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EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

Briefly | 28 May 2025

EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

Martyn Lee

Business, Leisure, Technology, Automotive

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

It's EV News Briefly for Wednesday 28 May 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

PEUGEOT E-208 GTI ARRIVES JUNE 13 https://evne.ws/4kfR06U

VOLVO XC70 PLUG-IN HYBRID DETAILS https://evne.ws/4mwViYW

OLA ELECTRIC ROADSTER MOTORCYCLE DEBUT https://evne.ws/4kd929F

EUROPEAN EV REGISTRATIONS RISE, NOW AHEAD OF DIESEL  https://evne.ws/4khFuIf

BYD SPARKS CHINESE EV PRICE WAR https://evne.ws/4kaFZ6H

OREGON REOPENS EV REBATE PROGRAM https://evne.ws/3Sqoao5

BATTERY SUPPLY CHAINS EMBRACE VERTICAL INTEGRATION https://evne.ws/3Z2BxOY

XPENG LAUNCHES IN HUNGARY, SLOVENIA, CROATIA https://evne.ws/3HcWsJ6

PAUA SHARE FLEET CHARGING SCHEME https://evne.ws/3HbHset

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's TV news briefly for Wednesday 28th of May. Everything you be in less than five minutes.

0:04.3

If you haven't got time for the full podcast today, Patreon supporters get the shows ad-free.

0:07.9

Be like them by clicking on a link in the show notes.

0:10.6

Peugeot is reviving the GTI badge last seen in 2021 on the old 308, but GTI being brought into the electric era with the new E208. We should see that in the next couple of weeks.

0:24.8

Volvo's XC70 plug-in hybrid is coming to China to begin with, wondering if that's going to be a global model, though.

0:32.6

This is going to have up to a 40 kilowatt-hour battery in a plug-in hybrid. So that means you'll really dip into the engine.

0:41.0

Oller Electric is the big Indian mobility company,

0:43.6

traditionally known for making two-wheeled scooters,

0:46.9

almost for 10 years now.

0:48.2

They're a very big deal in India.

0:49.4

Don't talk about them too much on the podcast,

0:51.3

but Oller Electric started delivering its first electric motorcycle. It's called the Roadster, comes with up to a 9.1 kilowatt-hour battery pack. In

0:59.9

Max range version, could do over 300 miles of range, and yet the pricing is only in maybe

1:06.3

two and a half thousand US dollars equivalent, of in rupees that is entirely market appropriate pricing

1:12.8

but for some markets you think wow that sounds extremely cheap European EV registrations have

1:18.6

been rising and in the first four months of the year data coming out of the carmakers association

1:23.2

now shows that dev registrations up by 26% in the first four months of the year to 560,000 units,

1:32.0

and crucially in the first four months of the year in the European market, more than diesel.

1:37.8

That's a really big deal.

1:39.9

B.Y.D, which already had extremely low prices, making news with less than $10,000 US

1:46.0

equivalent for the little Seagull hatchback, just slashed their prices, kicking off

1:50.9

a whole new brutal era of a price war in China.

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