Briefly | 12 Aug 2025
EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs
Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 12 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | It's a new day, but not just any day. |
| 0:03.8 | Today is the first day of your apprenticeship, the one you were so nervous about starting. |
| 0:09.3 | But you didn't let the fear of the unknown stop you. |
| 0:12.6 | No. |
| 0:13.4 | When potential came knocking, you not only welcomed it, you ran with it. |
| 0:18.3 | Earning while learning on an apprenticeship designed with employers. All because you chose to make it happen. It all starts with skills. See how you can get started. Search skills for life. It's EV News briefly for Tuesday, August 12th. Everything EV in less than five minutes. If you haven't got time for the full podcast, we'll get you updated here. Don't you worry. Patreon supporters go ad free. Be like them. Click on a link in the show notes. |
| 0:40.6 | Big, big announcement from Ford yesterday. Not just about a new EV, about eight new EVs, |
| 0:45.6 | although they only told us really about the $30,000. Mid-sized electric truck, the news really |
| 0:51.1 | was about them rethinking how to make electric cars, a new platform, a new assembly method, making vehicles in the front, the rear and the battery platform, and putting them together on a final production line. |
| 1:04.8 | Aluminium unicasting technology, saving pounds and pounds of wiring weight, and 40% fewer workstations needed for |
| 1:13.5 | assembly. Probably only something for the automotive enthusiast to get excited about. The mid-sized |
| 1:18.1 | truck won't come until 2027, saying that this year they were meant to deliver their T3, |
| 1:23.5 | their new electric truck, which got pushed back and back and back and back. Not the only |
| 1:27.1 | company that's done that, of course, but we'll back and back and back and back. Not the only company that's |
| 1:27.8 | done that, of course, but we'll wait and see. Can they deliver a $30,000 electric truck in just two |
| 1:34.2 | years' time? Well, we'll see you in a couple of years, I guess. D.S. is number four is the new name of |
| 1:40.3 | the DS4. It's a C-segment hatchback for Europe, and of course, it's going electric. |
| 1:45.3 | It now costs 37,000 pounds, because that is the limit. If you want to get the UK car grant, |
| 1:51.1 | it has to come under 37,000. It does 278 miles of range on a 60 kilowatt-hour pack. It delivers |
| 1:58.4 | in the autumn. Tesla wants to sell you electricity and now have officially |
| 2:02.5 | applied to OffGem, our regulator, to be a UK energy supplier. Now we have one national grid. |
| 2:08.2 | We don't have a patchwork of electricity infrastructure, but we do have any supplier, |
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