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So you get your name in the show notes, and you are one of the superstars that puts us on the air, Ron Hunter. Now, Ron signed up before my holidays. So you get your name in the show notes and you are one of the superstars that put us on the air.

Ron Hunter. Now, Ron signed up before my holidays. So Ron, thank you for waiting to get your

name check on the air, but I appreciate it. Well, good morning, good afternoon, good evening,

wherever you are in the world. Evie News Daily is your trusted source of EV information.

It is Tuesday the 5th of September. My name is Martin Lee and I go through

every EV story. I've forgotten how to do this. So you don't have to. We go live at 5 p.m. UK,

midday, Eastern, Patreon supporters get the episodes as soon as they're ready and add free. Be like them

by clicking on a link in the show notes. Thank you for your patience while we took a

week's family holiday and then flew back into something which we were not expecting. Now for viewers

of the Friday podcast, now the Batteries Included podcast, which I was meant to be joining last Friday

on the 1st of September, I did drop in a short recorded segment to Dom and Tom and

Kyle to explain why I couldn't do that. And I can explain to you now where I've been. I can do a

full podcast on the experience. If anybody cares, no one does. But I will tell you that this year,

we've been going through the adoption process. My wife and I felt very strongly that we wanted to do

this, both 45 years old. It's now or never. And we thought the timeline would be a bit more

extended, perhaps going into October. But the plans fell into place while we were away in

Teneree with our five-year-old. And we flew back into that to the social workers saying,

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