BRIEFLY: EU Local Rules, Jim Farley, Volvo & more | 18 Feb 2026
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Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
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It's EV News Briefly for Wednesday 18 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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EU PLANS 70% LOCAL CONTENT RULE FOR EV AID https://evne.ws/4tHvjle
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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 Wednesday 18th of February. |
| 1:03.4 | Everything EV in less than five minutes. If you haven't got time for the full podcast, let's get you up to |
| 1:07.3 | speed. The European Union plans some minimum content rules. If they want to access |
| 1:13.9 | some of the funds and subsidies, let me explain what that means. 70% of components excluding |
| 1:21.0 | batteries, so almost three quarters of components of EVs, must come from the European Union or be |
| 1:27.0 | fully assembled there |
| 1:28.4 | if they want to qualify for state support. What about batteries? Well, the car makers themselves |
| 1:35.1 | say they rely far too much on China at the moment and it wouldn't be possible. Jim Farley, |
| 1:41.0 | who is the Ford CEO, has proposed a joint US-China venture to Trump officials, |
| 1:48.4 | allowing Chinese automakers to make vehicles in the United States under the domestic brands. |
| 1:54.3 | The likes of Ford, they would share profits, but importantly, they would bring Chinese technology into the country. |
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