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Welcome back to EV News Daily.
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Coming up today, the Porsche Cayenne specs are leaked.
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The Peugeot E308 adds range.
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And the Suzuki E-Vitara begins production.
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Plus, they tuned later in the show.
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I'll tell you which territory may soon be able to use Tesla's full self-driving.
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Porsche's Cayenne Electric has had its details leaked emerging online.
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And this is a doozy.
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The new Porsche Cayenne Electric using the same premium platform electric PPE
04:00
as the Porsche Macan is considerably better.
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It'll come with a 113 kilowatt hour battery.
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That's gross, by the way.
04:09
Usable in the Cayenne will be 108 kilowatts.
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The Cayenne uses two cooling plates compared to the one in the Macan.
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That is giving a more advanced liquid cooling system.
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And that improves the charging power.
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And that goes from 270 kilowatts peak in the Macan.
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To 400 kilowatts peak in the new Porsche Cayenne.
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We have a new charging monster on the block.
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And it has a Porsche badge on the front.
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400 kilowatts just sets a huge bar in that segment.
04:42
With this, the Cayenne will charge 10 to 80 in 15 minutes.
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Okay, so good luck finding a 400 kilowatt DC fast charger
04:51
for a start outside of China.
04:53
Look, I joke, but there are some around.
04:56
10 minutes of charging, more realistically,
04:59
would give you about 186 miles under WLTP of range.
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Look, a couple of hundred miles of driving in a 10 minute stop.
05:08
That if you're not doing that,
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it's not even safe for your concentration levels.
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And so this is just peak EV, right?
05:15
This is better than combustion.
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This is better than anything you can do with, you know,
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filling up a tank of fuel.
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Oh, my diesel tank when it's full says 700 miles.
05:23
Okay, you drive that without taking a break.
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Good luck with your attention span for safety.
05:29
Look, just stop regularly and have a coffee.
05:32
The electric Cayenne will come with dual motors as standard,
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as in previous Porsche EVs.
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They'll be permanent magnet synchronous motors
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with hairpin windings in the stator.
05:42
Some high performance models may switch from water to jet,
05:46
some high performance models may switch from water jacket
05:49
to oil cooling for even more performance.
05:53
The Cayenne electric has a two speed gearbox
05:56
as we're familiar with in Porsches now
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and total range 373 miles.
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That's 600 Ks on WLTP.
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Three power versions planned.
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Now, you know, they always stick with the base model.
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There's the four, the four S turbo, turbo, S.
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It's the way Porsche has always done it
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even in electric world.
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However, to start with a base model, the Cayenne 4.
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300 kilowatts of power.
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A Cayenne 4S for about 500 kilowatts of power.
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And a Cayenne turbo, 1,000 horsepower in launch control mode.
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And the model line manager, Michael Schatzel,
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says that the number of Cayenne variants will be limited,
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The Cayenne turbo will do 0 to 62 miles an hour
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in less than three seconds.
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It'll get to 124 miles an hour.
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That's around 200 Ks in less than 10 seconds.
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Man, what a feeling driving a car.
06:51
It's very special knowing that in about 10 seconds time,
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you could be doing 200 kilometers an hour faster
06:58
than just about everything around you.
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Now look, you can't use that on many public roads,
07:03
but this is a German brand on auto barns.
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It needs to perform.
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Okay, so you'll eat through the battery very fast.
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Other key features include electric servo motors
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on the dampers and rear axle steering
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for five degrees of angle.
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Cayenne Electric arrives in November.
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Porsche have turned it up again with the Cayenne.
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We thought that the new refreshed Taycan was special,
07:27
but certainly in a form factor like this.
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In an SUV form factor, which is oh, so popular,
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that is going to be what a vehicle, what a vehicle.
07:36
All right, we'll tell you more about it
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when we get more details here at EV News Daily.
07:40
Let's move on and something a little more family-oriented
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right now, the Peugeot 308.
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The hatchback and the estate first released in 2021
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gets a dynamic new front end.
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The new look on the front design matches the 3008
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and 5008, improves the aero as well.
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So you get more miles inside, minor changes,
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updated graphics for the infotainment system
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and digital cluster.
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The car offers mild hybrid, diesel, plug-in hybrid
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and fully electric.
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Plug-in hybrid uses a 1.6-litre four-cylinder petrol engine,
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192 horsepower with the electric motor.
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The battery, 17.2 kilowatt hours.
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That's 53 miles or 85 k's of electric-only driving.
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That's a good bump up from about 49 miles.
