ZEEKR 7X Deliveries Begin in Australia | Tesla's New Budget Model Y

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Speaking of Carloop, let's welcome our co-host.

As always this evening, Mr. Riz Akhtar himself, Mr. Bonza.

How are you Riz?

Tom, good to be on.

I know you've been flying.

I'm always flying.

Obviously you're traveling with Singapore Airlines and a whole lot of, you know, let's say up

market airlines.

I'm still with Bonza, supporting them through and through.

I mean, the Bonza lounge at Melbourne Airport.

Riz, Singapore Airlines, premium economy versus Bonza first class.

It's a tough call.

Come on.

Let's be honest to you.

It really is.

But yeah, that trip looked amazing.

Still will have more about it.

It was good fun.

But it's always good to be back, of course, speaking to yourself.

And also our good friend, Roland, our regular guest as always.

Hey Roland, nice to see you.

I'll hang on.

I'll just take you off mute.

Go again.

Oh, yeah.

Sorry, mute.

Bail.

Good evening all.

Hey Tom, how are you?

It's good to be back.

It's like a long two weeks.

It's always two weeks, Roland.

You know that.

Everything's two weeks away.

And make sure you check out Roland's YouTube channel as well, Zapt.

Link in the video description as always.

Lots of good content there.

Yeah, it's been three weeks.

I think since we last chatted two weeks away for myself.

Roland's been on school holidays too, I'm sure, with his kids.

And Riz living the high life, of course.

Traveling around as always.

Scott's asked whether Riz is doing Uber.

No, come on.

Riz gets driven around.

Well, exactly.

Exactly.

If you do see a purple Rolls Royce Spectre,

an Uber app, then book it in.

We'll make it happen with the umbrella complimentary included if it's raining.

Yeah, yeah.

That's right.

If you happen to catch Riz in the Spectre, get his card.

You know, you want that card all the time.

Hey, thanks for joining us.

All our regulars.

Nice and early.

Hello, Adam.

Nice to see you as well.

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Nice to see you.

It's been a long time since the last live.

Hello.

It's only Dale.

Hello, Tazzy Eevee.

Hello, everyone.

Good to see all the regular names on the channel.

Hello, Andrew.

Nice to see you.

Yeah.

Great.

All these...

Yeah, hello, Gene.

Nice to see you as well.

And lots of people missing us too.

That's good to hear.

Very good.

Alrighty.

Well, let's kick off with tonight's show.

And we've got a couple of Eevee shows I just want to promote real quick.

So this first one is, of course, the one coming up in Sydney,

the Sydney International Eevee Motor Show.

And we had some free tickets being given away using my coupon code.

I don't know how many there's left.

We were given 200 per day.

So check out one of my posts earlier this month.

I think it was last month, actually.

They're right.

There may be still some.

I'm not sure.

But if there aren't any...

If you just check out the link in the video description below as well,

there is a bog off buy one, get one free offer for each of the days in Sydney.

So Friday 31st of October, November 1st and November 2nd, Saturday and Sunday.

So Riz and myself will be there.

I think Roland will be there as well.

So it should be good to chat about all things Eevee and renewables and everything in between.

So come and say hello if you're around.

Should be a good one.

And if you're not in Sydney, that's okay because in Melbourne,

there's also everything electric.

Doing their debut show in Melbourne should be good.

Riz and myself will be there, definitely.

And they're on the 14th to the 16th of November.

So Friday, Saturday and Sunday as well at the...

I think it's the showgrounds Riz and Flemington.

Is that right?

It is the showgrounds at Flemington there.

Yeah.

Fantastic.

Yeah.

So that's two weeks later after the Sydney show.

So yeah, we're pretty sport here in New South Wales and Victoria

with lots of Eevee shows coming up.

Excellent.

Hopefully we'll go to Brisbane and the other capital cities too next year.

We'll see.

Alrighty.

Now, of course, big news.

This week, Zika 7X, I think deliveries have started around Australia.

I see Roland on his YouTube channel.

He got a test drive as well recently and so did me and Joy in Sydney.

Yeah.

Roland, I think you agree it was a pretty good drive.

Pretty stable.

Yep.

Yeah.

Suspension works well.

It does do 0-100 in 3.8 or 3.81.

I mean, very specific.

I have not made the video yet, but 3.81 on paper with one foot rollout subtracted.

So officially, if you go by how Tesla measures it, it's probably about 3.4.

So it is quicker than a Model Y performance.

Yeah.

That's super quick for a family SUV.

Yep.

As I and as me and Riz discovered in the Adelaide as well recently,

I think can go like the clappers if given the chance for sure.

And as I said, deliveries.

Sorry, Riz.

No, no, it's fast.

It's fast.

Yeah, definitely fast.

And as I said, deliveries have started.

So this is what happened in Sydney today.

Here we go.

This is Sydney International Motorsport Park out at Eastern Creek in Western Sydney

and looks like the first seekers are ready to go for owners in Australia.

So good to see.

I suspect they're owners, are they?

Or are they part of the Zika team down there?

Might be part of the team, maybe.

Anyway, these are the first production seekers ready to go for owners.

So if you're watching, you got a Zika 7X on order, it's coming pretty soon, I think.

Let's do it one more time.

Why not?

Yeah.

Now, while that's playing, I would like to add,

I happened to roam around the Sydney Motorsport Park with my runners on today.

And there were some very, very happy owners, including a couple of very keen viewers

and listeners of our show, the EV show here, who came up to me and said,

when I asked them, what spec did you order?

They said, Rollinspec, what else?

What a win.

Now, rumor has it that the Rollinspec or the old drive is actually,

I think one of the most popular variants there is.

That's my understanding.

That's what it is.

There's quite a lot of people have placed orders for those.

Surprisingly, from some of the stats shared today, the rear-wheel drive,

the entry-level one is sort of the least popular.

And people opting in for the bigger battery, longer range,

obviously with the all-wheel drive as well in the pop spec,

aka Rollinspec.

So, Rollins thing of handedly is, let's just say, inflating those

variant pop spec variant sales.

That's just what we do here.

Leap mode, we elevated the YouTube channel.

Now, we've got Zika 7X, just the pop variant.

And just looking in the car park before the delivery event,

quite a lot of that green colored vehicles, green, the blue

and the gray, very, very popular.

White appeared to be not so popular.

But I think Zika delivered about 50 odd vehicles today in Sydney

and over 100 families received their vehicles across Australia today.

Fantastic.

Congratulations to the Zika team for delivering what they promised.

Cars by October, which is really good.

