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Volvo following Tesla in suspending production of their European EV making XC40 and C40 at

their Ghent facility because of the supply chain disruption with the crisis in the Red Sea.

Quality issues seem to be present on the first real customer, non-employee. Cybertruck deliveries. Now, this is

photos posted to the forum, so careful, but it's not just panel gaps. That's a bit of a cliche,

and I wouldn't report on that. But it looks like one of the panels actually falling off.

It's probably got to go back and have it reattached and looks sort of like peeling away from

the side of the vehicle. Obviously, I don't think it left the factory like that but again hundred thousand dollar product

and you know tesla's a big established company right now so teething problems there we can't keep making

excuses when they were the little plucky startup they used to be hunday are offering a great deal on their Ionic 6 in the US until the end of

January to buy this. It takes the price down to about 3115. No federal tax credit on this, but it's a Hyundai

kind of cash rebate, if you're like. Also, Tesla adopting the EV tax credit system now,

so that's 7. half grand off at the point

of purchase on those Teslers, which do get the tax credit like the Model Y, not the new Model 3

Highland, unfortunately. Now, in China, reports are coming out of Tesla's latest update,

significantly making the voice assistant better, Talking to it in a much more

comprehensive, natural way, talking about the weather and the stock market and translation,

even reading some poetry. And it's working really well. Now, whether this is integrating

some of what Elon Musk's talked about with X-A-I and some AI staff or whether they're just making

it better. It's really interesting that in China.

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