04 Nov 2024 | Polestar 3 Deliveries Begin In U.S., Tesla’s Project Rodeo Sounds Terrifying For Drivers and Kia EV Sales Continue To Climb
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The first of the week, monday, fourth of november. I'm mildly, and I go through every E. V. Story so you don't have, they were welcome to a new podcast executive producer. Wow, barry wolf, barry, you get your name in the whole of fame.

You are on the list of legends on the blog that EV news daily 点 com you can see in the show notes as well， on the patron and page plus on the on the websites, you can check IT out out of the bottom, the of the executive produces names up in lights. Patrons of people also, to get these shows add free and first be like barry by clicking on a link in the show notes. Let's start with some news of the twenty twenty five tesla model three, introducing a new battery packs from catl.

Now the chinese companc A T L are the world's biggest maker of evy battery packs. This new battery pack, known as the six m1 a， don't you know, has a capacity of sixty two point five killer hours. Now that's a four percent increase on the previous model.

It's a kilogram lighter as well. Enhancing overall efficiency and handling IT should increase the driving range for the model trees that choose to use IT. IT also includes improved dc fast charging, but i'm lacking more details on that. While specifics about the battery's chemistry are awaited, I would anticipate it's either L F P lethean iron fate or L M F P lithium manages and fox fate. Very reliable, very safe.

The loss of the mostly because there the new battery pack is particularly significant for the model three, where wheel drive, which could get a wl tp range over three hundred and twenty five miles, five hundred and twenty kilometers, very competitive with in the industry and highlighted task focus on their efficiency. Also speculation the battery would replace them using the byd blade. Batteries currently in use in some tesla models will wait and see where that battery ends up and gets used in which model three.

Now last month in october, norway recorded almost eleven thousand new EV sales at ten thousand eight hundred and sixty two last month, maintaining a battery. Electric vehicles share over ninety percent of all new strates, not changing in norway, well over ninety percent new beds. The most popular car last month in october was double check my notes here, the toy OTA b said four ex, closely followed by the Scott and iac, which is interesting.

The first non fully v was twenty third in the table. But how about that? The most popular E V I last month was the talk to be said for ex.

Now obviously people in norway know their reviews experts there. And so it's interesting because it's not the best D V. Out there. Maybe that was a big fleet order that all of dumped into october. Maybe just norwegians really love the biggest fox.

I'd love to know, although the pure bev market share in october of ninety four percent imagine living somewhere with ninety four percent pure bebb was actually lower than the all time record of septembers, which was ninety six point four um highlights the strong trend of these dominating in norway and lost I was there I was in like to was laws and staff and here and it's just incredible just to be, just to be in norway. brilliant. Because every card that passes you is just silent.

And you can hear for an easy nerd like me walking around city centres, town centres at low speeds. You can hear all of the, as each car comes past all of the different noises that an E V makes godly. I admitted that what a loser, without tuning around like a let a test, look about to come pass me as IT.

As IT comes pass, because they will make their own distinctive little speaker noises. Don't like you get to know IT after i'm gna stop talking now before you judge me. Besides electric cars, they also reached one hundred and seventy eight plug in hybrids for a one point five market share, dies two hundred and fifty seven and petrol cars, sixty three of them registered for a zero point five percent market share.

L hydro en and by any of just getting zero zero year, uh only top twenty best styling models last month in norway and october where pure electric and the top ten after the top and the cota a where the text model three tea model Y Z W Y D four this and area four that's a great car, by the way. I drove a few miles down the motorway the other day just in two of the four exploration sts admiring that. And that's a really good looking vehicle, by the way.

That's their version of the W M B platform, the four explore and the ford capri, followed by the V W I D seven, E X thirty from volvo, the new little one and V W I D three. Okay, let's talk about some cheaper evs in the offing, which is going to be a really interesting a quick decide. By the way, I won't go down a podcast colder cycle on this, but a very quick aside, if you've noticed that i'm talking about more cheaper evs coming to the euro market, there's a very good reason for that because here in the U.

K. We have to think of the serve Z V Mandate, which means that somewhere around twenty two percent, it's different. All the car makers has to be purely or they face massive fines from the government and sixteen thousand pounds a car, something like that.

