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🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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The automotive industry's existential crisis continues, and Imogen Bhogal & Dan Caesar sift through the rubble. Toyota receives electric encouragement, the EU's resolve is tested by the businesses with the most to lose, and 'Big Short' investor eviscerates Tesla valuation.
💡Links to Stories:
🚗 Toyota - https://electrek.co/2025/12/01/toyotas-15000-electric-suv-hit-china/
🚗Polestar and Volvo - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/02/china-volvo-polestar-eu-2035-petrol-car-sweden-germany
🚗Chinese Gasoline Cars - https://www.reuters.com/investigations/china-floods-world-with-gasoline-cars-it-cant-sell-home-2025-12-02/
🚗The Big Short?! - https://electrek.co/2025/12/01/the-big-short-michael-burry-slams-tesla-tsla/
🚗BYD - https://cleantechnica.com/2025/12/01/byd-bev-sales-up-20-in-november/
🚗Scout - https://www.ttnews.com/articles/vw-reviving-scout-hybrids
🚗Royal Mail - https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/first-fleet-of-fully-electric-hgvs-deployed-by-royal-mail
🚗Electric Buses - https://www.electrive.com/2025/12/02/stagecoach-buys-42-battery-electric-buses-for-gloucestershires-fleet/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Pulse podcast, a brand new podcast |
| 0:10.1 | for your feed, which is all about the life and death decade of the automotive industry, |
| 0:15.7 | as told through the eyes of an entrepreneur, Dan Caesar and a former automotive engineer, me Imogen Vogel. |
| 0:23.0 | Hello, Imogen. |
| 0:24.1 | Excited to catch up. |
| 0:25.2 | We've got some really good stories this week. |
| 0:27.1 | Yep. |
| 0:27.4 | We are talking Toyota. |
| 0:28.8 | We're talking Volvo, Polestar, a little bit of Tesla and a couple of other bits and bobs as well. |
| 0:34.0 | But before we get into any of that, how's your week been? |
| 0:40.1 | Good. It's been a week of mixed emotions. We welcomed a Cypriot kitten to our household just a few days ago. You've seen the |
| 0:45.8 | videos. That was exciting. But at the same time, we paid a fond farewell to Quentin Wilson. |
| 0:52.0 | We were at his funeral, which was great to reflect on his life and his |
| 0:57.5 | contribution, but has obviously left us a bit sad as well. Yeah, it was, we were debating just |
| 1:05.3 | before we clicked record. Should we mention this? We don't want to be Debbie Downers on this podcast, |
| 1:09.5 | but actually it would be |
| 1:11.7 | weird if we didn't mention it. And as you say, it was a beautiful, beautiful ceremony. And completely, |
| 1:17.9 | as you'd expect, there were so many different people from across the automotive industry. |
| 1:21.8 | He was so well loved and contributed to so much. So I was very pleased that we were able to be there |
| 1:27.4 | and support |
| 1:28.3 | his family, really. He was an incredible man, full of integrity ahead of his time, and we will miss |
| 1:34.7 | him deeply. And we'll keep working to promote EVs as he was doing for many years. |
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