It's EV News briefly for Saturday 31st of January. Everything you've been in less than five minutes.

If you haven't got time for the full podcast, here we go. Data Outfit, Paren, has put the numbers on America's DC fast charging network and frankly they are outstanding.

How many DC charges, connectors, plugs if you like were added in 2025? I'll tell you more than 18,000 new ports, the strongest build-out

of any year. The fourth quarter alone added almost 6,000 new DC connectors, 44% up year over

year. Many of those 150 or even 350 and faster kilowatt as money is pouring into getting charges in the ground.

What a massive success story charging in the USA. X-Peng will launch its MPV, its people carrier,

the X-9 electric here in Great Britain this summer. It sells as an E-Ref back in China as well,

but it's an 800-volt system

and right-hand drive X-9s are already on sale in Singapore, are being made in Malaysia,

actually now. Scout Motors chief, Scott Keough, has said that 85% of reservations for its two

debut models, the Terra pickup and Traveller SUV,

are for those with an engine that generates electricity.

They call it the harvester.

Now, it never actually drives the wheels, not mechanically coupled.

It is just a generator.

Battery power alone is said to do something like 150 miles of

electric only range. But many people who have put down, and 150,000 people have put down

refundable deposits for a scout, 85% of them not only want a plug, but to fill a cap as well.

10 minutes charging is going to be the key for Americans who feel that their patients would

be tested by buying an EV.

30-minute wait, so what hold people back, according to some new data from the US.

The Los Angeles Times writing that actually faster charging is good because although occupation time at charges goes down, what goes up is that the charges deliver more electricity per hour on average.

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