Welcome back to EV News Daily. Today, Ford updates the Puma Gen E. B.Y.D to export flash charging,

an anti-EV propaganda is hurting buyers. Plus, stay tuned. Later in the show, I'll tell you why

battery recyclers are refusing to tear down old battery packs because, well, honestly, the old packs are

still too good. On EV News China today, we're talking about

BYD unlocking a battery future. China's price war is cooling and Lotus enters low tariff Canada.

All right, let's get into the show. Ford has updated the all-electric puma gen E with changes

to range, blue cruise, that's the hands-free driving, audio,

connectivity, colours, and a new edition called Blue Cruise Edition. What do we need to know for this podcast,

though? We won't worry so much about the fancy stereo system and the new colour palette. Ford

said the Puma lineup makes it Europe's best-selling compact crossover last year,

while this year, so far, the Puma Gen E is the UK's most popular electric vehicle.

All right, we're two months in, but we'll give them that.

The biggest technical change is on the Puma Gen E with the pack and the efficiency as well. Now, when Ford launched

its 2024 Puma Gen E, it claimed the official efficiency of 13.1 kilowatt hours per 100 kilometres.

If you prefer your measurements this way as I do, that's 4.74 miles per kilowatt hour. So 4.74 brings me back to the heady days of

driving my old cona that I had for a year. That was fabulously efficient without even trying hard.

But as many Pumagenae owners listening to this podcast will tell you, without trying very hard,

you can in the real world, C5 or six, or if you're

popping to the shops, seven miles per kilowatt hour. The Puma Gen E was brutally efficient and never

gets talked about with this car. In fact, the car generally never gets talked about. It's a small

city car. It was too expensive when they launched it for the

specs. You could just go get a two-year-old Tesla Model 3 that wiped the floor with it, and the car would

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