It's EV News briefly for the 7th of June. Everything in less than five minutes. If you haven't got time for the full podcast, Patreon supporters get the show's ad-free. A link in the show notes if you'd like to be one of them. A camouflage Chevy Equinox has been photographed driving around in the US, which hints that it could become a plug-in hybrid power train for the first time in North America. They do sell a plug-in hybrid equinox in China,

by the way. Leap Motor is next in the news, entering seven new EU markets. Of course,

Stalantis, a big investor, which gives them the exclusive rights to sell the Leap Motor vehicles

outside of Greater China. They say they want to try and get the journey time down to

25 minutes to your nearest Atlantis dealership to go check out a leap motor. I've got one

about two minutes away from me, but it doesn't have the leap motors inside. The nearest one is

up towards South Hampton. Now, China is curbing the EV Price War there. Central government has got all the senior executives together,

knocked their heads together, and said stop selling cars for less than it costs to make.

And we'll let you self-regulate.

But stop selling cars so cheaply.

That was started by B.YD recently cutting a third of their prices, which really

hurt the smaller EV makers and could well drive them out of the market, of course.

I'm sure that there wouldn't be a problem for BYD if that did happen.

G. Lee is choosing partnerships over factories.

A lot of the Chinese companies are saying, well, we'll build factories in Europe and we'll

make Chinese cars with European labor and European parts. Gili's saying, well, we won't

build factories, but we'll look to do partnerships with the likes of Renault and they've got a big

partnership in South Korea, I think, with Renault, and using spare production in their factories.

Neo is doing another V2G pilot this time in Shanghai.

Hopefully we're going to get close in the next year or so to some proper vehicle to grid

offers coming to the market from big energy companies that will say, like, here's the car,

here's the wall charger, here's the tariff from us here's the single monthly

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