03 Nov 2024 | Mazda EZ-6 Launches, Ford Staff Speak Out Against Factory Shutdown and Why German Company Cars Are Hurting EV Adoption
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Welcome back to evening daily coming up today. The master, he said, six launches, ford staff speak out against the electric truck production pause, and White german company cars are hurting ivie adoption. Their plus day tune because later in the show, i'll tell you about this week's fail of the week and have somebody brick their own home charge or else trying to hack IT.

All in the best possible intentions, of course. Well, good morning. Good after no good, everything, where, if you are in the world, welcomes to Venus daily trusted source of the information for sunday, third of november. I'm martially and I go through every easy story. So you don't have the patron support, get the shows add free.

You can be like them by clicking on a link in the show notes, right? We will kick off today is another busy weekend of EV news and already started writing mondays show that there's loads of stuff going into tomorrow, but this plenty happening this weekend that I thought i'd get to. And that includes the mazda said six launches over the this weekend in china.

And IT succeeds the mar six. Now the E Z. Six features are remounted electric modes. One hundred and ninety kilowatts of power left him, and fosler e battery, they gave the thirty to eight percent charge time, which is enormous ously unhelpful.

Can we always get the ten to eighty? Please pledge that everybody, can we talk ten to eighty? Because you Normally pull into a charge or at ten percent on a road trip, I mean, some people go deep into the pack, but either way, and then go to eighty percent before IT slows down.

Anyway, the thirty to eighty percent is fifteen minutes to o or at sixty eight point eight killer one hour version maza also provides a range extend version of the eed six, with the one point five later in line for petrol engine works as a generator to for election ity for the lp pack, they are ef s extended range evs. The range extend that is a otherwise court and B M W, Y three days have smaller battery capacity of twenty or twenty eight killer one hours. Again, no plug socket on the sites, you can still charge them.

So no, I don't mind. Only you can add electricity to IT as well. The pure electric driving range of those is one hundred and thirty or two hundred kilometers, if you just want to do the small battery before you use any dinosaur juice.

Master has announced the east at six will launch globally with plans for a european release after IT rolls out in china. However, details about its availability in other regions, including right hand drive markets still pending, now told you yesterday how ford have temporary halted production of the election c vehicle truck facility and debt. However, IT has LED to employees speaking out about the temporary production pause.

The assembly of the f one fifty lightnings is going to pause from a roughly mid november until january the sixth, as reported by automotive news. Well, the shutdown is set to begin after business hours on november fifteen finally closes down at last for seven weeks. The decisions comes on the hails of significant workforce reductions earlier this year when ford cup fourteen hundred jobs at the rouge electric hick set up, leaving only one shift in Operation.

Currently, seven hundred and fifty workers remain. The job security is on sudden. One employee shared their frustration saying, and I quote, they laid off two shifts s back in march. Now they're closing the plan.

They say it's going to open pop up in january, but there is no guarantee and quote, well, I think people still want four one for the lightings and I think there is got pretty much every certain in the factory he's going to open is and and and start making them again. I told you yesterday on the podcast that some analysts say it's Better to stop production than flood the market with vehicles, just keep making them and then work out later how to sell them. Either store them somewhere.

We just flood the market with incentives and subsidies, Price reduction. When the plant open three years ago, IT was celebrated for its cutting edroy tics and technology, which provided job stability and very competitive salaries for workers. Are ready to move on. This weekend, we'll talk about evy adoption in germany, europe's biggest car market, and White, it's holding europe back.

And one of the reasons is, well, it's politics and its companies in germany, billions of euros every year I spent on subsidies for fossil fuel company cars that still use internal combustion engines during the transition to electric vehicles, high income employees and major companies, the likes of doch telecom and duca post drive luxury vehicles from Mercedes ali B M W portion eeta after the mark of their salary package. Now, one example, die to telecom's y're decided to face out, combust an engine cars and reduce the only pure BBS in the future. And many other companies should follow suit for recent S A P plans to start allowing only electric or hybrid d cars for company use from next year.

Ah another company though B A S F, for instance, has only three hundred and twenty out of one thousand six hundred company cars as electric. So what's going on? Well, german companies usually reivers I only for gasoline. So if you have a company car that you can also use personal use at the weekend for instant, but you do use in the week for company use, why would you drive electric car?

Because then any business miles that you are done, if your business hasn't got a scheme in Operation that you're charging at home or even was your rapid charging IT in paying three to four times the amount, sometimes in this country, ten times the amount I charged night seven p on octopus intelligent go, and sometimes in the evenings. And whenever I plug the car in IT, i'll go to seven for my whole house by charge on the road, I could be paying seventy vents on a dc rapid charger. So if you are paying ten times as much on the road or even whatever you're paying at home.

