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EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs
Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 25 April 2024
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Volvo's EX30 Electric Crossover Making Waves in Sales https://insideevs.com/news/717271/volvo-ex30-global-deliveries-q1-2024/
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| 0:00.0 | It's TV News briefly for Thursday, the 25th of April. |
| 0:04.4 | Everything you've been in less than five minutes. |
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| 0:14.9 | Volvo's EX30, that's their baby crossover, which is new, is selling really well. |
| 0:20.6 | Almost 9,000 last month in March and a first quarter of almost 15,000. |
| 0:25.4 | Volvo delighted that it's soon going to be their best-selling electric vehicle. |
| 0:29.4 | And it starts at 35 grand as well. |
| 0:31.9 | Production of the Big Daddy, EX90, starts in the second quarter of this year, which we're in now. |
| 0:38.0 | And of course, there's the people carrier, the EM90, but that's China only. |
| 0:42.4 | Tesla's Model 3 performance could well be the bargain of the year. |
| 0:46.6 | And I'm fully aware that I'm saying bargain in the same sentence as $45,000, |
| 0:51.0 | but it starts at $52.9.90. |
| 0:53.0 | The thing is, the Model 3 performance gets the federal tax credit. |
| 0:58.7 | And the long range all-wheel drive? Well, it doesn't. And so if you financially, it's all to do with earnings, targets, and single filing, joint filing, but if you do get the $7,500 off or you're leasing any vehicle to get that text credit, |
| 1:13.0 | but if you're buying, it's better to buy, I say better unless you want the extra handful of |
| 1:18.1 | miles for the long range. Why wouldn't you buy the performance? You get significant hardware |
| 1:22.9 | differences, you know, the seats, the active damping, track mode V3, and this weekend we'll have a whole special |
| 1:28.7 | podcast all about the Model 3 performance, but there's significant hardware upgrades that |
| 1:32.3 | will make it more expensive to make them the long range, but it's cheaper by about $2,000 |
| 1:37.1 | and change to buy that vehicle. So does that kind of mess with Tesla's line up a little bit? |
| 1:43.8 | Performance has always been the |
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