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Improved VW ID.4/5, Refreshed Polestar 2 and Mach-E Sales | 07 Sep 2023

EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

Martyn Lee

Business, Leisure, Technology, Automotive

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily, your trusted source of EV information. It’s Thursday 7th September, Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story so you don't have to. We go live at 5pm UK, that’s Midday Eastern.  Patreon supporters get the episodes as soon as they’re ready and ad free. You can be like them by clicking here.

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0:00.0

Coming up on podcast 1894, an improved VW ID4 and 95, a refreshed Pulse Star 2, and great Mac E Sails.

0:08.9

Stick around a team off.

0:12.0

Well, good morning, good afternoon or good evening.

0:14.1

Wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily, your trusted source of EV information.

0:19.3

It's Thursday 7th of September.

0:22.0

I'm Martin Lee, and I've been through hundreds, if not over source of EV information. It's Thursday 7th of September. I'm Martin Lee,

0:27.6

and I've been through hundreds, if not over a thousand EV stories the past 24 hours to bring you this, like a TLDR of the EV world. No one else is doing this, and I hope that this is a good 20

0:32.8

minutes, 20 minutes is often longer, that we spend together each day so that at the end of it,

0:37.0

you know exactly what you need to know about what's happening in the world of electric vehicles.

0:41.3

We go live at 5pm UK, midday Eastern, Patreon supporters get the episodes as soon as they're ready,

0:47.0

and add free, be like them by clicking on a link in the show notes.

0:51.3

We'll start with great news about the Ford Mustang MacE sales,

0:54.5

a 61% sales increase in August, securing its spot as the United States' second favorite

1:01.3

electric SUV trailing the Model Y from Tesla. Despite a 20% sales dip earlier in the year,

1:06.4

because of adjustments to their Mexico plant, the MacE bounced back in August, 533 units sold,

1:12.6

a rise from the 8,633 over the combined April to June period.

1:18.1

This resurgence is chalked off to Ford's lease and retail offers of the Mackey.

1:23.7

There's a 1.9% APR 60-month term and a $3,000 bonus cash incentive for their 2023 models of the MacE. There's a 1.9% APR 60 month term and a $3,000 bonus cash incentive for their 2023 models of the MacE.

1:32.0

And what about the F-150 Lightning? Well, after a six-week hiatus to upgrade their Rouge electric vehicle plant,

1:38.6

the Ford F-150 Lightning is ramping its production numbers. They told the electric website that the facility

1:44.9

will triple its output targeting 150,000 units a year by this time next year, next April,

1:52.5

next autumn, sorry. It'll enhance the availability of popular trims as well, like the

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