Briefly | 02 Nov 2023

EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

Martyn Lee

Business, Leisure, Technology, Automotive

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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It’s EV News Briefly for Thursday 2nd November. I’ll be back as usual at 5pm UK time, that’s Midday Eastern, for the full podcast. Patreon supporters get the episodes as soon as they’re ready AND ad free. You can be like them by clicking here.

Battery-Powered Cars Claim 20% of California's Sales https://evne.ws/46WAL7W

EVs Dominate Sweden's October Sales; Volkswagen ID.4 Shines https://evne.ws/3Sotlpy

BYD Nears Tesla in EV Sales with Stellar Month https://evne.ws/3QR6JND

Volvo Teases EM90 Minivan's Luxe Interior Ahead of Launch https://evne.ws/3sgvxVw

Tesla Joins New IRS EV Tax Credit Portal https://evne.ws/46Wp8xT

Volkswagen Passes on Czech Gigafactory Due to Low EV Battery Demand https://evne.ws/49gHewe

Stellantis Teams with Leapmotor for Budget EVs in Europe https://evne.ws/3QF139e

World's Largest EV Charging Station Opens in Merklingen https://evne.ws/47anqcB

Subaru Joins Hands with Tesla for North American Charging https://evne.ws/3SpgLqd

Freightliner Kickstarts eM2 Production in Portland https://evne.ws/3SpgMdL

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0:00.0	It's TV News briefly for Thursday 2nd of November. I'll be back at 5pm UK. That's Midday
0:04.9	Eastern with the full podcast. Patreon supporters get those shows as soon as they're ready and add
0:09.6	free. Be like them by clicking on a link in the show notes. Reminder, this is also now on YouTube as well
0:14.6	as the full podcast. Check out the EV News Daily channel. We'll start with news about the California
0:19.2	sales of pure EVs. 20%, one in five vehicles
0:22.6	are fully V. That's 21.5% of new car sales in the state from January to September this year,
0:29.3	a surge doubling in just the last two years. And in Sweden, plugins are now 60.6% of sales,
0:36.2	not the biggest car market, admittedly Volkswagen ID4 is the leader there.
0:40.8	BYD is approaching Tesla in terms of its sales.
0:44.5	Another stellar month now that the October numbers are dribbling in.
0:47.9	I can put these together for you.
0:49.2	301,000 plugins for BYD in China.
0:53.4	That is 165,000.
0:56.4	So over half, full, Bev, Pure, V.
1:00.1	And that means that over the year, they've sold 2.37 million vehicles with a plug socket on.
1:06.9	And if they keep doing the numbers that they're doing in terms of the monthly sales figures,
1:11.9	they will soon surpass Tesla's annual 1.8 million EV sales and be the global EV leader.
1:18.8	Well done, B.YD.
1:20.0	Volvo next, and teasing the EM90s interior.
1:23.4	That's the minivan.
1:24.4	It looks very luxurious, by the way.
1:26.1	The first four seats, front row, second row, look just stunning with ventilation, massage, heating and cooling, integrated tables on the second row, cup holders, gravity cushions. This thing looks like it reclines almost to a flat bed on the second row, like some sort of first-class airport seat, airline seat,
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