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Martyn Lee

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🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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It's EV News Briefly for Tuesday 24 February 2026, everything you need to know in less than 5 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show.

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0:00.0	Potential.
0:02.0	Potential can sometimes feel daunting, scary.
0:06.0	But today's the day you decide to act on it,
0:10.0	with a higher technical qualification.
0:13.0	Designed with employers, it will give you the skills you need to land the job you want,
0:18.0	because today is your day. When anything is possible, if you make it happen.
0:25.3	It all starts with skills. See how you can get started. Search skills for life. Potential. Potential can
0:33.5	sometimes feel daunting, scary. But today's the day you decide to act on it with a higher technical qualification.
0:43.2	Designed with employers, it will give you the skills you need to land the job you want
0:47.8	because today is your day.
0:51.5	When anything is possible, if you make it happen. It all starts with skills. See how
0:57.4	you can get started. Search skills for life. It's EV News briefly for Tuesday 24th of February.
1:02.7	Everything EV in less than five minutes. If you haven't got time for the full podcast today,
1:06.3	Patreon supporters can go ad free. Otherwise, this show will always be free on the ad-supported feed.
1:13.0	A couple of battery breakthrough claims today, a Dallas-based company called OMI,
1:18.0	claim an LNFP cell at a 20C charge rate.
1:23.8	Donut Lab have made some extraordinary claims lately, and that requires extraordinary evidence of which they've yet to produce, but they did put out the first bit of independent testing.
1:34.2	It was just some simple testing of one of their cells.
1:36.3	They went up to an 11C charge rate, which is nice, but nothing kind of alien technology.
1:42.1	They say that they are now looking for investment.
1:45.5	And Samsung, which I think is a big enough company with enough history,
1:49.2	not to be treated with any suspicion.
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