Welcome back to EV News Daily. Coming up today, EV sales increase again in October. VW takes the Euro lead from Tesla and Ford GMs say they are ready for tax credit changes. Plus, stay tuned because later in the show, I'll tell you why fewer EVs will be tax eligible on the 1st of January anyway. Well, good morning, good afternoon or good evening, wherever you are in the world.

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We'll start with the October numbers coming out of Europe and the Europe New Car

Car Sales were steady after two months of decline, according to the Carmakers Association.

The stabilisation was down to an increase in the adoption of, you beat me to it, fully electric cars.

Overall, new vehicle registrations across the European Union, Great Britain and the European Free Trade Association increased.

It was by 0.1% year on year, October to October.

So we'll call it up 1.04 million units in the month of October.

So 1 million cars were sold, and despite the hurdles, the shift towards electric vehicles gained momentum.

Sales of pure beves were up 7%. October to October, diesel sales down by 8.1%.

And it was Volkswagen leading the market, with a 12.6% increase in registrations. In contrast,

Stalantist was down 16%, and Renault were down 0.4%.

Tesla's sales dropped sharply by 23.1%.

And China's SAIC fell by 10%, suggesting potential shifts in the market as tariffs were due to be imposed.

Now, electric vehicles are those electrified.

Not keen on that word, but either way.

So that is pure Bev's plug-in hybrids and anything with the battery hybrid vehicles.

We're now 55% of the European market.

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