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Welcome back to EV News Daily.
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Coming up today, global EV sales are on the rise.
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Ford's focus-sized recovery plan and Toyota to build EVs in Kentucky.
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Plus, stay tuned. Later in the show,
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is causing real frustration for school districts.
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On today's edition of EV News China,
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the new great-wall motor or a cat SUV.
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Global EV sales reached 1.7 million last month in August,
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up 5% from July, up 15% from the same time last year,
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according to Roemotion.
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Pure BEVs were 1.16 million of the 1.7 million,
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the remainder being plug-in hybrids,
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year-to-date sales of plug-ins, 12.5 million.
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That's up 25% on the year-to-date sales of 2024.
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Hold on. No, I've seen articles saying
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so-and-so has canceled this car because no one's buying EVs
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or this car company's slowing down its EV plan
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because no one's buying EVs.
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Oh, that'll be a 25% growth rate?
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Ah, Europe is actually the highest growth rate,
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up 31% year-to-date.
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Germany, 45% year-to-date.
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I mean, I told you recently how Germans are falling back in love
06:04
with EVs after some of the incentives disappeared.
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Spain's doubled volumes.
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France had a bit of a wobble,
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but otherwise seasonal shifts saw the UK once again
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do really well and become, along with Germany,
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the two big EV markets over here
06:21
are in the European region.
06:24
Of course, the UK has the new government plug-in grant,
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so the Ford Puma Gen E and the E-Tornado Courier
06:31
get that full 3,750 pounds off.
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The Chinese also doing big market share increases here.
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North America recorded its best month on record in August.
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That can't be true. I keep seeing the headlines.
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So-and-so's car model is being delayed by two years
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because of the slowdown in EVs.
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It can't possibly be that North America had its best month on record.
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Don't understand the data.
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Or maybe the headlines are wrong.
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Who'd have thunked it?
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Analysts expect a even stronger September.
07:04
Obviously, the expiration of the federal tax credit
07:07
is skewing the market in China.
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OK, so the big growth rate numbers of 40%, 50%, 60%
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weren't there, but that's where the CUME is coming from.
07:16
That's where the volume is coming from,
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where the growth rate is up a meager 25%.
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Now, I recently made a special Patreon bonus show
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In fact, it was last night, so what's that?
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That's the 14th of September.
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I made a special all about Ford in Europe.
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There was a time when it seemed every second driveway
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in Britain or Germany had a Ford parked in its school runs
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in fiestas, commutes in focuses.
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The Blue Oval had a pride of place in government fleets
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and in police pools as well.
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That's all changed for Ford.
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They went through a time when the Fiesta was the number one
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in this country, number one car sold for 12 straight years
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Didn't miss a beat.
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Ford have let cars like the Fiesta go, the Focus,
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the Montejo, and they replaced them with cars
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like the Explorer and Capri.
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Good cars, but not Ford prices.
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For instance, you can spec the Capri up to almost
08:22
And the basic one, the basic Ford Explorer in the
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small battery that they get from VW, of course,
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Now, we do have the new Ford Puma,
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and that's a really important car to arrive
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because although it was initially on sale at £30,000,
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the UK government grant has kicked in.
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And so if you go on, that's knocked a ton of money off.
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Ford have reduced it as well.
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If you do go on to Carwow, which I did yesterday,
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there's loads of places you can look at car prices,
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but I did a Carwow search, and you can get that car now
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This is UK pound sterling I'm talking about, by the way.
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So £24.5 a bit under.
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So that's a more sensible price for a car
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that is very small but really efficient,
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And we'll do 233 miles on a WLTP.
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But there's nothing that sits lower than the Puma.
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And by the way, a ton of choice under that price.
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Listen to the special podcast I did last night.
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It's half hour long.
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I'm a big Ford fan.
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I grew up wanting fast Fords.
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They were the, you know, that were my posters
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on my bedroom wall of, you know,
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RS's and Cosys with big wings and stuff like that
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was my fantasy because there was attainable
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and they were quick.
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And then, you know, probably watching touring car racing
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and seeing fast Fords.
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And so, it heartbreaking to see what's happened
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Just a series of models not being around,
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previous management making bad decisions,
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factories closing and underestimating
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the Chinese coming in.
