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It’s Monday 11th June 2018 and this is your EV News Daily. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening! Wherever you're listening around the world, a very warm welcome from London, UK.  Here is today’s news about electric cars and the future of transport. My name is Martyn Lee and I go through every EV article online so you don’t have to.   This is show 147, next Thursday is 150. I like a round number so if there’s anything you’d like to hear more of or less of, to add or improve, please do tweet @EVNewsDaily or email hello@evnewsdaily.com   Congratulations to Fully Charged who sold 1000 tickets in one day along last weekend as word spread.   Formula E and no spoilers! Circuit racing returned to Switzerland as the ABB FIA Formula E Championship raced through the city streets and lakefront boulevards of Zurich, host city of the 2018 Julius Baer Zurich E-Prix. And it was carnage! The championship battle is well and truly alive. There were countless overtakes, controversies, penalties. I won't mention the winners of the race or the championship for a day or so in case you're catching up.   TESLA WILL START ENABLING FULL SELF-DRIVING FEATURES IN AUGUST "Elon Musk has revealed that Autopilot version 9 should arrive in August, and Tesla will "begin to enable" the full autonomous driving features with that release. The company has "rightly focused entirely on safety" with previous versions, Musk said, but now it's time to spread its wings." reports Jon Fingas at Engadget: "However, the "full self-driving capability" package should actually mean something once Autopilot 9 arrives and the more advanced features kick in. There may be some situations where it's genuinely acceptable to let go of the steering wheel, even if it's limited to parking lots and other private spaces."   NORWAY SMILES FOR TESLA AND NISSAN InsideEvs always has their eyes on the sales prize and Mark Kane says "Plug-in electric car sales in Norway increased in May and now exceed a cumulative level of 200,000 new registrations since 2012. The best selling car in Norway this year is the Nissan LEAF, which took the lead after a spectacular registration record of 2,172 in March. Since then, sales dialed back to three-digit numbers – 997 in April and 644 in May. During the first five months of 2018, Tesla significantly increased its sales in Norway of both the Model S and Model X"   VW AND GOOGLE WORK TOGETHER ON BATTERIES In 2017 Google and VW announced their plans to work together using new machine learning process projects to further advance artificial intelligence. Now, we have some news from Chris Randall at Electrive regarding custom batteries: " VW announced that they had first succeeded in simulating the structure of industry-relevant molecules on a quantum computer. The simulation is relevant for the development of more powerful batteries, particularly in the area of EV batteries. Long term, the partners plan to be able to simulate the entire chemical process of a whole battery on a quantum computer. The goal is to develop a “tailor-made” battery; a configurable blueprint ready for production. The simulation requires particularly powerful computing."   TATA MOTORS’ ELECTRIC CARS TO HAVE 400 KILOMETRE BATTERY RANGE "Tata Motors has revealed that its future range of electric cars under the Alpha and Omega platforms will have a range of around 300-400 kilometers per charge." says Cartoq: "The Indian automaker currently sells a solitary electric car – the Tigor Electric – to the Indian government. Soon, the Tigor Electric and its hatchback sibling – the Tiago Electric – will go on sale in India for private car buyers as well. However, the range of the Tigor and Tiago Electric cars are around 100-120 kilometers/charge. Tata Motors plans to use the Tigor and Tiago Electric cars as a stop-gap arrangement before its new range of electric cars under the Alpha and Omega platforms arrive." "These cars are expected to have a range of about 300-400 kilometers/charge and will run on 320 volt batteries. A fast charge option will be standard, and the Tata electric cars running 320V batteries will also be very quick off the block."   £12.50 LONDON ULTRA-LOW EMISSION ZONE London's Mayor, Sadiq Khan, last week confirmed the London Ultra-Low Emission Zone is be growing larger than previously announced. It will now reach the North and South circular roads, but not until October 2021. For now, the zone is limited to central London which goes into effect April 2019. If you drive into the Zone in a car which doesn't comply, you'll be charged £12.50 a day to enter the ULEZ. At the moment you can drive into town at weekends and bank holidays and not face the existing Congestion Charge, but the ULEZ fees apply 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It's harsh on diesels particularly and if it's not Euro 6 or newer it's going to be penailsed. The office of the mayor says it remove the dirtiest, most polluting vehicles, and affect 100,000 cars, 35,000 vans and 3,000 lorries a day.   STENA LINE INTRODUCING BATTERY-ELECTRIC OPERATION TO FERRY Stena Line is a big ferry company here in Europe, they have 38 vessels and operate 21 routes in Northern Europe. Green Car Congress has the details on: "Stena recently signed with Callenberg Technology Group for 1 MWh of batteries which will be installed on Stena Jutlandica which operates between Gothenburg and Frederikshavn. Stena envisions three phases to the project. In step one, due this summer, the 1 MWh, 3,000 kW battery pack, which will be located on the weather deck, will be used for bow thrusters and manoeuvring when berthing in port. In step two, a 20 MWh battery pack will be connected to the propellers; Stena Jutlandica will be able to be operated on electricity within around 10 nautical miles, equal to the distance between Göteborg and Vinga Lighthouse. In step three, the battery capacity will be further expanded to 50 MWh, enabling about 50 nautical miles."   