On this week’s episode of TEN – Transport Evolved News!
Battery EVs outsell petrol and diesel cars combined in the EU for the first time, Polestar 2 production ends after about 200,000 cars, and Florida Polytechnic University's police become the first US force to add a Jetson ONE eVTOL.
These stories and more, on today's show!
Watch the show today on YouTube , or (if you’d prefer – we would) – PeerTube !
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Episode Timeline:
00:00 - Introduction and sponsor shoutouts!
00:20 - Welcome to the show
00:30 - Editorial - Elections!
01:04 - Battery EVs outsold petrol and diesel cars combined in the EU in Q3 2026, with 710,580 sales against 655,540, according to T&E
02:22 - Q3 results: BYD's profit rises 28% to ¥10bn ; Ford's EV unit loses $1.06bn, down 25% ; VW swings to a €5.9bn operating loss ; Stellantis cuts its loss by 90% ; and Mercedes' net profit rises to €1.52bn on record BEV sales
04:01 - Volvo has 50,000+ European orders for the EX60 as production delays limit US supply . And Volvo confirms a lower-priced global EV for 2027 (reportedly SPA3-based)
05:06 - Mercedes-Benz's electric CLA and GLC now have a six-month wait
06:04 - European Parliament committees vote to relax 2035 CO₂ rules , and Canada freezes its vehicle GHG standards at 2026 levels through 2029
07:06 - Ultraviolette launches the X-47 Venom electric motorcycle in India, the first on its new VX-100 platform, from ₹2.65 lakh
08:18 - Polestar 2 production in China has reportedly ended after about 200,000 cars; Polestar says an all-new successor comes in early 2027
09:19 - Ford says its $28,350 Fathom will power your home with an on-board AC inverter, and it has now cast more than 5,000 of the truck's unicastings And Ford reportedly plans to bring back the Escape as a compact EV on its Universal EV platform, built in Louisville from 2029; Ford hasn't confirmed it
10:18 - NHTSA proposes optional cyan marker lamps for driverless vehicles
11:17 - Renewables made 28% of US electricity from January to August, up from 26% a year earlier, and wind and solar produced 44% more than coal, says an analysis of EIA data
Sponsor Segment: Little Collie Shepherd
12:25 - Sponsor segment: Little Collie Shepherd
Recall Reminders!
14:06 - Audi recalls 9,048 Q4 e-tron and Q4 Sportback e-tron in the US over battery fire risk; owners told to charge to 80%
News Shorts:
14:32 - Tesla cancels the Cybertruck for Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, refunds deposits
14:50 - BMW reportedly offers US buyers $1,000 loyalty cash on the 2027 iX5
15:06 - Jetta M6 EV goes on sale in China from ¥79,800, slightly below its pre-sale price
15:20 - Volkswagen reportedly puts its European driver-assistance development under Audi's lead
15:31 - Chery unveils its 1.44 MW "Volt-dragon" flash charging, 10–97% in under seven minutes
15:44 - ARENA funds JET Charge's V2G trial with up to 130 ACT Government fleet EVs
15:58 - Chalmers and Volvo Cars use AI to position and charge electric robotaxi fleets
16:09 - Fraunhofer IST works on longer-lasting lithium-metal batteries
16:20 - Moldova sets a 2030 e-mobility roadmap: 600+ public chargers
16:32 - Home-battery maker sonnen files for insolvency in Germany
16:45 - Seattle plans 200 curbside chargers on poles and pedestals, and residents can request one
16:58 - Ionity plans battery storage at about 50 European charging parks in 2027, starting with a 1 MWh system in Wertheim, Germany
17:09 - GWM's SVOLT starts mass-producing a 100 kWh semi-solid-state battery pack with 6C charging in Changzhou, China
17:23 - Audi makes its two-brands strategy in China official: four-ring Audi stays with FAW, the electric-only AUDI brand goes with SAIC
17:38 - Opel reportedly plans a revived Agila: an electric sister to Citroën's 2CV-style 'Duck' and the Fiat Koala, due after 2028
17:51 - A Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880 in Hayward, California, with no crash; the driver is unhurt, but the freeway is closed for about 10 hours
18:03 - CATL tells investors its sulphide all-solid-state cells are in 20 Ah trial production, aiming for 500 Wh/kg, with small batches in 2027
18:17 - UK converter Wellhouse Leisure reveals a Kia PV5 campervan with two double beds and a kitchen, from £63,000
18:30 - Ohio Democrat Greg Landsman files a bill to bring back the US EV tax credit at up to $15,000 new and $8,000 used; it has no co-sponsors yet
18:43 - BYD signs up to the UN Global Compact
18:54 - UK start-up Allye Energy now sells a mobile charger with up to 400 kW and two cables, running on second-life EV battery packs off an ordinary three-phase supply
