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IX3's had more than 3,000 orders in Germany alone in the first six weeks, easing some concerns about the initial volume expected and more than the combustion X3, for instance, 500 miles of range on that Neuer-classer vehicle.

Now, there are vehicles that will go further here in Europe.

Lucid sell the air, obviously an entirely different vehicle to a SUV like the IX3.

Now, Lucid's gravity, their SUV, has been range-ested in the US by Tom Loughany, state of charge, and it didn't do very well.

450 miles EPA, 345 miles

on a 75 mile an hour range test. Now, a lot of mitigating factors here. It was colder. There was

a bit of wind. The thing had a problem. Lucid came and collected the next day. They say issue with

the rear drive unit.

Not ideal.

That's the car that you ship to the press to do their testing with. And also it left six kilowatt hours on the table. That's a huge low-end buffer. So there's something wrong with that vehicle. That should not have gone to the press. That should not, you know, and I'm just saying press should get special treatment. but if it's a production vehicle, that shouldn't go to customers either.

It's a $100,000 vehicle. Now, Porsche Cayenne also range tested,

not a perfect range test. This was more of letting Tom and Kyle from outer spec drive the Porsche

Cayenne in its current guy, six to nine months away from series production, but that did 353 miles

at 70 miles an hour, and it will recharge at 400 kilowatts as well. The cayenne shaping up to be

seriously impressive. A new report from transport and environment say most plug-in hybrids

and therefore e-refs are not charged outside of China.

A lot of Western car makers are now eyeing E-REVs as a way to extend their combustion businesses,

or the investment that's gone into engine development.

E-REVs typically have bigger batteries, 30, 40, 50, 50, 60, 80 kilowatt hours in some cases in China,

and they're just range extenders. So the engine

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