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The electric E308, though, keeps the existing motor
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but gets a bigger battery.
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That goes usable, 51 to 55 and a half.
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So with a better aero from the front end as well,
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that's a good range bump.
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You now go from 254 to 281, 281 miles of range.
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Look, that's pretty much good enough
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for just about everybody, isn't it?
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Look, 300 miles of range.
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I know some people, I can't have less than 400 miles
08:52
I can't possibly use it.
08:53
All right, fine, whatever.
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But, near on 300 miles of range in a family EV,
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like a Peugeot E308.
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Now, I tend to think these vehicles are cheaper
09:05
The plug-in hybrid 388 or 38 grand, maybe the E308,
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they will probably bring in five quid under 37
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or just make it 37,000 pounds.
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That means that all variants,
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all higher trim specs of that powertrain
09:20
will also get the government grant
09:22
as long as the base model, if you like,
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comes in at less than 37.
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So I think they'll price it at 36,995,
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which is still a lot of money to me,
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but I know I'm old.
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But that is kind of the price now
09:35
of a basic family car.
09:37
And still, how the UK government
09:39
insist on adding a bunch of money
09:42
in the 40,000 pound luxury car tax,
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which they still impose.
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And, you know, you can spec a Peugeot E308 over 40
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without much effort.
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And that's, my friends, not a luxury car
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by any stretch of the imagination.
09:58
All right, now maybe they'll look at that one day.
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Now let's look about Maruti Suzuki,
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India's largest car maker.
10:06
They just started making its first electric vehicle,
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the E-Vitara, at their Hansel Pure Plant in Gujarat.
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This partnership between India and Japan
10:15
will produce both left- and right-hand versions
10:18
of the E-Vitara for more than 100 countries
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export markets like Indonesia,
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Philippines, South Africa and Thailand,
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plus places in developed countries in the west
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like France, Germany, Japan and the UK.
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The E-Vitara was first shown late last year.
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They'll make 67,000 of them by March next year
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The first ones will go to Europe.
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Sales start in the autumn.
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E-Vitara comes in standard range,
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front-wheel drive, long-range front-wheel drive
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and long-range all-wheel drive.
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The standard front-wheel drive uses a 49 kWh battery.
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Meanwhile, the long-range and all-wheel drive versions
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use a 61 kWh battery.
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Made by BYD, by the way, the batteries in those.
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They have a 106 kW motor,
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a WLTP at 214 miles on the little battery
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and 265 on the big battery
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for the two-wheel drive versions.
11:13
Now BYD is exporting vehicles to Europe
11:17
and this is a clever move.
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BYD started sending cars made in Thailand to Europe.
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Over 900 BYD dolphins are being shipped
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to Germany, Belgium and the UK.
11:27
These cars left on BYD's own ship,
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as you know, BYD, massively vertically integrated.
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They even have their own car carriers.
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BYD, the Zhengzhou,
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making its first journey from Thailand to Europe.
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The Rayong plant opened last July.
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It's BYD's first passenger car factory outside China.
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It can make 150,000 vehicles a year.
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The cars are being built using completely knocked down kits,
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not semi-knockdown kits,
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but the completely knocked down method,
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meaning that parts arrive at the factory from China.
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They're assembled in Thailand
12:04
and then they carry on their journey to the UK and the EU.
12:08
Now this method lowers import taxes.
12:11
Now we don't have the big EU taxes on Chinese vehicles
12:15
here in the United Kingdom,
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but it also does promote local assembly in Thailand
12:19
and yes, it does circumvent the extra EU taxes.
12:25
The European Union set anti-subsidy rules.
12:30
BYD did comply with the EU investigation,
12:34
so they got a reduced rate of 20.7% tariff
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and the 10% which existed already.
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From January to July,
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BYD sold over half a million EVs overseas.
12:44
Now, Hyundai is going to reveal a new sub-compact concept
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that's easy for me to say.
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The new sub-compact concept,
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Hyundai will show it at the Munich IAA Motor Show next month.
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The electric vehicle will be an alternative to the Bayon
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in the sub-compact segment.
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Hyundai says it's a forward-thinking vision to the future.
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The concept will highlight the next phase of their design.
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The new production model will sit between the Insta
13:11
and the Kona in Hyundai's range.
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Teaser images show a design like the Ionic 6,
13:19
a rear-lipped spoiler,
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a slim LED light bar at the front,
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a 400-volt version of each EMP platform.
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Hyundai says the production version will go on sale
13:31
First deliveries, possibly,
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coming pretty much immediately.
