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Coming up today, Ford gains access to superchargers, mini production starts and Fisker

difficulties.

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I'll tell you what Nissan think they need to do to regain some traction in the EV space.

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Very optional. Now let's start with, we'll get onto the Ford News in a moment, which is arguably one of the biggest stories of the year. But first of all, I'll tell you about BMWs plant in Leipzig, starting manufacturing of the all-electric mini countrymen following the introduction of its combustion counterpart. The addition means that the plant in Germany now produces four models and across three

drive trains, so electric hybrid and combustion, the mini countryman comes in two versions, 150 kilowatts

or 2040 horsepower version and also a 230 kilowatt or 313 horsepower. SE all four version. Now,

the plant will increase its output to 500 units of these a day

and another 800 BMW vehicles that are being made there. Leipzig also hosts the Generation 5

high voltage battery production process for BMW, including cell coating, module production and battery

assembly and they're

expanding the battery operations there. They're also really proud of some of the advanced things

they've got going on, like even the paint plant there for the minis, for the electric minis.

And they're talking about that today in saying that they, you know, work really hard on even

creating a new paint shop that

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