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The Model Y is Europe's number one vehicle. Not only in August, I gave you that news already,

but for the first eight months of the year, here in Europe, the Model Y sold 151,000 copies,

and that actually beats the Daccia Sandero, which is a much cheaper vehicle, buy 3,000 units,

and it just goes to show that not only electric vehicle's popular, Tesla's popular,

but people will spend more on a premium vehicle.

The Model Y is very expensive here to make it the number one vehicle passenger vehicle in Europe. The ACA saying that the European region plus the UK has now a 21.7 share of pure battery electric vehicles for new vehicles.

Alaska welcomes their first non-Tesla supercharger being opened up close to Anchorage.

It's a V3 supercharger and it's got the magic dock.

So it's got the built-in CCS1 adapters that will come out of the unit if you turn up with a CCS1 car. If not, you get the standard Tesla plug, the Nax connector. And that's important because there are 150 kilowatts each. And

that's what you need to do to get that Nevy funding for fast charging to make it open for

everyone. Nissan announcing that all new vehicle launches from now on in Europe will be EV.

Well, that also includes their plug-in hybrids as well, but as long as it's got a plug-socket, we'll let them call it an EV.

And that's by 2030, alongside their partner, Renault, there'll be a pure EV brand here in Europe.

Volvo, of course, have taken it a step further.

They're going to be an EV brand worldwide by 2030.

Ford have pressed pause on constructing their $3.5 billion, a billion dollar Michigan EV battery plant, wholly owned by Ford, but licensing the Chinese CATL technology. China wasn't happy.

It was IP leaving their shores. The US weren't happy. Well, I think some of the Republicans

were very upset because, you know, China. And somewhere in the middle, Ford and CATL and the

union workers at this plant, so Ford have pressed pause. The union say it's a bargaining chip in

the current contract negotiations. We'll wait and see where that goes. France has set an ambitious

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