13:36
The price will be £25,000 in the UK,
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but it'll obviously have a much later arrival
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More Hyundai news to bring you next,
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and Tesla and EU-US regulation stuff,
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And Hyundai has patented a new use of copper
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in solid-state battery cells with a sulfide-based electrolyte.
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Now in the past, copper couldn't be used in these cells,
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so more expensive and less efficient metals were used.
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Now copper can replace nickel or stainless steel
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The patent describes a battery made of six layers,
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the anode, the electrolyte, the cathode,
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The outermost layer could still use a cheaper metal like aluminium.
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The patent says the design allows the battery
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to keep a higher capacity over many charged cycles
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and boosts both capacity and performance.
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This change will make solid-state batteries cheaper
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and easier to produce,
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which would help electric vehicles have longer ranges,
17:48
lower battery cost, and that's what we all want, right?
17:51
Now Tesla is considering a price hike of the Model Y.
17:56
Never a bad thing to leak that you are considering putting prices up
18:00
to get any fence-sitters to sign on the dotted line, as it were.
18:04
Or that should be digitally sign it,
18:06
because that's how you buy a Tesla.
18:08
Reports say Tesla is thinking about raising the price of the Model Y
18:11
as demand increases before the end of the $7,500 federal tax credit
18:18
Now as I told you yesterday on the podcast,
18:20
new rules from the IRS.
18:21
You don't have to have your vehicle delivered.
18:23
You have to have signed a contract to buy it
18:26
and then Tesla could take another six months.
18:28
Well, I mean, however long.
18:29
It depends on model spec and stuff.
18:31
But what I'm saying is you put your money down,
18:34
deposit, non-refundable, you agree to buy the car,
18:37
and then there is no deadline after that.
18:41
I mean, could it be like five years?
18:43
There must be a deadline to get the federal tax credit.
18:46
So the September 30th thing has some leeway now,
18:49
which is very, very good.
18:51
Raj Jagannathan, Tesla's new head of sales operation,
18:55
said that on X that strong demand is making Tesla speed up
18:58
production and could lead to a price hike soon,
19:00
saying, and I quote,
19:01
trending toward a need to expedite output even further,
19:05
which could mean adjusting pricing upward in coming days.
19:08
Trying hard not to, we'll see.
19:10
That sounds like a text tweet that Musk himself would have
19:14
written staccato to the point kind of, you know,
19:20
teasing, but we might put prices up.
19:22
And so, hey, if you want to buy one by one now,
19:24
I guess is what they were saying.
19:26
Right now, Model Y rear wheel drive starts at $44,990.
19:31
Still a stellar deal.
19:33
Now, Jagannathan's comments come after Tesla raised prices
19:37
They added $15,000 to the Cybertruck.
19:40
I didn't report that news at the time, by the way,
19:42
because, well, no one's buying Cybertrucks
19:45
and it was a busy day of news
19:47
and something always has to get dropped from the podcast,
19:50
I can't otherwise be an hour long.
19:52
So I didn't report that news a few days ago
19:54
because it was, I don't know, it was a busy day.
19:56
But yeah, they added $15,000 to the Cybertruck.
19:59
Does it affect anyone?
20:01
No, no one's buying that vehicle anymore.
20:03
It's not a dud, so to speak, but yeah, we'll see.
20:08
And the new Luxe package was added to the S and the X,
20:13
And so Model Y looks like an even better deal for now.
20:17
Okay, what about the kind of cars that you and I can buy?
20:20
Let's talk about that.
20:21
The European Union and the United States
20:24
are negotiating a new trade deal.
20:26
This is all kind of boring trade deal stuff.
20:28
But what's interesting for you and I is that
20:31
it could include a mutual recognition
20:35
of each other's vehicle standards.
20:37
Now, I'm a little worried about this,
20:39
but let's see where it goes.
20:41
The unified approach would make it easier to sell
20:43
smaller, more affordable vehicles
20:45
like electric ones in the United States.
20:47
Right now, cars for the U.S. market
20:50
are being heavily redesigned to meet federal crash rules.
20:54
This raises production costs
20:56
and is tougher on lower priced cars,
20:58
margins are thin so you don't redesign them.
21:00
Electric vehicles could gain the most
21:02
because they don't have to then additionally meet
21:04
emissions rules for gasoline vehicles.
21:06
Some European experts are worried, though,
21:08
because the European rules on pedestrian safety
21:12
It's why the Cybertruck,
21:13
one of the reasons Cybertruck isn't sold over here,
21:15
we don't have large American pickup trucks.
