Hello and welcome to the Euphorum Talk Show. Our guest today is Rajan Amba, Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Customer Care, Tata Motors. Welcome to the show, Rajan. Thank you, Kanchan. It's a pleasure. Mr. Rajan, while inflation and joblessness are still affecting the consumer's sentiments to some extent, but almost all car makers, they have been able to block huge growth over the past few months, even Tata Motors itself registered more than 50% growth in passenger vehicle sales in August compared to July. So how do you view this kind of conflict and how much growth you are expecting in this festive season? So I think it's not so much a conflict as much as the environmental situation post-COVID. I think the whole COVID situation when we were all locked up in our houses or in our cities, etc., for long periods of time over two years, I think it was a time of introspection for all of us as human beings in that sense. And I think it fueled the need for private transportation so that you could protect yourself and your loved ones from exposure in public transportation because being exposed in public became the area that people were most afraid of. And that just kind of fueled that sentiment. And it so happened that during those periods, there was a lot more saving because there was a lot less spending. And that kind of made the decision for anybody who was not thinking of a car or for anybody who was having an older car that just made the decision to move to a car or a newer car or a bigger car that much more easier. And I think that aspect of safety became the number one most on top of people's bucket list of purchases to be done. I think we all realized that at that point in time, we had too many clothes, we didn't need more clothes. And I think consumer goods in terms of white goods went up as well because there was a lot more usage of the home appliances and a need for a grid, etc. But I think the priorities kind of shifted and that kind of elevated the whole situation around the automobile buying. So how much growth you are exactly expecting in this festive season and what exactly are your festive marketing plans apart from the campaign on which we are going to talk about later? Yeah, I think that we don't like to read any crystal ball on these kind of questions. But I think it suffices, two or three things I would say that first of all, this is what I call the silly season or the funny season where auspicious dates play a very, very key role in moving huge amounts of product in those small windows of dates. And those dates are going to open up from 26 onwards. So it's only when we look back at the data points somewhere around the 10th of October will they get a better perspective of how the season has gone. Having said that, I think it's sufficient to say that inquiries are very strong. Bookings are also strong. There's sufficient interest. There's been a lot of new interventions and launches in the market by everybody, including us. And I think that's been fueling the interest. And now it's just a question of that, we're at that tipping point or the last stage where from the next few days from the 25th, 26th onwards to the 5th, there will be a huge amount of pressure on our retail partners, on our dealer partners, because people will come in during that period and will want deliveries because they're auspicious or we want booking and deliveries within the short periods, which is what we are preparing for from the inventory perspective as well as from a production cycle perspective. So we are pretty much ready for this. And we're keeping our fingers crossed as the signs are good, signs are positive, very positive. So your latest campaign around Durga Pooja that is yet to be released seems to be quite powerful. And I feel that it conveys the message that generosity and kindness are at the core of our festivals. So I would like to know from you, what is the whole idea behind this campaign on Durga Pooja?  I think first of all, the campaign that we have done for Durga Pooja has been released just a few days back on the back of another campaign that we launched two weeks ago for Tamil Nadu. And these are specific campaigns for those markets or those cities or that community or population. Because two years back when we embarked on our new forever initiative, which is if I would put it, I would simply say it was about reinvention across the board in terms of car, in terms of product, in terms of the way we sell, etc. One of the things we realize is that there are many markets which have a lot more potential for us where we are underserving the consumer. And that's because we've had some challenges in the past on the brand and so on and so forth. And West Bengal was one of those markets and Tamil Nadu was one of those markets among many other markets that we chose to focus on. And two years back, we started the initiative in West Bengal by signing a personjeet as our brand evangelist. And at that point in time, we did a lot of work with him in more static media and it paid off very well. Where we saw, we closed the year with an average market share of 8% in West Bengal. And that helped us to build it up to 14% that we have today in West Bengal in just that one year. And of course, prior to that, it was much, prior to that 8% was much lower. And with the confidence that we built up from last year, looking at the way our brand has been or the business has been growing in West Bengal, we wanted to do something even a notch above that what we had been doing in the past. And our relationship with personjeet serves as a beautiful foundation. And of course, the culture of Durga Puja and the nature of Durga Puja and the nature of the Bengali consumer doing Durga Puja is wonderful fuel for the creative juices and minds of our agency partners. And as you rightly pointed out, it's largely Durga Puja is rightly about the celebration of good or evil. And the core of Durga Puja is about doing good and being good. And I think the film that we have put out there wonderfully leverages this sentiment and seamlessly integrates doing good using the various aspects and features of our cars to do good from a community perspective as the various instances in the commercial clearly highlight. I think suffice to say that the whole film from both the sound and music and the examples in that