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And so if you'd like to support the show, check out the Patreon page or not. It'll always be free. I don't mind. Cadillac is introducing

the Optic V, a new high-performance electric SUV. Cadillac has added the 26 Optic Compact

SUV to its V series lineup. The Optic V upgrades to a dual dual motor all-wheel drive system from the larger

Lyric V. It delivers 519 horsepower and get this 650 pound feet of torque. I hope you've got

a friends and family deal or repeat customer deal at your local tire shop because if you got a heavy right foot

you'll be needing some new ones wow that's a lot of power this lets it accelerate no to 63.5

seconds standard optic 5.2 it's no slouch and that's 300 horsepower dual motor the more powerful

system does reduce range you won't be surprised to However, the 85 kilowatt hour battery now gets an estimated 275 miles. That's 25 miles less than the standard model. Lead engineer Alex Doss says the optic V was designed for dynamic handling on twisty roads. It features six piston brembo front brakes, sharper steering,

tuned suspension, and it sits on Continental Sport Contact 6 summer tires. The Optic V is also the first

GM vehicle with built-in NACS charging port. So J-3400 natively giving access to, well, anything that uses the old Tesla plug.

So that would be obviously Tesla's supercharger network and all of the new hardware going in the ground,

which is probably, you know, for the next five or ten years or whatever, going to be double-headed.

There's probably going to be a CCS and an axe connector on both charging in many places.

And so maybe you've got to change over your home charger as well or maybe just get an adapter.

But either way, it comes natively with that. Production starts in the autumn.

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