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A cross-country lucid trip, 2,800 miles in the Lucid air grand touring was done.

That's L8 in New York.

And they stopped just seven times.

These gentlemen who did the trips, and it was pretty easy, actually,'s L8 in New York. And they stopped just seven times. These gentlemen who did the trips that it was pretty easy, actually, using Electrify America, charge point, EV go and more.

And it was actually pretty drama-free. An EV for long-range travel? Yeah, no problem.

Lucid have got their software update coming with new ADAS. That's the advanced driver assistance, systems,

and their own version of the Amazon hands free software. You now say, hey, lucid, and ask your car to do things.

Rivian are talking about their pay to play autonomy. And having to be careful what they put as a subscription and what not, the future autonomy, advanced features at

Rivian, they've been talking about what they can charge customers for, the business model,

the pricing all up in the air, but certainly something that is part of their autonomy plus platform.

That launches next year. Mexico is developing their own EV standards for charging, for infrastructure, safety and technical requirements.

You would think hopefully they send to that all around J-3400, aka Nax, aka the Tesla plug, which really should be everywhere in North America going forward.

Tesla are following on from hands-free, frunk opening to hands-free,

uh, sorry, trunk to frunk.

So now the front of the vehicle on Teslas, uh, using the ultra wideband chips on the SDX and the new model three, get your key or your phone key near enough to the car, stand in front

of the camera and the frunk will open if your hands are full.

Volvo have been talking about what they think you can charge

and not charge customers for going forward subscription services, the whole BMW thing of,

hey, we'll charge for heated seats. No, you won't BMW. Well, no one's paying for that.

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