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Smart is launching their number five or hashtag five.

I think they want us to call it, which still feels a very 2017 on Twitter, doesn't it?

Hashtags, but anyway, that's the name of the vehicle.

And that's what they've called it. So the one, the three, and now the five. It starts at 46,000 euros in Germany, at least. It'll come to Finland, Norway, Iceland, and more European markets soon.

And again, it redefines what you might think like I do in my head, my muscle memory on what smart is.

It's not the little 4-2 anymore or the 4-4.

It's a model Y.

It's a big SUV, the Smart 5.

Up to a 94-kilow-hour NMC pack.

It charges.

It's an 800-volt system on the big battery at least.

And you've got 18 minutes 10 to 80 charge,

a very powerful all-wheel drive, not what you might think smart is anymore,

and a very, very impressive smart charging vehicle.

Jeff Bezos has been investing in a company called Slate.

They want to make a two-seat, or at least a front bench, single cab, pickup truck

for America. And it will be very interesting to see if they can hit the price which they want to

of 25,000 US dollars. This is a company called Slate, and they talk about the vehicle being a clean

slate. It'll come with the vehicle.

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