# [TOP STORY] Affordable electric vehicles gain traction as petrol costs bite Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/moneyweb-midday-60224/top-story-affordable-electric-vehicles-gain-traction-as-petrol-costs-bite Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/moneyweb-midday-60224/top-story-affordable-electric-vehicles-gain-traction-as-petrol-costs-bite.md Podcast: [Moneyweb@Midday](https://stenobird.com/podcast/moneyweb-midday-60224) Published: 2026-07-28T12:37:00+00:00 Episode link: https://iono.fm/e/1701276 Audio file: https://dl.iono.fm/epi/prov_216/epi_1701276_medium.m4a?p=rss Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/moneyweb-midday-60224/episodes/top-story-affordable-electric-vehicles-gain-traction-as-petrol-costs-bite Duration seconds: 488 ## Resource β€˜The real game changer came from BYD with the Dolphin Surf, and now Geely with the E2, that has come in at a very different price point, you're talking about just above R300 000,’ says Alan Quinn, chief product and innovation officer at Cars.co.za Moneyweb ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/moneyweb-midday-60224/episodes/top-story-affordable-electric-vehicles-gain-traction-as-petrol-costs-bite/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/moneyweb-midday-60224/top-story-affordable-electric-vehicles-gain-traction-as-petrol-costs-bite.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.