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And so there's nothing under the Puma.
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And then there's nothing between the Puma
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and a 40 grand Explorer.
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Well, the new focus, it's going to be an SUV
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because everything's an SUV
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or at least a crossover shape.
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It's coming in 2027.
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This is auto car reporting.
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This wasn't a press release from Ford, by the way.
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This is auto car reporting 2027.
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It'll be made in the Valencia plant,
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And the new model follows the closure
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of mainstream cars like Fiesta and Focus.
10:19
This should be called the new Focus.
10:20
I wouldn't even put EV in the name.
10:22
I'd call it the Ford Focus like they did with Capri,
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although the Capri's not a Capri.
10:26
And that got pushed back
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because they were just recycling a name
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they had in their arsenal.
10:31
But I would make this as focused like as they can.
10:34
Now Valencia can make 300,000 vehicles,
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but they'll do that a mix of EV and hybrid.
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It's going to be built on the C2 platform.
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And so Ford is developing
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the new universal EV platform,
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the UEVP in the U.S.
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I would just presume that a car coming in 2027
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But no, auto car reporting says the C2 platform
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was previously used for the Focus.
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Obviously it has to do a job for Ford
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with things like European emissions targets
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and things like that.
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And it needs to come in under 30,000 pounds
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because by then you want the Puma to be discounted
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and monthly offers.
11:14
Get over your premium little fling
11:20
I go into a lot my recommendations to Ford.
11:22
No one at Ford cares what I think.
11:25
But I do go into a series of things they can do
11:27
leaning into things like their commercial division
11:29
where they do lead with the Ford Transit.
11:31
They're the market leader there.
11:32
Is there a place for Ford tough, built tough,
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built Ford tough in over here?
11:37
Well, we don't like pickups.
11:39
But they don't have any mainstream cars
11:41
in the EV world to sell us for now.
11:45
So hopefully a couple of years away,
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Ford Focus is not too SUV-ish
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and they can make it look
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like people think a Focus should look like.
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They're never going back to, you know,
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a 12% market share in Europe.
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However, they certainly need to stop getting beaten by
12:04
European automotive leaders are urging
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a reassessment of the European Union's
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2035 ban on pure combustion.
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It's 10 years away.
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So in 10 years time, all we need to do is make sure
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that zero emission vehicles are in a place
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where it will suit the majority of cases.
12:23
And there's a ton of exceptions, by the way,
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for small car makers.
12:26
And it's not a one-size-fits-all.
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As you know, the car makers tend to have
12:31
a bit of a complain and comply mindset.
12:34
They have a good old whinge about what they're being told
12:36
to do, whether that's emissions regulations
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tightening for the last decades.
12:40
And they always hit it in the end.
12:42
And the cars are better because of it,
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some people would argue.
12:45
However, the automotive leaders are still saying
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that we can't possibly hit 2035.
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Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Kellenius
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arguing that the current targets aren't practical.
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EU officials and environmental advocates
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defend the deadline as crucial for meeting climate targets.
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Vehicles are lasting 15, 20, 25 years.
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Modern vehicles are so efficient and reliable
13:06
that even in 2034 on New Year's Eve
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as the clock strikes midnight
13:11
and you buy one of the last pure combustion cars,
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it's still going to be on the road in 2050.
13:15
Like, let's not forget that.
13:17
No one's taking them out of your hands
13:20
It's just a new passenger car rule
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for companies that sell lots of vehicles.
13:26
And so why wouldn't we want to get there?
13:29
Because the Chinese are heading there
13:30
and they want to sell those cars to Europeans.
13:32
And if the European car makers,
13:34
as Ford is now finding out,
13:36
Ford of Europe to a very, very painful extent,
13:40
we'll just buy something else.
13:42
Nah, we want to buy VWs and Mercedes
13:44
and the Stellantis brands.
13:45
But some of the Chinese brands are actually very good.
13:48
And although the European Commission
13:50
reaffirmed its commission commitment
13:52
to a full fossil fuel phase out,
13:55
the member states within the EU
13:58
Italy wants biofuel, exemptions.
14:01
France wants for an ongoing political debate.
14:05
The dynamics of the market reflect
14:06
China's plug-in vehicle share skyrocketing
14:09
over the last five to 10 years.
