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New information coming out about Apple and their EV car project, whatever is going to be on autonomous vehicle or an EV.

Working with BYD back in 2017 on LFP battery technology so that it would be long range

and safe.

And of course BYD have gone on to have their Finn Dreams bit of the company that makes the

blade battery and all of their BYD vehicles, which is incredibly safe and actually very good

technology too.

Jaguar Land Rover seem on track to release their electric

version of the Range Rover. By the end of the year, we're hearing, and the Ranger Rover Sport

not at the same time, which I previously suspected, but the Ranger Rover Sport following shortly

after for its launch. They're both on the MLA platform, which the gas cars are on, but this will be an

800-volt architecture, whereas the Vela and the Evoke, smaller models on a dedicated EV

platform called EMA. And I hope the Rainsrovers look, well, just like the combustion rangers.

I suspect that's what those clients absolutely want the cars to look like. How's this for a good

deal of the weekend?

195 pounds all in with insurance and maintenance on a brand new EV.

That's what Octopus electric vehicles will do in the UK on the new Datchyar Spring.

Not the best EV.

27 kilowatt hours battery, 137 miles WLTP range.

But that's a less than 200 quid to go motoring, a fixed cost and all that. I think that's a very good deal. The new Audi A3 is going on order in November. And in the

UK, the 40 spec, now Audi give their cars numbers. The Audi A340 gets a 20 kilowatt hour battery

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