And it's kind of called the ef man. It's got different lines and they can differ some of that to future years. It's all little bit which you washing around the edges, but there's that.

And then in in european in twenty five or the european union and they're got some strict seo to emissions. So until now, all the car makers have been prioritising as part of their profit maxims, ation strategies, big expensive S U V luxury cars. The average Price of a new E V until now been about forty five thousand euros, which is not crazy, but he is not cheap.

And that's because they make more money from bigger cars, bigger S U V S. However, from now in the U. K, really, and also from the beginning of next year, the these targets that have been set by the rule market, because the politicians, if you like, and this is where they can have an effect on the market, because now they want on volume.

So all the car makers, until now, I wanted to maximize profit with the big cause. Certain places like the U. K, like the european union, they now need to move to a sales driven number.

And that means that they are going to make more profit by avoiding massive fines. And so and sometimes that only been doing deals with those that can sell. You credits the likes of the all E V brand, the pole star test ETC.

However, if you've been thinking, I know I am talking about more smaller, cheaper cars lately on that podcast, is he just focusing on that? What I am. But there's also a good reason they're just more of them around.

And so we're going to be talking a lot more the next twelve months about smaller, cheap city cars for a very good reason. That's that's the background, if you're interested. Datcha has launched a new leasing program for the datcha spring old electrics.

This is in the german market, but I wouldn't surprised to say this another markets as well. And this is seventy nine euros a month. That's about eighty six dollars a month U.

S. Equivalent for my U. S. listeners. That's over a twenty four months period included knowledge of ten thousand kilometers or six thousand two hundred miles and zero upfront payment. So a new car in your drive way for seventy nine euros a month just going to get the insured and and filled up that is two thousand and sixty three us.

Dollars equivalent or one hundred year ros for a Price a car Price at what is seventeen thousand eos if you are going to buy new to this sit body in your drive weight. Now the base model is called the essential forty five thirty three kilo water motor um which is about as powerful as my coffee garder. I'm joking.

My coffee ground is more powful and enabling you to reach sixty two miles an hour or one hundred K P H sometime before the end of the year. It's actually nineteen point one seconds. The twenty six point eight killed what hour battery is A W, L, T, P range rate at at one hundred and forty miles or two hundred and twenty five kilometers.

Like this is perfect. This is exactly what i've been talking about for years on this show. Use case.

please. Let's get to use case, and we don't have to have N V. That will do the quarter mile in a certain time and go around the neuburger ing.

And do a thousand kilometers of range. Get to a point where e VISA. About use case.

And this use case is about affordable transport in urban areas for people who need personal transport, he don't use public transport for whatever reason. In a small card, we'll get you there safely and comfortably. This is brilliant.

Less than one hundred years. O S. A month. fantastic. The least offer is until the end of the year.

For vehicles registered from january to june twenty, twenty five, stock is limited. How to look at the U. K.

Leasing options? Nothing much below one hundred and forty quid. So we have got anything over here like that with the datcha st. Spring yet a car ww listing dot com, all of those all about hundred and forty hundred and sixty pounds a month on a two year least. So we haven't those attractive deals, which is a real shame.

You buy one like I say seventeen thousand eos for the forty five and one thousand nine thousand euros for the extreme sixty five model that has a bigger forty eight killers ard motor and it's been out since what twenty twenty one that you are sold, about thirty five thousand of the electrics springs in germany alone. But this competition coming like a sake. I'm more than happy to go into special podcasting.

What have vier about the increasing competition at the lower end of the market? I'm really excited about these cars. The leap motor t zero three.

Is that one theyve done na deal with the lantis, the new joint venture with the chinese company leap motor. So atlantis are fifty one percent, so it's not a chinese car officially. And IT won't be built in china because I can be built where the old fear five hundred was at the atlantis plan.

And so that's onna come in at something like sixteen thousand or fifteen thousand, but the specks away Better seventy killer motor, longer range of one hundred and sixty five miles for the base spec. So we're excited about that. People have criticized me for being interested in chinese vehicles and you know supporting regimes and stuff.

And i'm really not it's just about the cars and ultimately, what people get to buy. I don't want to make this podcast any bigger or more political than what IT is. It's just about EV.

