Coming up on podcast 1888, Tesla loses a key manager, the Audi RS6 EV Saloon, and lots of electric buses.

Stick around, I'll tell you more.

Welcome to a new Patreon producer, Sam, signed up about a week ago.

Now, Sam, is your name Dutch?

Your patron came through in Euros.

So I don't know, but your surname is it Reyes?

R-E-I-J-E-R-S.

There's a kind of a Dutch origin to that.

Sam, Reyes, I hope I get your name.

Correct.

I always do.

I'm funny about names.

I don't know why.

I just think it's a respect thing to get somebody's name, right? It's a personal thing, isn't it? Forgot it wrong, let me know, Sam. I'll get it right on the next podcast. Well, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are in the world. Evie News Daily is your trusted source of EV information. Today is Tuesday 8th of August. I'm Martin Lee, and I go through every Evie story, so you don't have to. We'll start with a LinkedIn blog from Jim Farley. He is the CEO of Ford Motor Company. He writes,

A few of us are setting off this week across the American West in an F-150 Lightning to go and see researchers, businesses, dealers, salespeople, EV conversion shops, EV drivers and communities.

There are things you can't learn in an office or from a PowerPoint will use the roads and charging stations

that millions of EV drivers are using to power their lives in this new world, and even

return to the charging station we visited last year that invited our Tesla deal. Long hauling

in an EV truck is an act of pioneerism, not because it's hard or dangerous, but because it's

a new way to experience America.

Shifting from fueling stations to charging stations requires new behaviors, opens new possibilities.

Thanks to the technology and the lightning, I'll be able to get work done from the road,

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