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The UAW United Auto Workers Union are going to invest $40 million to organize efforts at EV plants and, importantly, battery plants that aren't currently unionized.

They are proactively going after these new battery jobs in the US.

They say to ensure that everyone has a secure employment standard.

The Cadillac Lyric is now re-qualifying for the $7,500 federal tax credit,

all because of the supply of parts inside the battery.

If you're interested, it is battery separators and electrolytes.

They've changed, and that means they're now under the limit,

so they can once again get the federal tax credit. Rivian has reduced their losses. It is still fabulously

loss-making in terms of losing $1.5 billion in the quarter, but still their revenue is doubling to 1.32 billion,

and they've got the new R2 platform coming on March.

The seventh, I believe it is.

So we're looking forward to that.

And I think there's still a good news story around Rivian, to be told, despite all the negative

headlines I saw today, which was that they're still losing money.

But yep, so is lucid, and so did Tesla for 17 years. Well, Mercedes-Benz are updating their

EQS, not a full redesign. There's a full redesign of the Merck's coming soon with the old-fashioned

grill coming back and the big Mercedes silver kind of pop-up logo thing on the front, emblem badge, I should say.

But for now, a new front and back end of the EQS for this redesign.

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