And i'm aware of all the issues that surrounded. But I I can't worry. I don't lose any sleep over that. It's going to what will happen will happen whether I am hair or not. So let's talk about the kind of cars that people get to drive.

And if the regulator is want to come in and put tariffs ff on certain cars and the car comes want to get around that with joint ventures and what have you? So it's not a nse car. Well, then you you go filly a boats and argue about that. But I don't only go too much into that.

Finally, before we have a break, fleet Operators, that's the word fleet strug over that the Operators in the chicago area annoy can now receive rebates for buying used electric vehicles as well as new comment, the local utility provider expanding its fleet E V rebate program to include both used and new then refurbished atrocity ctrip vehicles in there as well. The utility will provide equal rebate amounts for both new and used dv. Now the new pre owned EV rebate scheme allows commercial clients, including businesses and public entities, to get a rebate from between five thousand and one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, depending on the vehicle class and whether the customer serves low income and equity eligible communities.

That a brilliant program, right when we come back, will talk about testers, project radio, which onesta sounds terrifying for the staff, working on IT keys, USA sales on on the way up, coming to evs. And the postal three begins deliveries in the U. S.

Although stories and more coming up with those chinese sales numbers stick around back in a more well, if you heard an advert or two, it's because, well, maybe you skip them. It's because you're listening to the ad supported free fee, which will always be there, by the way. And thank you very much for doing that.

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K. If you want to find out about the what the budget did for my U. K.

Listeners or anyone around the world who want to see how different countries do IT, I put a special program over the weekend, I think was saturday night. I did IT when the kid I was in bed about, it's about half hour along. Sorry about that.

Looking all the tax changes that our U. K. Budget announce, nothing as extreme as the inflation reduction act in the us. But IT was very interesting. And one of the things was a ten fold increase on the road tax tennis vd. But the road tax of plug hybrids, which used to have almost as advantage schemes as pure release, but they're really onna start to hit plugging hybrid quite hard with road tax. And also, if you have IT through your company and you have the benefit in kind also, that is like tripling as well.

And so um one of the pieces of reaction that I thought I have a look at his volt bargain because they're just introduced a really, really good new power train with eighty eight miles of pure electric range on the new gulfy hybrid. Um it's not as powerful as the gulf GTA, but IT is it's tuned for range. And I think if you get a lig in hybrid that doesn't get a hundred miles of range, that's pretty and technology i'm really behind them.

So excited about those vw cars. But here in the U, K, V, W, U, K, we've heard that budget put their head in their hands, and i'm gona, we're gonna beat slap with almost as much taxes as combustion cars. And we've just launch these new ranges of plugging hybrids.

V W U, K, fate director saying he doesn't think it's going to make any difference for a long time. The plugging hybrid strategy won't alter for vw in the U. K.

The new black hybrid's, like the gulf for tig one percent as well, have big electric ranges. So they qualified the minute for five percent. Company car tacks, according to the latest budget, that five percent will go to nine percent as the next few years plays out. Full electric vehicles, only two percent company attacks. That is going to go to nine percent though, by the end of the decade.

On a recent media event, oin sheet is volks walk's UK, head of direct sales, mentioning the company would not see a drastic impact from these tax changes, saying we ve got three years where the plugged in hybrid big tax is the company car tax, if you like, is still only three percent above what purity is. And so yeah, to get a plug in hybrid through your company car scheme, it's going to be more expensive. But he says it's not going to play out for a while.

A vw actually have a new education marketing thing coming soon, a new campaign called same spirit, different energy. I'd like to see that actually aiming to present the benefits of evs in everyday terms for fleet and retail customers. Now let's look about text less project radio, which I haven't heard of before.

A recent investigation by business insider shades light on tesla's approach to testing cell ving technology, drawing insights from former test drivers with the autonomous fleet. Now you know that tesla has full self driving supervised for consumers. They also have a internal fleet for more intensive testing.

Perhaps running beta versions or different version, perhaps the same maybe the same versions of the software that you and I would drive. But um but with trained drivers, business insider SAT down and spoke with nine of these former employees of tesla as part of project radio where they said they encounter very dangerous situations. Drivers on the so called critical intervention team are trained and that a good thing.

We want trying to drivers, but they're trying to wait to take manual control of the vehicle until you're about to have an accident because that's where testers say collect lots more data on the software. This method speeds up the software development, but IT does raise safety issues for the drivers and the wide of public. Should the likes U.

