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and we'll talk e-cargo bikes. Plus, stay tuned because later in the show, I'll tell you what, the

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We'll start with news of California's sales dominating the US market.

Fully electric vehicles, not just all plug-ins here, but full beves, was 21.4% of all new car sales in California for 2023.

Plug-in hybrids added a much smaller amount, 3.4% of the state's plug-in vehicle sales.

So a huge preference for B-EVs.

Often we'll see maybe 50-50 in some countries or a shift towards pure BEVs.

But in California, it's just one-way traffic, really.

It's all pure battery electric vehicles. Nationwide

EV vehicles were 7.5% of total car sales across the United States. California's high bevrate,

obviously dragging that figure up. So I haven't got all the states here, but some are far, far behind

and California doing the heavy lifting. California alone responsible for over a third, 33.8%

of all pure electric EV sales in the United States. So that will only increase in terms of the

other states catching up as infrastructure

increases. And of course, as all of those other car makers will get access to the superchargers

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