It's EV News briefly for the 12th of October.

Everything EV in less than five minutes. If you haven't got time for the full podcast, Patreon supporters, by the way, get access to the kilowatt confidential private chat. So if you are a paid up member on Patreon, $5, $10 to be an exact producer, maybe more a month, depending on how much you want to support this show. You can come and join me inside the private chat room called KiloWK confidential on Patreon.

US EV sales, according to Kelly Blueburg, were 438,000 units in the third quarter of the year.

Not official data, they say volume rose, 40% more than the previous quarter, and 30% more than the same time last year. 90 EV

models on sale to pick from Model Y leads. Volkswagen Group delivering 252,000 B-EVs, PureBevs in the

third quarter of this year. Their biggest sellers, ID4, 85 and ID3. Mercedes will ship the CLA

with Google's Gemini, And I think that's a really

interesting move because you see a lot of AI in Chinese cars, but Mercedes-Benz shipping a very

mainstream car like the CLA with Google Gemini, which I, by the way, use all the time.

I'm absolutely in love with AI as a sounding board, something to brainstorm with.

And I work on my own, mostly these days, at home making this podcast for you.

And so I kind of got first-hand experience, and I do use Gemini all the time.

I pay for it.

And so it's really, really good now.

Now, I still feel a bit wrong talking to my car with other people

in the car, but on my own, to have context, to have memory, to be talking about which charges

to go to, and you can ask, is that one quicker? Where should I go? How long have I been? It's very

conversational, much better than typical voice in cars, which until now has largely sucked.

Mercedes also driving around in the ELF, a bit like an EQV.

But this is an experimental vehicle. It's equipped with megawatt charging, also 900 kilowatt charging on a CCS connector, and also some wireless charging to test out those technologies.

Nissan's ARIA may be ending in the United States for the new model year, but in Japan, it's

actually getting a refresh and a new push. A new fronts, new DRLs, new side cladding,

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