HPR4764: EV_Update_20260306

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This update focuses on recent advancements from the worlds largest manufacturer of electric vehicles, BYD, including their expansion into new markets and breakthroughs in charging speed.

Kernaussage 1BYD has surpassed Tesla and other competitors to become the worlds largest manufacturer of electric vehicles by sales volume.

Kernaussage 2A new trade agreement between Canada and China will allow BYD to enter the Canadian market.

Kernaussage 3BYD has announced a battery capable of charging from 10 percent to 97 percent in just nine minutes using their proprietary chargers.

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This is Hacker Public Radio episode 4764 for Thursday the 5th of November 2026. Today's show is entitled EV Update 2026. It is hosted by Ahuka and is about 5 minutes long. It carries a clean flag. The summary is an update on two developments from the world's largest maker of electric vehicles.

You are listening to a show from the Reserve Queue. The show was submitted in March 2026 to cover occasions like this where there are gaps in the schedule. There are now 11 reserve shows left. Hello. This is Ahuka for Hacker Public Radio and I decided to record a kind of a quick update on some things of interest that I have talked about before on Hacker Public Radio uh and that has to do with electric vehicles and battery technology, which is something I am very interested in and I talked before about how I have an old car that isn't going to last forever, so that's forced me to start paying a lot of attention to what my options are.

Uh and so because of that, I'm keeping in touch with everything going on with electric and hybrid vehicles that I can get my hands on. And there have been a couple of developments of interest that I thought I could report back to you about. And you may have heard about these anyway, but if not, this might be some interesting news. Uh and the first has to do with a Chinese company called BYD. In fact, both of these have to do with BYD. Now, their vehicles have not been uh available in the United States uh and I don't know when or if they will be, but BYD is the world's largest in terms of volume of sales, the largest manufacturer of electric vehicles.

So, it's not Tesla or any of the other companies. It's a Chinese company BYD. And the reason for that is that China has been putting a lot of emphasis into trying to get out of putting carbon into the atmosphere and turning towards renewable energy. And so BYD has been very successful. I've heard that their cars are very good. We're going to get a chance pretty soon to take a look at some of that because Canada has made a trade agreement with China under which they're going to start allowing BYD to bring cars into the Canadian market.

And from where I live, Canada's not that far. I can drive there in an hour. Um so, it's going to be interesting to see what happens with the BYD vehicles coming into Canada. Now, this is going to take place over time. I don't know how much of a dealer network they have set up and that's important when you're in the business of selling cars. Um you know, their cars are fully electric and that leads to the second thing here. BYD is also a company that has put a lot of research into batteries because you know, batteries are pretty important when you're dealing with electric cars.

And they just announced that they have come up with a battery that can charge and this is almost hard to believe, uh to 97% from 10 to 97% in just 9 minutes. Now, there is a little bit of a catch um and that is that they're doing this with their own charger. Um and so, they would have to start rolling their charger out, but uh you know, it'd be an interesting to see how that works. Um

So, and one of the reasons that I find this very interesting is we're seeing all of these improvements in battery technology and I don't think people are always aware of what's going on with those. Um you know, in terms of the electric grid. Uh you know, one of the things people like to say about renewable sources like wind and solar and everything is well, what do you do when the sun goes down and you know, the wind doesn't always blow. Well, you know, what you do is you you create batteries.

And that you know, grid-scale batteries are starting to become a very real phenomenon. And in other countries, we're seeing that happen. Not seeing it so much in the United States because we have a regime that is devoted to stifling any move towards renewables in favor of supporting fossil fuels as much as possible. Don't know why, but that's just the way it seems to be. Um but it's I think good news that you know, the progress is being made and we see every year things like um electric vehicles outselling internal combustion vehicles in many markets.

Um not the United States as yet, but I think we're starting to see it in some of the European markets. Um So, anyway, this is just a kind of a quick thing for the Reserve Queue. This is Ahuka for Hacker Public Radio signing off and as always encouraging you to support free software. Bye-bye. You have been listening to the Hacker Public Radio podcast at hackerpublicradio.org. Today's show was contributed by a HPR listener like yourself. If you ever thought of recording a podcast, then visit the HPR site to find out how easy it really is.

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