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🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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It's EV News Briefly for Thursday 27 November 2025, everything you need to know in less than 5 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	It's EV News briefly for Thursday, November 27th, everything EV in less than five minutes.
0:04.7	If you haven't got time for the full podcast, let's get you up to speed.
0:07.9	Big news from the UK.
0:09.5	We will officially go pay per mile three pence for battery electrics, 1.5 pence for plug-in hybrids,
0:16.7	and that's on top of the recent £195 a year.
0:20.4	Vehicle excise duty, we call it road tax, and the £400 if EVs cost over £40,000 when new.
0:27.7	This new mileage fee even rises every year with CPI inflation, and the government's own Office of Budget Responsibility says this could potentially stop 440,000 electric vehicles being sold in the UK.
0:45.4	Scoda doubles the EV share because the L-Rocket was one in 10.
0:49.9	Now it's one in four cars being sold at Skoda.
0:53.2	Now have a plug socket on the side.
0:55.4	Congratulations. The 100,000th Elrach just rolled off the Skoda production line at Mladr Boleslav.
1:02.9	Tesla has opened up their new mega hub in California on the I-5, and it is their largest ever supercharger.
1:11.1	168 stalls was the target.
1:14.4	They've now opened 164, missing it by a touch, but still the largest they've got in the world.
1:20.8	Tesla shatters its annual sales record as well in Norway.
1:24.0	That it shatters Norway's sales record.
1:31.0	Tesla is now the top-selling car brand for any year ever on record with three weeks left, four weeks left to go in the year. The company's already
1:37.3	passed a milestone that Volkswagen had set up in the pre-EV era. Lotus is betting its comeback on plug-in hybrids.
1:45.7	The Elektra plug-in hybrid will be the first one coming in January next year in China.
1:51.2	900-volt system, big battery, big fuel tank as well, though.
1:55.1	Lotus are hoping they can dip into the Gile Empire for some engineering there of the power train.
2:01.3	Porsche has opened up its U.S US orders for the Cayenne Electric and say it's doing really well.
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