Welcome back to the podcast today. Volvo warns the EU. Tesla rebounds in China and the E-transit gets a range boost.

Plus stay tuned. Later in the show, I'll tell you why Zika is eyeing up two big new markets.

On EV News China, today our spin-off podcast, we're talking about November's EV sales, showing fresh monthly records for many big names.

Let's kick off Volvo and Polestar are urging Brussels not to dilute Europe's 2035 deadline

for ending sales of new petrol and diesel cars, arguing that a retreat would slow electric car uptake and give Chinese rivals more room to grow.

Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Mert, has asked the European Commission President

Ursula von der Leyen to soften the rules. He wants hybrids and what he calls highly efficient

engines to remain on sale after 2035, saying many buyers are still wary of fully electric cars.

Berlin presents this as a tech-neutral way to protect the climate.

From Guttnberg, Polestar's chief executive, Michael Loshler, calls the idea a bad, bad one.

If Europe doesn't take the lead in the transformation, be rest assured, other countries will do

it for us, he says. He adds that Polestar has

twice asked to join EU's strategic dialogue on the car industry, but had no reply. Volvo's boss,

Hacken Samuelson, takes a similar line, saying, I don't see the logic in slowing down,

likening today's pushback to earlier resistance to catalytic

converters and seatbelts, which only became standard once rules were forced. Samuelson also argues

that loosening the 2035 target would help Chinese brands expand in Europe. He says,

The Chinese will set up factories in Hungary and Slovakia, Romania, in low labour cost markets,

warning that tariffs are likely to, unlikely to keep them out. Instead, he says European carmakers

needs to meet them face on and compete. Green MEP, Michael Bloss, says Mr Mertz's plan,

would gut the hard-won EU law and effectively give combustion

engines a free pass after 2035. And Loshla is darker still. The Chinese will not pause. They

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