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We'll start with news today of Citroen launching the redesigned C5 Aircross.

That's on the STLA Medium platform with the big battery.

So that is going to be a 97-kil hour pack, 422 miles or 679 kilometers of range in the

C-5 Aircross.

No pricing yet should launch this winter.

Peter Built Make commercial heavy-duty trucks and two new ones being launched with lithium-ion phosphate battery packs for things like dump trucks, utility trucks, and those kind of things.

It has, I like this, 1,800 pound feet of torque or 2,500 Newton metres of torque with a gross combined weight of 82,000 pounds.

So this is a proper heavy duty system.

We love it.

Right, back to the real world.

Smart, hashtag 5 is launching in Germany, starting at 45,000 euros.

That is with the LFP pack, 400-volt architecture.

The 800-volt systems are available on the same car on the slightly higher specs all the way up to the 62,000 Brabos edition. New York is looking to remove the waiver that it's offered Tesla for the last 10 years to sell their cars directly. Clearly, Elon Musk's interference in politics, not going down well in New York, which is also the home of a Buffalo

factory for New York, which has dished out a billion dollars in benefits. New York is requesting

the return of these subsidies and removing any further Tesla investments from the state or their

pension funds as well. Sun Woda is the manufacturer of battery technologies, introducing some new ones for plug-in hybrids

and extended range EVs and all electric vehicles at the recent Auto Shanghai event with 6C charging.

That's proper quick.

Keir is launching the PV5 electric van in the UK.

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