{"podcast":{"title":"ev.news","slug":"ev-news-daily-technology-and-business-of-evs-63030","podcast_index_feed_id":63030,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5051980.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5051980","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43770470.png","author":"Martyn Lee","episode_count":500,"summary":"Daily news about the technology and business driving electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and sustainable e-mobility. Daily 20-minute episodes, concise updates, and expert commentary.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T20:19:42.333257+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ev-news-daily-technology-and-business-of-evs-63030"},"episode":{"title":"ev.news Briefly: U.S. Sales, BMW, Canada & more | 19 Aug 2026","slug":"ev-news-briefly-u-s-sales-bmw-canada-more-19-aug-2026","published_at":"2026-08-23T19:34:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ev-news-daily-technology-and-business-of-evs-63030/ev-news-briefly-u-s-sales-bmw-canada-more-19-aug-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ev-news-daily-technology-and-business-of-evs-63030","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8944415","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8944415.mp3?modified=1787513083&sid=5051980&source=rss","summary":"It's ev.news Briefly for Wednesday 19 August 2026, only todays headlines and nothing else, in just 4 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show. Patreon supporters fund this show, get the episodes ad free, as soon as they're ready and are part of the ev.news Community. You can be like them by clicking here: https://www.patreon.com/evnews U.S. EV SALES STABILISE AS USED DEMAND GROWS U.S. new EV sales hit an estimated 77,266 units in July, up 3.2% from June but 41.5% below July 2025, a drop distorted by last year's rush to beat the expiring federal tax credit, with EVs taking 5.6% of new-vehicle sales and Tesla holding roughly 55% on 42,435 sales. Used EV sales rose to 36,810 units, up 7.9% month over month and 10.1% year over year, while new EV inventory fell to 80 days, average new EV transaction prices reached $56,126 and used EV listings averaged $37,832. BMW CLAIMS ELECTRIC RANGE RECORD A BMW engineer drove a Neue Klasse iX3 1,030.2 km (640 miles) from Shenyang to Beijing on a single charge with five percent battery left, which BMW calls a record for its battery-electric models while stressing the extreme-range test does not reflect everyday driving. The car uses BMW's sixth-generation 800V battery system with high-nickel large cylindrical cells in a module-free cell-to-pack design, and reservations open at the Chengdu Auto Show on Aug. 21 as BMW's Chinese sales fall 20.4% year over year to 262,000 vehicles in the first half of 2026. CANADIAN ZEV SALES REBOUND IN JUNE Canadian zero-emission vehicle sales reached 21,876 in June 2026, up 56.1 per cent year over year and taking 11.5 per cent of the market, the best month since December 2024 and part of a 7.3 per cent rise in overall sales that ended eight months of decline. The rebound followed the federal gover…","meta_description":"It's ev.news Briefly for Wednesday 19 August 2026, only todays headlines and nothing else, in just 4 minutes if you haven't got time for the full show. Pa…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":256,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ev-news-daily-technology-and-business-of-evs-63030/episodes/ev-news-briefly-u-s-sales-bmw-canada-more-19-aug-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ev-news-daily-technology-and-business-of-evs-63030/ev-news-briefly-u-s-sales-bmw-canada-more-19-aug-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}