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 6th 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.   Coming up on tomorrow's show, the podcast I recorded today at Tesla London. It was the first day of a two-week run of the new Model 3 being on display in a showroom for the first time in the UK in London and Manchester, and available for reservation holders to see. I got to meet some lovely people who were waiting for theirs, I caught up with Robert Llewelyn from Fully Charged and had a good chat for the podcast, and this couple who had turned up early to be first in line... [audio]...hear all that tomorrow when I've had a chance to edit it. Podcast listener Richard Graham sent me photo’s of his trip to Manchester and it’s the same spec car. Did I finally get to the RHD model with a CCS Combo plug? You can find out tomorrow.   MODEL 3 CONFIGURATOR OPEN IN EUROPE But just to start with some news I was told today before it actually happened but obviously I couldn’t say anything. In Europe, but not the UK, Model 3 customers can configure! France, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Netherlands and Spain are confirmed so far. The rumours I'd heard were true, the Dual Motor Performance and Dual Motor cars are the first on sale, both with the Long Range battery only. I did ask Tesla today about the Mid Range and even the Standard Range, but for now the pattern in Europe will match the USA with premium cars the priority. But here's the number of the day...the WLTP test cycle was also confirmed today and it's a great number. 544km or 338 miles for the Dual Motor and 530km or 330miles for Performance. Consider the official Tesla line of 310 miles, and you can see how the European test cycle is a little more generous than EPA. Although talking about battery sizes is something which has stopped now, just a reminder it’s a 75kWh battery, although you won’t find that in the marketing materials. They’d much rather we said Long Range. 0-62mph is officially 3.7 seconds which is slower than the real life Youtube videos we’ve seen. In Germany the price is 57,000 Euro for 3D and 68,600 Euro for the P3D. Of course your paint choices can add up to 2,600 Euro for multicoat Red. Delivery starts February. In the UK, that roughly translates to £51,500 and £62,000 respectively. However, deliveries won’t be until Summer 2019 at the earlier, perhaps later.   TESLA COULD MAKE SUVS IN NEVADA GIGAFACTORY "Tesla’s giant gigafactory near Reno might go from making Tesla batteries to making Teslas. Business Insider reported today Tesla plans to manufacture the new Model Y electric SUV at the factory in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center." reports Nevada Public Radio: "Internal documents from earlier in the fall showed the company planned to produce 7,000 SUV’s a week at its factory by the end of 2020. A spokesperson from Tesla said the information was “outdated,” but did not explicitly deny plans to manufacture vehicles in Nevada." Brian and Shari, our podcast guests from last Saturday, who have recently taken a Gigafacgtory tour said the impression was just how vast it is.   https://knpr.org/headline/2018-12/report-tesla-make-suvs-nevada-gigafactory   RIVIAN: THIRD EV IS A RALLY-LIKE CAR WITH “BANANAS” LEVEL OF PERFORMANCE "According to Rivian, the R1T electric truck and R1S electric SUV will be joined by a third offering. This vehicle fits the mould of a rally-like performance car." reports Eric Loveday for InsideEVs.com: "The third offering from