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Leap into the unknown? Has Stellantis masterstroke turned Chinese car invasion to its advantage?

Everything Electric Podcast

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**Podcast:** Everything Electric Podcast

## Participants

- **Robert Llewellyn** (The Fully Charged Show)
- **Damien Daly** (Leap Motor International)

## Transcript

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Everything Electric Podcast. Really quite an interesting little chat today.

So I've been doing a lot of talking and thinking and contemplating and reading and researching about the Chinese automotive industry and the impact it's having in Europe. And then the kind of liaisons that are now beginning to happen between European firms and European manufacturers and Chinese companies.

And how, you know, just it's fascinating how in a sense, you know, the Europe has hasn't really got the mates that we used to have over the other side of the Atlantic. So we're kind of looking at different places. How the world shifts, you know, I don't know why I expected it to stop shifting. It's always been shifting. It shifted when I was little. It's shifting now or shifting long after I've gone anyway. So it was great to get the opportunity.

Two things. Three things. I can do three quick things. One, I drove the Leap Motor T03 earlier this year when we did the little road trip through Wales with three of the smallest, cheapest electric cars available in the UK. And it turned out to be extraordinarily competent, even though it's like designed as a little tiny city car. I drove it, I don't know, many, many hundreds of miles in the rain, in the cold. And it was fine. Brilliant wipers. Excellent heating.

Thank you. For £31,000 UK, which is like, well, you know, it's for a car like that to be that.

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Leap into the unknown? Has Stellantis masterstroke turned Chinese car invasion to its advantage?

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