N, I members of the general public be put at risk. One of the drivers describe the experience as a cowboy on a bull, highlighting the risky nature of their role. These critical intervention trained drivers, but I I hadn't heard of project rody.

I I was learning something over the weekend with this and more skills and purposeful. Ly let the software Operate on its zone even when IT errors, and they only step in to avoid an accident. They reported the software running red lights, the software working and exceeding speed limits.

But they don't intervene unless they gona have a crash. One driver particularly told a story of a near miss with a cyclist saying, and I quote, I vividly remember this guy jumping off his bike. He was terrified and quote, and afterwards the supervisor tesler told him that perfect, suggesting that a parallel using was part of their objective.

Although no drivers reported accidents, they did describe dangerous encounters with unsuspecting pedestrians and cyclists. So um obviously you test like having internal teams working on things. I didn't go project radio and you know some would say that business insider over the years has been criticized by the C. E. O on social media for being an organization that is more critical of tesla.

I have seen those those reports over the years, which have been a bit anti tesla from likes of writers and business insider but you can also ask you these are journalists doing journalism um and and sometimes is people in power uh the ultra wealthy or those are the extreme level of power such as the C E O of tesla don't like journalism being done on them that don't like to be questioned which is interesting take you may not agree with uh now here. As announced, sales results for october in the U. S.

Showing a notable rise in EV sales. The company experiences seventy percent increase in sales of all fees, sixty five percent increase in pluggin hybrids and a forty nine percent boofer t their hybrids compared to october of twenty twenty three. It's key as highest moly sales for EV models, electric dot com rights and I quote, all electric evs LED away, with sales surging seventy percent year on year.

And cheers first dedicated v the E V six set a new occa per sales record with one thousand nine hundred and forty one unit sold through the first ten months of twenty twenty four. K A has now sold over seventeen thousand seven hundred EV six in the U. S.

Meanwhile, its first three zero electric S U V, the evening devise expectations with another one thousand nine hundred and forty one model sold last month, ka vy nine sales reaching seventeen thousand nine hundred and eleven through october so far. That's even more than the E, V six, despite costing over twelve dollars more. And quote gratulations, there is the key a team in the U.

S. On a bit of a rip. Right now.

Postal has begun delivering the electric S, U, V, the polestar three manufactured in south CarOlina a to U. S. customers.

This roll lw is key to their strategy in north amErica after production of the initial model started in August deliveries and now reaching customers. Producing the pull star three in the U. S. Is a big step forward, although the pulse three has been made in china since April, the introduction of the U S. Mode version will strengthen their market by not having a hundred percent tariff slapped on IT.

With the launch of the poll staff three, they're moving from being a single model brand with the pole star to the one the ion to the pole staff three, which is the top end one. Think of that as a volvo ex nineteen kind of three row. And the polestar four, which is more like the polestar to replacement.

If you want to call IT, that IT doesn't go up as I would love IT to do polestar two, three, four getting more expensive like unit, like the key is on the hum base, the numbers get bigger and the vehicles get bigger and more expensive, but not impulse. Our world it's for is the next cheapest up from the poll status. And then IT goes three, which is the big one and very expensive post our four deliveries, by the way, in europe started in August.

They will start in the U. S. Later this year. And again, post have come with two vehicles at the same time, which I really wish they hadn't done.

I wish maybe there were six months part and then we could just completely focus on one new vehicle. But even even the youtube video embargo reviews, I think they all dropped within like two days of each other. Yes, there's some confusion there or may be maybe that is the point of the strategies that the three in the fall that come at the same time.

But I must admit, I would like to focus on one vehicle at the time, get my head around IT. So where does polestar start in times of pricing with their new models? So forgetting the two for a while, the four you can get into the polestar four from fifty six thousand dollars for the long range single motor that you'll give you three hundred miles or four hundred and eighty three kilometers of range.

The pulls three, you can get into that from seventy five thousand dollars. That's for the long range dual motor with pilot pack, if you go top and big boy's back. So I pulled out three long range dual motor pilot pack plus pack performance pack.

