🚗 GM's Robo-Retreat

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• 🏳️ Lucid’s 450-Mile Wonder, Europe’s EV Headaches …

• 💯 Evaluate And Elevate

• 🛠️ Mini Cars, Maximum Inspiration

• 🗓️ Coming Soon

• 🥊 Quick Hits: Robots, Zombies, and Onions

• 🔁 Today in History: Morse, Olds, and Space

BUSINESS

🏳️ Lucid’s 450-Mile Wonder, Europe’s EV Headaches, and GM’s Robotaxi Retreat

Tired of wading through EV hype and boardroom drama? Here’s your cheat sheet: Lucid’s Gravity SUV is all “Longer range, higher price,” proving that EV luxury ain’t cheap—but hey, it’s a good look for your showroom’s halo spot. Meanwhile, a Sheikh’s absurd Mustang-Ram mashup reminds us that personalizing rides is still an art (or circus).

On the dealer front, sentiment’s looking up for 2025, but don’t break out the confetti. The market’s still wobbly, EV optimism is on the downswing, and interest rates lurk like party poopers. At least Volvo’s electrified lineup is zipping off shelves like IKEA meatballs—proof that range anxiety fades when the product’s right.

Europe’s stuck in a spin cycle of regulation and stagnation, and China’s exploiting every gap. Domestic side? Over 90% of EV adopters say, “Gas who?” Meanwhile, battery prices tumble, marching us toward parity with gas cars. And GM’s robotaxi dream? Crashed. Reality check, anyone?

Read the full digest and a lot more at Daily.ASOTU.com.

TOGETHER WITH STREAM COMPANIES

💯 Evaluate And Elevate

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MORE THAN CARS MOMENTS

🛠️ Mini Cars, Maximum Inspiration

Excitement and creativity filled the air at Marysville Toyota on Monday evening as kids donned oversized red coveralls and hard hats for the Toyota Mini Makers Garage event.

Hosted in partnership with the Toyota Lexus Minority Owners Dealership Association and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Snohomish County (in Everett, Washington), the event gave 8 to 13-year-olds a hands-on introduction to auto engineering.

Guided by Alan Williams, Toyota’s General Manager of Quality Systems and Planning, the kids assembled their own mini cars, learning about all the building blocks along the way like tires, taillights, grills, and more.

The event concluded with the kids exploring a real GR86, the life-sized version of the car they built, and learning about the technology under the hood.

Marysville Toyota owner Jim Colon hopes experiences like this ignite a passion for engineering in the next generation saying, “Having an interest develop starts at an early age. This could be the moment that sparks curiosity and sets them on a new path.”

AROUND THE ASOTU-VERSE

🗓️ Coming Soon

🍾 Thursday, December 19th — ASOTU’s Year End Extravaganza: Details are here!

⚜️ January 23-26th, 2025 — NADA Show in New Orleans

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  • OR, would you like to party with ASOTU at NADA?

    • Check out NADAParties.com 

🦀 May 13-16th, 2025 — ASOTU CON in Baltimore, Maryland

🥊 Quick Hits: Robots, Zombies, and Onions

• Embodied’s $800 Moxie robot for kids will soon be unusable after the startup’s sudden closure. 🤖 

• The terrifying third movie in the “28 Days Later” series has a trailer. Watch at your own discretion. 🧟 

• Federal judge says The Onion cannot buy Infowars. 🧅 

🔁 Today in History: Morse, Olds, and Space

• 1901: Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal [the letter "S" (•••) in Morse Code] at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland. 🌍️ 

• 2000: General Motors announces the end of Oldsmobile. 🔚 

• 2012: North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2. 🛰️ 

Thanks for reading, friend! We’ve heard that enough monkeys with enough typewriters and enough time could someday write “Romeo and Juliet”. But, could enough monkeys with enough wrenches and enough pieces of raw metal build a factory that builds cars?