Welcome back to EV News Daily coming up today. Tesla's largest layoff in their history.

GM's $3.5 billion Indiana Battery Plant and Kia helps dealers sell EVs.

Plus stay tuned because later in the show. I'll tell you what renewables milestones are being

hit not only in California but across the US. Well, good morning, good afternoon or good

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We'll start with Correction Corner, not been over here for a while, actually, but a mistake that I made on Friday, which was to talk about how right-hand drive models, Australia would

be the first market for right-hand drive forward F-150 lightnings, which is very excited about.

And I got very excited because we only get the

plug-in hybrid Ranger coming later this year to our right-hand drive market. Thank you very much to

one of my fine listeners who immediately pointed out. They're not doing that. It is a run of

hand-built right-hand drive versions. They're not factory-built right-hand drive. It's not going to

be the star of a right-hand drive rollout of the F-150 Lightning direct from Ford, but an Aussie shop who will be doing the

conversions. So, stand down as you were. Let's start with news of Tesla reducing its global staff

by over 10%. Well, Tesla announcing in an internal email that it will cut more than 10% of

their global workforce,

affecting at least 140,000 employees out of approximately 140,000 for some context on today's

breaking news. The company recently instructed managers to identify essential personnel,

while putting a halt to some stock rewards and canceling certain annual employee reviews.

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