It's TV news briefly for Thursday 10th of August. I'll be back at 5pm with the full podcast.

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on a link in the show notes. Tesla is boosting their East Coast distribution with a new facility

in New York. And that's a good thing because what do we want to do? That's not to wait a long time

to have our cars fixed.

This will become the primary hub for the distribution of vehicle parts on the East Coast.

Tesla continuing to invest there in sales, after sales and service.

Chargepoint is investing in a new network operation centre to keep an eye on their 243,000 plus charging ports across North America and Europe,

using machine learning on all the active ports on their network to work out which ones are going fine and which ones might be about to break or perhaps derated or limiting so they can send somebody out

proactively and get those fixed.

Ford's All-Electric Explorer will go on sale later this year. You can order yours before the

end of the year. It's a vehicle that's going to be made in the Ford Cologne EV center, and

it's going to have a 17-liter mega-consol between the driver and passenger front seats.

They say that it'll store a 15-inch laptop and have plenty of usability.

And it'll DC fast charge.

They say 25 minutes, 10 to 80, but I couldn't find the kilowatt speed on that, but that's really impressive.

BC Transit in British Columbia are investing in

115 all-electric buses. It's all part of Canada's goal to introduce 5,000 zero-mission

public transport and school buses by 2026. The Volvo EX30 has been discussed by Volvo

recently and how they have achieved the $35,000 price on a car that is, well, so desirable.

And they say because they've worked on innovation to reimagine the interior design.

Don't put speakers in the doors when you can have a big soundbar on the dashboard in front of you that sounds better and reduces all the wiring and

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