Don't Mention The War! BYD Kills Off Combustion? Trade Body Trauma?
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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While Imogen's away, Robert & Dan run amok with the latest tales of automotive angst. In this Pulse, they talk about why the war is not a subject to ignore, how BYD is breaking the engine epoch through technological advancement, & discuss how its a tricky time for old-school, fossil-fuelled trade bodies.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Pulse Now. |
| 0:10.0 | I just want to reassure you, you know, you've got a huge disappointment with the fact that instead of Imogen being here, it's me, some old bloke. |
| 0:20.0 | So I want to reassure you that the conversation will be wonderful and fascinating. |
| 0:26.1 | And we've got some great topics to discuss today. |
| 0:29.5 | And Imogen will be back shortly, so this is not a permanent rearrangement. |
| 0:33.5 | She's in Japan of the moment, which is lovely. |
| 0:36.6 | Land charging hybrid. |
| 0:39.3 | The land. |
| 0:41.5 | Thank you, Dan. |
| 0:43.0 | Getting that one in so quickly. |
| 0:45.4 | The land of the self-charging hybrid. |
| 0:47.3 | It's possibly now the land of the setting self-charging hybrid because they are now bringing |
| 0:52.4 | out some pure electric. |
| 0:54.0 | Anyway, leave that there as it may be. Dan, how are you getting on? I'm good. Yeah, sorry, I couldn't resist that. You haven't mentioned Japan and obviously, a place I've never been to and a place I would absolutely love to. Oh, it's amazing. Yeah. I would be looking at the cars, I think, and talking to people and really annoying. |
| 1:13.1 | But I'm very well, thank you. |
| 1:15.1 | I'm not in Japan. |
| 1:15.8 | Oh, good. |
| 1:16.2 | In the home county's hard at work trying to understand what's going on in the electric vehicle market. |
| 1:23.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.2 | And it's just a slew of data. |
| 1:26.8 | Some of it misinterpreted. Some of it concerning. Some of it. And it's just a slew of data, some of it misinterpreted, some of it concerning, some |
| 1:31.3 | of it positive, but it's never dull, is it? No, no, no, no, it's very exciting. Well, I mean, |
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