But if your business isn't reamer sing you for business miles, absolutely, you're gona choose the combustion car every time because your business that you work for has established scheme to reimburse. As miles company cars represent two thirds of new automotive registrations in germany, and they were very significant influence on the country's vehicle emissions. These cars are often the news for both work and personal irons, employers paying for fuel, for instance, leading to much higher usage of conception vehicles.

Now, according to a new study done by transport and environment, flakes of company cars are responsible. The three quarters of emissions in germany of new cars, with a growing proportion being larger, luxurious, heavy of vehicles, one third of classified as as u vo. Luxury in the first half of twenty twenty four, only twelve percent of new company cars in germany were fully electric.

Although the government in germany provides very substantial subsidies for businesses for E, V purchases, both types, convention and evy also qualify for tax incentives. Tax benefits increased with vehicle Price and companies often up for more expensive versions for their high salary employees. Now this is another study by environmental resource management, commissioned by t.

Ni, found that german firms receive thirteen point seven billion euros. That's fourteen point eight billion U. S.

Dollars equivalent annually in subsidies for fossil fuel cars. That is by far the highest europe, six largest european markets. Together, subsidies, harmful vehicle purchases by forty two billion euros a year.

These are subsidies. People talk about easy subsidies should be subsidized electric vehicles. Forty two billion euro a year spent subsidizing businesses to buy combustion cars. Tax breaks, discounts on purchases, employee benefits, things like that. All of these add up to the subsidies on combustion, harmful, polluting vehicles.

Now, the german government ended their v subsidies for the general public, but transport minister revolt of vision stating that if you create a sustainable market through subsidies, it's just not feasible. So they took a while the subsidies for electric vehicles, but they didn't eliminate the subsidies for company cars, whether that is convention or not. Again, one of the reasons why germany is not moving to E. V.

As quick as IT could do the company car issue and the tax issue, right? Move on. java. Lang over this week reported a thirty percent rising global retail cells of their hybrid vehicles in the first half of the financial year I proto september with increased consumer interest in plugging in models.

The company noted that this surge is down to growing acceptance of hugging electrification as the jelland over bias typical consumers move towards a pure B E V world jack your lander, a sign that demand is growing for a plug in electric hybrid models as customers become more customer to electrification. The rain driver brand had a forty seven percent increase in global plugin hybrid sales in the first six months of the financial yep, the defenders was up twenty three percent compared to the previous at same time in the previous financial year. Jack are lined over highlighting the over forty eight thousand customers are on the waiting list for the all electric range rover electric, which we should see debut before the end of twenty twenty four, is out now.

The increase in hybrid sales comes amid chAllenges for owners. Tartar moses ju landrover s parents company riches had a decline in its share Price because of lower sales recently. Jacket, your land rover cells in the court are also impacted by supply chain issues.

And here in the U. K. Jack, your landrover now going into a period of no new vehicles being on sale for twelve months gone by in the new I pay there's something in stock.

I think you can buy a new uh, if you want to go and so i'd like a new plug in hybrid vehicle. What new vehicles if you go on offer? They haven't got any for two half months.

It's it's called a fellow period um which seems a little insane going to a car car we could buy a car from. You all know we don't make cars here. I thought you were car company as we owe a car company.

Do you make any cars? No, no, no, no. Absolutely wouldn't be seen dead making cars, right? We will take a little break when we come back.

We will talk about hydrofoil electric ferries and now failed over the week, which is going got me going ride up this week back in the moment. I welcome back to the podcast things. Thanks for listening.

Let's talk a little bit about india and electric buses. The indian government this week plan to launch the new mission twenty twenty five for a hundred thousand electric buses in cities with populations over a million. Currently, more than sixty five cities make that require in india, sixty five cities with more than a million inhabitants by much twenty thirty.

Projections indicate this could grow to eighty city, such as the population growth in india, and one hundred thousands new electric buses on the way to encourage public transportation over private vehicles to reduce pollution and traffic can. The goal is for public transport to be sixty percent of all motoring zed trips by the end of the decade, and non motor ized travel, cycling, e bikes, e scs, things like that, to be fifty percent of urban traveled by the end of the year. So work being done in india.

Now let me talk about this one really quickly. I think it's a sign of intent by B, Y, D to try some things around in year. I think it's Better to say a lot of gets a written about the chinese invasion, the chinese tariff, the chinese cars coming.

And yet they haven't had massive success yet. There's been good success stories. Now one of those stories also going around is santis.

The co colors to virus is living in twenty twenty six, maybe sooner if they find his replacement. One of those people who was perhaps being lined up for a bright future in stack tis while the U. K.

Head of the atlantis business and SHE maria Garcia devo SHE a about year ago, I think a maybe also made headlines in this country because he started to talk about, well, if the U. K. Government is going to support the lantis making.

E, V, think of the foxholes here being made, the boxes of fans, says elsa. P, where they are made in the U. K.

