric range. WLTP, 135 kilometers that is. It peaks at 50

kilowatts charging. It has CCS2 on the side of it as well for a rapid charger. Now Herbert

Dees, the ex-CEO of Volkswagen Group, has been heavily critical

of the current direction of Tesla and Eon Musk in German media, talking to what I think is a

business weekly publication. My German's terrible. I really apologize. I think it's

Vierschaft's Vuka. He says Tesla has done too little recently. He recognizes Tesla's initial success, but says that they've lost their way. It shows weakness, predicts difficulties in remaining their state, in remaining status. He says that the lineup is stagnating and the others are making faster progress with autonomy.

His earlier admiration for Musk has now diminished because of Elon Musk's distractions

with social media and more recently politics and he feels that attention is not being paid

to where Elon Musk used to spend the majority of his time and that is innovating at Tesla.

New electric vans are all the rage at the IAA show,

and a big one from BYD is a big 4.25 ton van as they bring their zero-emission vans to

the market. And that's all to do with a lot of businesses want zero-emission vehicles and

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