Coming up to date, on podcast 1991, Zika deliveries in Europe, Volvo and Starbucks Charge Network is launched, and the Fiat 500E for the USA.

Plus, stay tuned because later in the show, I'll tell you about what Australia is telling their EV owners to do over the holiday period.

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Be like them by clicking on a link in the show notes. We'll start with news of Zika starting deliveries of its vehicles in Europe, beginning in the Netherlands.

The first European model delivered earlier this week was the Zika-O-1 at their flagship shooting break.

Now, they announced their European strategy, their market entry in April 18th earlier this year, focusing on two models, the 001 and the Zika X.

Now, the Zika X is an urban SUV.

The 201 is priced at 59.5,000 euros in the Netherlands.

The X is cheaper by that 15 grand at 45,000 euros.

Now, next year, Zika wants to expand their presence to six European countries, with plans to increase that to eight by the following year in 2025.

A new Zika Centre, which is somewhere you can go along and experience the cars, is opening in Amsterdam in three days time, December 14th.

The first 11 months of the year, Zika did pretty well. They've delivered about

105,000 vehicles, about 75% up on the same time last year. So Zika on a bit of a rip,

their cars look very compelling. We'll see how the European market takes to another Chinese

brand coming here, but hopefully it goes well for them. Now this is big news today.

I can't wait to tell you about this. Ohio opened the first EV charging station funded by

Biden's $5 billion National Evie Charging Network Initiative. The development aims to enhance

confidence in people driving EVs by providing convenient, vast charges on major highways,

slow government-led deployment contracts with the rapid expansion by private entities,

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