0:00.0	Welcome back to EVE News Daily. Coming up today, over half of the US likely to go EV, MGs S6, heads down under,
0:07.9	and China faces a fresh price war, plus stay tuned because later in the show I'll tell you why a Chinese gadget maker thinks it can take on Rolls-Royce and Myebeck from Mercedes.
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0:49.1	patreon.com slash EV News Daily. The 2025 US Electric Vehicle Consideration study by J.D. Power has found that
0:57.1	59% of shoppers are likely to consider an EV. That's unchanged from last year. Between January and April
1:04.0	this year, J.D. Power surveyed 8,164 people planning to buy a vehicle within one year. Of those, 24% were very likely to consider an EV.
1:19.1	35% were somewhat likely to consider. April data from Cox shows EV sales in the United States
1:26.4	rose 11.4% year over year in the first quarter of the
1:29.8	year. This study indicates EV shoppers research an average of 2.9 brands compared with 2.5 brands for
1:39.8	combustion car shoppers. As more EV models arrive, manufacturers have a chance to win buyers across both mass market and luxury segments.
1:52.4	Range anxiety is still what is said to be the major barrier. 52% of respondents cited charging station availability as a reason to avoid EVs.
2:04.0	Concern over purchase price declined down from 47 to 43%. And cost of ownership concerns fell as well.
2:12.0	Much of the sales growth is tied to more affordable EVs from the mass market in the United States,
2:17.0	particularly GM is on a rip right now at the minute.
2:19.5	That's good data to see as well.
2:21.3	Let's go down under, and federal approval documents confirming MG will launch the XS6 in Australia in the first half of next year.
2:29.8	So, no, that's not a typo.
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