19:08 - Fiat's 2027 Topolino reaches US dealers street-legal as a 25 mph low-speed vehicle, with a new Open Air soft-top and a free conversion kit for 2026 owners
19:21 - Munich charging operator Qwello raises up to €55 million to grow its 19,500-point public network across eight European countries
19:35 - European Parliament's EPP, S&D and Renew reportedly agree to turn binding EV targets for large company fleets into voluntary goals
19:49 - UK's National Wealth Fund puts £52.6m into silicon-anode maker Nexeon's £100m funding round
20:04 - UK Budget: £100m over two years from spring 2027 to cut prices at lower-powered residential public chargers, saving users about £150 a year, plus a tariff-porting taskforce
20:18 - Portugal plans to cover up to 80% of the price of an EV for around 20,000 low-income households in its 2027 budget, on cars up to €15,000 before VAT
20:36 - VW opens a dismantling line at Zwickau to recover parts and raw materials from about 4,100 end-of-life and pre-series cars a year, from 2027
20:49 - Infineon will invest about €1.1 billion in Villach, Austria, for the world's first high-volume GaN power-chip production on 300 mm wafers, from late 2027
21:05 - UK confirms it will adopt the EU's Euro 7 standard, including EV battery-durability rules, for all new cars and vans from 29 November 2027
21:18 - AMG Lithium opens a lab in Frankfurt to test its sulphide solid electrolytes in complete pouch cells, with more than 200 test stations
21:29 - MBTA orders 20 Siemens Charger locomotives for its commuter rail, half of them battery/overhead-wire dual-mode, for $310m
21:44 - Range Energy's own white paper says its electric reefer trailer saves about as much as a Tesla Semi, with volume production due late 2027
21:55 - Volkswagen Group China gets a Level 3 automated-driving road-test permit in Hefei, with CARIZON software, ahead of planned L3 cars in 2027
22:05 - GM ended its rare-earth magnet supply deal with German-owned e-VAC's new South Carolina plant, which has gone to arbitration
22:16 - The world's largest electric ship, Incat-built China Zorrilla, enters service with Buquebus between Buenos Aires and Uruguay
22:28 - Archer unveils planned electric air taxi networks for Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin (no launch date yet)
22:39 - Japan cuts its EV subsidies by up to 40% from January after a demand surge; BEVs now get up to ¥750,000
22:50 - Cyprus plans 94 more fast chargers by 2028, including 18 for heavy-duty vehicles
23:01 - XPeng and Electronity plan 100+ fast-charging points in Mexico, 30 of them by the end of 2026
23:11 - Stellantis and Bolt plan a Level 4 robotaxi pilot in Greater Paris from 2028, aiming for commercial service by 2030
23:25 - Rivian buys UK AI startup Third Dimension to build simulated test worlds
23:38 - GM Ventures leads a $108 million Series B for sodium-ion storage startup Peak Energy
23:49 - EGO expands its EGO Commercial line with eight zero-turn mowers
24:00 - Used Chinese EVs find a back door into the EU at up to 40% off, says marketplace CEVM
24:15 - XCMG shows a cabless, autonomous electric yard tractor
24:26 - Energica restarts under new owners with a US owners' event in San Francisco and a US service contact, with production plans due at EICMA in Milan on 4 Nov
24:40 - GWM returns to building cars in Europe: Bulgaria's Bahovitsa plant will assemble the electric Ora 5 from kits from early 2027
24:51 - Amazon adds 3,000 Tata electric trucks to its India network, starting with Ultra E.7s in Delhi, then the Delhi–Chennai NH48 corridor
25:02 - DHL takes 25 electric KAMAG ePrecisionMover swap-body movers for the yards of its German parcel centres
25:14 - Volkswagen reportedly pauses its India EV investment while it weighs a joint venture with JSW
25:23 - BYD's Denza opens pre-orders in China for the five-seat N8 EV, with up to 1,003 km of CLTC range; prices due in November
25:36 - Lexus prices the 2027 RZ from $47,495 in the US, with up to 301 miles of range and a built-in NACS port
25:50 - Kia holds 2027 EV6 prices at $37,900 in the US, about $8,000 more than the new EV3
26:03 - BYD names Yangwang's flagship electric sedan the Altior, reportedly debuting around 5 November in Dubai
26:17 - A claimed BMW factory worker says the next X7, due in 2027, will come in electric and combustion versions, built in Spartanburg
26:28 - US Kadena Air Base in Okinawa bars BYD vehicles, including taxis and contractor trucks, citing "unacceptable" risks
26:43 - UK firm E-Motiv reveals Demo 1, a retro-styled electric motorcycle with a seamless two-speed gearbox, ahead of EICMA, with road tests from early 2027
Sponsor Segment: You!
