DAILY: Ford’s First Electric Truck, Cheap BYD For Europe and Germany’s EV Sales Surge | 24 Nov 2025
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Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the podcast. Today, Ford's first electric truck, cheap BYDs for Europe and Germany's |
| 0:06.5 | EV sales surge. Plus, stay tuned because later in the show, I'll tell you why charging lounges |
| 0:11.5 | will be the future of refueling in 2026. We'll start with news of Ford trucks unveiling its first |
| 0:18.3 | fully electric heavy lorry, the F-line E, aimed at regional and urban logistics, |
| 0:24.5 | as European regulators tightened rules on cutting emissions from freight. |
| 0:28.9 | The cab-over vehicle offers a range of 186 miles and DC fast charging, |
| 0:35.1 | positioning Ford in the growing market for zero-emission regional haulage. |
| 0:39.9 | Revealed at the Seoul New Trans Truck Fair in France, the F-Line E is built by Ford Otisan in Turkey, |
| 0:46.9 | a Ford joint venture that has produced Ford vehicles for more than 60 years. |
| 0:51.6 | The truck is due to enter European and selected other markets next year in a |
| 0:56.6 | 4x2 and 6x2 version. The 26-ton 6x2 chassis carries 4-98 kilowatt hour nickel-manganese-cobalt |
| 1:07.7 | battery packs for 392 kilowatt hours in total and 314 usable. Ford puts the range at 186 miles or 300 |
| 1:17.3 | kilometers. The 19-ton 4x 2 uses three packs with 294 kilowatt hours in total, 235 usable, for an estimated 155 miles or 250 kilometres. |
| 1:31.6 | Batteries are supplied by ZF, supporting CCS2 fast charging at 285 kilowatts on the long-range version. |
| 1:40.3 | Ford trucks says a charge from 20 to 80 is less than 50 minutes. |
| 1:45.1 | Options include rear wheel steering, an electric power takeoff and equipment for towing up to 10 tons for jobs like refuse collection and hub to store deliveries. |
| 1:55.8 | All right, moving on, BYD will launch a plug-in hybrid SUV in Europe before it does so in China. |
| 2:02.7 | The Yuan-up DMI, to be sold as the Ato2 DMI, will be the first hybrid in the Yuan range. |
| 2:09.9 | Its debut underlines BYD's growing focus on European demand and shifting local markets. |
| 2:16.3 | Unveiled in Barcelona, on November 19th, the Attoe 2 DMI will go on sale alongside the long-range |
| 2:21.9 | pure electric version, the Attoe Comfort. |
| 2:25.1 | That is a B-EV with a WLTP range of 430 kilometres, more than 100 kilometres above the base |
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