DAILY: Norway Now Almost 99% BEV, Tesla Drops Canada Prices and Factorial Says Don’t Copy China | 05 May 2026
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Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Beverley and this is my NHS story. |
| 0:04.7 | I had to make regular journeys to my local CDC at blood tests because I had lymphoma. |
| 0:12.0 | I think it really helps to know that you've got somewhere local. |
| 0:15.5 | It was really a godsend. |
| 0:17.0 | The government is opening new community diagnostic centres with many already available 12 hours a day, seven days a week, so the NHS can be there for all of us when we need it. Find your closest one at gov.uk.com slash NHS Fit for the Future, available Englandwide. My name is Karen, and this is my NHS story. You don't realise how blind you are until you have cataract surgery. I was referred |
| 0:39.2 | to a surgical hub and they booked us in for an operation. It was about three weeks before I was |
| 0:45.4 | there. It's very, very quick. The government is opening more surgical hubs with more than 120 |
| 0:50.7 | already operating across England so the NHS can be there for all of us when we need it. |
| 0:55.6 | Find your closest one at gov.uk slash NHS fit for the future. |
| 1:00.0 | Welcome back to EV News Daily on the podcast today. Norway hits 99% dev. |
| 1:04.8 | Tesla drops Canada prices and Factorial says don't copy China. |
| 1:09.7 | Plus stay tuned later in the show. |
| 1:11.1 | I'll tell you which TVs are now getting the latest AI voice assistants across a few brands, actually. |
| 1:16.6 | All right, let's get into it. |
| 1:18.3 | Norway set another monthly record in April 26. |
| 1:22.0 | Battery electric vehicles took 98.6% of new passenger car registrations. Well, 98.6% if you will allow me to do some rounding |
| 1:31.2 | here, just for the ease of headlines, of course, that does round up to 99%. So can we officially |
| 1:36.8 | call it 99% Norway? That might be how I always refer to Norway from now on, see if it catches on. |
| 1:42.1 | Well done. 99% Norway, you did it. Hey, by the way, |
| 1:46.3 | just wondering out loud, if the world stops at 99% Bev, like Norway, would you be happy? |
| 1:53.5 | Because I think I'd be right with that. If the 1% of power trains is mixed between petrol |
| 1:58.0 | diesel, plug-in hybrid, the shabby kind of e-power stuff that doesn't |
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