Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Pulse podcast, the podcast where we go into the life and death of the automotive industry over the next decade.

Hosted by me, Imgen Bogle and CEO of Fully Charged Show, Dan Caesar. How are you doing? I'm well. I'm reflecting on the year

gone by and I'm looking forward to next year, but I would say it's an extraordinary time to be in the

automotive industry. We'll get into some of that. There's noises emanating from the European

Commission even as we record. So lots of news. There's never a dull day. Let's just be positive. There's never a dull day. There is never a dull day. And we said the same thing last week that we thought, OK, is it going to get to a point where it's quite difficult to sort of always find stories to fill this podcast? No, there are too many stories and we have to filter out many,

many, many of them. We are, of course, having this podcast. It's our last one pulse for this year.

So this is going to take a slightly different format. We are going to talk a bit about the European

Commission, what that means for 2035 targets. We're going to make some predictions for 2026 and we're going

to share what's in store for fully charged show, both everything electric cars, everything

electric tech and our live shows in 2026. So all of that to come. But first, a very quick

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We are passing straight to the chase here because we are not messing about.

There is lots to get into when it comes to this 2035 discussion.

You've shared a number of articles with me.

I think the one that's the most detailed is from automotive news.

Can you explain what is going on and why we're talking about it today?

I mean, effectively, you've got a new technology.

It's not a new technology, and that electric vehicles have been around for over a century, but for all intents and purposes, as new technology coming through, it needs a nudge along in the right direction.

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