Welcome back to the podcast. Today, global EV sales, almost two million last month.

Evie consideration is up and Tesla loses some vehicle chiefs.

Plus stay tuned later in the show. I'll tell you why I'm now convinced Toyota's new electric pickup is intentionally bad.

On EV News China today, we talked about 50% market share in China now. Solid State batteries and VWs fight back.

Here we go. Let's get into it. Global EV sales were 1.9 million global EV sales last month in October. We're all friends here. Let's call it 2 million. That's year to date. Now 16.5 million. That's 23% more than the same time last year.

Europe led growth in October with 36% up year on year.

Germany's doing really well, up 53% compared to the same month last year.

France up 40% UK, 24%.

China, obviously, though, is still the largest single market in October. 1.3 million EVs were

sold in China. That's up 6% year-on-year, up 22% year-to-date. This must all be wrong because the media

keep telling us that the EV bubble has burst and no one wants to drive an electric car anymore.

So I don't know who made this data up. A benchmark expects some buyers to accelerate purchases in the final

two months of the year. China's full N.EV purchase tax exemption is ending at the end of the year.

And so people might bring forward some purchases in China. But then again, a lot of the big

Chinese car makers are also saying, well, we'll add some offers to sweeten the deal.

North America showed a slowdown, as expected in October, following a surge in demand before the end of the federal tax credit.

But again, there, so many of the car makers have stepped in with some very, very attractive deals.

Do people still want EVs?

Well, consumer interest is rising in the US, even with the tax credit gone. This is new data coming in today from JD Power. Among new vehicle shoppers, 60% say they are likely to consider

buying or leasing an EV in the next 12 months.

So that splits out at 24% very likely and 36% somewhat likely to buy or lease in the next year.

And the very likely share score is up on the last time they did this survey.

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