27:02 - Sponsor Segment - You!
Final Two Stories:
28:08 - BMW Motorrad invests an undisclosed sum in Venna, a start-up building high-performance electric off-road motorcycles; Venna stays independent
29:17 - Florida Polytechnic University's police add a single-seat Jetson ONE eVTOL, the first US police force to do so, pending FAA approval
30:31 - Closing sponsor acknowledgements
31:31 - Thank you & goodbye - Keep Evolving!
Credits:
Music: via Artlist.io
Host, Script, Editor: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield
Color: Vi Horton
Art & Animation : Erin Carlie
Producer: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield
On this week’s episode of TEN – Transport Evolved News!
Battery EVs outsell petrol and diesel cars combined in the EU for the first time, Polestar 2 production ends after about 200,000 cars, and Florida Polytechnic University's police become the first US force to add a Jetson ONE eVTOL.
These stories and more, on today's show!
Watch the show today on YouTube , or (if you’d prefer – we would) – PeerTube !
Sponsors
Electric Vehicle Association
Little Collie Shepherd
Support the Show:
Buy us a coffee
YouTube channel
TE Swag
Amazon affiliate
Donate Bitcoin: BC1QRZRGCCXUKPDZ2DZ9KX9JYJXMZDYHYGFZ0MN4WH
Join the Conversation:
Mastodon :
Discord :
Fluxer :
Bluesky
Buy our Halloween merch!
Subscribe to our Second Channel, Transport Evolved Take 2
Episode Timeline:
00:00 - Introduction and sponsor shoutouts!
00:20 - Welcome to the show
00:30 - Editorial - Elections!
01:04 - Battery EVs outsold petrol and diesel cars combined in the EU in Q3 2026, with 710,580 sales against 655,540, according to T&E
02:22 - Q3 results: BYD's profit rises 28% to ¥10bn ; Ford's EV unit loses $1.06bn, down 25% ; VW swings to a €5.9bn operating loss ; Stellantis cuts its loss by 90% ; and Mercedes' net profit rises to €1.52bn on record BEV sales
04:01 - Volvo has 50,000+ European orders for the EX60 as production delays limit US supply . And Volvo confirms a lower-priced global EV for 2027 (reportedly SPA3-based)
05:06 - Mercedes-Benz's electric CLA and GLC now have a six-month wait
06:04 - European Parliament committees vote to relax 2035 CO₂ rules , and Canada freezes its vehicle GHG standards at 2026 levels through 2029
07:06 - Ultraviolette launches the X-47 Venom electric motorcycle in India, the first on its new VX-100 platform, from ₹2.65 lakh
08:18 - Polestar 2 production in China has reportedly ended after about 200,000 cars; Polestar says an all-new successor comes in early 2027
09:19 - Ford says its $28,350 Fathom will power your home with an on-board AC inverter, and it has now cast more than 5,000 of the truck's unicastings And Ford reportedly plans to bring back the Escape as a compact EV on its Universal EV platform, built in Louisville from 2029; Ford hasn't confirmed it
10:18 - NHTSA proposes optional cyan marker lamps for driverless vehicles
11:17 - Renewables made 28% of US electricity from January to August, up from 26% a year earlier, and wind and solar produced 44% more than coal, says an analysis of EIA data
Sponsor Segment: Little Collie Shepherd
12:25 - Sponsor segment: Little Collie Shepherd
Recall Reminders!