And I don't know whether they're sponsored by Shannon's

or there's a deal with Shannon's.

Why is that so prominent at the Sydney Motor Sport Park?

We'll never know.

But there you go.

It's a free plug for Shannon's.

They're sitting on the billboard.

Anyway, congratulations to the Zika 7X owners.

You'll be very happy with it.

Tested on real roads as Roland did in Sydney.

And yeah, pretty happy.

And it can charge at a supercharger,

a Tesla supercharger as well.

All good things.

But yeah, I think a couple of interesting things quickly just

before we wrap this up.

So we also learned today that they have now received

two and a half thousand pre-orders for the 7X.

And 74% of the people that have placed in order for a Zika 7X

currently is their first EV.

That's fantastic.

That's a really good stat, Riz.

That's great.

I mean, Zika have done something right to convince them.

I know I've got a few colleagues actually in my workplace

that have ordered one just because it's so compelling,

especially the all-wheel drive version,

for less than $80,000 New South Wales drive away

with the introductory offer.

You can get a, as Roland said, 0 to 103.8 odd seconds.

That's a real test as well.

And it looks great.

Free colors, I think, at the moment, or it was before.

So that's probably why there's not many whites, right?

Might as well get a different color.

Good.

Very happy.

Yeah, Andrew says get a fair few upgrades.

For example, head up display with the long range

compared to the base model.

Yep, that's good.

Donald says it's going to be a 20 lap Zika 7X race.

Yeah, why not?

That'll be awesome.

A little sprint race.

That's good.

Tony says needs a go-kart motor firm up.

Probably should be one.

It's off for update.

Andrew says my estimated delivery date tomorrow.

Congratulations.

It's great to see.

Congratulations.

Cool.

Cameron says getting 7X long range in two weeks.

Yeah, first DV as well.

Great to hear, Cam.

That's good.

Yeah, Andrew.

Matrix adaptive beam headlights cut from 7X.

OK.

I guess, look, some of the specs we don't get from China.

I think it probably helps reduce the cost in some ways.

Yeah, I think as product planners in these companies,

it's very difficult to get the price right,

which has got to attract enough buyers interested

to at least get into the dealership and test drive one

without scaring them away.

And I guess, if you include too much kit,

those matrix headlights could be one of the more expensive

options.

But I mean, you never know.

It's always a compromise, unfortunately,

when they are selecting the lineup for a local market.

But yeah, I mean, having not really experienced

the Zika 7X headlights just yet at night,

unless either of you two gens have.

My understanding is they're pretty good with looking at

what beyonds videos in Europe are.

So, yeah, I don't know whether they get matrix or not,

but I guess it's always, like I said, a bit of a balancing act.

Yeah, not yet.

I think Roland's the same.

We only got test drives during the day,

so probably with the media cars,

I hope we'll be able to test them at night time.

Yeah, cool.

Yeah, Roland question for you.

You've got a Model Y.

So, you know, here's a comment from Pepsi.

The Rural Drive one is almost the same price as Model Y.

I'm not sure if I'd get the base Zika over Model Y.

That's a lot of the questions I get on our videos.

I'm sure Roland, you would too.

Model Y Zika.

It's pretty close there, isn't it?

Very close.

But see, if I was looking at a Model Y,

it's a lot more different in the sense that

I would consider a Rural Drive.

Like I'd put them in two separate buckets,

like a Rural Drive in a long range,

but then if you look at what you get in terms of differences,

there is much more that you get in terms of bank or buck

when you look at the 7X.

Like as a panel package, because you go

Model Y entry level to long range.

What do you get?

You get more speakers.

It'll be different battery.

I think that's almost about it.

Yeah, that's right.

There's a lot of inclusions as well in Model Y.

Yeah, but the 7X Rural Drive,

yeah, great package as well.

Good price too.

So, it is high.

And from a drive quality point of view,

I think the 7X drives remarkably well.

It's really hard to split between,

for me anyway, between the Tesla and the 7X.

I think they've done a great job

just tuning the suspension and the handling.

It's a good package.

I think, yeah, it's sort of like

the best way to test drive both and see what works.

The most common sort of thing I've heard today

from owners was they really appreciated

the physical buttons that they found in the 7X.

And that was one of the big sort of draw cards

for 7X for them over the Model Y.

And a few of them actually had driven both cars

and X-Pen G6 and BYDC Line 7 as well.

But in terms of the ride balance

for handling, space, tech, physical buttons,

comfort level, fast charging,

there were sort of the key things

that they were pretty happy with.

And then there's also one person also mentioned

that towing is also important to them.

But both vehicles can tow at least 1600 kilos.

But yeah, a few different factors

and of course the 32 kilowatt AC charging

that you get with the 7X.

Yeah, and obviously the faster charging at DC,

if you can find a charger, of course,

with the golden brick battery and the Chilean battery,

like I guess it's kind of future proofing yourself

with the 7X, it's good.

Yeah, be good to verify the fact that in Europe

the Zika's can only charge at, I think,

60 or 70 kilowatts at Tesla superchargers.

But obviously Roland and I and Riz yourself

would do the tests with the media cars too.

Apparently in Europe they do get adaptive matrix headlights.

A couple of people saying yes.

That's probably why.

And just answering Tassie Evie's question about

whether matrix headlights are allowed, they are allowed.

The Tesla Model Y's have got the adaptive high beams already.

So it's definitely a feature in some cars.

I think the Polestar's got them as well.

So the high-end Evies get them.

Yeah, different BMWs with them as well.

So they do work pretty well in sort of country windy roads.

But you're part of the Dodge category.

In European cars, like traditional ICE cars

I'm talking about, matrix LED lights usually attract

like a $3,000 or $4,000 option.

Then you slap on whatever percentage for the taxes and charges,

like at the end that small percentage.

Few words have to be about $4,000 to $5,000.

So yes, you look at the flip side to go,

right, the performance spec you say $79,000 to say $80,000.

You round it up.

If you go, it's $80,000, it's a great buy.

Would you still consider $85,000 as a great buy?

Like $79,000 seems to be way better to not have matrix lights.

Now that's just my thoughts.

But yeah, that's one way to think about it as well.

Yeah, I agree, Roland.

I think having used matrix headlights, they're nice.

Don't get me wrong, they're great to have as a bonus,

but it's not a deal breaker for me if I had a car with that one.

I'd rather have a cheaper price, I think.

That's the way I see it.

That's just me.

Now, and I'll also add that for $80,000 or $1,000,

you can get a 7x performance or we'll drive with their suspension.

