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It's EV News Briefly for Sunday 11 January 2026, everything you need to know in less than 5 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show.Patreon supporters fund this show, get the episodes ad free, as soon as they're ready and are part of the EV News Daily Community. You can be like them by clicking here: https://www.patreon.com/EVNewsDailyCan you help me make more podcasts? Consider supporting me on Patreon as the service is 100% funded by you: https://EVne.ws/patreon You can read all the latest news on the blog here: https://EVne.ws/blog Subscribe for free and listen to the podcast on audio platforms:➤ Apple: https://EVne.ws/apple➤ YouTube Music: https://EVne.ws/youtubemusic➤ Spotify: https://EVne.ws/spotify➤ TuneIn: https://EVne.ws/tunein➤ iHeart: https://EVne.ws/iheart

In the agricultural flatlands of southern Hungary, the soil tells a story. For generations, these fields produced paprika and wheat. Today, excavators carve the foundations of an industrial revolution.Trenches now stretch across the landscape—not for irrigation, but for the utility infrastructure of a battery plant that will consume as much water as a town of 50,000 people. The land, once sold for a pittance, has been revalued at seventeen times its purchase price to accommodate the Chinese guest.Eight hundred kilometres northwest, in the exhausted industrial heart of Wolfsburg, Germany, a different excavation proceeds. Production workers at Volkswagen face the incomprehensible: the company announced the permanent shutdown of its Dresden plant, as the final car rolled off the production lines in December, marking the first factory closure in its 88-year history. The crown jewel of German manufacturing shutters domestic factories.These twin excavations—one rising near Budapest, the other crumbling in Wolfsburg—reveal how electric vehicles reshape the automotive industry. The European automotive sector, long the engine of continental prosperity, faces an existential reckoning. China's undisputed champion, BYD, has a lot of say in how this all turns out.Welcome back to a bonus edition of the podcast. My name is Martyn Lee and over the last few weeks I’ve been looking into the future of Chinese-made, or European-made but Chinese-funded EVs. I’ll have a look at some of the big names over the course of the coming months, but today we’ll start at the top – BYD.  A reminder you can get the podcasts ad-free supporting my work on Patreon.

Can you help me make more podcasts? Consider supporting me on Patreon as the service is 100% funded by you: https://EVne.ws/patreon You can read all the latest news on the blog here: https://EVne.ws/blog Subscribe for free and listen to the podcast on audio platforms:➤ Apple: https://EVne.ws/apple➤ YouTube Music: https://EVne.ws/youtubemusic➤ Spotify: https://EVne.ws/spotify➤ TuneIn: https://EVne.ws/tunein➤ iHeart: https://EVne.ws/iheart EU, CHINA STRIKE DEAL ON EV TARIFF WORKAROUND https://evne.ws/4aSWsL9 CHINA’S EV MARKET NOW DWARFS US AND EUROPE https://evne.ws/4qTVhjf CHINA’S EV BOOM HITS RECORD, BUT MOMENTUM EBBS https://evne.ws/4jNUG0b CHINA SHIFTS SOLID-STATE BATTERIES FROM PILOT TO PLANT https://evne.ws/4brwEG8 BYD BOOSTS SEALION 05 DM RANGE TO SHADOW EV SIBLING https://evne.ws/4qdeexo DENZA Z9 GT GAINS SINGLE-MOTOR OPTION AND MORE POWER https://evne.ws/457Ds7X CHERY STRETCHES RANGE IN BOXY OFF-ROAD HYBRID https://evne.ws/4sJ5NvE XIAOMI EV HITS RECORD 50,212 DELIVERIES IN DECEMBER https://evne.ws/4qMi1BB LEAPMOTOR’S €14K SUV GIVES STELLANTIS A BARGAIN EV BET https://evne.ws/49SqcXq

Can you help me make more podcasts? Consider supporting me on Patreon as the service is 100% funded by you: https://EVne.ws/patreon You can read all the latest news on the blog here: https://EVne.ws/blog Subscribe for free and listen to the podcast on audio platforms:➤ Apple: https://EVne.ws/apple➤ YouTube Music: https://EVne.ws/youtubemusic➤ Spotify: https://EVne.ws/spotify➤ TuneIn: https://EVne.ws/tunein➤ iHeart: https://EVne.ws/iheart FOR AMERICA STELLANTIS DUMPS KEY PLUG‑IN HYBRIDS https://evne.ws/4jA032P BUT IN EUROPE JEEP STACKS UP ITS PHEV CHOICES https://evne.ws/4qRMPks KIA TURNS UP THE VOLTAGE ON GT LINE-UP https://evne.ws/4qQKRkn BMW IX4 COUPE TARGETS STYLE-CONSCIOUS EV BUYERS https://evne.ws/49lMReB POLESTAR GROWS FAST BUT SUPPLY CHAINS STILL LAG https://evne.ws/4bEdo8i RIVIAN’S APP TAKES MOTORTREND TECH HONOURS https://evne.ws/4pyAOiW HO CHI MINH CITY'S ELECTRIC SQUEEZE https://evne.ws/4jDiRyn CARMAKERS ON TRACK TO BLOW 1.5°C CARBON BUDGET https://evne.ws/49zma4X TURKEY DRIVES EV SALES WITH TOGG AND TESLA https://evne.ws/49kn3zw

It's EV News Briefly for Saturday 10 January 2026, everything you need to know in less than 5 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show.Patreon supporters fund this show, get the episodes ad free, as soon as they're ready and are part of the EV News Daily Community. You can be like them by clicking here: https://www.patreon.com/EVNewsDailyFOR AMERICA STELLANTIS DUMPS KEY PLUG‑IN HYBRIDS https://evne.ws/4jA032P BUT IN EUROPE JEEP STACKS UP ITS PHEV CHOICES https://evne.ws/4qRMPks KIA TURNS UP THE VOLTAGE ON GT LINE-UP https://evne.ws/4qQKRkn BMW IX4 COUPE TARGETS STYLE-CONSCIOUS EV BUYERS https://evne.ws/49lMReB POLESTAR GROWS FAST BUT SUPPLY CHAINS STILL LAG https://evne.ws/4bEdo8i RIVIAN’S APP TAKES MOTORTREND TECH HONOURS https://evne.ws/4pyAOiW HO CHI MINH CITY'S ELECTRIC SQUEEZE https://evne.ws/4jDiRyn CARMAKERS ON TRACK TO BLOW 1.5°C CARBON BUDGET https://evne.ws/49zma4X TURKEY DRIVES EV SALES WITH TOGG AND TESLA https://evne.ws/49kn3zw