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Right, we'll start with news of Ford introducing the plug-in hybrid version of their Transit Connect.

Now, the Ford Transit is obviously a big panel van.

The Connect is the smaller version, lower,

and it's got over 60 miles, over 100 kilometres of electrical range on the plug-in hybrid.

11 kilowatt AC charging, 50 kilowatt DC fast charging.

I think this van, if it's used for tradespeople and stuff like that,

will do a lot of its life on electric only.

But have the backup of the petrol engine, which for many people, they need for now.

Smart is expanding their lineup.

There's the Smart 2, 3, 4, 5.

Now the Model 6, or hashtag 6, I think I have to call it, is going to be the mid-size sedan.

Whatever you think Smart is in your head, because I think of smart as the little 4-2, little dinky cars.

It's going to be entirely different going forward, and their whole lineup is expanding into bigger vehicles.

A new study is debunking

what I hear a lot, which is using your vehicle's battery for vehicle to, you know, vehicle to load,

vehicle to home, vehicle to grid. Call it vehicle to X, vehicle to anything. Actually,

a new German study pointing out the worst case is about 3% degradation, but otherwise using it to

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