I’d love to spread the word about electric cars so, if you can, share this somebody who might be interested. You can listen to every previous episode of this podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, YouTube, TuneIn, Stitcher, and the blog https://www.evnewsdaily.com/ – remember to subscribe, which means you don’t have to think about downloading the show each day, plus you get it first and free and automatically. 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Thursday 5th April 2018. Hi to Mark Fletcher in California who listens on TuneIn and sent a message: “Hi Martyn I listen to podcasts on my way to work, and yours is always the first. For the last couple of days there has been a lot about Tesla, and I like to hear about all the EVs out there. Keep up the hard work”. Well thank you Mark but let me correct you, this isn’t hard and it’s certainly not work! But I get what you’re saying, for one reason or another there was a big Tesla story most days recently. So let’s put that straight. In fact it’s been another crazy day for stories – even this time last year this would have been a week’s worth of EV news, all crammed into one daily update. Such an interesting time to be following electric cars.  I’ve got lots to get through, I think there are 12 stories I want to discuss with you, so let’s see how far we get. A bit like Street Street, let’s count 'em up together!   1 – NISSAN LEAF PRICES, CHARGING AND AWARDS First story and a lot happening in the last day with Nissan LEAF. According to Pedro in Portugal, for Push EVs: “to convince customers to maintain their orders, Nissan started increasing the prices for the Leaf in Europe”. The base model Acenta has gone up from 28.700 Euros to 30.150 Euros. An increase of 1.450 Euros. According to the SpeakEV forum here in the UK, user JHRC said “I was informed by the salesman that the prices for the LEAF would increase from 3rd April, and on their web site a Tekna is now £900 dearer. I ordered my Tekna 2 weeks ago and made a good saving on the price. Delivery est.July 11th.” Mike Proctor replied, tongue in cheek: “Makes sense that they put the price up really. Now Nissan have suddenly added the extra 'feature' of throttled rapid charging!”. Ouch! Back to Push EVs: “With this strategy Nissan seems more worried about keeping current orders than getting new ones. Considering that by now there are probably more than 20.000 orders for the Leaf in Europe, this might be a smart strategy. This way customers who already ordered the Nissan Leaf get the feeling that they got a great deal – and forget any possible rapid charging issue. I don’t think it’s got anything to do with the rapid charging. I think it’s more than likely something like currency rates, or a planned increase after early adopters bought one, or a plan to put it on sale and get headlines at the low price before hiking it. There’s no hard evidence it’s about dissuading people from cancelling orders due to the internet discussion about slow charge speeds. And by the way, a quick podcast thank you to Neal Archer who helpfully left a comment on Youtube to point out the charging speed discussion online has been recognised by Nissan now and they’re talking to owners. Neal asked me a couple of weeks ago why I hadn’t discussed it and, the short version is, I simply didn’t have any proof. All I’d seen at that point is a video on YouTube with JP from Eco Cars, who knows what he’s talking about, saying there was a problem with rapid charging. Then Fully Charged repeated it, along with Transport Evolved. Now a little background, for my day job I have quite a lot of legal training and didn’t fancy repeating a potentially libellous comment. Why is the original person allowed to accuse Nissan of making a faulty car then, you may ask? Well if Jonanthan from Eco Cars was telling the truth and it’s in the public interest, he’s making what’s called an honest comment. But although I trust his superior knowledge than me on EVs, I don’t trust him enough to land myself in court. If what he was saying was untrue, then Nissan could have sued me as well for damaging their reputation. You see in this country anyone who makes or repeats a false accusation, or defamatory comment, is as open to be sued. Simply saying “I was just repeating Joe Bloggs” is sadly not a legal defence. Now would me talking about it have caused serious harm? Well, more than talking to my mates about it in the pub, as this podcast has thousands of listeners, but not as much as those big YouTube channels like Fully Charged. So it’s a risk, but I erred on the side of the law. So that’s why I held back, purely selfish reasons as I don’t know anyone with a new LEAF and couldn’t test it myself. The same goes for social media as well, and it’s why there’s an explosion in people being sued for what they write on Twitter.  As it turns out, Nissan point to their documentation which says this about charging: “Time dependent on charging conditions, including Quick Charger type and condition, battery temperature and size as well as ambient temperature at point of use”. However, I do have sympathy with 24kWh battery owners who have rapid charged all day long and now have a 40, which slows itself down for safety. That’s a huge frustration. And I have sympathy for those new LEAF owners who perhaps read a car website or review, saw that it rapid charged at 50kW, and took that as gospel. Some positive news for the new LEAF, Autotrader have named it as one of their “Must Test Drive” cars, Judges praised it’s updated interior, driver-focused technology and advanced safety features. As for most recent sales, InsideEV’s and their excellent sales tracker point out: “Nissan has finally got the ball rolling with U.S.