has been accepted extremely, extremely well, not just in West Bengal, but I think throughout the country it's a film that doesn't require translation, which is why we have not translated it because very often we lose the essence and ethos when you have such beautiful languages, Bengali and then you're trying to translate into English, you're not going to get and you're going to probably insult a few people by trying that. So I think we've remained true to that, kept it pure and it didn't require any translation, honestly. Do you have more such campaigns lined up for Diwali? Well, we're running, we're also having a similar campaign for Tamil Nadu, which is not as I would say which it's in a different way because the challenges for Tamil Nadu are very different. That's a campaign that again beautifully done and short and scripted and visualized and articulated through the music and the words of the music there, but that's a little quite different. It is basically the celebration of the roots of the rich cultural roots and heritage of Tamil Nadu just opposed or relating to the roots of the deep roots of Tata's in the country and how while we're both similar, we're also old in our roots, we're also very progressive and when you see the film you'll see how we've looked at the consumer in Tamil Nadu today, the younger consumer, how while they are younger and they have newer age ideas and thoughts and values, they're also still sticking to many parts of their culture which are deep rooted in their psyche and we are celebrating all of that in that film. As you mentioned that West Bengal and maybe Tamil Nadu were underserved till now, so I would also like to know which new markets and new categories you are targeting for growth at present, apart from these two. Yeah, I think there are about there are 12 core markets for us, I can't disclose those details at this point in time, we've been working on them for the last couple of years and as in when we have material like we have today to share with you, then we will talk about that, we'd rather act first and then talk later, I would say, so but it's something which we really looking forward to because one of the things that one has to realize as a market here is that there are regional nuances and there is such a richness of culture and opportunity for brands like us that we speak to people in their language, closed and very close to them as opposed to applying a cookie cutter approach where we have so-called national campaigns and I think both the puja film and the Tamil Nadu film kind of I think validate what we're talking about and we look forward to more such work in building a brand over the next few years. This is not just a one-time thing or an expectation that now magic will happen, it's not something that's not the way things work, but I think that certainly if we continue to put our head down, put our nose to the ground and continue to work hard and find those insights which we can relate to our consumers at regional levels, I think that there is so much more for us to achieve. So compared to the last two years, how much edX allocated for this festive season? Is it more compared to the last two years and if yes, then can you please tell us in terms of percentage? I think I would just say that it is substantially more than last year as a brand, we've been growing at a revenue level and at a unit level as you're all aware, even this year we're growing at about 65% year-to-date. So you can well imagine that the company and the management is bearing no expenses to make sure that the work that has been done last year that we continue to build on that. This is not the time for us to be cutting down on these initiatives and efforts because there has been so much return for that investment so to speak and so much love from the consumers which has given us the strong number three slot and occasionally in a few periods, even the number two slot from a brand which two to a half years ago was five or six or seven in a very competitive industry and environment. So I think that we were as a company and as a management we all acknowledge that that there are miles to go before we can rest and flatline those budgets. How is your EV segment growing? I mean what are your new targets and if you can give us its share in the total car sales? So EV is about 8% of our business, CNG is another 11% so between these two alternate fuel options we do 20% of our business. We have been hitting consistently now 4,000 units a month on the EV side and I think it's suffice to say that this year by the end of this month we will cross the last year's full number. So we are poised to more than double our numbers as far as the EV business grows. So in a growth in excess 100% should be expected from over last year at the current round. Is it going to be called calendar year or financially? Financially, which of course we would also translate into the calendar in that sense. Now my last question after the death of Cyrus Mistry, former chair of Menoptera Group, consumers as and the government's focus has again shifted to the safety of passenger cars. Are you planning to make any changes in the design that offers better safety to the passengers also to the driver? I think we are talking to the pioneer of safety in the automobile segment if I may use that phrase. I think our cars in any survey or in any kind of article you will know that we have the most number of cars with the highest safety rating. So I think that we have well established that I think the consumer has also acknowledged that and I think they have rewarded us with that in terms of the business and growth that we have achieved. So we are very much there. I think a lot of it was started already by us and there's been a lot of initiative by the government to educate consumers on safety through regulations as well and we have always been either ahead of those regulations or have been one of the first to adopt to them and welcome them and we will continue to do the same because safety is our mantra. We will be proactive on that front as much as possible and of course look forward to whatever new initiatives that come down from the government as well and be the first to get off the mark with that. Thank you so much Rajan for talking with us. Thank you. Thank you. Very nice speaking to all of you. Thank you. Bye-bye.


