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🗓️ 23 July 2025
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0:00.0 | It's EV News briefly for Wednesday, 23rd of July. Everything EV in less than five minutes, |
0:04.2 | see if I've got time for the full podcast today. We'll get you up to speed. Don't you worry about that. Patreon supporters save even more time by going ad-free. Link in the show notes if you want to support the show. Citroen is launching the extended range, EC3, Aircross, a bit like the Opel, Vauxhall Frontera extended range. So another 10 kilowatt hours of energy in the |
0:22.7 | battery. WLTPed up to 250 miles or 400 kilometers on this same power train otherwise. Single 83 kilowatt |
0:30.6 | motor, probably all you need for this vehicle. It's about 2,000 euros difference to go to the |
0:37.1 | big battery. |
0:38.3 | It might well be worth it. |
0:39.6 | Honda and Accura EVs now have Tesla Supercharger Access. |
0:43.5 | Tick them off the list. |
0:44.9 | Honda say there is the official adapter that you have to buy from their dealerships. |
0:49.6 | Recommended retail price, $225. |
0:52.7 | And if you use a third-party one and it damages your car, then they will not |
0:56.6 | be responsible. How would they know? How would they know? The adapters aren't smart. They're just, |
1:00.8 | how would they know? And when I say adapter, I mean the Tesla plug, J-3400 to CCS, which is on the side |
1:08.1 | of your car. But that's good. Good news. BYD is hitting the brakes in Hungary, |
1:12.3 | but speeding up in Turkey. And this is a problem for the European Union. As countries like |
1:16.8 | Hungary and Turkey, and Turkey's got even cheaper labour, I think, anyway, than Hungary. It is seen as |
1:22.0 | a problem for the European Union. Now, Turkey is part of the EU Customs Union, and so Chinese carmakers are always looking |
1:30.4 | for ways to get in, and BYD are going to slow down. Their speed of expansion in Hungary, |
1:35.9 | but speed up a little bit in Turkey to make vehicles over here and avoid tariffs. BYD confirming that |
1:41.0 | they will bring their ultra luxury. These are real top end. And when I mean that, in China, |
1:45.6 | they sell for 150,000, 230,000 US dollars equivalent, the Yang Wang's. There's a two-seat electric |
1:54.8 | hypercar. There's a sedan. There's a big, I think, all-wheel drive one as well, like a big SUV. And that is a lot of |
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