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Then if you haven't got time for the full show.

And of course the news is going to be Ford and Tesla and Supercharged is opening up but first I quickly want to mention

Mini and the German factory in Leipzig has started manufacturing the all-electric

mini countrymen following the launch of that there's now two versions of the all-electric

countrymen the E which is 150 kilowatts,

and the SE, all four, with 230 kilowatts of power, making 500 of them a day, and it follows

some adjustments in production to meet the customer demand there. Leipzig, that factory also hosts

the Gen 5,

high voltage battery processes and production

and cell coating for BMW as well.

Ex-Pang in China is rolling out their navigation guided pilot.

That's the ADAS system using radar and LIDAR and cameras,

and it was initially just 200 cities,

but it's widening out and by the end of the year.

You'll be able to navigate seamlessly point to point, any point to point in China, from highways, urban roads,

pathways, parking lots, and that is rolling out exceptionally quickly.

And from the YouTube videos that I've seen, it works really, really well.

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