BRIEFLY: EV Interest, US Sales and VW Fixes Past Mistakes | 13 Apr 2026

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Martyn Lee

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🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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It's EV News Briefly for Monday 13 April 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	Dating apps? Easy. Online shopping? Simple. Banking app? Sorted. Life admin? Ugh. That's what a digital ID could change.
0:14.3	And the government is opening a conversation to make it work for you. Your voice will shape the final product.
0:21.8	So search Digital ID consultation to have your say.
0:25.9	Digital ID, making it work for you.
0:30.0	Dating apps? Easy.
0:33.0	Online shopping? Simple.
0:35.6	Banking app? Sorted.
0:44.0	Life admin? Ugh. That's what a digital ID could change.
0:51.1	And the government is opening a conversation to make it work for you. Your voice will shape the final product.
0:55.5	So search digital ID consultation to have your say.
0:58.5	Digital ID, making it work for you.
1:02.4	It's TV news briefly for Monday 13th of April.
1:03.8	Everything you'll be in less than five minutes.
1:06.8	If you haven't got time for the full podcast, let's get you up to speed.
1:14.2	European interest in electric vehicles continues to rise as the US-Israeli war on Iran drags on.
1:20.6	Ceasefire apparently over. Petrol prices continue to climb and even fuel shortages in some places. In Germany, mobile.e.de, a online car marketplace reporting large increases in EV searches, Car Wow, La Centraal, Auto Scout 24 and more,
1:32.5	all reporting big increases, of course, how fast buyers turn that into registration data remains to be seen,
1:38.9	but the searches are up significantly.
1:42.1	US EV sales were down year on year in Q1, but that's expected,
1:46.2	no federal tax credit anymore. The market share has gone from a 10.8 share to a 10.6 share
1:53.0	to a 5.8 share now of new vehicle registrations in the United States. Volkswagen says they're
1:59.7	about to launch the new ID3, the so-called Neo.
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