Just to put into perspective, it's $40,000 for each light in the spectra.

So for two lights, I could get that 7x performance.

And that's all you get for it, brothers.

So it's beautiful to take.

Roland, you know that we just bought the MGS5.

And for that price of that car, you can get the starlight headliner

and the spectra that Riz has got.

So either contributing to Riz's starlight headliner or an MGS5.

Sorry, Riz, we had to go the MGS5.

That's what it is.

I'm actually sitting in an MGS5 just to see what I would pick.

Or I would be in this space, which is also the Bonser Lounge.

The Bonser Lounge is not a physical space.

It's an idea.

It's an ideology, isn't it?

Wherever you feel comfortable, it's the Bonser Lounge.

You can take it with you anywhere.

That's it.

Too good.

Yeah.

And I think Tony's saying, yeah, I forgot about the X-Ping.

There's a lot of choice in that segment.

Honestly, X-Ping G6, BYDC Line 7, Model Y, Zika 7x,

GAC Ion V Gents.

We'll talk about that later on in the show.

This market is exploding right now.

So good.

Okay.

So speaking of Tesla, let's move on.

So, yeah.

So, you know, Tesla have not launched a Model 2

or whatever you want to call a smaller Tesla,

but they've released an affordable Model 3 Model Y.

So this is interesting.

So to compete with these Chinese cars,

the cheaper end of the market,

will a cheaper Tesla Model 3 Model Y do that?

Will fill that space where Tesla fans want a cheaper car

instead of buying a Chinese vehicle?

What do you think, Gents?

Have they done the right thing here?

Model Y is still $100,000 car in my head.

Roll and smack.

What does cheap mean?

Yeah.

Rizio article says 14% off base price.

So this is based on the US pricing, right?

It is.

So, all right.

So this was launched in the US.

We thought Amudis was coming, was spoken about it.

Now, in the US, they launched the Model Y base version,

calling it the Model Y standard.

It gets quite a few things trimmed away.

But what was surprising was there's a Model 3 standard.

Now, that wasn't expected.

Of course, it's a lot harder for them to...

Well, it's easier for them to conceal that

because the Model 3 standard is literally

just a trimmed away version of the normal Model 3.

So even if they were testing it, you would never know.

I think they're getting closer to the price point.

It needs to be.

But what we have to really think about,

this is the US market.

There is no Chinese brands.

They're not.

And this is the starting price for these vehicles,

as in that's the introductory price.

Now, if the Model 3, which I think starts at about $37,990

or $36,990, if Tesla decided to do a special,

let's say, quarter one, 2026 at $34,990,

then this would be the $35,000 car.

At this stage, it's not.

The Model Y standard has a lot of stuff that they have cut back,

including the fact that, you know,

it's got, I think, a glass roof.

And on the inside, it's like sort of covered with fabric.

There's a few other things in the US.

You don't even get the basic autopilot anymore.

You basically have cruise control of some sort.

So they're encouraging people to go get full self-driving,

which is $99 a month.

But yeah, I mean, it's in showrooms now.

Deliveries are going to be starting in a couple of weeks time.

Only two days later, after they announced this in the US,

surprisingly, it popped up in multiple markets in Europe.

And the European pricing is a bit better.

I think it's in some markets, it's like over 20% of the price

of what used to be modeled by every real drive,

which is now, I think, Model Y premium or something.

And then there's this Model Y standard as the entry-level car.

Yeah, good summary.

I mean, look, what do they call this Model Y?

I don't know, Essence Air Essentials?

They're going to have a clever name like the MGs and the BODs, right?

There's something to differentiate it.

We've got the Model Y L in China for the bigger one.

So some sort of clever name, sure, Tesla will come up with.

But look, I also don't mind the fact that it's got fabric seats.

I don't mind that there's no glass roof.

I don't mind this little space down the bottom here either.

I think it's fine, honestly.

Tesla's not known for being too ostentatious with their trims.

So this is OK.

Not having a glass roof is honestly not a big problem in Australia.

If you can get a cheaper car and it still has ability

to add FSD supervised with the hardware for,

then I think it's not a bad thing.

If they can bring it down to low 50s or sub 50s

for entry-level Model Y, that could be a good thing.

We shall see.

Low 50s.

That'd be good.

Yeah, exactly.

We need a new name, guys.

I don't have Riz Speck, Roland Speck or Tom Speck

for the budget Model Y.

Yes.

Elon Speck.

Oh, no, that's the wrong spec.

Sorry.

That's like super spec.

That's the right stuff.

That's two weeks away.

Oh, yeah.

So just quickly on that, so logistically,

these two models in the US, the Y and the spring standard,

will be built in Texas.

In Europe, we've only got the Model Y standard.

There's no three as far as I can see yet.

That will be built, I believe, in Berlin.

Now, I doubt we're going to get this model from Berlin

given the Model Y performance,

which is the first model to come from Berlin,

is $10,000 more than the previous generation.

Yes, it's got quite a lot of hit added to it,

but that's the cost of shipping stuff.

And pretty bespoke sort of getting the cars to Australia.

Tesla, almost like a few UK,

reckons that it's likely that they will receive this car

under 40,000 pounds,

which is sort of the street spot they're looking at

to be eligible for some sort of incentives.

But locally in Australia,

I think we'll have to wait until Giga Shanghai

has ramped up their Model Y L,

which is the sixth seat that they're making.

And then there's rumours that have already started in China this week

that they're supposed to be getting what they're starting to work

on potential production of these standard cars

for the Chinese and broader export markets.

I mean, for a budget Model Y,

it makes sense for our market to use the Shanghai factory.

I mean, why use Berlin or Texas?

It'll just make it more expensive, right?

So you would think the Chinese probably have some appetite

for this kind of budget spec as well.

So we'll just use that to bring cars from their factory

to come over here.

Yeah, I think this will be good.

I think more options at the low end of the market will be good.

I think that the Uber and DDs of the world

will definitely take this up for their fleet.

Makes sense to me if I'm going to ride share.

A cheaper car makes sense.

All right, we'll watch this space.

Thanks for this for the article.

Some comments from people.

So Pauline say not having a glass roof is a bonus.

I agree.

I think it's a bonus, actually.

It's a good thing.

Yeah, I see that's right.

It's still got the glass roof,

but it's covered on the inside, correct?

But either way, it's covered.

It's good.

Yeah.

And the fact that it's got hardware for FSD if you want it,

not a bad thing, right?

You just want the full self-driving,

like the actual software.

You don't care about the actual car itself as much.

