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Looking around some of the European countries, got some plug-in data from Germany.

35% of the new car market in December.

35% had a plug socket on up from about 25% a year before. and it's about two-thirds, one-thirds in favour of B-EVs.

In Sweden, it's almost 70% of the market is plug-in vehicles in December 2025, and again, Bev's outnumber plug-in hybrids by about 2-1.

Same in the United Kingdom, where 44% of new car

registrations in December had a plug on the side. And again, B-EVs are the dominant. In fact,

it was about 35% of the market was pure Bev at the end of last year here in the United Kingdom. So monthly data can go

up and down, but many of these European countries that I've just mentioned are going full steam

ahead on EVs. Tesla's data came out as well. They've really got a problem to solve in Europe,

you know. Over the last two years, from January 2024 to January

26, their sales in 13 major European markets has halved 49%, we'll call it 50% down in just two years.

And everyone has the opinion on what would fix, you know, Tesla's falling sales in Europe,

but it is a big decline that they are going to have to get their head around and try and

fix. Genesis has entered France with only EVs, GV60, GV70 and G80. That's the big

saloon following on from Italy. A few days ago, Amazon's Rivian fleet now

tops 30,000 EDVs. That's electric delivery vans. And that is a big number, but they do promise

100,000 by the end of 2030. So, you know, Amazon and Rivian have got to pull their finger out

a little bit and make another 70,000 if they're going to hit that target. But either way, that's a lovely number of electric vans to be delivering your parcels that you've all ordered online. DHL supply chain have these things called EV Centers of Excellence. They've opened their 20th one. I didn't know about these. This one's in Slovakia, but they have them all over the world in China and the USA and Mexico and South Africa. And they, OEMs can do testing there. It's a

massive facility that covers logistics and inbound and outbound freight and battery manufacturers,

suppliers and all sorts. Fascinating, isn't it? Rivian have set a bit more concrete details on R2 production on their Q4 earnings call.

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