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speed. Electric cars in the UK hit a new milestone in December. It was a 33% share of the new car

market in December and almost half of all new cars sold here had a form of plug socket on the side.

Now, the UK has a mandate called the Zev mandate, not technically, but that's what we call it.

And that is 33% for the year.

So effectively, the industry hitting it a month early.

Now, what this year does the car making industry and the lobby body say it's too expensive to carry on

discounting EVs. Please lighten the rules and ease the load for us, but none of them this year

look like they will pay fines again in terms of the excess credits floating around the industry

for the carmakers. There's a surplus of those to hit their targets in 2026.

That's fantastic news. Tesla's European slump continues. We started off 2025 with some bad news.

We wondered how the year would end. But down in the biggest market for Tesla, which is the United Kingdom, down 10%.

But France down a huge amount as well, 37%, Germany down 49%, and other big

markets also falling to whether we ask the question on the podcast today.

Is that the golden era for Tesla over now as they fight a very competitive battle on many fronts?

Tesla has lost its bid for cyber cab after the unveiling

on October 10th of the cyber cab. After a few weeks, nobody had registered the phrase. A French

company called Unibov did. And now that Tesla's got round to asking to register the cyber cab,

phrase the US patent and trademark offices will know someone got there

before you. I'm sure there'll be a deal to be done somewhere with maybe some money changing

hands and Tesla will get hold of that. Perhaps just a slightly egg on the face moment, though.

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