BRIEFLY: France Leasing Scheme, VW Surge and Mini EV Records | 14 Jan 2026
EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs
Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 17 January 2026
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It's EV News Briefly for Wednesday 14 January 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. Welcome back to EV News briefly. Everything you need to know. |
| 1:02.5 | In less than five minutes, you haven't got time for the full podcast today. Let's get the |
| 1:06.0 | EV News in your ears nice and quickly. France is building a market for electric cars amongst people who cannot |
| 1:11.7 | usually afford them. They've just wrapped up their second round of the social leasing scheme. |
| 1:16.9 | This is where lower income households that meet certain criteria like earning less than |
| 1:21.2 | 16.5,000 euros per person, can lease an electric vehicle from as low as 95 euros per month with nothing down. There's also |
| 1:29.5 | part of the scheme that allows you to buy them as well. Volkswagen EV sales surging, |
| 1:35.0 | but China and software have been a drag and actually it's Europe where Volkswagen is winning. |
| 1:41.1 | Now ahead of Tesla and taking 75% of Bev deliveries. Europe accounting for, |
| 1:48.4 | well, the lion's share doing pretty badly in China. Doing okay in the US, actually up 40% year |
| 1:54.7 | on year, but the actual volume is much lower. BMW doing well, actually, tell a lie, BMW flat as a business as the group. |
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