21:18
You can import them in very small numbers,
21:20
but we don't drive big pickup trucks.
21:23
The tall blunt fronts,
21:25
some of them, you know, higher than,
21:27
I mean, crikey, the big vehicles,
21:29
higher than a person,
21:30
but certainly higher than children.
21:32
They perform extremely poorly
21:34
in pedestrian crash safety tests.
21:36
And so, yeah, we wouldn't want to lower the EU,
21:39
well, we're not in the EU in the United Kingdom, of course,
21:41
but we wouldn't want to lower our own standards.
21:44
This is a whole conversation I see
21:46
going online in the media about food standards as well,
21:50
you know, in places the United States
21:52
has lower food standards than some places in Europe
21:55
and, you know, do you compromise?
21:57
Do you trade deals and things like that?
21:59
So we'll wait and see where it ends up.
22:02
It's unclear if the final agreement will unify standards,
22:05
but it will keep you in touch.
22:07
It could mean that more vehicles are available in more places
22:10
and I guess for my U.S. listeners
22:12
who maybe live in more urban areas,
22:14
who, you know, hate the cliche of all Americans
22:16
driving massive pickup trucks
22:18
and we'd like a small EV, please, to get around town,
22:21
this could open up some more possibilities for you.
22:24
Now, Blink Charging has joined
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with the Luxembourg based NextLab
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to offer energy management solutions
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for companies with electric vehicle fleets
22:33
The Luxembourg charging stations are now included
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in NextLab's platform.
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In Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg,
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the smart master platform connects EV chargers
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with inverters and energy storage
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into one whole system.
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It's designed to cut the operating costs,
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make running an EV more efficient
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and boost energy independence
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by managing peak demand and removing demand charges.
22:56
The system talks directly with types of energy devices
23:00
through the standard industry protocols
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and smart charging a more coordinated affair.
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Lots of work is going on in the background
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in things like this for standardization
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and for making sure that the grid, the batteries,
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the cars can all be further integrated.
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Now, two-thirds of UK EV drivers
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said they've waited more than ten minutes
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to charge in the last year,
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says a new survey by DirectLine,
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they're an insurer over here
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and that seems ridiculous.
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Okay, let me say that stat once again
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that DirectLine put out today.
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Two-thirds, that's a big number, right?
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Two-thirds of UK EV drivers
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said they've waited more than ten minutes
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to publicly charge in the last twelve months.
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This is research that doesn't resonate with me
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It doesn't resonate with anything else.
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I do this daily, as you know.
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And I've been doing it for seven years
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and a survey by a very big, reputable company
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seems, you know, DirectLine
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seems like, you know,
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they're certainly, if you're not in the UK,
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they're not a fly-by-night company,
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they're a big insurer with, you know,
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many layers of corporate oversight.
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I would have thought somebody there
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would have gone before signing this off
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and whether they commissioned a piece of external research,
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maybe DirectLine just got their PR agency
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to put this out to generate a quick headline.
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You know, PR agencies have got to do,
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they've got to earn their money, haven't they,
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when they've got that PR contract.
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But this seems very wrong to me.
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They asked a thousand EV owners.
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Who were those owners?
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What kind of cars did they drive?
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Were they, was it an internal DirectLine survey
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of a thousand, it's a massive company.
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Like there could be easily be a thousand people
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in DirectLine that drive EVs.
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I don't know, but two-thirds of people
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have waited more than ten minutes.
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Okay, let me carry on.
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The average wait for a public charger is 22 minutes
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and some drivers wait for up to two hours
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at motorway service stations.
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All right, now, again, I find this piece of research.
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The average wait time for a public charger
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is 22 minutes and you wait,
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I've definitely waited at a motorway service station,
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some of the ones with six or eight charges
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on a busy day and you pull up,
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oh no, they're all full.
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Is there a queuing system?
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Maybe there's a couple of cars with green number plates
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Do I need to charge?
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If you don't, you maybe go to the next one, right?
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And so, I don't know.
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DirectLine says, let me carry on.
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DirectLine says the shortage is made worse
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when non-electric cars park in charging bays
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or when plug-in car owners take up spaces without charging.
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Yep, I don't disagree with that.
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That's all very valid.
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One of my bug bears is EV drivers
25:51
are a decent bunch of people.
25:53
I see someone's put it in the bay and not plugged it in.
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Not even just plugged it in and pretending to charge,
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not plugged it in, come on, that is bad behavior.
