Quick Charge

Cheap new Hyundai, Tesla sales crater, Ford levels up, and China doesn’t like spies


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On this episode of Quick Charge, Hyundai continues to invest in new electric vehicles, this time teasing a $25,000 (ish) compact EV set to debut later this month, along with a new IONIQ model. On the domestic front, Tesla sales are cratering so hard that they're making everyone else's great numbers look bad, Ford is leveling up its self driving software, and China thinks the Europeans are spying on them.

We've got everything from controversial Masts (what do you call "tweets" on Mastodon?), wild claims from Chinese and European carmakers, and even a callback to a classic episode of John Boy and Billy radio – let us know what you think!

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  • Hyundai is launching two new electric cars in Europe, a low-cost EV and new IONIQ model
  • Drastic price cuts boost EV registrations in April as Toyota, Ford, Rivian lead growth
  • CEO says Ford is ‘getting close’ to Level 3 autonomous driving that enables ‘hands and eyes off’
  • Chinese ministry says EU’s anti-subsidy EV probe made spy-like levels of ‘unreasonable demands’
  • NIO confident its affordable Firefly EVs will still be competitive despite EU tariffs
  • BYD hits a major milestone as its Yuan brand crosses 1 million in sales
  • This UK wind monopile factory will create 2,000+ jobs, become world’s largest

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