Welcome back to EV News Daily. Today, Ford's EV Chief Walks. Datcher ready's a new cheap EV,

and Mercedes VLE van is now on sale. Plus, stay tuned later in the show. I'll tell you how Honda

just exited the UK entirely as an EV market. Over on EV News China, our spin-off podcast today,

we're talking about X-Pung's GX going on sale,

a car that many Chinese commentators have compared to a range rover because, well, you don't

have to squint too much to think it looks a lot like a range rover. However, this is loaded with

tech, steer-by-wire, rear-wheel steering, third-row seats that recline completely at a third of the

sticker price of a range rover. Full details on the podcast over there. Stalantus is exploring a Dong Feng

tie-up and B-Y-D is updating the Yuan Plus for China, just as overseas markets get the Attoo3, which is what we call that car,

Ato3 Evo, they're getting a new version.

So the version that we're about to get, although is much better than the existing one,

effectively becomes a little bit outdated already because that's getting the Blade Battery 2.0

and the nine minutes full charge treatment.

All the details over there on EV News, China. Let's get into it then.

Doug Field will leave Ford next month on a voluntary basis. He is their EV chief,

and he ends a stint that began in 2021 when he joined from Apple. He'd previously worked at

Tesla to launch the Model 3. Mr. Fields hinted that he plans to give back all the things that

he's learned at Apple, Tesla and Ford, but gave no further details about where he's going. Ford's CEO, Jim Farley,

called him an invaluable partner. Farley said, Mr. Field helped Ford

find its footing in EVs and technology, and that makes its timing notable because Ford has also

chosen this moment to reorganise themselves. Ford will create a new organisation led by its chief operating officer. His group will

combine Ford's EV, gas guzzling and mild hybrid and full hybrid vehicle programs. Ford said that

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