And well, then maybe we just want to make them me here anymore. You threatening for santis to leave the U. K.

SHE is like that's the logical conclusion of that if if the U. K. Doesn't give us help and subsides incentives and stuff.

So very outspoken, I think, was being lined up for very bright future in atlantis. Recently I saw on her linked in just A A leaving message SHE was the head of the U. K.

Business now going to be taking on the head of the managing director role for byd. That's where she's going going to the chinese company running germany, switzerland, poland, australia. The check republicans last december first.

So a very interesting sign of intent by the chinese there. I'm byd to hire somebody who was perhaps being lined up in the ancestors future staff there. And she's definite a massive job on her hands because despite ambitions and stuff why he hasn't been successful, his performance has been lacking.

They had one thousand seven hundred and ninety registrations in total in germany year to date after three quarters, which is less than half of what they did in twenty twenty three. They they been off their partnership with a german importer heading taking direct control of the market. And the head, I think, of a byd h, at least the european business is now I ever seen by who wants to turn that business round are very interesting.

Now let's talk about electric hydrofoil ferry launching in stock time. The first electric hydrofoil ferry no has begun. Its service in stock come to lower emissions and decrease travel times. Earlier this week, on tuesday, seven fifteen in the morning, nobody departed the suburban area of tax drom silently gliding one mejor above the water up and a fifty kilometer trip to stop home city hall in just over half an ha. Significant cut in the usual commute times for the people on board.

Designed by camilla, the ship called nobody has computer controlled hydrofoil wings, which come down and lift the hole out of the water than eighty percent reduction and energy consumption compared to the vehicles of which would be traditionally used. Obvious ly worth of friction is is a big deal. And the founder and C.

E O of candelaria, good step hostel scope, noting the conventional ships have seen little and innovation in a century, making them the least efficient transport methods, not much Better than a military tank, he said, stock homes place of seventy public transport vehicles uses more fossil fuel than the city's entire bus and train networks combined. Additionally, what to transport in the region is slow and expensive. Many commuters preferred water travel, though in the region, stockroom is working to switch all the vessels to renewable energy and reduce the emissions.

The hydrofoil technology addresses the chAllenges that glides a meter above the water at rather than pushing through IT. It's passed up. You can travel inside the city limits much faster because there's no wake and the ferry runs on renewable electricity as well.

It's not the only fast electric ferry in the world, but very quick and IT crews that twenty five notes about forty six kilometers per hour. Now i'll finish off podcast this week with finish off without a story from hacker day dot com website, which I saw when I was reading that fail of the week blog. A motorcycle ridal Martin faced a subscription nightmare when he tried to charge is used electric motorcycle with a used E V box charges that he bought second hand online.

Although the subscription that they were trying to sell him and included various features, not of them were very necessary if you want to IT to be a dumb charger for simply charging his E V motorcycle. Upon looking inside the charger, he found a communications module with a set, a modem, but enforced the subscription rule. Now i'm not particular familiar with E V box that that there's a way to get around IT.

Obviously, a charger that isn't connected to the internet should just defauts to being a dumb charger, but he wanted to go further and almost see the story comes from hacker day. He said he wants be surprised to hear he wanted to hack the charger. All in the best possible interests.

And if you still enough to do that, you knowledge, then why not don't do anything dangerous kids. After expLoring many unsuccessful options and struggling to find any documentation online, he turned his attention to the relationship between the charger and the communications board that he found inside. His goal was to understand the communications happening and to replicate the commands that were flying back.

And fourth, and eventually he did manage to reverse engineer the E V box protocol that he reversed to engineer well enough to perform a reply attack using a little rosary pie. And that enabled him to charge without taking up an E V box scription drop. Done all very good.

However, sadly, the situation took a negative turn. Despite achieving his goal, he decided to continue his investigation. He had discovered six of the total commands and thought, let's find out more about what's happening.

He discovered that the firm where of the charging module had a limited validation for the incoming messages, and so he had identified now fourteen commands in the protocol, but thought there should be two hundred and fifty six possible commands. Let's try and find them. But the deeply programing of the system caused the charger to brick itself and become completely non functional.

Now, while Martin aims to document his findings for others in the open source community, his eagerness resulted in an unfortunately situation all recorded online and serving as valuable lesson to the rest of us to be careful when buying, use things online to know what we're buying. Now I know again, if it's A A B box, insist on you having a subscription to their service. But as a final thoughts for the week, yes, IT would be ridiculous to send perfectly good technology to landfill if you are done with IT and want to replace IT with a different model.

So are selling in a second hand is far Better for the planet. EV charges should work in a so called demode without any extra smarts, uncertainly, without paying a monthly food a match, a podcast for this this week. Thank you so much for listening, as always, into everyone who support the show could not do this without you, you guys and girls, absolute legends and the organizations that support this shows.

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