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CHINA: Petrol Prices vs Charging, Xiaomi Defies Profit Squeeze and BAIC Sodium Ion Battery | 25 Mar 2026

EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

Martyn Lee

Business, Leisure, Technology, Automotive

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Dating apps? Easy. Online shopping? Simple. Banking app? Sorted. Life admin? Ugh. That's what a digital ID could change.

0:14.3

And the government is opening a conversation to make it work for you. Your voice will shape the final product.

0:21.8

So search Digital ID consultation to have your say.

0:25.9

Digital ID, making it work for you.

0:30.2

Your life's already digital.

0:32.6

From banking and shopping to streaming and learning.

0:36.0

So why does sorting government stuff still feel like such

0:39.0

hard work? The government is introducing a new digital ID to make access to services quicker

0:46.8

and more secure for everyone. But we need to hear from you. Your voice matters. Search Digital

0:53.7

ID consultation to have your say. Digital ID,

0:58.0

making it work for you. Welcome back to EV News, China. Today, petrol prices versus charging.

1:05.7

Xiaomi defies a profit squeeze and the B-AIC sodium ion battery battery. Plus stay tuned. Later in the show,

1:13.1

I'll tell you how China's largest SUV is about to hit the road. Welcome to EV News, China,

1:19.6

the podcast dedicated to the world's largest electric vehicle market. Every day, you get the latest

1:24.1

headlines, insights and analysis from the very heart of China's booming

1:27.6

eating industry and decode how fast-moving developments in the East affect the global landscape.

1:33.7

We'll start with an ongoing topic of conversation which is really permeating, I would say,

1:38.0

the wider media, and that is rising fuel prices because of the U.S. Iran war.

1:43.9

Fuel prices in China have climbed towards

1:46.8

9 yuan a litre. That is $1.24 a liter here. We're paying about $2 per liter in this country.

1:56.6

So we have a lot of excise duty, a lot of tax, if you like, on fuel here. So $1.24 will seem a lot to some and not a lot to others.

2:05.4

That's for 92 octane petrol.

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