-based 2018 LEAF production and inventory. Deliveries soared in February, but only due to several months of almost non-existent sales. The numbers are up significantly for March, with 1,500 LEAFs sold, a 1.5% increase from last year’s 1,478. In comparison to last month’s 895 deliveries, this is a heroic eff”   2 – 55% EV MARKET SHARE FOR NORWAY If you want to see a country embracing EVs then Norway, with significant financial incentives, is leading the way per capita. 8,034 passenger plug-ins were registered in march 2018, up 72% year-over-year) at a record 55.8% market share. BEVs were at 5,362 and PHEVs at 2,672. The best selling car for the month is the new the Nissan LEAF with 2,172 – that’s 41% of all pure electrics being that one car, or 15% of all market share. Yes OK it’s a small market with only 14,400 total monthly sales BUT it’s a microcosm of what will happen where you live, sooner or later.   3 – CLEAN FERRIES FOR SWEDEN Third up, and I wouldn’t call myself a regular reader of the World Cargo News website, but I didn’t notice a lovely battery story on there: “Stena Line will be the first Swedish ferry operator to operate a ferry with zero emissions while berthing and in port. This initial stage of the retrofit employs plug-in hybrid technology that charges with shore power and draws on battery power for bow thrusters and manoeuvring when berthing in port. The ultimate goal is for STENA JUTLANDICA to operate fully on battery power, requiring an estimated 50 MWh of stored energy for the 3h 25m trip across the Kattegat. Shore power from clean energy sources is also an important focus area.”   4 – TRUMP WON’T APPLY TARIFFS TO EV BATTERIES. MAYBE. Fourth story, and I’ll just say, Dear Americans, the rest of the world is very confused by Donald Trump. The new trade tariffs to be imposed included electric batteries on the list, but EV buyers shouldn’t worry. “Any impact on EV battery supply would be minimal to nil,” said UBS analyst Lachlan Shaw . “It is lithium-ion rechargeable cells that are the ones that largely go into EVs.” I’m not sure I agree. After all, China is using electric cars and Lithium Ion batteries to become a leading force in the world. Whether they make an 18650 cell for a laptop, or an 18650 cell which is used in an EV, there’s no difference. No offence to Lachlan Shaw, that doesn’t make sense to my tiny brain.   5 – EVS ARE TOO REFINED FOR KIWI MEN We rarely go to New Zealand on this podcast, so let’s rectify that. A new survey has revealed blokes won’t buy an EV because it might dent their macho image. One EV owner reported promoting the climate-friendly cars each weekend at a farmer’s market, and typically found tech-savvy youngsters and mums who wanted a safe, practical and cash-saving car were on board with the idea. But they said that talking to the Dads they never got it. One quote was: ““No noise, no smell, no oil, no mess – how can this be good? Hey, new Zealand men, if you need big, brash, loud car to drive, what else are you compensating for?   6 – CAR MAGAZINE REVIEWS THE ELECTRIC BLACK CAB Car Magazine has driven the new London Electric Black Cab from LEVC, a company owned by China’s Geely. They of Volvo fame. Highlights from the article I read were: “it features both a CCS and CHAdeMO charging socket either side of its grille. The LEVC stores its 23kWh of batteries up front with the driver, leaving the passengers to have as much room as possible. it’s essentially a Volvo. Sure, the screen is in a different place, and you’re in a commanding driving position, but every display runs Sensus (the infotainment system used in current Volvo models), and is strikingly similar to what you’d

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Captain Jörgen Lorén is a Master Mariner, currently working on STENA DANICA, a passenger vessel, trading between Sweden and Denmark. Jörgen is an authority when it comes to training massevacuation from passenger vessels, testing new life saving equipment and taking part in developing a new way of thinking when it comes to rescue at sea.  Jörgen works closely with the Swedish Sea Rescue Society which is responsible for 70 per cent of all sea rescues in Sweden and receives no government funding. As the testing and training needs a real and lifelike environment, #Stena is contributing with a Ship and a Captain and that is where Jörgen fits in. I recommend you to visit www.first-rescue.org to see some cool pics of new equioment being tested and also a film which can get anyone a bit seasick... ;) The film shows actually STENA JUTLANDICA, where Jörgen previously was one of the Captains. In the interview Jörgen also mentions the IMO, the International Maritime Organization, which is the United Nations specialized agency with responsibility for the safety and security of shipping and the prevention of marine pollution by ships.  Jörgen is active in social media, where he posts pictures from the bridge. You can follow him on Twitter: @JorgenLoren and I know that he appreicates you following him there.  Thank you for listening, Kudos if you share the Shippingpodcast in your social media channels! Follow on twitter:@Shippingpodcast  and/or on Facebook: Shippingpodcast or visit our website Shippingpodcast.com and comment on the last episode, who you would like to listen to or any other view you would like to share.  Once you have listen to this episode, head on over to iTunes and kindly leave a rating and a review and don't forget to subscribe! Shippingpodcast needs to be spread to a wider audience!