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The Jeep Recon EV should be approaching production.

More photos seen of a prototype version of that looking, well, production ready.

And yes, it is just an electric wrangler. It's got the big

oversized tires and the wheel arches and it's a box and you can take the windows and doors and

roof off and, you know, roll back the fabric roof. And it's going to have all those off-road

characteristics that with EV power, if they get the software right, can be, and a mix of hardware stuff as well,

can be even better than combustion.

Amazon is expanding its car shopping to 48 cities, obviously big cities like Los Angeles, Atlanta,

Dallas, Miami and New York, but more as well.

Starting with Hyundai, the car dealers themselves will sell you the vehicle, but you find it

on Amazon, you click buy now on Amazon, and they

will do the financing and even trade in your old car as well. Lots of it will use and trust Amazon.

The actual final sale bill, as it were, happens with the Hyundai dealer. Australia is hitting

100,000 EV sales so far in 2024, with almost half a month to go. That's great news. And an EV

charging network coming to Australia with a UK firm grid serve we have over here. They're so good.

Their electric highway, which they bought off a kind of a company that wasn't, I think,

investing enough and totally refurbished that all new hardware, expanding it at their sites as well.

So, you know, two chargers became eight or ten.

And a grid server got those big, shiny, you know, 40-50 charger stations as well with the indoor area.

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