Can you help me fight the fossils? Help spread the word far and wide about EVs? Click ? EVne.ws/patreon   Read today’s show notes on https://www.evnewsdaily.com   Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Thursday 20th December 2018. It’s Martyn Lee here and I’ve been through EV story today so you don’t have to.   Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they’ve built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It’s a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too.   TESLA ROLLS OUT CLASSIC POLE POSITION GAME The rollout of the latest Tesla software includes something else I didn’t mention yesterday: "Pole Position – A new version of the existing TeslAtari game based on the arcade classic, this one being set on Mars and appropriately named “Mars Madness”. A heavily digitized Falcon 9 rockets across the track before the race begins, allowing drivers to speed around and take in the regolith scenery. Watch out for billboards!" reports AstroJane for Teslarati: "Video game controllers are now compatible with TeslAtari games via front vehicle USB port."   https://www.teslarati.com/teslatari-pole-position-game-steering-wheel-controller/   OPEL TURNING ITS HOMETOWN INTO ‘ELECTRIC CITY’ Opel / Vauxhall has already announced the electrification of it's small city car the Corsa, but now they want to turn their home town into electric city, with 1,300 charging stations over the next two years. “These will then be located in all districts and residential areas, on the Opel premises, on the campus of RheinMain University, in residential estates of gewobau Rüsselsheim, on the parking areas of selected supermarkets and shopping centres and on the premises of the municipal clinic (GPR). The ambitious project, for which the partners have received the official grants totalling around €12.8 million, will be realised in multiple steps by 2020.” Going forward, each publicly accessible charging point will service 72 inhabitants, thus creating the highest density of charging stations in relation to the number of inhabitants not only in Germany but in all of the European Union. In addition, another 400 charging points will be installed on privately owned land – 350 of these on the Opel premises. In comparison, Hamburg, currently the leading German city with regards to charging infrastructure, has 785 publically accessible charging points for its 1.8 million inhabitants (city ranking of the Federal Association of Energy and Water Industry).   2018 BROUGHT THE ELECTRIC CAR TO EVERYONE "On the horizon, there's a wave of electric vehicles truly built for everyone -- and that's where real change comes from." says Engadget who recommend you get yourself a test drive of the Chevy Bolt: "Maybe you won't buy one now, but you'll have the real-world experience of electric torque. That knowledge will be there when other cars that you can afford come on to the market. Oh, and there are way more cars coming on to the market." "Without Tesla, this wouldn't have happened. Or at least, not as quickly as it has. The $35,000 Model 3 might not be ready yet, but it's spurred the introduction of other cars that hit that sweet spot. The electric-car revolution may have started years ago, but it's taken a while to get to the point where regular people like you and I can take part."   https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/19/electric-cars-2018-year-in-review-winner/   ELECTRIC CARS AND THE CASH ECONOMY "Electric vehicles are in their relative infancy, and the people who have bought them thus far tend to be (1) technologically sophisticated and (2) affluent." reports TheStreet.com: "Ask any gasoline station attendant how many people prepay for gasoline in cash. You may not have pondered this to be a material percentage, but look at some statistics here: It seems like 15% of people pay with cash at the pump. So what