It's not a bad thing.

I think that's where the key selling point of this car is that

it's fully kitted to do full self-driving.

I think it's supervised.

Sorry.

Supervised is full self-driving.

It's the camera and the hardware and the software is all sort of there.

Or if I was an Uber driver,

which obviously has been alluded to already

and I wasn't driving my Spectre,

then I would consider one of these with full self-driving.

It just makes driving a bit easier.

And yeah, that sort of spec.

And Tesla may decide that there is a friendly price

for this for businesses that want to transition.

We're already seeing across our cities,

Uber, Electric and a lot of taxi services.

We've seen them use model-wise for a while now.

So could be something for them as they decide to electrify their fleets.

And obviously, the good thing with that is even consumers have options

to purchase these vehicles when they're available.

Do we need a budget Spectre?

Is that kind of degrade the Rolls-Royce name?

No Starlight Headliner, no umbrella.

What's the point, right?

Well, would you call the Ziko 9X?

We know it's basically the Hangzhou Bay Column.

So maybe Ziko is the right sort of brand to produce that budget-friendly vehicle

with obviously pretty much a similar or even higher level of luxury

at a quarter of the price.

The Chinese can do luxury well.

Having watched a lot of IG Reels on their EVs there, it's fantastic.

It's so good.

We may never see them, but they have a great time just scrolling on their phone

while the car drives itself and passengers lying down.

All good things.

Just staying with Tesla news for the time being.

Just to remind you, as Rahul has done here,

it's to be on the show that the Model 3 Long Range

rear-wheel drive is now available in Australia and New Zealand to order.

Should be in the country hopefully by the end of this year.

750Ks of WLTP range, apparently.

I think that deserves some sort of range test.

750Ks of range surely is one stop Melbourne and Sydney,

one stop Sydney to Gold Coast, one stop Melbourne and Adelaide.

I think that could be a game changer.

I think that's definitely worth testing when that comes out.

And just off the back of that, this in China,

the regulatory sort of system they've highlighted that Tesla is going to be launching

a Model Y equivalent, basically a rear-wheel drive long range vehicle

that's the Model Y.

In Australia, when they've launched this particular Model 3 version,

they've gotten rid of the long-range all-wheel drive.

So now you've got rear-wheel drive, long-range rear-wheel drive,

and if you want all-wheel drive in the Model 3,

you've got to go with the performance all-wheel drive.

I think that's not a bad marketing move actually

because the value was previously the long-range all-wheel drive.

Now if you want the all-wheel drive, you just go roll and spec.

Performance all-wheel drive and if you want a bigger battery,

you want more range, right?

So I think this makes a lot of sense to me personally.

And you won't be disappointed too if you just go to top spec

because you've got the best.

Correct.

There's only one spec, right, Roland?

Don't even bother.

Actually, just from that,

they also did improve the range on the Model 3 performance as well.

It's gone from 528 to, I think, 571.

Nice.

And I assume that's just little incremental improvements, right,

rather than changing the battery.

They're just aerodynamics.

I think even slightly bigger battery.

Battery, okay.

Righto.

Cool.

Just quietly more Tesla news.

So in Australia, I think,

I'm not sure how many of these are left in the inventory,

but they've slashed the full self-driving supervised software

for inventory stock as well.

So not bad for a good deal

for those inventory cars for Model 3s at the moment.

So some good deals going around.

And also, as Nash, our friend, pointed out,

premium connectivity has increased by about 40%.

So $9.99 a month to now $13.99 a month.

Look, I'm sure if you're a Tesla fan, it won't matter.

I think it's probably still worth getting, Roland.

I think you've still got a Tesla,

and so there is, you know, you get,

you get, did you still get Spotify connectivity?

Yep.

And traffic, traffic awareness as well, like traffic routing.

Yep.

It's the traffic thing and the remote sentry as the key ones.

And the traffic and also the live visualization,

like the live map, the one that looks like real world

as opposed to the cartoon type map.

Yep.

I guess the question for you, Gents, is it still worth it?

I just, as a disclaimer, my Model S, I think has

premium connectivity built into it

because it's grandfathered from 10 years ago.

But do you guys think it's still worth the extra 40% increase?

I think so because, so let's, let's compare, right?

Recently, we've heard news that BYD now will be,

they had the free, let's call it the data plans

for two years.

Now, a fair few of the vehicles are coming off that.

So now, apparently through the BYD app, you can go,

you can buy a monthly pack like this premium connectivity

Tesla was offering for 9.99 a month.

The only thing is that's capped to two gigabytes

where this, as far as I know, is unlimited.

So you could be watching YouTube videos, Netflix,

whatever you have to do if you're super charging

or doing something.

In my experience, it's worth it.

But there's plenty of other people that, you know,

would, you know, that prefer hot spotting

and whatever else people like to do with that sort of stuff.

But yeah, for general use, I think it's worth it.

Roland?

Yeah, just to add on to that, before I go through my thoughts,

also the remote sentry, you're limited to 15 minutes.

I don't know who's watching 15 minutes worth,

but I do recall there's been previous social media posts

that people go, hey, I can't look at sentry anymore

because if you look at it for over 15 minutes,

it says you've reached a limit for the day.

Right.

So there's that too.

But yeah, I'm with you.

Like for me, it's a convenience thing.

Like I know, like people have already started saying

all over social media, you can set like Apple shortcuts

and there's like the Android ones where you can set as soon

as it's connected Bluetooth to the car,

the automatic returns on hotspot.

So it works like 95% of the time.

But again, like if I think maybe for my model,

it's less worth it because I don't have remote sentry.

But for my model, why it's definitely still worth it

having that remote sentry.

And the traffic thing is just a convenience thing,

but remote sentry for me alone is worth it.

I think it's an alternative.

If I didn't want to pay for this, as I used to do,

just hook up a mount with your device with ways

and Spotify and so on.

It's not as good.

I know, but you can just log into your Spotify

through the Tesla native app anyway.

So I think there are ways around it, but as you said, guys,

it's the convenience of having on-screen real-time traffic

monitoring admittedly without the real-time, you know,

police radar, all those kind of things are ways offers.

But yeah, it's a tough one,

whether it's still worth the $14.

So let us know in your thoughts, guys, what you think.

Speaking of the BYD thing, we'll talk about that very

shortly.

We'll talk about news on BYD connectivity, of course, as well.

Yes, Gene saying after two and a half years,

I finally have to pay $9.99 for two gigabytes of connectivity

for ATO3.

