Can YOU help me spread the word about how awesome electric cars are? Click ? EVne.ws/patreon   Read today’s show notes on https://www.evnewsdaily.com   Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Tuesday 2nd October 2018. It’s Martyn Lee here and I’ve been through EV story today so you don’t have to.   Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they’ve built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It’s a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too.   First up a clarification. Recently on the podcast the news that Tesla Gigafactory is making 10,000 Model 3 drive units per week and I'd read conflicting reports of what makes up a complete drive unit. Sam Price has clarified on Twitter for me: "in industry a 'drive unit' commonly refers to an electric motor [and] power electronics to run it."   PARIS MOTOR SHOW Bonjour my petit filous. It's the Paris Motor Show today (well, today if you're listening on 2nd October 2018, and even then it's press day). Earlier this year journalists were joking that it should have been the Geneva Electric Car Show, such was the dominance of EV's there. So let's see what Paris brings. Since the Mercedes EQC was shown at their presentation in Stockholm in Sweden last month on September 4th there seems to have been a bit of competition for headlines - the BMW iX3, the Audi e-tron Quattro in particular. I expect to see the Mercedes, Jaguar I-PACE and Audi all in force at Paris. However there's an bittersweet storyline behind the glitzy launches and it ties in perfectly with the other red hot story of the day - literally to the DAY - did Tesla achieve profitability in Q3. And can other makers achieve profitability with their EVs. For years now, armchair experts have lectured others on Twitter along the lines of 'just wait until the big German names get into EVs, then they'll show you how to make them AND make a profit'. Well now it's seems there's a fly in the ointment. It turns our making EVs for a profit might be a little harder than they thought. According to Laurance Frost who has written an excellent piece for Reuters: "...concerns are mounting that the impact could be worse, as consumers resist paying more for electrified vehicles - forcing carmakers to sell them at a bigger loss to meet emissions goals. Carlos Tavares, chief executive of Peugeot, Citroen and Opel manufacturer PSA said : "“What everyone needs to realize is that clean mobility is like organic food – it’s more expensive. Either we accept paying more for clean mobility, or we put the European auto industry in jeopardy.". "A Sept. 25 profit warning by BMW blamed in part on electrification costs and tightening emissions rules, was “a first alarm signal”, Tavares said in a weekend radio interview." "Volkswagen and Mercedes parent Daimler, which between them have announced 30 billion euros ($35 billion) in electrification investment, both warned last month that it would not be enough." "German luxury carmakers including Volkswagen Group, which includes Audi and Porsche, could put up with losses on electrified vehicles if it enables them to keep selling their biggest earners, upscale SUVs and large sedans."   https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autoshow-paris-electric-squeeze-analy/electric-cars-cast-growing-shadow-on-profits-idUSKCN1MB2GD   40% OF EUROPEANS SAY NEXT CAR WILL BE EV A new poll in 9 European Countries has given a really good insight into how the tide is turning from the general public to EVs. The survey was conducted in the first two weeks of September in nine EU countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden. In each country a sample of 500 adults were surveyed online meaning there was a total of 4,500 citizen attitudes polled. "In a poll conducted by Ipsos Mori for NGO Transport & Environment (T&E), 40% of citizens