It's EV News briefly for Tuesday, the 10th of June. Everything EV in less than five minutes.

If you haven't got time for the full podcast today, which is about 23 or so minutes. Long,

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them by clicking on a link in the show notes. Cadillac, unveiling the Optic V. This is the smallest

V series in the lineup.

It's a compact SUV.

They've taken the all-wheel drive system from the larger Lyric V

and stuffed it into the optic.

That's 520 horsepower and 650 pound feet of torque.

I hope you have a friends and family repeat purchase deal

with your local tire shop because you'll be needing some new ones.

That's loads of power.

Opals Rocks is their version of the Citroen Ami, a little restyle to look like an opal

slash a voxel, 8,000 euros.

You can drive it from 15 in countries like Germany.

I think France as well, it'll be 46 miles or 75 kilometers and you get a little

cable that you plug out, a little retractable cable to plug it into your household socket. GM's

doubling its EV sales and market share in the first five months of the year. Normally we get monthly

data or we wait to the end of the quarter, but clearly they're very proud of this, so we got a little extra data point. GM saying that in the first five months

of the year, specifically, they sold 63,000 EVs. They pointed out that Ford sold 34,000 honors go

to GM in the first five months of the year, Tesla China sales continue to struggle even with

the new model of Y. Tesla retail sales in China fell sharply in May, just 38,000 vehicles sold,

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