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EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

BRIEFLY: Volvo, Tesla, Ford & more

EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

Martyn Lee

Technology, Leisure, Automotive, Business

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

It's EV News Briefly for Monday 01 December 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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1:01.5

It's EV News briefly for Monday, December 1st. Everything Evie in less than five minutes.

1:06.0

Let's get you up to speed. Volvo and Polestar's bosses are warning the European Union against listening to the

1:12.1

lobbying coming from Germany. The Chancellor there is asking the European Commission to back down

1:17.6

from the 2035 clean air laws that are already in place, and we've been talking about this since 2018,

1:23.6

by the way. He says, Friedrich Mertz, that there that there are tech neutral ways to protect the climate and is

1:30.6

arguing for German carmakers to still be making combustion cars after 2035. However, Polestar's

1:36.7

chief executive and Volvo's boss both saying these are bad, bad ideas. If you slow down on making EVs in Europe, then the Chinese

1:46.8

are coming and they ain't slowing down and they will take over. That's the warning. We'll wait

1:53.0

and see what the European regulators do. China's sales of Tesla sales in China are jumping in November.

2:00.5

Delivery deadlines are heading back into

2:02.7

2026. Good news for Tesla because they've needed some good news in China. Up on the month,

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