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EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

23 Nov 2024 | Briefly

EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

Martyn Lee

Technology, Leisure, Automotive, Business

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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It's EV News Briefly for Saturday 23 November 2024, everything you need to know in less than 5 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show.

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VOLKSWAGEN FACES STRIKES AMID RESTRUCTURING DEADLOCK https://evne.ws/3CDMD4G

FORD PULLS OUT OF MAJOR QUEBEC EV BATTERY PROJECT https://evne.ws/3ZrL56V

ITALY INCREASES TAXES ON GAS VEHICLES TO PROMOTE CLEAN TRANSPORT https://evne.ws/4fCtheT

NISSAN URGES UK TO RELAX EV RULES AMID LOW SALES https://evne.ws/3V4j7LH

DS 8 FASTBACK: LUXURY EV WITH 466-MILE RANGE https://evne.ws/4fAVJgV

HONDA LAUNCHES SOLID-STATE EV BATTERY LINE https://evne.ws/3AV3v6l

LOTUS EMBRACES HYBRIDS AMID EV MARKET SHIFT https://evne.ws/4fTFsDJ

BMW LAUNCHES NEXT-GEN NEUE KLASSE MODELS AT HUNGARIAN FACILITY https://evne.ws/4905PFH

CATL BOOSTS EUROPEAN BATTERY RECYCLING AMID EXPANSION https://evne.ws/492aqY6

EU BOOSTS RARE EARTH SUPPLY FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE SURGE https://evne.ws/3UWTjkr

LONDON UNVEIL ELECTRIC BUSES ON ROUTE 358 https://evne.ws/3CACNAD

EXXONMOBIL AND LG CHEM STRENGTHEN U.S. LITHIUM SUPPLY https://evne.ws/3ANXfgP

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0:00.0

It's EV News briefly for Saturday 23rd of November. Everything EV in less than five minutes.

0:04.4

If you haven't got time for the full podcast, Patreon supporters get the shows first and add free.

0:08.5

Be like them by clicking on a link in the show notes.

0:11.8

Volkswagen have had a difficult 24 hours facing possible strikes in December.

0:16.8

Amidst a deadlock in their restructuring, negotiations began at the Walsberg headquarters,

0:22.6

with union representatives asking for a 5.5% pay increase and a guarantee of no factories being closed.

0:31.6

Volkswagen are countering that with a 10% wage reduction, and they will not guarantee they won't close up to three plants

0:38.9

in Germany.

0:40.5

Those two sides seem a long way apart at the moment.

0:43.9

We'll follow how that goes and how it impacts the EV industry.

0:47.8

Ford is pulling out of a major Quebec EV battery project alongside SK On and a company

0:53.9

called EcoPro to make cathode active material.

0:58.9

Of course, 45,000 tons of that every year will not be needed by Ford if they are winding back a little bit.

1:06.3

Their EV programs canceling their three-row program.

1:09.8

And so it would make sense that they don't need anything as much as that.

1:14.2

And also, there's like three or four different main types of cathode, active material.

1:17.9

And if you want to make plug-in hybrids or hybrid cars, you need different materials,

1:21.9

even though it's all cathodes.

1:22.9

And so that probably makes sense.

1:25.8

Italy is following the model of the UK, of Norway, famously, I should

1:31.4

say, and Denmark as well, which is don't give people free money to buy an EV, but make it a lot more

1:37.1

expensive to drive a carbon-intensive polluting vehicle because you've then got to dissuade people from those vehicles and also,

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