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That's good news, but you won't get the one we've got, which is the wagon version. And frankly, that's the looker. It starts at 67, 195 for the A6 e-tron. That'll come in both single motor and of course it's Audi. So Quattro, very famously, all wheel drive versions and an S6 version.

Obviously, that's a beautiful car. Charges, 270 kilowatts. It's on PPE platform like McCann. Beautiful. Xpeng is unveiling new versions of their G6 and G9. Xiaopeng is a company that sells to the West, so we do cover them. And their new versions of the G6 and G9 built on 800 volts and do a 10 to 80 charge in China.

12 minutes that'll be 12 minutes just incredible and quite big batteries on that as well so either LFP or NMC packs on those cars Kia EV3 I love that car GT version has been seen spied testing and with all sorts of green bits like lime green brake pads and

Stitching on the inside. Cool. Skoda plans a seven-seat electric SUV for next year. So it'll be above the ENIAC, and the ENIAC is above the LROC. And so maybe this is an electric Kodiaq? I wonder. That's going to be a seven-seater.

Talking of seven, the Zika 7 is going to be the name, as I speculated many weeks ago, the 007. It doesn't fancy a lawsuit from who owns James Bond these days. Jeff Bezos on Amazon does, bought it off the Broccoli's. And so...

So you could say it'll be the 7 when it arrives in Europe. Yes, of course it will. 007 no more. The GT state version now pictured with the interior looking really, really nice, by the way. That's another fantastic car with a 75 kilowatt hour pack or 100 kilowatt hour pack. And again, ridiculously fast charging on that thing.

Not that we can max out the charging speed over here because our chargers don't go fast enough. But again, very, very high C-rate on that. Scania looks like they could be interested in buying Northvolt's battery pack division even after Northvolt declared bankruptcy. Scania need a battery supply and Northvolt were making some, about a gigawatt hour a year worth of cells, but not enough to avoid bankruptcy two days ago.

EV sales are surging. February, massive month globally. That was up hugely, 50% from February last year. And if you add the first two months of the year together, Jan and Feb, globally, it's up 30%.

For EVs, which is just a great story whenever you might see one, which is EVs struggling or the car makers are saying that we don't want EVs as quick as we thought they were going to and predicted. Well, look, it's a 30% increase globally in January and February added together first two months of the year, 35% up in China, globally 2.4 million units.

EU, along with the UK and the wider trade zone, 20% up. That's 0.5 million units. Just fantastic. Now, European owners could save up to €3,000 a year once smart charging technologies are rolled out. So that is the cars being capable of it. It's the home chargers all being ready to go. And it's, of course, the electricity companies having the tariffs and all the smarts in the background to make it work. We want to get to that as quick as possible.

but it could save you a ton of money. Amazon talking about their expanding EV fleet and how they're using two, three, four wheels in various cities and now big trucks. The largest fleet they've got is California.

50 of those trucks supporting first and middle mile deliveries. And Porsche pushing back the 718 Boxster and Cayman models again. I think it's because of the Northvolt bankruptcy, actually, I suspect, until 2027. But the Cayenne goes all electric and we will see that this year for a 26 launch. That's briefly. What's the difference between DIY and doing it yourself?

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