Welcome back to Evie News Daily coming up today. Tesla has done it. They've launched the rear-wheel drive,

cheaper version of the cyber truck, but how cheap the EU and China get back in bed to renegotiate

their EV tariffs and EV sales in the US up by a lot. Plus stay tuned because later in the show,

I'll tell you which automaker just swooped in to pick up the employees and assets of the bankrupt hydrogen truckmaker Nicola for pennies on the dollar.

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Right, we'll start with news of something that I was wrong by, well, you know, 12 days. I'll give myself that.

I predicted by the end of Q1, Tesla would have a cheaper cyber truck on offer

to juice the sales numbers. Well, they didn't, because it took them until the 12th of April.

Maybe actually yesterday. This is yesterday's news. So this is the 11th of April.

Still, I'll take it. You know, I'll give myself half a win for that because Tesla has finally

launched a cut price,

rear-wheel drive version of the cyber truck, starts at 70,000 US on sailing Mexico too,

and this is eligible for the federal tax credit. Now, this model costs more than what was

promised way back when, when, you know, television was black and white

and we first got promised the cyber truck. However, despite the price increases, it does offer

a decent amount of range. In fact, in fact, more than what was promised at launch. So obviously

we had the reveal of the cyber truck,

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