I grew up in a suburb of Memphis called Cordova. I did gymnastics from the age of four, so I basically spent all my time in the gym like working out and learning new skills and stuff. All my friends were like my teammates and stuff like that, so I guess I just developed a lot because I spent so much time doing it, and I loved it a lot. It was January 10th, 2012. I was in seventh grade, 13 years old. It was a really ordinary day, nothing special about the practice. I was doing my normal routine that I had done like a hundred times on the uneven bars, and I just made a small mistake and fell and broke my back and injured my spinal cord. It took a long time for me to really realize or understand how serious it was, but I knew that it was pretty bad, and then I was in pain. I was taken to the hospital that night and stayed in the hospital in Memphis for 10 days and then went to a rehabilitation center in Atlanta called the Shepherd Center for five weeks. Once I got to the Shepherd Center, everything was very structured, and I was kept very busy every day because I had a lot to learn about dressing myself and bathing myself and getting around and using a wheelchair and stuff like that. There were other patients on my floor that were kind of going through the same thing, so that was a cool experience. I think that's taken just a lot of time to get over. I've told one of my basketball teammates that coming here and doing basketball is kind of like the final remedy for not being able to do gymnastics anymore, because it really does take time for me to get used to not being able to do it anymore, and I missed it so much in the beginning. That kind of went away as time went on, but really having something else to replace it helped so much. In the back of my head, I really wanted to go somewhere where I could possibly do adaptive sports. So it was always like an idea to go to Alabama, and I feel like it all happened really fast because I came, I got introduced to the tennis coach, I met him first and talked to him about starting tennis, and then I met the basketball coach and talked to him about starting basketball, and then everything just kind of happened really fast. So I started going to basketball practices, starting going to tennis practices, and then I went to basketball tournaments and spent so much time with these girls on the basketball team, and I've really grown close to some of them, and these people are my family now. It's really beneficial to have, like, to be surrounded by people that are similar to me in that way. I feel like that's something that was sort of missing in my life the past like six years when I was at home after I left the rehab hospital. So it's really cool to have that back. You know, it's just like an immediate bond that you have with someone when you've been through something like that, so it's cool. I'm really so thankful to have come here at the time that I did. It worked out better than I could have imagined, because like I said, I wasn't sure at all if I'd be able to get involved in sports. Now I'm like full-time playing two sports, and it's great.


Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from around the world. Our headlines. Parliamentary elections held in Ethiopia amid delays in several constituencies. Israeli forces continue violent suppression of anti-settlement protests in Beita. Several US states announce early into additional MLM employment aid and in our video section we take a look at the indefinite strike launched by community health workers in India. In our first 20 millions of Ethiopians cast their votes in the country's parliamentary elections held on June 21st. On 33.6% of the country's over 100 million people were registered to vote on Monday. However, logistical and security issues have been in elections in one-fifth of the constituencies. This is the country's first election since Prime Minister Abhi Ahmed came to power in 2018. He introduced economic reforms, released thousands of political prisoners and allowed the return of exiles. Ahmed's prosperity parties was the front-runner among 46 parties and 9,500 candidates on Monday. However, several opposition parties including the aroma of Federalist Congress boycott the elections. They have cited intimidation by security forces in the retention of thousands. They also stated that the agents were beaten and their accretations were taken away in several regions. Meanwhile, no election date has been set for 38 constituencies in the Watt-on-Tigre region. A year after Ahmed came to power, he disbanded the dominant EPR-DF coalition. It was composed of four major parties including the Tigre People's Liberation Front. All three parties except the TPLF joined Ahmed's prosperity party. While elections were delayed in the rest of Ethiopia, the TPLF formed a government in Tigre in 2020. Months later, Prime Minister Ahmed ordered troops in the area claiming that a federal base had been attacked. While the TPLF was soon ousted, the war in Tigre continued to what has been now over seven months. Ethiopian troops have also been joined by troops from neighboring Eritrea. Varying estimates place the death toll in Tigre between 2000 to 2050,000. Around 2 million people have been displaced over 350,000 out of the brink of famine. Aid agencies have also documented widespread sexual violence and extrajudicial executions. In our next story, around 20 Palestinians were injured after Israeli forces attacked a protest in the occupied West Bank on June 20th. People have been resisting the construction of an illegal Israeli settlement on the Jabal Sabeh mountain. The protests have been met with live ammunition, rubber coated bullets and tear gas. Five Palestinians have been killed including 16-year-old Ahmed Zahi Ibaneh Shamsa who were shot in the head last week. Approximately 618 others have also been injured. In addition to the Jabal Sabeh settlement, occupation forces are also seizing a land to build a bypass road exclusively for settlers. The land belongs to Palestinians from Betah, Hwara and Zatar. The land had been seized for military purposes until 2018. As reported by journalist Rania Zabane, no building is permitted on the land and an eviction notice has been sent to settlers on June 8th. However, the settlement is still in place, risking the livelihoods of 17 Palestinian families who grew olive trees in the area. In addition to routine protests, people have also launched what is called confusion activities at night. These include the use of blaring horns, lights and burning tires to force the settlers to leave the land. As for local estimates, over 700,000 Israeli settlers live in illegal settlements in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank. 164 settlements and 116 settlement outposts have been set up so far. The settlement at Jabal Sabeh has been set up just months after an outpost was constructed on the Al-Arma Mount. The two outposts will overlook the Jordan Valley which makes up about 30% of the occupied West Bank. We now go to the United States where 26 states have announced an end to the additional unemployment aid. Out of these, nine cut their cut down their federal pandemic unemployment compensation on June 19th. This was over a month and a half before the assistance was set to expire on September 4th. The measure was part of the $1.4 trillion stimulus package passed by the US Congress in December 2020. It offered an additional $300 US dollars each week on top of existing unemployment aid. The cuts are being implemented in Republican controlled states with the exception of the state of Louisiana. Now on a John Edwards stated that the cuts were being put in place to increase state employment benefits next year. However, this increases only $28. 