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We'll start with some actually a bit of CES tech news coming up.

But first of all, Volkswagen, the brand, reported a 21% increase on their fully Vs that they sold this year.

That is 394,000 of them, the biggest markets. If you're interested, I say this year,

last year, 2023. China, obviously, Germany, UK, Sweden, France, the United States, Norway and

Belgium. In China, for instance, where 40% of VW brand cars are sold, they sold 75,000 ID3s last year. And in terms of the group,

it was, I think, about 8% of their total sales. Now, they projected it to be 8 to 10%, so it's on the

lower end of their projections. It was 11% the previous year

was their projection for last year. Their production cuts have happened as well at VW, and

they say declining demand, tough conditions, all that kind of stuff. Well, you could perhaps

ask pure EV makers like Tesla, like the car makers who are going headlong into EV, like the South

Koreans, like Hyundai Key, Genesis.

You get a different story.

Volvo saying recently, we're seeing no slowdown.

We're seeing no cancellations of orders, no declining demand.

Interesting how some of the combustion companies who are navigating this perilous move to EV, not destroying

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