14:06 - Audi recalls 9,048 Q4 e-tron and Q4 Sportback e-tron in the US over battery fire risk; owners told to charge to 80%
News Shorts:
14:32 - Tesla cancels the Cybertruck for Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, refunds deposits
14:50 - BMW reportedly offers US buyers $1,000 loyalty cash on the 2027 iX5
15:06 - Jetta M6 EV goes on sale in China from ¥79,800, slightly below its pre-sale price
15:20 - Volkswagen reportedly puts its European driver-assistance development under Audi's lead
15:31 - Chery unveils its 1.44 MW "Volt-dragon" flash charging, 10–97% in under seven minutes
15:44 - ARENA funds JET Charge's V2G trial with up to 130 ACT Government fleet EVs
15:58 - Chalmers and Volvo Cars use AI to position and charge electric robotaxi fleets
16:09 - Fraunhofer IST works on longer-lasting lithium-metal batteries
16:20 - Moldova sets a 2030 e-mobility roadmap: 600+ public chargers
16:32 - Home-battery maker sonnen files for insolvency in Germany
16:45 - Seattle plans 200 curbside chargers on poles and pedestals, and residents can request one
16:58 - Ionity plans battery storage at about 50 European charging parks in 2027, starting with a 1 MWh system in Wertheim, Germany
17:09 - GWM's SVOLT starts mass-producing a 100 kWh semi-solid-state battery pack with 6C charging in Changzhou, China
17:23 - Audi makes its two-brands strategy in China official: four-ring Audi stays with FAW, the electric-only AUDI brand goes with SAIC
17:38 - Opel reportedly plans a revived Agila: an electric sister to Citroën's 2CV-style 'Duck' and the Fiat Koala, due after 2028
17:51 - A Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880 in Hayward, California, with no crash; the driver is unhurt, but the freeway is closed for about 10 hours
18:03 - CATL tells investors its sulphide all-solid-state cells are in 20 Ah trial production, aiming for 500 Wh/kg, with small batches in 2027
18:17 - UK converter Wellhouse Leisure reveals a Kia PV5 campervan with two double beds and a kitchen, from £63,000
18:30 - Ohio Democrat Greg Landsman files a bill to bring back the US EV tax credit at up to $15,000 new and $8,000 used; it has no co-sponsors yet
18:43 - BYD signs up to the UN Global Compact
18:54 - UK start-up Allye Energy now sells a mobile charger with up to 400 kW and two cables, running on second-life EV battery packs off an ordinary three-phase supply
19:08 - Fiat's 2027 Topolino reaches US dealers street-legal as a 25 mph low-speed vehicle, with a new Open Air soft-top and a free conversion kit for 2026 owners
19:21 - Munich charging operator Qwello raises up to €55 million to grow its 19,500-point public network across eight European countries
19:35 - European Parliament's EPP, S&D and Renew reportedly agree to turn binding EV targets for large company fleets into voluntary goals
19:49 - UK's National Wealth Fund puts £52.6m into silicon-anode maker Nexeon's £100m funding round
20:04 - UK Budget: £100m over two years from spring 2027 to cut prices at lower-powered residential public chargers, saving users about £150 a year, plus a tariff-porting taskforce
20:18 - Portugal plans to cover up to 80% of the price of an EV for around 20,000 low-income households in its 2027 budget, on cars up to €15,000 before VAT
20:36 - VW opens a dismantling line at Zwickau to recover parts and raw materials from about 4,100 end-of-life and pre-series cars a year, from 2027
20:49 - Infineon will invest about €1.1 billion in Villach, Austria, for the world's first high-volume GaN power-chip production on 300 mm wafers, from late 2027
21:05 - UK confirms it will adopt the EU's Euro 7 standard, including EV battery-durability rules, for all new cars and vans from 29 November 2027
21:18 - AMG Lithium opens a lab in Frankfurt to test its sulphide solid electrolytes in complete pouch cells, with more than 200 test stations
