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It's EV news briefly for Monday 9th of March, everything EV in less than five minutes. If you haven't got time for the full podcast, let's get you up to speed to start the week.

Scout motors has revealed they now have 160,000 reservations for the traveler and the terror. Travelers SUV, terror is pick up.

Here's the big number, though. 87% of reservation holders have gone with the extended range version, the so-called harvester.

Well above the CEO's original splits of 6040 in favor of the harvester. However, he also confirmed that those media reports a couple of weeks ago,

which they fiercely denied that customer deliveries would slip back to 2028. Well, that's been confirmed.

Rivian has quietly removed the $45,000 starting price reference from their website.

We haven't got to wait long to get the actual number. March the 12th at South by Southwest, Festival full pricing and specs will be revealed,

but how close to $45,000 will they get for the R2?

Avens, a leasing company, have put out their car-cost index, and they now find that BEVs undercut comparable ice models on total cost of ownership in a growing number of European markets

with Western and Northern Europe leading the way. Total cost advantage in 19 of the 30 markets they serve.

The BMW i4 beats something like the Petrol 3 series in 20 of the 30 European markets they serve.

Global Public EV charging infrastructure will reach 9 million plugs this year, up from 7.1 million.

At the end of 2025, China alone accounts for 67% of global total and top eight countries hosting 88% of all charges.

Growth is slowing a little in Europe and losing momentum a little in the United States compared to China.

UK energy suppliers are cutting down on the available fixed tariffs.

Now that's important because we're not a podcast about electricity tariffs, but we are about electric vehicles,

and that for many people is how they charge their EV at home.

And so their at home electricity tariff is a direct link to what they pay to go driving.

Now this is because of the conflict in the Middle East pushing up gas prices, not petrol gas,

but the kind of gas that we generate electricity on, and that is becoming more expensive.

We pay the global prices of energy, so even though we might not be completely reliant on things like the Hummus straights

and getting gas and oil out of the Middle East, although we are partly,

it does push up the price that our energy providers charges for electricity and that impacts the price we pay to go driving.

If you can fix your energy prices, maybe for a year or a similar term, it decouples you from anything like that.

Imagine getting a guaranteed price that you'd pay on petrol for the next 12 months.

You'd bite the hand off, wouldn't you?

Yeah, the petrol station.

Now, next star energy, Asterlantis and LG joint venture has now opened Canada's first commercial scale battery cell plant in Windsor,

Ontario. They've now just made over a million cells.

Since initial production began last November, beyond supplying Stellantis brands,

next star will expand interstationary storage as well.

Staying with Stellantis, they've confirmed they'll invest 50 million pounds in Ellsmear ports here in the UK

to add assembly lines for electric voxel, opal, vivaro vans and mid-size zero emission commercial vehicles from next year,

on the sites, existing all electric output.

London net police seized 52 electric vehicles over the weekend, illegal electric bikes and mopeds.

We have laws on how fast they can travel.

There's many imports, though, from China and marketplaces, where these vehicles are basically electric motorcycles.

And Ford CEO Jim Farley says it's current battery technology, which is the limiting factor in euths and pickup trucks being good towers,

which is why they've gone down the route of extended rain GVs.

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