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A Saudi boost for Lucid's Electric Dreams.

Lucid Group gets a $1.5 billion cash infusion from Saudi Arabia's public investment fund well and truly funded until the end of 2025,

by which time their new SUV, the gravity will know if that has been a success or not.

Tesla is boosting the charging speeds.

One social media account found their cyber truck was charging on a V4 dispenser at 323 kilowatts, the lead

cybertruck engineer. Wes Morrill later replying on social media that it wasn't a bug or an error,

but they are indeed testing higher speeds. I guess some of those vehicles like Model S,

Model X, maybe model Y, some of them, depending on the battery pack, can charge much faster than the

250 kilowatts that current Tesla superchargers have been limited to.

Talking of charging, by the way, wireless charging.

The latest, greatest innovation, the ORNL have charged a Porsche Tycon at 270 kilowatts.

That's the original Tycon's maximum charge rate,

wirelessly through a 4.75 inch air gap.

That is incredible.

Now, I know that plugging in an EV is not exactly the hardest job in the world,

but still, there's got to be a use somewhere somehow for wireless charging, and that is amazing, and it's 95% efficient as well. Wow. The Range Rover Sport has been seen testing in Spain. The prototype features many of the key changes you'd think like a blanked off front grill because it's going electric in a 2025 part of the big expansion for

Jaguar Land Rover. Six of their models in the next two years are going to go electric.

Now, Tesla has been talking, although not the CEO this time, but rather the plant manager

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