14:12
Although this has really been, you know,
14:14
the move to EV in China's been part of their plan
14:16
for, you know, 20-plus years.
14:19
However, Audi's CEO supports rapid electrification
14:23
as a superior technology.
14:26
And so this one's going to go round and round.
14:28
But there was a big meeting last Friday
14:31
where they hoped that some concessions would be given.
14:34
Concessions were not given.
14:36
They were reminded 2035 is the line in the sand.
14:39
Can you please hit it?
14:40
All right, let's move on.
14:41
Toyota will begin building its first
14:43
US-made EVs next year at the Georgetown Kentucky facility.
14:46
There's going to be two three-row SUVs planned.
14:49
One derived from the Land Cruiser
14:51
and another expected to follow the RAV4,
14:53
both using a new EV platform from Toyota
14:56
Production of the Lexus ES goes to Japan.
14:59
The move targets America's growing trend
15:01
for large electric SUVs
15:03
while reducing exposure to tariffs
15:05
and making the cars in the US.
15:07
Kentucky will invest 1.3 billion,
15:09
or rather, Toyota will invest 1.3 billion
15:11
in the Kentucky facility,
15:13
adding jobs and a new battery pack line.
15:16
Toyota sells only the BZ4X in the United States.
15:19
Though more electrified models are on the way,
15:21
they have one in China that I was talking about today
15:24
on EV News China, the spin-off podcast of this.
15:27
Still in the same feed if you want to listen to it,
15:29
if not just delete it.
15:30
And we're talking about the Toyota BZ7.
15:33
This is, you know, from a side profile,
15:35
a German saloon sedan.
15:39
It's a Mercedes-Benz.
15:40
It's a Tesla Model S from the side profile.
15:43
Look up front, and it's a bit more of the Toyota face,
15:45
but otherwise, cracking vehicle
15:47
that the rest of us won't get.
15:50
I said a nice thing about Toyota.
15:52
I'll have a little lie down in a moment.
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Now, let's talk a little bit about Nissan
15:59
And they had an event in Rotterdam
16:01
to showcase the sixth-gen Micra,
16:03
now offered exclusively as a full bev.
16:05
It's a little hatchback built on the
16:07
AMPR small car platform.
16:09
It weighs 1,500 kilograms, 2.5-metre wheelbase.
16:12
And yeah, of course, it's developed alongside
16:15
And the Renault 5 is a great vehicle.
16:17
The Nissan Micra looks like a great vehicle,
16:19
which was a proper little mini car
16:23
The Micra was, you know,
16:25
Nissan wouldn't have wanted the Micra
16:27
to be thought of as a, you know,
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a little old lady's car.
16:31
But early doors, the Micra was definitely known
16:33
as a little old lady's car.
16:35
And so Nissan obviously went to great lengths
16:37
to broaden the market appeal of the Micra
16:39
these days because of safety and
16:41
generally cars getting fat.
16:43
The Micra is a lot bigger than it used to be,
16:45
but they've been showing it off now.
16:47
Low center of gravity,
16:49
multi-link rear suspension, direct steering
16:51
for making a fun little car to drive.
16:53
18-inch wheels, short overhangs.
16:55
Look, you've seen the Renault 5.
16:57
And so it's been, you know, Nissan.
16:59
It's got a low-seating position,
17:01
dual 10.1-inch displays,
17:03
built-in for maps and assistant and play store.
17:05
Two battery choices.
17:07
Again, this is the, you know,
17:09
the deal with the Renault.
17:11
But it's 40 kilowatt hour and 52 kilowatt hour,
17:15
100 kilowatt DC fast charging vehicle
17:17
to load. And it can even
17:19
tow. The Micra will lead
17:21
Nissan's European expansion
17:23
alongside the new Leaf,
17:27
and a new A-segment EV
17:29
coming in the next two years.
17:31
Half, they say, that's only one-half thousand pounds.
