Briefly | 24 Jun 2025

EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

Martyn Lee

Technology, Leisure, Automotive, Business

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🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

It's EV News Briefly for Tuesday 24 June 2025, everything you need to know in less than 5 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show.

I'll be back later but Patreon supporters get the episodes as soon as they're ready AND ad free. You can be like them by clicking here: https://www.patreon.com/EVNewsDaily

OCTOPUS ENERGY UNVEILS SMART HOME EV CHARGER https://evne.ws/3I822wC

AESC FACTORY PAUSE ALTERS BMW BATTERY PLANS https://evne.ws/3GcKJKf

BYD DENIES SEAL SOLID-STATE BATTERY RUMOR https://evne.ws/4ljl9Cm

BYD WILL BRING SIX NEW MODELS TO UK https://evne.ws/40iUFIW

BYD SALES CLIMB AGAIN IN MAY 2025 https://evne.ws/3HQvZ4f

YANGWANG: 139. https://evne.ws/3HQvZ4f

CHINA JUNE 2025 CAR SALES ADVANCE https://evne.ws/3T0v0B0

HYUNDAI ELEXIO SUV BLENDS E-GMP WITH BYD BATTERY https://evne.ws/4k0tk5l

ENVISION TO BUILD 240 MWH BESS IN FRANCE https://evne.ws/3I81tTw

ELECTRIC ERA SPEEDILY INSTALLS BATTERY-BACKED CHARGERS AT COSTCO https://evne.ws/4njqThq

UK USED EV PRICES REACH RECORD LOWS https://evne.ws/45wmWiQ

WULING BINGO S ELECTRIC SUV UNVEILED https://evne.ws/4nftpVC

GENESIS ELECTRIFIED G80 GAINS RANGE AND ROOM https://evne.ws/3GafYFR

SENATE RULING BLOCKS FAST-TRACK EV ROLLBACK https://evne.ws/4lcX0Op

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's EV News briefly for Tuesday 24th of June.
0:03.2	Everything EV in less than five minutes.
0:06.0	If you haven't got the 25 minutes needed for today's podcast, Patreon supporters get them ad free as well.
0:10.6	So they save even more time.
0:12.1	Hyundai's Alexio SUV blends the EGMP platform with a nice BYD battery and amazing pricing about 20,000 19,000 US
0:23.3	dollar equivalent all-wheel drive front wheel drive fast charging big battery big SUV as well
0:29.7	it's a Hyundai but it's not an Ionic but it's on the same platform and it's only for
0:33.9	China so it's forbidden fruit but that looks like a very sweet vehicle.
0:39.1	AESC is a cell maker, and they've temporarily paused building cylindrical cells in the US.
0:46.2	Is this a political ploy to argue and campaign and lobby to keep the current rules in place?
0:52.8	Which I think make total sense because they've spent
0:54.5	over a billion dollars already. And now the new political direction in the US is to remove those
1:01.1	tax credits, which makes these business cases unsustainable. And they said they would walk away
1:05.6	from the US and leave the battery plant half done. However, they're meant to be supplying BMW and those new cylindrical cells, the 4695s or 46120s.
1:16.1	The South Koreans, LG, Samsung SDI, could step in and supply BMW if that supply falls through.
1:25.0	Not the work of a moment, but it's possible.
1:26.9	BYD has denied the seal
1:28.9	is about to get solid state battery. Some media reports went with that yesterday. I didn't,
1:34.7	because it looked a little bit sus to me. And so it's one of the stories that I filtered out,
1:38.6	not to waste your time with. And then 24 hours later, BYD says, no, the information is false. We're aiming for about
1:45.0	2030 on solid state and that's an optimistic timeline if everything goes very, very well.
1:50.2	Pure solid state batteries will be a big advancement in tech, but they're not road ready now.
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