412,000 people filed for unemployment claims in the US last week. State governments have claimed that additional aid is preventing workers from taking open positions. The US has been witnessing labor shortages in chain businesses and restaurants. Unions have pointed to the extremely unsafe working conditions and low wages as the reasons behind this trend. A study by the University of California revealed that the morbidity rates of line cooks increased by 60% during the pandemic. The Century Foundation is estimating that cuts will impact nearly 440,000 unemployed workers immediately. Overall, the impact will be felt by 12 million people awaiting various pandemic assistance programs. These cuts are also being put in place just as the federal moratorium on evictions is set to expire on June 30th. And for our final story, we go to India where thousands of frontline health workers have launched an indefinite strike. Asha workers are primarily women and provide crucial health services in poor and marginalized communities. However, they are classified as volunteers and do not receive salaries. Instead, they are given task-based incentives in a monthly honorarium which can be as low as US$20. Asha workers across India also observed a general strike in May. Despite performing duties such as COVID-19 testing, they were not given adequate safety gear. Now, workers in the states of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh have gone on to strike to raise long-standing demands. Here is A.R. Sindhu from the Center of Indian Trade Unions who talk about the action. Hundreds of Asha workers are dying due to COVID. And you see that the government in the first place itself, they announced an insurance package. It is a life insurance thing of 50 lakh rupees. That also, especially in the first wave, at least minimum to 300 Asha workers have died across the country. But very few, I mean, maybe less than 10 people got the insurance coverage. Their families. And in the second wave, which is without any means, the symptoms is very rarely seen. So they are exposed and they means they are dying. And then they are not even termed as COVID deaths. So there is no post mortem and they are not given any certificate in the second rate. Even in Ariana recently, around eight cases were there in the last month itself of death. None is given because they are telling that there should be because the COVID protocol is there. They are, you know, their bodies are not even hand over to the families and they are cremated. But the government is now asking for a post mortem report for having the compensation. This is the situation. So they are the foremost thing is that they are doing the duty fantastically and they appreciate it. They are the link from the government to the people. So their work is so important and this is their working condition. So during this period, we have been continuously approaching the government for risk allowance and additional because they other all the other health services are almost in a stanchy still it is not being done. So their additional income they were supposed to get was through other immunization, other programs like that. That is also totally their income has been stopped and the services are also not delivered to the people. So here we are demanding that additional means the compensatory allowances that are basic demands of minimum wages and social security, including pension is also already there. But at least during the pandemic, at least some risk allowance that government should announce that the government is not ready and the safety gear without the safety gear, how can you expose people to the corona patients? So that is also the demand. So these are the demands which we are pushing forward. Safety and the risk allowance and the income support and in the families because of due to the lack of employment or the loss of employment and income, there is a rampant poverty. So the income support and the food support that also for all the workers we are demanding. So these have been continuously raised. That's all we have time for today. We'll be back tomorrow with more news from around the world. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch.


I'm so glad you're here for your very first 7th grade, potentially maybe 80th grade music concert. My name's Ann Decker and I'm one of the three music teachers here. I have the privilege of working with Matt, David, and Jay Tarian. And we have the privilege of working with all of these middle school musicians. We're thrilled to showcase their work with you tonight. This early in the year, a lot of people are impressed that we do this so early. And I think you'll be impressed too. We get them going and performing. Here is the middle school chorus. This is actually two separate chorus classes combined for this performance. And if I hadn't said that, you probably wouldn't even notice. They're amazing kids and we are going to start with kind of a warm up, maybe a song that you've heard them sing before. So I'm going to start with The Ghost of Tom. You see the Ghost of Tom. Long white bones with a flesh of gawd There'd be chilly with no skin on Have you seen The Ghost of Tom? Had you seen The Ghost of Tom? Long white bones with a flesh of gawd There'd be chilly with no skin on Had you seen The Ghost of Tom? And long white bones with the flesh of God He'd be chilly with no skin on Monster Mash He was looking at your smash He did the mash He did the mash He did the monster mash And my love for you I was being asked The coffin bear were about to arrive Kick her butt They kicked the monster mash The monster mash It was looking at your smash He did the mash He did the mash They played the monster mash He was looking at your smash They did the monster mash We played together on our first song Which is called Double Trouble


