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Dating apps? Easy.

Online shopping? Simple.

Banking app? Sorted.

Life admin? Ugh. That's what a digital ID could change.

And the government is opening a conversation to make it work for you. Your voice will shape the final product. So search digital ID consultation to have your say. Digital ID, making it work

for you. Welcome back to Evie News Daily. Mercedes Premium VLE van, GM Bolt arrives at dealers, and Porsche

adds the Cayenne S. Evie. Plus stay tuned. Later in the show, I'll tell you which three brands are likely front of the queue to make the most of Canada's tariff cut on Chinese EVs.

Talking to which over on EB News China today, our spin-off podcast, looking at what happens in the East and how it affects the global EV industry.

Neo defending their battery swapping strategy, Denz's Z9 GT,

show cars are arriving, and Zika hit by rising chip costs. You can blame AI for that. All right,

let's get into it. Big news today, all the YouTube videos dropped and the written articles came out. So embargo lifted

on Mercedes launching the new all-electric VLE. Very premium van. In fact, not that premium in base

spec. You'd have to stretch to get into it. I mean, you'd be a very nice family hauler, but it does go up to, hoolly doly, this thing is special kind of price.

Van.e.a is the modular, scalable van architecture that will support everything from the cost-optimized base model to the ultra-premium VLS, which is coming. Mercedes positioning that as the van

segment's S-class, but frankly, it's like borderline my back. The range starts with the VLE

250. Front-wheel drive, 80-kil-hour, LFP pack, charging at 300-kilwatt. That's brilliant.

Then you got the VLE 300 or 400 formatic all-wheel drive.

The battery pack grows a lot bigger, 115 kilowatt hours. And that's net, by the way. CATL provide the

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