Hello and welcome to another fabulous episode of the Everything Electric podcast. Today we're talking about BYD, pretty soon to

become probably one of the biggest car companies in the world. I'm hedging my bets a bit there,

because you know, don't want to be inaccurate. Like I've never done that before. Anyway,

BYD, a global company doing incredible developments of battery technology of electric cars,

of static batteries, which we will hear about, of incredibly fast charging, which we'll also

hear about. And today's guest is Sajid Hassan, who is the chief product officer for BYD

in Australia and New Zealand.

And Australia is really a kind of a testbed, I'm now understanding, for particularly Chinese cars.

You know, they will export them to China before we get them in this country.

So they're getting a lot of stuff that will eventually come to Europe.

And maybe Canada, interestingly, that's going to be very interesting.

I think there's some moves afoot to remove the ridiculous, sorry, the very sensible tariffs

on Chinese vehicles in the North American continent. So, you see, I'm being

geographical rather than nationalistic. But it does sound like Canada are rethinking following in

the footsteps of their near and rather difficult to deal with neighbour. But it's a fascinating company

and they've done amazing things and I think it's a really interesting, really interesting episode.

So I just wanted to mention that.

I just wanted to introduce that, but also want to mention the Everything Electric Show in Melbourne in Australia, which is taking place on the 14th, 15th and 16th of

November, which is very, very soon. I have to check things. So you can probably see it in the

reflection of my gosh. There's nothing in there with dates. Dates don't stay in

there. It's really rather embarrassing and awkward. Anyway, 14th, 16th in Melbourne. It's going to be

amazing show. There's going to be hundreds of electric cars. There are hundreds of test drives. Amazing

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