It'll you back eighty six thousand dollars and the rain dropped down to two hundred and seventy nine miles or four hundred and forty nine kilometers. okay. Ay, we've finish off the podcast that day with some sale stuff coming out china.

They will do some vehicle to home and some great stuff that some ict of numbers. Then byd was the big one. I guess what? Byd is the big one.

Last month in october, byd achieved a remarkable milestone by selling over five hundred thousand vehicles, a total of five hundred and two thousand new energy vehicles, so twenty percent up on the previous month, fifth consecutive month of record of sales for byd, which does include pluggin hybrids. And fully, this as like that has a plug socket on the side. IT counts as N, E, V.

In china. All of the total sales five hundred thousand, five hundred and twenty five for passenger cars. Erie, veh, ses and stuff plug in hybrids were just over half a hundred ten thousand.

So big hundred thirty percent increase year year in china. They loving some of the plug in hybrids at the moments year to date. B Y D, E V sales has the past three point two five million, one point eight seven million of osa plug in hybrids.

One point three six million are full evs. Internally, byd is climbing. Thirty two thousand passenger cars sold abroad in october. They're manufacturing them in thailand, turkey, hungary, in mexico as well.

And byd revenue surpassed tesla, as I told you last week on the podcast for the first time in q 3。 So byd bigger than tesla, if you look at the revenue numbers. But if you look at the actual vehicles sold, tesla continues to beat byd in terms of pure A V S.

For the first nine months of twenty twenty four, tesla delivered about one point three million pev. They make byd about one point one six million pure E Z. Now gei mark milestone by selling over one hundred thousand new energy vehicles in a month, again, not on byd scale, but an incredible achievement.

Twenty percent up on september the previous month, eighty three percent up on the same months last year. He saw one hundred and eight thousand and seven hundred and twenty two. They got the gd galaxy series that David last year that was doing really well, the largest contributor to those numbers.

And funny leap, a mode in which I I am pay more attention took because that is atlantis join invention hearing europe, they're going to bring some cheap cars over here. So I whenever I see the numbers, i'm like in case I I Better understand the moto a little bit more. They delivered forty thousand cars in october, a year on year year growth of one hundred and ten percent, thirty percent, up from september to october fifth consecutive months of record deliveries for leave motors.

They really are hitting their stride right now. New orders over forty two thousand recall the october for their smaller vehicles, the see ten, there's the c eleven and sa sixteen as well. And then over here in the europe, there's gonna, the new b ten model that's going to be shown off this month in november of the grand show auto show.

They did show that off at the parents, also show mid october IT was the batten's compact S, U, V built on the the platform. And the Younger consumers in china, we'll start about fourteen U S. Dollars equivalent. Of course, I was also going to launch the t zero three very cheap cup here in europe early next year.

And the new york power authority has introduced a new technology aimed at improving electric vehicle charge in regions where the great capacity is is limited, developed in collaboration with the power zs connect power booster, getting hand power supply for vy fast charges to put in fast charging into places whether grid wouldn't allow and where upgrading the grade would be prohibitory ly expensive. The technology functions by storing energy as connected energy and using fly whale technology, the power boost allows ultrafast evy judges to be put in order being used in a fleet site in mercy, which is that in one need to county. Do I say that? Anyway, that's great news.

And finally, flux, a start up all about vehicle to home, has connected their first customer to the vehicle to home project. This platform harness is the battery of their old electric four f one fifty lightning to power their home. Important, arrogant B V to h platform employees a two eight charger with the software that charges the EV during off peak hours and discharges during peak demand times.

There's two subscription options, one where you buy the charge yourself or one where flux will put IT into your home. And you know revenue sharing. They can get their money back that way on trading the energy ah they say that you can save twelve thousand dollars a year depending on your electronics use at home.

H the pre orders for the service and now open if you want to check out on the flux website, put a ink in the show notes if you own the vehicle, the correct vehm that will work with the system some from ford gm shaver cattle like riva volvo and and test broadcast for I thanks to our premium partners portion of the village and since and I out day since ati east and volvo cars or since unity east national car charging on the U. S. Milland and the low heart charge in hawaii direct rilly from navio up ie. And the navy E V. Review island youtube channel an octopi cor global public charging made simple with one APP and one map have a good cinema and remember, there's no such thing as a self charging hybrid.