Welcome back to EV News Daily. Coming up today, Honda launches a solid-state battery line.

BMW begin the Neuer Classe production and DS8 coming with 466 miles of range.

Plus, stay tuned because later in the show, I'll tell you why Lotus is moving from pure beves to hybrids.

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Hey, sorry about the background noise if you are listening maybe with headphones,

or you can hear some background noise.

If you are in the UK, you know that certain parts of the country today on Saturday,

it's blowing an absolute hoolly, as my Aussie friends would say.

It really is.

And I'm in the garage at the bottom of the garden with a flat roof and it's just pelting down. I've waited as long as possible to record to see if perhaps the rain would die down, but it's not. So sorry about that in the background, if you can hear it. Now we'll start with news of Volkswagen Group on the brink of widespread strikes over the last 24 hours.

Talks between executives and union leaders over the company's restructuring reached a standstill.

This impasse could significantly alter the workforce and operational strategies of the German giant.

Labor leaders have suggested an extra 1.5 billion euros, that's 1.6 billion dollars,

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