So that's per month, I assume, Gene,

for that extra data plan.

Just let us know.

And as Cameron, yes, the Model S is a vintage...

Well, it's been a vintage for a while, actually,

10 years, celebrating 10 years in November.

I've got a special video coming up.

Did an independent battery test with it.

And tell you exactly how much degradation it has experienced.

Thanks to our friends at Test EV.

Nathan Gore-Brown, shout out to you for testing my car

in Sydney recently.

So watch out for that video in a month's time.

Thanks, Gene.

Yes, a month as well.

Thanks.

Okay.

Oh, apparently, Grant says,

Joy and I were on some sort of Channel 9 show on FSD.

Okay.

I haven't seen that yet.

So I don't know what that's about.

Hopefully it's not too bad on mainstream media.

Always worry when our faces show up.

Yeah.

Two gigs.

Thank you, Lightning.

It's good.

Yes.

No, we will cover other cars.

It's quite Tesla heavy today.

I do appreciate that, but there's lots to cover.

We will get to other cars very shortly.

So don't worry.

We do try to cover as much as we can.

But unfortunately, there is one more Tesla bit of news.

So, Roland, you've got telling us earlier

that's Model 3 performance updates.

So front-facing camera, indicator stalk is back,

and black Tesla badging for the Model 3.

So all those goodies for Model 3 orders,

as well as the greater range as well.

For more, this is controversial,

but I like the fact that the indicator stalk is back.

I'm sorry.

It's good.

It's just too...

I don't know.

Maybe I'm getting old.

I prefer just muscle memory from 20 years of driving.

It's quicker, especially when you're stressed.

That's just me.

And one more bit of Tesla news.

So yes, V2L comes to Tesla.

Hey, look at that.

That's good.

New Model Y performance offering V2L in America,

at least with the Tesla Outlet adapter.

Excellent.

Tesla has entered the chat from a V2L point of view.

Good.

A question for Zika.

Does Zika 7x have or require premium connectivity?

Really, Zika probably answered that.

I think it does.

One of the owners today was telling me a little bit about it,

and he mentioned that he believes it's five years.

Maybe that was part of some initial offer.

I'm not entirely sure, but I believe it does have it.

One thing, since we're talking about premium connectivity,

is which networks are they using for?

We know.

Not advice.

There's Telstra.

Yep.

And yeah, I'm just not sure whether other viewers or listeners

have a better idea of what others such as BYD or Polestar

or others are using.

Polestar had Office, because I remember there was an outage

either early in DC or last year,

and there were people saying that they couldn't access anything

unless they've changed.

I remember that.

But it definitely was.

At one point, Polestar definitely was on Office.

Yeah.

Tesla's definitely Telstra.

There was an outage a few years ago,

and a lot of Tesla owners were out.

Andrew's saying 7x free premium connectivity for five years.

That's great.

Yep.

That's good.

BYD is Telstra.

Yes, I can confirm that as well when I had my seal.

Gene says, one good thing about paying each month,

you can decide to take a data holiday.

Look, to be honest, BYD, I probably wouldn't pay for it

because I was using my Apple CarPlay connectivity anyway.

So I was using my own phone's payment plan.

So I probably wouldn't pay the extra.

Can I just say one thing about the connectivity

before we move on?

I want Zika's website because I was checking

because I think I thought I recalled seeing it

when you go through the order page

that you get the five years included.

Talk about terminology like

Tesla's got the premium connectivity name,

and in Zika, they're calling it standard connectivity.

He says five years included.

Are we going to start seeing people start to give

different names for the same thing?

Well, I mean, here's their chance to be quite creative, right?

Let's call something else.

Well, so while we're talking about that,

what happened to XPeng's stantry mode?

What's it called or what's BYD's?

Centennial? Centennial?

No, no, XPeng changed it.

It's like X, I covered it in my video.

It's got an X name.

They changed it from Sentinel mode.

Let's figure it out.

Yeah, it's from their recent update.

I just forget the name.

On the app, Sentinel mode, but in the car,

it's like X-Century or something,

something quite brand focused.

I just forget what it's called.

Someone with an XPeng can tell me.

Yeah, Zika's got Century Mode 2, doesn't it?

I'm not sure.

Actually, someone, yeah.

It does. I remember having a look at it.

At this point in time, you had to turn it on

every drive though. It does turn off.

It doesn't have dash cam, but I do record in Century Mode

and you have to turn it on every time you drive.

Same with XPeng, but you can do an X combo

and just have it on when you come into the car,

or when you park the car.

So, that's good.

All right.

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Now, this is kind of a Tesla bit of news.

Not really. It's Tesla hardware at least.

Good to see more Tesla's super-charging hardware

being used in other sort of, you know,

other what do you call it, CPOs?

Operators. Operators, thank you.

Using Tesla hardware, and as we know,

Tesla is quite reliable from that point of view.

So, admittedly, 800 volt cars may suffer a bit,

but everything else, you know,

it's quite reliable for that reason.

So, I don't mind seeing this.

You know, other CPO branded hardware in the UK.

Hopefully you're here too in Australia, guys.

Moving forward.

Yeah, fingers crossed.

I mean, it is good reliable hardware,

and they are pushing a lot more of white labeling.

Something pretty exclusive for our viewers and listeners.

I heard something pretty sort of,

I think it's exciting.

There's some big plans in 2026

for charging in Australia.

High-powered, many, many bays,

and that network is already very extensive Australia-wide.

You can read between the lines of what it is,

but, yeah, they're one of the cheapest fast-charging networks,

and they have very serious growth plans for next year.

So, watch this space.

There's something in it for 800 volt cars.

There's something in it for 400 volt cars,

and it is going to happen.

It's going to happen very quickly.

So, whether you drive Tesla, BYD,

or the 800 volt cars like the X-Pen, Zika 7X,

and many others that are coming,

there will be something in it for everybody.

So, yeah, pretty exciting stuff.

So, watch this space.

Ooh, time for Tony questions, Ruiz.

So, already in the country, this CPO.

Already in the country.

Is it a fossil fuel provider as well,

or purely EVs at the moment?

Look, that would give it away.

I can't tell.

Let's just say we're able to do the big focus.

Okay, fair enough.

Add it to the slogan.

Okay, I don't know this, by the way.

I'm actually trying to guess.

Don't ask me other.

But that's good, Ruiz.

Is it what Tessie EV said?

Asked.

I mean, it makes sense, right?

They're kind of trying to roll one out already.

No.

Okay, let's roll that out.

EV, George Fox.

Exploring.

That's good though, that's good.

