It's EV News briefly for Tuesday 19th of March.

Everything you need to know about EVs in less than five minutes,

if you haven't got time for today's full podcast, almost half an hour long.

We'll start with news about Rivian expanding their charging options

with access to 15,000 Tesla supercharger stations.

That's right.

The adapters are coming the way of the R1T.

And the R1S owners, oh, and the best thing is it's going to be free like the Ford's as well. So with your free J3400 to CCS1 adapter, you can now, as a Ruvian owner, use the in-car nav to find those Tesla supercharges from April and do the whole plug-in charge thing and the whole thing will be looked after by Ruvian's

custom software. You haven't got to use the Tesla app. That's so cool. Brilliant. Tesla's Model 3,

Highland, so-called Highland, ludicrous edition. We think is close because they have found traces

of that in the back end source code of Tesla.com,

not hacking the website or anything, but just doing the old, you know, right click and view source,

all that kind of stuff, and mentions in that, I don't know, HTML code, probably the wrong,

the wrong phrase of Model 3 ludicrous and a page for it with stats on nought-60 and 3.2 second.

That might be a placeholder because I think it's going to be quicker than that.

But that probably means if they got to the stage of, you know, the internet guys and girls at Tesla putting the pages up and hiding them in the background,

that it's probably going to be close.

We think a global launch as well for that, China, Europe and US.

Mercedes have been showing off their Vision EQX. That's their hyper-efficient car that's done a few big runs so far.

I saw the engineers after they did Stuttgart to Silverstone in that run. Now they've just done a run to have to show off their thermal management. They went to the

Middle East for this one and they have been driving the Arabian Peninsula 627 miles covered at an

average of 8.4 miles per kilowatt hour. Still had a bunch of miles left in the tank at the end.

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