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You aren't entitled to park there.
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You're blocking a charging space.
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64% of people asked, said,
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chargers were often broken or out of order.
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They go on to say a bit of data and stuff,
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like in the first seven months of the year,
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15 new charging stations were added each day,
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but then they also point out it's down from 54 a day last year.
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This seems like they've taken every opportunity to bash EVs.
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I'm sure they're not.
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I don't think DirectLine is an anti-EV company,
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you know, by any stretch of the imagination.
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I think they want you to ensure your EV with them,
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but this is a really negative piece of research.
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I think we should always highlight when stuff like this gets reported
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and, you know, if you can do your own thinking like I know you can
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and you read this and you go, this doesn't seem right.
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Half of non-EV drivers said the main reason
26:50
for not buying an EV was the poor charging network.
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Now, why they've put this out? I don't know.
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This seems, I have huge question marks.
26:58
All I would finish off by saying about this is
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I've worked for small companies and I've worked for big ones.
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Very large organizations, you know, publicly traded and stuff.
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Don't confuse or don't mix up incompetence for malice.
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It's all I'll say. I don't think DirectLine is a nasty anti-EV company.
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I just think this is a bit of rubbish research, to be honest with you.
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I think that I meet more incompetent people in big companies
27:28
than I do people that want to do harm.
27:31
You know, I think everyone tries to do the right thing.
27:33
You know, you end up with like 50 layers of management to sign things off
27:37
and no one speaks up in meetings.
27:39
No one goes, hang on, this is blatantly wrong.
27:42
You just sit there and go, whoa, I've got to pay my mortgage at the end of the month
27:45
so I'm just going to sit here in this meeting or Zoom call and not say anything.
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So, I don't know, maybe I'll reach out further
27:51
and say, to tell me more about this research, it seems so wrong.
27:55
Now, couple more stories.
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The EU auto industry is urging regulators to slow down.
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The Mercedes-Benz CEO and also the president of the ACEA,
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that's Ola Kalenius, has written to the EU Commission president,
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Stillevon de Lyon, stressing the support for the 2015 net zero goal overall
28:15
but saying, look, 2035 for EVs is unrealistic.
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That was the phrase they used, unrealistic.
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Citing nearly total dependence on Asian battery supplies, lack of charging stations,
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same old shtick, higher production costs, US tariffs.
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That's a new tool that they're arguing with.
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Asking the EU to rethink the current requirements of being zero emission by 2035
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saying it is unrealistic at the minute.
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Now, there's a great YouTube channel out there.
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Tobias Wagner, the e-trucker, has launched his own app.
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Now, he's got an amazing YouTube channel.
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There is a dubbed version in English, by the way.
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And when I say it's amazing, if you don't mind watching somebody
28:57
for 20 minutes driving their e-truck around Europe
29:00
and talking about the charging experience,
29:02
which, you know, is my idea of a good time, by the way.
29:05
But he is a professional truck driver for the company Nano Janssen.
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He drove over 100,000 kilometers across Europe last year.
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He used different e-truck models.
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And he's just documenting it all on YouTube.
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And now he's launched his own app.
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It's called the e-trucker app.
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And it gathers and confirms information about truck compatible charging stations in Europe
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including user feedback in Spain, Portugal, the UK, Belgium and Romania
29:29
saying that early on truck companies used apps made for passenger cars
29:33
which miss his details.
29:34
I've seen him on his channel having to unhitch his trailer
29:37
and then park his cab at a weird angle
29:39
just to use an Ioniti station that was designed for cars, really.
29:43
And so he makes it work.
29:44
It's not without its challenges, but he makes it work.
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Things like entrance widths, access conditions, truck suitability.
29:50
He's got his own app now.
29:51
I'm so pleased to see his channel grow as well.
29:55
Now, finally, videos from Australia show that...
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suggest even that Tesla's full self-driving may launch soon there.
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The footage shared on social media shows Tesla's driving around by changing lanes
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lying for traffic and handling curves on their own.
30:10
One video posted by Man of Many journalist Ben McKim
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comments the system quickly handles real-world situations
30:19
selling the car performers maneuvers like a human driver.
30:22
Another video from Sydney has further fueled hopes that Australia
30:25
could be one of the first right-hand drive markets to get FSD.
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Tesla stresses that drivers must always pay attention
30:30
if they're using FSD supervised.
30:32
The system is designed to handle intersections, roads with lanes, multiple lanes
30:36
and traffic signals.
30:38
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