I thought it might have been.

I thought you might have said maybe flow power,

because they did publicly say they were going to come to Australia from the UK.

Yeah, there's a flow power.

That's part of the plan,

but no, it's not them.

Okay.

It could be OTR, actually,

because they are quite big already in this country.

And planning on,

but then they were acquired by Viva Shell,

so I haven't seen too many.

Shell?

Has anyone seen any Shell petro stations with OTR

or whatever they were going to put in,

like in terms of charging?

Yeah, I would add too much.

No, haven't either.

Yeah, I mean, we need to go to a Bunnings.

There's only a few in Sydney,

so I think Roland, you've been to one, haven't you?

No.

They should put one at Castle Hill.

There's two floors of parking.

No one parks down below it.

Same with Chattel, no one parks below other.

Yeah.

Makes sense.

I'm noticing that

originally some of the Bunnings sites

had the Schneider equipment,

but on the Explorer network.

But now,

ocular equipment is starting to show up,

which could mean there's a broader rollout in the works.

So these are 60 kilowatt dual port.

I know they're not the fastest,

but hey, on a post,

two CCS ports at a Bunnings,

60 kilowatts,

I'd take that.

So yeah, if happening,

they're affordable,

but reliable charges,

and they're going so, yeah,

Explorer is another network that I think

could be doing some pretty interesting things,

especially if they can really capture

that retail space,

but also it's a good thing because

people go to Bunnings, they're going to see charges,

they're going to see, well, EVs are actually real.

They're here now.

So yeah, starting.

They should put the sausage sizzle

next to the EV chargers.

That'll definitely get people interested, right?

My nose always follows the snags.

So anyway,

the story writes itself.

Justin, yeah, Shellet,

Coomera Queensland has an EV charger.

I think you share this with us as well.

Look, this is your picture, Justin.

Thank you. Woolies Charger.

Woolies is another company doing good things.

Putting charges in their car parks.

It's good.

Not the fastest, but that's okay.

Most people shop for an hour or so.

So 47 kilowatts is probably okay for a quick top-up

if you need it.

It's good.

And I think there's a deal with

what is it called? Woolies Rewards as well.

So all good things.

And as we quickly touched on as well previously,

the BYD owners

starting to get charged for their

data plan. There you go.

Officially from a Facebook post.

There I can see.

There you go. Let us know in the comments

if that is something you would pursue,

you would keep paying for.

Usual lots of comments there.

Both positive and negative from Facebook.

Thank you. That one, when I posted,

was negative because it was on the day

of expiry that the notification

was sent out.

Not good.

There you go. The official

sort of price there.

Thank you, Arm, for posting that.

As I said, I probably wouldn't because

I use Spotify or an Apple CarPlay,

but each to their own.

And

now is this

still worth posting? Let's see. Let's have a look.

So XPeng News, I think

there was a deal for

five years free servicing if you bought an XPeng

in September. I don't know if it's still

valid, guys. Have to double check the fine print.

I think there is. I think it is

there as far as I can see

those offers are still on

point number one.

It was point number one there till the end of October.

Oh yeah, cool.

Oh yeah, okay. Yes, thank you.

Yep, 31st October. So you got

15 days, 16 days.

1-2 allocation exhausted.

How many thousands of cars they got here is

I've got number trees.

Look, all I'll say

this time

is it's

around about

1,700 cars

so far that they've

delivered.

I just wish they would

I just wish they would report, right?

I have asked them officially to report.

They said they're working on it, whatever that means.

So hopefully that'll help boost numbers, right?

If we can get reports from XPeng,

so you can.

Kaluv's shipping data says

that they are

yeah, they're around that

17-1800 mark

but you're just

waiting on the September figures.

But yeah, it's

I don't think it's that

thousand plus that was mentioned

in that press release that

we sort of

thought about it, spoke about it.

We just weren't sure. So

we wanted the coming months to tell us a different story

but I don't think it has.

Now I've got asked quite a bit

G6 versus 7X.

So in my head, in terms of drive quality

I think the 7X actually does drive

better. It seems like

a more stable, smooth ride. You can agree

to disagree with me. But I think

where the G6 is good is in that

the base spec, you get quite a lot for

that money. It's still a very good

value car. And this is obviously the

2023-24 build

we get in Australia. We don't know what the new

G6 drives like. And obviously

you don't get the all-wheel-drive variant as well with the X.

G6. So if you want all-wheel-drive variant then

obviously the 7X is where the money

is at. But I think a G6 is still

a very good value car for the

real-drive long-range. That's just my opinion.

Yeah, and five years free servicing.

That's good. Does Zika have a similar plan

for early adopters? Free servicing?

Did they have an offer? They had

some sort of, I think they had a

servicing offer

bundled in.

I can't remember now. I can't remember.

Someone can tell us.

Okay, there you go. That's X.G6

and all right, let's push

into this story now. So we hinted

at this earlier. The GAC

Ion. Ion V. So GAC

stands for Guangzhou Automative

C for Corporation, I think.

Something like that. It's from Guangzhou

in China. So GAC, Ion

V, mid-size SUV

coming to Australia, confirmed

by this press release. There you go.

November 2025. That's when it's coming.

They're launching the Ion V, which

is a fully V, as well as the

M8, which is a plug-in hybrid. And then this

MZOOM, I think this is an ICE car,

isn't it? MZOOM. What I can read.

Yeah, so obviously we're

interested in the Ion V.

Had a quick drive of this earlier this year in Singapore?

No, I didn't drive it. I had a look

at it. I was sitting in the car park at the GAC dealership.

It's unusual

gents in that it's not

with no disrespect

to GAC. It doesn't look

as futuristic as

say, the G6 or the 7x. It looks

actually quite boxy, right?

Quite standard. Would you agree?

Reminds me of a Subaru Forester.

Yes, exactly.

Exactly. Yeah.

I think it's sort of

the smart hashtag five that didn't come.

It's got the boxier looks

and

and, yeah, I guess

I also agree that

yes, Subaru owners

you have

an fully epiphydoid of

what's it called?

You have

an electric

boxy

option.

Specsline is pretty good.

I think it charges at up to

180 kilowatts

DC charging, which is not bad.

The interior

you sat in it

I had a bit of a play when they

surprisingly rocked up at

the show in Melbourne last year.

You know, it has

like fully flat seats.

They can technically sleep

in it and yeah,

overall it's

going to be unique in the

market.

Yeah. I mean, this is not a

picture of the iron V. I don't think this is more looks like the other one.

