Welcome back to EVE News Daily. Coming up today, the Rivian R2 details leak 800-volt cyber truck charging

and the Model 3 Ludacruss gets an update. Plus stay tuned because later in the show I'll tell you what B.Y.D.

are doing to beat combustion cars in the price wars. Well, good morning, good afternoon or good evening.

Wherever you are in the world, it's E.V. your trusted source of EV information for Thursday 7th of March.

I'm Martin Lee, and I go through every EV story, so you don't have to.

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with an update on one of yesterday's stories, and that is Tesla's German Gigafactory, hit by

Arson, now closed until March 17th. It's been claimed by the Volcano Group. They claim

responsibility for the arson attack on Tesla's German factory in Grunheida,

causing the facility to lose electricity and potentially nearly a billion dollars. I had to read that one

twice. A billion dollars in damages and a potential closure until St. Patrick's Day. The attack

impacted over 60,000 residents in total. Yesterday, I told you 2,000 as the news cycle went on yesterday,

some more and more reports of the general impact of this electricity failure in the Brandenburg

area, parts of even Berlin due to the destruction of the high voltage power mast. Well, the German

publication de Spiegel had a live stream yesterday on YouTube, about minutes long with some spokespeople from the factory in the local area talking about what happened.

And Andre Tirig, the plant's senior director, said that estimated time of resumption would be March 17th.

Estimated economic loss would be up to one billion dollars.

That's certainly hundreds of millions of euros, though. With a daily production shortfall of

a thousand model-wise, emergency power solutions are ineffective in this case because of the

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