Okay, this is MXUX. I'm going to try to go through these slides quickly. I've put together an endurance configurator. Configurator, whatever the term is. It's a new one for me. Let's get to this. I'm going to call this the Trumbull model. This is one possible consumer model for the Lordstown Endurance pickup truck. Right now the only thing that we have to go by is the model that's been developed, the endurance for fleet customers. For consumers, it can be a whole different truck. I'm going to name this model the Trumbull. This configuration of this truck uses the GM parts bin, which Lordstown Motors has access to. These parts should be completely compatible. That's a GM Lordstown. It's a GM plant. It's in a supply chain. There should be no problem implementing this configuration. I think this is a realistic possible configuration for a consumer version of the Lordstown Endurance. The first option we're going to put on the Lordstown Endurance is the GM Magnaride Magnetic Ride Control. I'm going to tell you this is a great system. It uses a ferro fluid. It changes the stiffness of the shocks depending on what is going on with the vehicle. It allows the car to stay super flat in high-G terms or the suspension goes soft when you're going over railroad tracks. If you add this to the thrust vectoring and the traction control and the four-wheel drive that's on the Endurance, this is like a Formula One car. 600 horsepower. I got to tell you. Impressive. This is a must-have. Endurance Trumbull option number two is the GM Multi-Pro Six Position Tailgate. This is a fan. I think this is better. Ford has a similar tailgate but this is actually a better design. One of the cool things about this tailgate is it opens from inside the inside the truck. So if you pull up, boom, you've got to get groceries loaded or something. You push the button down and it goes. You got to watch your own video on this. It's got six different positions. You can configure it to be a workbench. You can configure it to have a second load level in the truck. There's a step. There's a handrail. I don't know if you can see it on the left-hand side of the bed there that pops up so that you can climb into the bed easily. If you see along the bottom there above that bottom step, you can actually mount marine speakers in this and use it for tailgating or worksite. This is a great option. This is a must-have. The Endurance Trumbull model option number three is the GMC Carbon Pro Truck Bed. This is another great option. This is not a liner. It's a full bed. It saves 70 pounds over a steel bed. It's a carbon fiber composite. It doesn't rust. It doesn't dent. This is better than the Ford aluminum bed, which is kind of soft. It's better than a steel bed. I'll tell you, I'm a pickup truck guy.  I loved that truck one ton. I worked it to death, put railroad ties, everything else in it. The only reason I got rid of it, the truck bed rested out. So this is also a must-have and this is a really great, great option. And I don't think any other manufacturer has this. The Endurance Trumbull option number four is the GM Super Cruise Assisted Driving. Now I gotta tell you, everybody's talking about the Tesla full auto driving and it's great. But I gotta tell you, you gotta look at some videos on this Super Cruise. The thing about it is, with the Tesla, you gotta keep your hands on the wheel or you gotta nudge the wheel and this and that. With the Super Cruise, you don't have to have your feet on the pedals. You don't have to have your hands on the wheel. So for example, I'm driving here. I'm going to downtown LA. I get on the 10 freeway after I get on and we're going 50, 70 miles an hour. All of a sudden it stops.  Put the Super Cruise on, get my McMuffin, get my Starbucks, put my Joe Rogan podcast on. I'm sitting there. I'm eating, drinking my coffee, eating my McMuffin while the car is driving in the traffic jam. This is fantastic. Okay. And this now, they just upgraded it and they're upgrading it all the time. It's got lane change. What you do is you just put the turn signal on when you want to make a lane change and it does everything else. And then if you want to make another lane change back, you put the turn signal on and it does everything else. So this is a really good system. It's underrated. You got to see the videos on it, how it works. They got 250,000 highway miles mapped in the United States. I'll tell you. This truck, the Trumbull, the Endurance Trumbull is going to be so much fun to drive. I'm not going to want full self-driving, but I am going to want this Super Cruise for the highway miles stop and go on the 10 or the 405. Anybody lives in California, you know what I'm talking about. Okay. Let's go through the, the Endurance Trumbull model stats. Now, there's been some, I just saw, you know, there is so much misinformation on this truck and this company. I cannot believe it. And there's some very prominent YouTubers that, that work in finance and electric vehicles who are just spreading incorrect information and they're doubling down on it. Now, I just saw there was an article about saying, well, there wasn't enough towing capacity for the Endurance. This falls. The towing capacity on an Endurance is 7,500 pounds. It's the same as the F-150. You can tow a boat with it or a two-axle air stream trailer.  