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EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

23 Feb 2024 | Honda Prologue, Skoda Enyaq Milestone and Renault 4 Nears Production

EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

Martyn Lee

Business, Leisure, Technology, Automotive

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Plus, stay tuned because later in the show I’ll tell you what Ford is saying about when Supercharger access will open for Mach E and Lightning owners

Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily, your trusted source of EV information. It’s Friday 23rd February, I’m Martyn Lee and I go through every EV story so you don’t have to.

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Tesla Expands Cybertruck Color Options with New Wraps https://evne.ws/42VoQ9e

Lucid Motors Faces Increased Q4 Losses and Predicts Limited Production Growth 

Europe Trails in Battery Factory Equipment Supply https://evne.ws/3wBtUUn

Honda Launches 2024 Prologue EV with GM Technology https://evne.ws/4bSrOzv

Škoda Achieves 200,000 Enyaq Family Production Milestone https://evne.ws/3SVbtBn

Ford Reveals Adapter for Tesla Supercharger Access https://evne.ws/42VoS0Q

GM Shifts Focus to Plug-In Hybrid Pickups Over Electric Vans https://evne.ws/4bPfUXj

Ford Pro Observes EV Uptake Surge in Commercial Sectors https://evne.ws/3ThwnLt

Renault 4 EV Nears Production, Spotted in Snowy Tests https://evne.ws/42UoMGV

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to EV News Daily.

0:01.7

Coming up today, the Honda Prolog, the Scoda Eniac milestone, and the Renault 4 Nears production.

0:08.5

Plus, stay tuned because later in the show, I'll tell you what Ford is saying about when Supercharger Access will open for MacE and Lightning owners.

0:15.9

Well, good morning, good afternoon or good evening.

0:18.4

Wherever you are in the world, EV News Daily is your trusted source of EV information for Friday, 23rd of February. I'm Martin Lee, and I go through every EV story, so you don't have to. And the Patreon supporters get the episodes ad-free. Be like them by clicking on a link on the show notes. Well, Tesla is introducing three additional color options for

0:37.9

the cyber truck through paint film wraps. It's available in its online shop. The new colors are

0:44.4

slip gray, satin rose gold and satin abyss blue. They are $6,000 or $6.000 and a half thousand dollars. Initially, only for Tesla

0:56.0

Service Centers in California will be offering this new wrap installation of the colored

1:01.9

versions. Previously, the stealth black and satin ceramic ones will continue at $6,000. The

1:10.4

wraps are made from a like a urethin-based film, which Tesla claims

1:16.2

is kind of self-healing in a way if it gets any damage, offering protection against scratches

1:21.6

and more environmentally friendly being a urethane-based film than vinyl wraps Tesla previously launched

1:30.1

wrap colours for the three and the Y. They were like $7,000 or $8,000. And so if you want a

1:37.3

cyber truck, but you want it to be a little different, I mean, look, all cyber trucks are going to get

1:41.8

a ton of attention, but if you want to get that extra few turns of heads,

1:46.6

then have it a different colour.

1:48.7

Now, yesterday we talked Rivian's numbers,

1:52.6

and today we'll talk lucid.

1:54.3

And I do put them in the same category as being start-ups of successful companies,

2:04.8

making incredible vehicles, loss-making at the moment,

2:08.7

both with a lot of money in the bank, and both Rivian and Lucid will make it through,

2:14.3

by the way. Lots of doom-mongering on social media from, I don't know, people who want to see these companies fail, but Lucid's Q4 net loss was $654 million.

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