21:29 - MBTA orders 20 Siemens Charger locomotives for its commuter rail, half of them battery/overhead-wire dual-mode, for $310m
21:44 - Range Energy's own white paper says its electric reefer trailer saves about as much as a Tesla Semi, with volume production due late 2027
21:55 - Volkswagen Group China gets a Level 3 automated-driving road-test permit in Hefei, with CARIZON software, ahead of planned L3 cars in 2027
22:05 - GM ended its rare-earth magnet supply deal with German-owned e-VAC's new South Carolina plant, which has gone to arbitration
22:16 - The world's largest electric ship, Incat-built China Zorrilla, enters service with Buquebus between Buenos Aires and Uruguay
22:28 - Archer unveils planned electric air taxi networks for Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin (no launch date yet)
22:39 - Japan cuts its EV subsidies by up to 40% from January after a demand surge; BEVs now get up to ¥750,000
22:50 - Cyprus plans 94 more fast chargers by 2028, including 18 for heavy-duty vehicles
23:01 - XPeng and Electronity plan 100+ fast-charging points in Mexico, 30 of them by the end of 2026
23:11 - Stellantis and Bolt plan a Level 4 robotaxi pilot in Greater Paris from 2028, aiming for commercial service by 2030
23:25 - Rivian buys UK AI startup Third Dimension to build simulated test worlds
23:38 - GM Ventures leads a $108 million Series B for sodium-ion storage startup Peak Energy
23:49 - EGO expands its EGO Commercial line with eight zero-turn mowers
24:00 - Used Chinese EVs find a back door into the EU at up to 40% off, says marketplace CEVM
24:15 - XCMG shows a cabless, autonomous electric yard tractor
24:26 - Energica restarts under new owners with a US owners' event in San Francisco and a US service contact, with production plans due at EICMA in Milan on 4 Nov
24:40 - GWM returns to building cars in Europe: Bulgaria's Bahovitsa plant will assemble the electric Ora 5 from kits from early 2027
24:51 - Amazon adds 3,000 Tata electric trucks to its India network, starting with Ultra E.7s in Delhi, then the Delhi–Chennai NH48 corridor
25:02 - DHL takes 25 electric KAMAG ePrecisionMover swap-body movers for the yards of its German parcel centres
25:14 - Volkswagen reportedly pauses its India EV investment while it weighs a joint venture with JSW
25:23 - BYD's Denza opens pre-orders in China for the five-seat N8 EV, with up to 1,003 km of CLTC range; prices due in November
25:36 - Lexus prices the 2027 RZ from $47,495 in the US, with up to 301 miles of range and a built-in NACS port
25:50 - Kia holds 2027 EV6 prices at $37,900 in the US, about $8,000 more than the new EV3
26:03 - BYD names Yangwang's flagship electric sedan the Altior, reportedly debuting around 5 November in Dubai
26:17 - A claimed BMW factory worker says the next X7, due in 2027, will come in electric and combustion versions, built in Spartanburg
26:28 - US Kadena Air Base in Okinawa bars BYD vehicles, including taxis and contractor trucks, citing "unacceptable" risks
26:43 - UK firm E-Motiv reveals Demo 1, a retro-styled electric motorcycle with a seamless two-speed gearbox, ahead of EICMA, with road tests from early 2027
Sponsor Segment: You!
27:02 - Sponsor Segment - You!
Final Two Stories:
28:08 - BMW Motorrad invests an undisclosed sum in Venna, a start-up building high-performance electric off-road motorcycles; Venna stays independent
29:17 - Florida Polytechnic University's police add a single-seat Jetson ONE eVTOL, the first US police force to do so, pending FAA approval
30:31 - Closing sponsor acknowledgements
31:31 - Thank you & goodbye - Keep Evolving!
Credits:
Music: via Artlist.io
Host, Script, Editor: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield
Color: Vi Horton
Art & Animation : Erin Carlie
Producer: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield
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