17:33
After the government grant
17:35
is taken off, you know, wait for the office
17:37
to kick in is what I would say, and it'll be
17:39
even less than that. And finally,
17:41
before we take a break,
17:43
Stellantis has cancelled
17:45
the all-electric Ram
17:47
pickup truck. That was called the Ram
17:51
Rev. Which is odd, because
17:53
you think REV is range extended vehicle,
17:55
but it was called the 1500 Rev. And it was all
17:57
electric. And then they're only going to make
17:59
a plug-in hybrid version now
18:03
Rev. And then other outlets I saw today
18:05
referred to it as the Ram e-rev
18:07
and some called it the Ram
18:09
Reeve for range extended
18:11
electric vehicle, R-E-E-V.
18:13
Which is that term is used a little bit more in China.
18:15
We are starting to talk about
18:17
e-revs a bit more, which tends to be
18:19
there's no definite definition
18:21
as I've said many times lately, but it tends to be
18:23
the engine never drives the wheels
18:25
and it's got a bigger battery than a typical
18:27
plug-in hybrid. You know
18:29
BMW invented that and others
18:31
did as well. Long before
18:33
the i3 Rex. But anyway, new term
18:35
and everyone decides they want to buy an e-rev.
18:37
Stellantis is facing
18:39
financial pressures, their parent company.
18:41
They cancelled plans for the larger
18:43
battery option already and now the original
18:45
Ram 1500 Rev announced
18:47
a CES a couple of years ago with 500 miles
18:51
kilowatt hour battery was pushed back
18:53
in the back in the back in the back. It was going to be
18:55
26 now it's been dropped completely
18:59
it's probably smart for Ram.
19:01
What do you think? That they've looked to the
19:03
F-150 Lightning, they've looked at
19:05
this Cybertruck and they've looked
19:07
at the Rivian R1-T and all the competitors
19:09
and they realized that
19:11
a lot of people drive their trucks for leisure
19:13
and that's fine. And then a lot of people
19:15
who drive their trucks to tow and to
19:19
an EV and realize that when you start
19:21
towing big trailers that are not aerodynamic
19:25
you can see the gauge going down and it
19:27
happens with diesel, obviously you just don't
19:29
see it as obviously, but
19:31
they complain very bitterly
19:33
and loudly and so sensible
19:35
for Ram to back away from a full
19:37
bed for now, let battery technology
19:39
improve, they'll combine the new
19:43
no longer called Ram Charger
19:45
I know I couldn't keep up either with this story
19:47
so the Ram Rev is dead and long live the Ram Rev
19:49
Ram Charger is dead but
19:51
this is the Ram Charger, big battery pack
19:55
they've given it 690 miles of combined
19:59
had almost 50% drop
20:01
in profit for the first half of the
20:05
they're having to make some changes, now we'll take a break
20:07
we'll come back, we'll talk about Mary Barra
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from GM saying EVs, they're still the North Star
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you know and Amazon
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GM's CEO Mary Barrow reaffirming
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their long-term goal to go all
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electric signing is still our North Star
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during the automotive news
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Congress GM first set
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2035 as the target for converting
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every vehicle it makes
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light duty at least to be all EV
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that was reiterated
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since then they've said that
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the shift might take a little bit longer
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and that they will still do it
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but maybe not by 2035
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that it could take decades Mary Barrow emphasizing
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strategic decisions require
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careful timing yeah that's
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big decisions need to be taken at the right
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time that's why you get paid
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sorry I'm particularly spicy
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today aren't I but um
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yeah I mean she's right but she gets well
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compensated to make strategic decisions
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with careful thinking so you know
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on the job description her comments
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highlight both GM's
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unwavering commitment to EVs but also
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a pragmatic recognition
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to an all EV future I mean
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I'm completely on board with that let's just do the best
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we can and it'll happen at the speed it happens
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Norway happened at the speed it happens and it's
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and so we'll all get there at our own
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speeds as they say on bluey
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which if you're not a parent you probably haven't
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watched bluey run your own
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I love that phrase I love most
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Aussie phrases to be honest with you
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but I particularly love that one I bluey
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yeah we'll do it our own speed that's cool
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Amazon is running their own race
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by going electric they've also got a big partnership
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with Rivian they're a massive investor in
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Rivian they take a 16%
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stake of the business with the electric delivery
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and a hundred thousand of those on order
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but now they're having a little look at GM's bright drop vans
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bright drops are now on the road
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Amazon probably working out whether that would fit
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into their all electric future
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fleets Volvo recently
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brought back their former CEO Huck and Samuelson
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on a two year deal to steady the ship
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as they search his for a new permanent successor
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Samuelson led Volvo from 2012
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successfully by the way telling
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the scale of challenges ahead
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shouldn't be underestimated but
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committing Volvo to an all electric
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future he said that the auto industry's
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EV future is inevitable
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though the pace will vary across regions
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yeah I mean yeah obviously
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within a decade he says cars
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will be fully electric and affordable
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but in a different competitive landscape
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saying that only a few Chinese
25:57
he said survival may hinge on agility
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and obviously they're owned by
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Geely the Chinese parent company
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but he said other companies will fail
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he didn't name companies that will
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fail acknowledging that not all traditional
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cars will adapt Tesla, Rivian, BYD
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Xiaomi illustrate how a new
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comer can come along and reshape the
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entire market now here's a follow-up
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on the Hyundai LG Georgia battery
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plant that will actually face
