Welcome back to EV News Daily. Coming up today, the cyber truck, so-called real deliveries begin but have issues.

Mercedes cast out on the necessity of solid-state batteries and B.Y.D cut their European prices.

Plus, stay tuned because later in the show, I'll tell you what Hyundai are saying about electrical, vertical, vertical takeoff and landing.

Realistic or pie in the sky?

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Well, we'll start with some more news of disruption to EV production in Europe.

Volvo is the next to temporarily halt production. This time, their Ghent facility where the XC40 and the C40 are built, where the EX30 will be built as well outside of China.

Despite the Holt, Volvo anticipates no major impact on wholesale or production goals.

It's all because of the escalation in the Red Sea crisis where Iranian attacks on

domestic vehicles, which are to do with the world supply chain, has required a military

response from the United States and the United Kingdom combined. And so many of these

automakers particularly relying on Chinese parts.

Volkswagen also affected not foreseeing the need to disrupt production.

Now, let's talk about the cyber truck, which hasn't had the highest of profiles on this podcast,

I must admit, because obviously the world lost its mind when

cyber truck was launched. Try to kind of keep it all in check and pragmatic, suck it and

see, wait until these vehicles hit the road and real people drive them, not just the employee

deliveries. Well, that is finally happening. So let's unpack this a little bit. Tesla has delivered at least one

cyber truck to a non-employee customer. And that person has posted all the pictures on the

cyber truck forums. So again, we're relying on the honesty of that person. But from the pictures, it's really bad. There are

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