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Wello everyone, welcome and thank you
for joining me on Twitter spaces and hi

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Elon, thanks for joining. Absolutely, welcome to Twitter spaces. It's great

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to have you, and I think
everyone's really excited to care of the announcement.

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Well, great, Elan. I'm
I'm really excited to join and join

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you on this. And you know, when you think about what's happening in

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our industry, and I've been in
it for forty years, this is the

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most exciting time when we look at
this transformation to EVS. Absolutely, I

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think this is one of the great
inflection points in vehicles. It's I think

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comparable to really the the movie production
line, and so it's a profound change

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in the world. Yeah. Absolutely, And I think you and I both

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know and that in order to drive
ev adaption, we need to have charging

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a robust charging infrastructure, and so
I'm really excited to announce our collaboration with

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you and with Tesla. And by
the way, your team is fantastic that

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we plan to adopt the North American
charging standard and we're working really hard that

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our first vehicle will come in twenty
twenty five. To me, what's even

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more exciting is that our existing EV
customers can leverage the twelve thousand Tesla fast

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chargers early next spring with an adapter. So I couldn't be more excited about

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what this is going to do for
customers and for EV adoption. That's that's

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great. Um and uh, obviously
one of EMI says that you have our

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full support and we're incredibly excited to
part with you on this. It's a

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and just really make make it a
fantastic electric vehicle experience, whether somebody is

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driving a car from GM or from
Tesla. Well, I agree, and

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I think, um, you know, I think we have a real opportunity

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here to really drive this to be
the unified standard for North America, which

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I think will even enable more mass
adoption. So I couldn't be more excited.

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Well, it's fantastic, So I
think this, Yeah, this is

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really great for consumers. UM and
I'm not sure if people in North American

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realized, like it's really it's much
better standard and US it's only one connector

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that automatic FEAT detects whether it's AC
or DC, automatically adjusts with the the

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current UM. And it's also it's
light and easy to handle, and I

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think esthetically is also profitable Um,
so we're honored to have you join us,

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and as I said, you will
have our absolute full support. Well,

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I appreciate that. I appreciate the
full support. And what you just

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mentioned I think is one of the
key reasons why we're excited you making this

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change because of the design and performance
of the North American charging standard, you

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know, from an ergonomic perspective and
from a you know, a reliability durability.

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So I think it's like I said
to me, anytime you're making a

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decision that is better for customers,
uh, you know, it's it's better

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for the company as well, better
for the industry. And uh you know,

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from a GM perspective, this really
almost doubles access to chargers um that

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GM has already made available. So
uh again, this is this I think

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is a really positive day for GM. I'm glad you feel it's great for

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Tesla as well. And I don't
if you want to say anything else,

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or maybe we could take some questions. Yeah that sounds great. Um yeah,

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I think questions would would would be
great at do you want to do?

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Want to big people? Or how
should we do it? Uh?

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Well, um, I think uh, if you have what why don't we

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start. Um, I know,
one of the questions we're going to be

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asked is why is General Motors making
this change now? And uh, you

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know, from a from a GM
perspective, as I said, you know,

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as we looked at this and realized
we could I uh, you know,

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really address one of the biggest issues
that customers are telling us is,

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Hey, you know, I like
EVS, but if it's going to be

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my only vehicle, I need to
know that there's a robust charging infrastructure.

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So UM, I think this gives
us a huge opportunity to to do something

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that's better for customers and to drive
it to be the standard. So that's

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why GM's making this decision. But
let's see if there's some other questions in

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the chat. Great, Um,
Well, it's um, I think you

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have post authorities, so it's it's
up to you to sort of pick someone

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and invite them to be a speaker. UM. But I think, you

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know, I see a lot of
a lot of really um you know,

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great people that have that have tuned
in and know a lot about the electric

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bical industry. So I think you
could almost pick almost anyone and they'll have

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some great questions. All right,
Well, I'm looking at the chat right

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now, and there's what I'm seeing
is a lot of excitement, people saying

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can't wait. Exciting, But there
is one question coming in that says,

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um, when will the dapters be
available? And so you know, and

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we plan to have adaptors be available
to customers early next spring, and so

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again this is coming soon, even
though the vehicles will be in twenty five.

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Let's see. Another question is what
would you say to someone considering an

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EV but is skeptical of the available
charging And I said, I would say

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that, you know, when you
look at the fact that you know Tesla

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and Elon, you know you have
a large charging network already, and then

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you know, with General Motors joining
and with four the three US based auto

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companies are all on one standard.
And so I think that's going to drive

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a lot of adoption, which I
think will be really important. So for

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the customer who's skeptical of an EV, I think it all just got a

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little better. I don't know,
what do you think? Yeah, no,

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absolutely, I think this will really
help people put people's minded ease,

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and um, yeah, we can
we can focus on one standard and it's

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it's really going to be grateful consumers. Um, they just won't have to

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worry about you know, which you
know, which which plug, which so

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could which charging station? Um?
And and it'll just work seamlessly. Um.

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So I think this is going to
be just a really fundamentally great thing

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for the advancement of electric vehicles in
North America. Yeah, I completely agree.

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Here's another question. Will new gm
evs with the North American Charging Standard

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be able to use the CCS charger? Yes, you know, I think

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it is today that a Tesla consumer
can do that, and those customers will

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be able to use an adapter with
CCS chargers. And that's why I think

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this is so important because it unlocks
both. But I think when you look

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at the fact that Tessa already has
the North American Charging Standard and now when

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you look at you know, you've
got two big OEMs doing it as well,

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I think that that's key. That
sounds great And I do want to

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reiterate to Jim owners out there that
you know, t Tala is not going

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to do anything to prefer tells us, so it really will be, you

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know, um, an even playing
field. So how many people should should

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feel comfortable buying a TAILS or a
jam Car, and we will provide UM

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support equally to both. So UM, the most important thing is that we

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advanced the electric vehicle revolution. I
completely agree with you, Elon and so

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UM. I know you're super busy, so I really want to thank you

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for taking time to make this announcement. So I think we probably should close

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things out, but again, an
important step for for general motors for sure.

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I think something good for the customers
and good for our industry. So

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I really want to thank you and
again shout shout out thanks to your team

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as well. You're most welcome.
It's an art work with you. Thank

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you, have a great day.
Goodbye,