It's got 600 horsepower, 20 inch wheels, and the range with the present battery configuration is 250 miles. So, I don't know, you know, this to me is everything you need in a pickup truck. Let's just go over what the Trumbull model is going to have on the option package. It's going to have magnet ride suspension. It's going to have torque vectoring. It's going to have traction control. It's going to have four-wheel drive. It's going to have a carbon pro bed. It's going to have a multi-pro tailgate. And it's going to have the super cruise self-driving. Now, I've left the interior as it is. I personally like the industrial design, the minimalist design of the interior of this truck. I wouldn't change a thing on it. That's just me. I mean, you might want, you know, fake leather or whatever the other stuff is, but I really like the cloth seats. I like the way the truck looks. The interior, I think, is fantastic as it is. All right, now let's go into the specs. Now, you know, this endurance is listed, and you look on the website and you say, the top speed is 80 miles an hour. And you say, well, these wheel motors, they can only do 80 miles an hour. I think the maximum rpm on this particular model of a wheel motor, don't quote me on this, is 15,000 rpm. The 80 mile per hour figure is a governed figure. They have limited they have crippled the speed in this truck for fleet use. Okay, because they don't want these guys driving these trucks really fast over 80 miles an hour when they're using them at work. In private use, you don't have to have that. So I'm going to quote a zero to 60 time of 3.5 seconds for the endurance trumble. Okay, and I'll tell you what I'm going to base that on. They have the same drivetrain that's in the trumble. They put it in an Audi R8 and all they did with this Audi R8 was they took out the internal combustion engine and transmission. Okay, they didn't do it. They didn't put any traction control on it. They didn't use launch control, no torque vectoring, and they didn't optimize it in any other way. Now, this R8 with the trumble endurance endurance trumble drivetrain in it did zero to 100 kilometers per hour. Go figure, that's 62.15 miles per hour. Any UMath guys out there, I used to be able to do math. I don't seem to be able to do it anymore. You can figure that out. Anyway, it did zero to 100 kilometers per hour in 3.54 seconds.  I'm giving it a zero to 60 of 3.5 seconds. I think that's realistic. With the launch control, with the magnetic ride system, with the four-wheel drive, with the traction control, with the torque vectoring all engaged, I think this truck will be able to do that no sweat. Now, let's go through the cost. I'm going to estimate the cost on this and this is up in the air. We really don't know. We don't really know what the margins are on this.  We don't know how low, what they're going to be able to do. I'm going to do some back-of-the-cocktail napkin on this. Right now, the fleet model of the Endurance is $52,500. If you want to get the latest version of the GM Supercruise package, and they sell this as a package, okay? I'm going to say, let's just say we get all these options rolled into the Supercruise package. That package presently sells for $7,000. So if you want to get an Endurance and you want to get the GM Supercruise package, it's going to cost you another $7,000 over the $52,000. So let's say the Trumbull package is going to cost you $7,000 over the $52,000. Your total cost is going to be $59,500. You subtract the EV credit, it's going to be $52,000. All right? That's not bad. So the Endurance Trumbull, with all these options, I'm pricing it out at $52,000. Let's compare it to the Cybertruck because I think these are the two vehicles that are going to be contesting for the first electric pickup truck. Because I got to tell you, the Rivian, you know, they may get a truck, I think they're going to be hand-building the first trucks that come out of their factory because I do not think they're ready. I'm going to do a video on this. I've done a lot of research on it. I think, as Gally said, I think they're putting their emphasis on the Amazon trucks. But anyway, I think it's going to be a dead heat. It is going to be really close between whether the Endurance comes out first or the Cybertruck. I mean, within weeks, I'm sure. Anyway, the Endurance, the Trumbull Endurance, the Endurance Trumbull will come out at $52,000 with the tax credit, which you don't get with the EV credit, which you no longer get with the Cybertruck. If you get the Cybertruck, the comparable Cybertruck with four-wheel drive, with self-driving, that's on Tesla's website, as without taxes or anything else, and there are no credits applied at $59,000, which is $60,000. So dig this, this outfitted Trumbull, this Endurance Trumbull with all these options, these cool options, it's going to be $8,000 less than the Cybertruck. All right. I'm going to stick with that figure. I know people aren't going to agree with me, but I think they can swing that. And anyway, that's my analysis. I think everybody's looking at the fleet version of this truck, and you've got to understand, even the CEO Steve Burns says, we're going to cut our teeth on the fleets, and then we're going to go to the consumer. And I think this is a good idea of what we can get as a consumer package out of this truck. You've got to understand, the fleet truck is stripped down. This is a more reasonable consumer package. Anyway, here it is. There's the truck. All right. Thanks for watching, guys.


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