The the

why I think it's not quite the right pick isn't

have to double check all that

but looks like there's an LFP variant as well.

Yeah, it's look it looks okay on the

inside.

Again, not the fanciest looking EV, but

if they can price this right, this could

could take a lot of market share from

you know, the current front runners in

BYD and Seeker and Tesla and so on.

So yeah, I'm curious to see where this

lands.

Surely you had to compete with the D-PAL

S07 which is now sub 50

drive away, right? So be

good at this is 45 to 50.

Right.

That's what I'm expecting it to be at around

the 45

mark as a starting price

especially given the competition that's

here already and what's coming.

Yep.

Yep, boxy looking Kia EV 5.

Yeah, that's a good call actually.

Yeah, good call.

Cameron says Ion V also looks a

bit like a Kia, correct?

Grandpa, not as good looking as the IONIQ

6.

Which by the way

which by the way

huge price drops this week

or last week whenever it was

we are talking like

35, 38, 36

percent price drop

for the IONIQ 6 in Australia.

That's huge.

You can get one for sub 50,000 for the

trim at the moment.

That's crazy for an IONIQ.

It's MI23.

We're near the end of 2025

though, so.

You had to spoil the party didn't you, Roland?

It's an old car.

I have a theory with these

price drops

which is I think Hyundai

has been paying too much attention

to the airfield grand final that we

had.

Particularly the live performance

drop it like it's hot.

That's what they've done.

They've dropped all the prices

to that stage where

they're giving them away.

That is a crazy

drop. It's like bargaining

in a market, right? You think what?

You just gave me a 50 percent off the price.

It wasn't worth that much to begin with clearly.

That's a huge discount.

77 grand to 50 grand.

Wow, that's massive.

Gents, can looks

be forgiven for a price drop like that?

IONIQ sticks.

Yeah, it's not the

it's polarizing. Let's call it that.

I think for me it can. I think so.

Yeah, for the right price.

The Roland spec for you, 50 grand.

59 grand. That's not too bad still.

60 grand for drive away.

Yeah, it needs to be faster though.

Is it even

four seconds?

This one's not.

No, this one. I think it's in the

five or six seconds.

Yeah, five or six, yeah.

I remember right.

Total was 200 something kilowatts.

Low 200s.

Under 250.

Well, I guess you want a streamliner.

Streamliner.

I'm sorry.

That's what they call the IONIQ 6.

The streamliner.

It's so slippery

that I think on freeways it gets

like 11, 10

or 11 kilowatt hours per 100 kilometers.

Right, you're talking about the

drag coefficient.

Yeah, and that's what they

the marketing title was IONIQ 6

Streamliner.

You can tell, right? Look at the way the air leaves the back.

It's just like that.

9.11 just at the back.

Agreed.

And Insta, now sub 40

drive away.

That's a bit more palatable.

You know, can it compete

with the dolphins and the MG4s of the world?

That is the question.

Sub 40.

Small car though, very small.

They're trying to get in before

the Ada 1 comes.

Oh, true. True that.

I think Hyundai or Hyundai

have said that these prices won't last.

I sound like an ad now.

Apparently they will go back to that.

Regular schedule pricing next year.

So look, I'm not

I'm not vlogging these, but I'm just saying

like, you know, these are good prices for now.

I guess

just quickly, what happened?

Remember, it was like a

chukratful pump a couple of years ago.

We're covering it on the EV show here

that it used to be like

they used to go on sale

and within 10 minutes

find out website would crash and all of a sudden

you had like people that couldn't

get orders in for the Ioniq 5s

and 6s. Now is the time to buy

whether you're buying new or used.

They're giving them away.

I remember that, Riz. Thanks for

reminding me. The Ioniq 5 when it first came out

it's like we've only got 500 stock and then boom

all the fans will go in there and get it.

Not a bad marketing ploy actually to say, oh wow

look how quickly they're selling it.

Yeah, it worked, correct. And now there's

as you said, giving it away now, but not the 5s though.

The 5 is not on, oh is it?

It's on sale. I think that's still

a fairly popular car, the Ioniq 5.

It's quite iconic.

And the cone is quite good as well.

It's quite, yeah, but 50 grand

a little bit steep, but it's

still good quality of course.

That's Hyundai.

Now what else is on sale?

So smart hashtag one also on sale

from $47,990 drive away.

That's a bit more palatable too.

So $10,000 sale on the smart hashtag one.

I still think the three looks better, but hey

that's a good start, right, from LSH.

So not bad at all.

Yeah, Lightning, who wants to see

an EV class at about this $1,000?

Yeah, why not?

A little quick 10 lap sprint?

Sure.

I'm all for it.

Like a 10 minute pit stop.

Yeah.

Oh no, Lewis says someone else,

he's also seen our FSD ad on 60 minutes.

I better watch that.

It's probably a mixed picture.

That's what I'm assuming when you

really stick with FSD.

Stuff gets cherry-picked for whatever

it's needed.

So hang on, can they do that?

Can they randomly take

video footage

from creators and

others' channels

and put it as an ad for

the things that are

potentially

not portrayed

without the context?

I don't know.

Did the channel get mentioned, Lewis?

You'll have to ask. Have to look at that ad again.

I think if they mention the channel

or add the icon of the

maybe, I don't know.

What are you going to do, Sue Furfax?

Invoice.

How much?

8888?

Spectre.

Oh yeah.

What can you do, right? We're small fish.

I'm a small fish anyway.

What can you do? It's a big pond.

Okay, more cars.

We're almost at the end but we've got a few more cars.

So GWM bringing another electric SUV

finally after the aura.

It's been around for a while. What are we talking here?

What kind of car they're bringing?

I think we're talking

slightly bigger

than the Addo 3

or some,

right about the same size.

You can sort of see it's like a blotier

aura cat.

But yeah, all in all

pretty,

I think we're going to get it probably

in the first quarter of next year.

And this is one

of the few electric cars

that are in the works

at GWM

for markets like ours, particularly with

NVES in play now.

Yeah, 4.5 meters.

So just slightly

smaller than the Geely EX5

slightly bigger than the MGS5.

So yeah, that's not a bad segment.

That's probably the next segment that needs to be flushed out.

That smaller SUV, bigger hatch.

So it's good.

Yeah, does look like a blotted aura.

Not a bad looking car actually.

So

yeah, I mean

hoping Riz and Rollin

it's got to be 40s, right?

Low 40s, high 30s.

Yeah.

Definitely no fives.

No, no fives. Definitely not.

150 kilowatts,

peak power. Again, that's the same as my MGS5 now.

