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So Patrick, tell us who are you and what you do.

My name is Patrick George. I'm the editor and chief of Inside EVs.com

and I'm a contributor to the Atlantic and the

verge and a few other publications.

Patrick is a car guy. He's covered the auto industry for years and these days he's focused on

electric vehicles so fair to say he's now an EV guy. Thanks to his job

Patrick does a lot of test driving.

Last week, he tested out a fancy Mercedes EV.

It was an SUV with a six-figure price tag.

He landed out to his wife. She didn't love it. She borrowed it for a bit to go run

some errands and I asked her like just bring it back with a full charge because we have we

have to drive back to New York City that night and I just had the worst time getting the car to

connect to any of the public chargers that are near us in upstate New York and

just kind of calls me screaming jumping up and dach like the software won't work and we'll

connect to the car and she's like did you know it was like this? I said yes.

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