Briefly | 13 Aug 2025
EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs
Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 13 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | It's EV News briefly for Wednesday, August 13th. Everything EV in less than five minutes. |
| 0:04.5 | If I've got time of the full podcast, I'll get you up today. Don't you worry about that. |
| 0:07.4 | You can swall the show on Patreon, click on a link in the show notes. |
| 0:09.8 | The Zika 9X is a plug-in hybrid SUV. So far, unremarkable. |
| 0:15.3 | It uses an engine and a battery. That's pretty normal. |
| 0:18.0 | It does have three silicon carbide motors and a 900-volt architecture. That's pretty normal. It does have three silicon carbide motors and a 900 volts architecture. That's pretty special. But it has a 70 kilowatt hour pack in a plug-in hybrid. Will we get this car out of China? I don't know. But if you've got a battery size that big and it charges to 80% in 10 minutes, why are you buying a car with an engine or part of the arms race in China to advertise the big |
| 0:38.5 | headline range of combining engines and batteries, which is a bit of a thing in 2025. |
| 0:43.6 | I predict that phase will end. |
| 0:46.0 | Lucid is going to unveil the new concept at the Monterey Car Week and for the first time offer |
| 0:50.8 | you a test drive of the air or the gravity if you're going along. |
| 0:54.2 | BYD have a premium brand called Yang Wang and they make the U-9 now coming with 3,000 combined |
| 1:00.6 | horsepower. Each motor is 750 horsepower. There's four motors, two and a half times more |
| 1:05.8 | powerful than the current U-9. They sell about six of them a month. They did last month anyway, so not wildly popular because they're really expensive. |
| 1:13.8 | But should the likes of you and I, as in not racing drivers, have access to that much power? |
| 1:19.5 | BYD is leading in China. |
| 1:21.8 | The monthly market, once again, really impressive in China. |
| 1:26.2 | Tesla down in 8th last month in July. Competition is fierce there. |
| 1:30.1 | In China, July's number was 1.26 million new energy vehicles hovering around the 50% market share |
| 1:38.3 | mark, by the way. Majority of those are pure Bev's. In the first half of 2025, the United Kingdom |
| 1:43.4 | saw the top 10 car makers more |
| 1:46.1 | than double their EV sales compared to the same time last year. Not surprising, we have an EV |
| 1:50.6 | mandate. So you have to hit 22% last year, 28% this year, or do a deal with somebody who's |
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