1.5 tons. Yeah, good specs.

48 to 63 kilowatt hour, hopefully LFP as well.

Yeah, I think GWM

for that. There's a few of their hybrids on the market.

The Canon Alpha, the

H6 GT, so

tech. That's right.

So good, good to see.

What's, oh, what's this from Riz?

Oh, that must be the standard, the aura

that's there now. Oh, the current aura.

Yep, cool, cool.

Yeah, nice. Yeah, I think the aura extended range

is quite a good deal for memory when I covered it

last time.

It's good.

And Roland, this is yours.

So, LeapMoto B10 ADR approved.

That's good. Another small SUV

big hatch coming onto the market.

Rural drive, good battery size.

Could be compelling.

Good price too.

I think it was $39

and $41 or $42,000

drive away. Drive away, yeah.

Great price. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I'm just a little bit concerned

about, because having driven the C10 recently,

the ADAS was not good.

It was quite grippy.

It would pull your line

quite sharply.

So hopefully they'll fix that with the B10

and hopefully Apple CarPlay, Android Auto

at launch as well.

The CarPlay and Android Auto

is Q1 or January, one of the two.

Cool.

Excellent. Yeah.

It looks like a small C10, right?

So, yeah, not a bad design either.

Good and rural drive,

obviously as well.

Good, good, good.

And what else have we got?

Oh, yes, thank you, Aaron. I'm not sure

what he's watching tonight. Aaron saying

he spotted a few EVs in New York

on his holiday. So we've got

Fisker Ocean.

Bit of a souvenir now, isn't it?

Fisker Museum piece.

You got a Lucid.

We're going to get these. These are sexy vehicles.

These Lucids, I've got to say.

They look so good. So nice, right?

That's a slippery car. Very slippery.

That would be quite expensive, I

imagine, if they ever came here.

Yeah.

You probably

only get three of these for your Spectre

rather than, you know, 20

MGS-5s.

Well, all I'll say is

the Lucid has

spouting money all over it.

Where Spectre still is

very much fluent through British

German, whatever you want to call it.

That's right.

Pick your battles.

And then the New York

Mustang Marquis, although it's now

just called a Marquis police car in my PD.

That's cool.

An avatar of the story of, I was stopped by

the police here in Sydney when I was driving

this Marquis

and I thought I was in trouble.

It was like a random breath test, right? I hadn't drunk yet, but still.

The cop looked, the police

man looked in and went, oh, show me what

this car's about. And he had a look inside.

And he gave me permission to just

slide off quickly past

the ranks.

That was good fun.

Yeah. Yeah, that's good.

That's good they're using EVs in

America.

And now

this is the interesting thing I found

just browsing on the internet

here. So if you are confused

by the Chinese EV brands

in the market

and just Chinese EV brands in general

as Riz and I sometimes are when we go to China

for press things.

This is kind of someone's

opinion of where these brands

position themselves

in the Chinese market.

So up the top here,

high tech stuff like Xiaomi, Neo, Ato,

Avatar, Li Auto

and then the premium stuffs like

M Hero, Denzer

and then semi-premium. So this is where

X-Pang, Zika, Voyeur,

Envo,

IM, SIT and that semi-premium space

and then Super Mainstream which I

assume Tesla is in there

where's Tesla? I can't see it.

Someone's point out to me.

I guess it's not technically a Chinese brand

Tesla. But this is where BYD,

Amoda,

Deepow. Well Deepow is considered

Super Mainstream, okay.

Firefly

and then Mainstream is

MG, GAC or

Havill,

Baljun,

Entry Level Stuff. I don't think we'll ever see

some of this in Australia.

The Entry Level Stuff you see in China.

Although Great Wall is down here at Entry Level

which is GWM.

So yeah,

nice little graphic there to help me

as well just to position where

these brands sit. Lincoln Co.

is in Super Mainstream apparently.

Yeah, interesting.

Do we disagree with this? Anything we should

like, should any of these move

up and down? What do you think?

That's pretty good. I think Lincoln should be moving

up because of the 9X and a couple

of those, you know, 009

those sort of

let's call them luxury vehicles

in their own right.

Hunter Cullinans, yep.

That's right.

Oh, I saw

an Ark Fox when I was with Deepow at the testing grounds there.

That looked pretty good.

Hmm.

Is Tank,

not the GWM Tank, right? Is that a different brand?

I think it is the same brand.

Maybe it's like,

yeah, maybe it's a separate like

maybe it's a separate brand

itself in China.

The Tank products are

Tank, although it's made by GWM.

Yeah, a Cameron, yeah,

109 brands. It is insane actually.

If you ever get to go to China, you just

stunned by how many cars, different brands.

You just cannot name them or why can't anyway.

There's just so many to choose from.

There's a few you go, okay, I know that one, that one.

Yeah, that's just insane.

So yeah, I'll leave that up there for a little while

and that's what you can refer to

if you get lost

with all the brands coming to market.

Okay, well, gents,

another good show tonight. Thank you so much for joining us, Roland.

Thank you.

Thanks for having me. It was great to be back.

Lots to cover. Still plenty more.

Plenty more.

And check out Roland's YouTube channel, Zapt,

on the video description below.

Anyways, Riz, thank you so much for your time.

Thank you for joining us from the Bonser Lounge.

Awesome to be on.

Great, Tom,

Broen to be back on.

And yeah, I know today was

a little bit Tesla heavy. We covered Zika

and a few other things, but

I think as we get into sort of the

next couple of weeks, I don't think

things are going to slow down, gents.

Before the end of this year, it looks like this

was spoken about a couple of models

that are going to be launching

potentially one of Australia's

field-based electric car.

That's going to be launched as well.

That will create a whole lot of buzz

amongst mainstream. You can buy

electric cars for around $25,000

potentially.

So, you know,

anyway, lots of things for us.

And thank you to all our audience

and viewers and listeners

for sharing all of your insights.

And yeah, amazing to always get a chance

to hear what you guys are thinking

as well. Yeah. Thank you for the bi-directional

learning. Maybe we should change the show

to bi-directional live stream. We just

don't as much as you guys as we do, as you

from us, hopefully. So I love it. I love

doing this Wednesday with you guys and

our audience as well. So yeah, we missed

you every Wednesday, last few weeks, but

yeah, it's good to be back and good to be

learning more about what's coming up in

the Australian market. Thank you, Rees. Thank

you, Roland. And thank you, everyone. Have a

good night. We shall see you all

same bad channel, same bad time next week.

Bye.

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