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EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

02 Mar 2024 | Briefly

EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

Martyn Lee

Business, Leisure, Technology, Automotive

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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It’s EV News Briefly for Saturday 2nd March, everything you need to know in less than 5 minutes if you haven’t got time for the full show. I’ll be back later but Patreon supporters get the episodes as soon as they’re ready AND ad free. You can be like them by clicking here.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

It's TV news briefly for Saturday the 2nd of March.

0:02.7

Everything you need to know in less than five minutes if you haven't got time for the full podcast.

0:06.9

Today, we'll start with some news about the Model 3,

0:11.0

ludicrous plaid performance.

0:13.3

I don't know what do we call it?

0:14.0

It probably won't be plaid because that's reserved for the top end, S and X,

0:17.4

and it won't be performance because they've kind of done that.

0:20.2

So let's call it the ludicrous Model 3. More pictures now coming out of the United States. This one being

0:24.5

towed with camo wrap all over it showing that this vehicle is hopefully getting closer to being

0:31.3

launched. The so-called Highland Refresh of Model 3 meant that the performance versions around the

0:35.9

world came off sale.

0:38.1

We don't think they're gone forever though.

0:39.8

We don't think it'll come back as performance.

0:41.4

We think it'll be not the red underline, but it'll be a ludicrous badge.

0:45.6

And so new, significantly different, I think, splitters at the front, some body styling inside.

0:53.9

New sculpted performance seat, like bucket seats, we think, and more as well, to make it much more of a

1:01.3

arrival to a BMWM product or a Mercedes, you know, proper AMG product, not just, you know, more power with what is power with what is your normal Model 3.

1:14.5

So, no news on when we get it, but more sightings.

1:18.8

A famous Tesla critic called Dan O'Dowd, who runs something called the Dawn Project,

1:23.9

they run TV ads, warning people that full self-driving is not fully finished yet.

1:27.6

And Tesla fans don't really like this person because they sort of, I don't know, talk negative

1:33.4

things about Tesla.

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