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It's TV News briefly for Saturday, August 30th, everything EV in less than five minutes.
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Porsche is changing up their EV battery strategy,
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shifting focus from wanting to build large-scale manufacturing factories to advanced battery research
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for things like ultra-high performance cylindrical cells,
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and not just for Porsches, for the wider VW group as well, and not just for pure EVs,
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but for high-performance Porsche 911 GTSs and stuff that might be hybrids.
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Now, the EV tax credit expiration in the US is driving a short-term sales surge.
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Everything is up right now.
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July was up year-on-year, month-on-month.
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Leases were up year-on-year, month-on-month.
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Dealers have got probably a couple of weeks left to acquire stock, turn it around,
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remarket it, and get it all out the door before the end of September.
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When the federal tax credit, seven and a half grand, four grand on a used EV, expires.
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Yet there's no doubt.
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First of October, it's going to be a choir today if you work in a car dealership.
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China has now got 16.7 million EV charging points.
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That's 53% up from the same time, January to July, last year to this year.
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General Motors is expanding their EV charging adapters.
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There's now got four more adapters.
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So if you buy one of the new EVs from GM, like the new Cadillac OPTIQ,
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comes with J3400 or the Tesla connector standard on the side of your car.
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You can now get adapters that will connect that to a level two CCS or to the GM energy power shift product
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or to a CCS DC fast charger.
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And so you can still use those charges if you're buying a car with the new NAX port in let on the side of it.
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Huawei is making the operating system and the self-driving system of the new cars from SAIC.
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One of their new brands called Shangyi.
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They launched their car.
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It's a mid-sized crossover up against the Model Y really in China.
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Got 50,000 orders in the first 18 hours.
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It's the kind of business they're doing over there in China.
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By the way, a new vehicle to grid test is happening.
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This one in the Guangzhou area, got to be driving GAC vehicles in China.
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It's still a pilot vehicle to grid is not vehicle to home vehicle to grid integrating with the electricity provider,
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the car makers, the car owners and many more layers of people sitting in there invisibly to make everything talk to each other.
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It's not the work of a moment, but it is a solved problem in many places.
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Vehicle to grid now being done more in China, but still even at the trial phase.
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Mexico's air mobility is planning to use the Chinese electric planes.
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The e-hangs, they want to start doing a commercial service in 2026 for electric vertical takeoff and landing.
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Rivian CEO RJ Scarridge turned up on the Inside EVs podcast, got all stuff off his chest.
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One of those top topics was the U.S. moving back towards combustion.
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He says it blows my mind that it's happening, but nonetheless it is.
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He says if there's a silver lining, it's less competition for his business.
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Over here, our government or rather the revenue collection agency, the HMRC, have got two rates now.
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If you have a company car and it's a company EV and you've got to put an expense claim in at the end of the month to the boss
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because you charged basically the boss's car at home to do your business.
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You can charge different rates now for home charging, which is cheaper and get paid a lot more for miles driven if you DC fast charged as well.
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In Spain, Ebert Roller Espana will install EV charging stations at 59 supermarket car parks for the Alamerca brand.
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238 fast chargers going in.
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Wire Lane is a German EV charging company.
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They've acquired Ladegrun, known for their eco-friendly charging stations and they'll work together.
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A new trike is coming, an E-Trike from the Pucky Puppy brand.
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The Rottweiler electric tricycle has a 960 watt power
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