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some significant delays following the
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US immigration raids recently
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the $7.6 billion complex
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was meant to begin production this year
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and it's at the heart of
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Hyundai's EV on American soil
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the raid though described by the US
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as the largest single site enforcement
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operation in homeland security history
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detained 475 workers
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and 300 South Koreans
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the workers have been flown home
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now both governments are discussing
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support skilled labor needs
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saying he was surprised by the raid
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and clarified the workers involved were
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employed by LG and their suppliers
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not Hyundai directly
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stressing the specialized expertise is required
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for building things like battery plants
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to offset the delays Hyundai will rely
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on battery from other facilities
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but it's going to be putting them back months
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they say. Scout motors CEO
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Scott Keough said the company favours direct sales
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comparing buying a car from a dealer
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stopping at best buy
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he said direct sales is the right strategy
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likening it to buying directly from
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saying it's a better brand experience
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if you don't own that then what do you even have
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he says a separate item in the coverage noting
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dismissed a lot of the dealer
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complaints about the fact that
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scout motors is not basically Volkswagen
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they've been saying
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aren't you basically Volkswagen
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saying that you can
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sell directly because we're not VW
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he said that all of that from the dealers
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is just and I quote
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also a lot of noise if I'm going to quote him
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that was exactly looking at my notes here
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exactly what he said
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okay well not looking to make
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dealers association which of course
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is rumbling through the courts now
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because they argue it's just a VW and the scout
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should stick to the VW contract with
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while several main school districts
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electric school buses through a federal
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program expectations were high
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for clean and quiet rides to take the kiddos to school
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two years later many of those buses
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are now sidelined and parked up
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no word on repairs or support from Lyon
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electric or the government actually
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or even guidance on what do we do now
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main school districts
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struggling with electric buses from Lyon
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electric bought under the federal program that
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requires either keeping them
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which they are happy to do if they work
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or paying back nearly four hundred
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per bus from the school districts
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budget and that's not fair
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since Lyon entered bankruptcy last December
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or support tickets have gone unanswered
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leaving buses sidelined
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because of break issues
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high voltage warnings sudden power loss
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in Yarmouth a one hundred thousand dollar
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rebate more than offset the extra
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infrastructure and consulting expenses
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that they had to go through to get the EV
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school buses but in many towns
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the buses are now sitting unused
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because there's problems and they're
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broken they need maintenance
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and there's no one to help them
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they faced wiring and where problems
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one technician describing the fleet
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and flawed in even the basic
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12 volt systems the main department
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of education says the program is
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federally overseen by the EPA
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but it has created an emergency
29:45
replacement option for districts
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say they're monitoring the bankruptcy of
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Lyon Electric Lyon faces a federal
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lawsuit over misleading investors
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and was sold in July for only six million
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dollars from the earlier four
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point seven billion
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valuation and yes the
30:03
current owners of that
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what they're doing with the business but
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answering requests from school districts
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to please fix our buses
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not replying to them
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it seems and that is
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shouldn't there be some help like these
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are school districts budgets are just cut
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razor thin and they bought
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in good faith EV buses that
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weren't fit for purpose by the sounds of it
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the company's gone bust
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they need some help like I know
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that the US is pretty much against
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EVs this time and you know at least
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this term of the White House
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they can't just sit and rock
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or make the schools pay back 400 grand
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common sense prevails on that
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