01.30.18 – Waymo Looks to Expand Self-Driving Fleet, Mercedes-Benz Shares More Detail on EV Plans
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
Rob Maurer
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🗓️ 30 January 2018
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
– Waymo orders thousands more hybrid Pacificas from Chrysler for self-driving fleet
– Mercedes-Benz shares a little more detail on their EV plans
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:07.0 | welcome to the Tuesday, January 30th, 2018, |
| 0:10.0 | edition of Tesla Daily, unofficial Tesla Podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | My name is Rob Maower, and today we are talking about some news for edition of Tesla Daily on official Tesla Podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | My name is Rob Maower and today we are talking about some news from Tesla's competitors. |
| 0:16.4 | Tesla stock on Tuesday closed up 1.95% to $349.53, this compared to to the NASDAQ down 0.52 percent. |
| 0:25.0 | Supercharger network update and it's the first big one that we've seen in a while. |
| 0:28.0 | We have three new stations opening up in China and one new station opening up in Illinois, |
| 0:32.0 | bringing the total count to 1,150 supercharging locations. |
| 0:36.8 | We'll start off today with some news from Waimo, formerly known as Google Self-Diving Car Project. |
| 0:41.6 | As we've talked about in the past, Weimo has a small fleet of Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivans |
| 0:46.3 | equipped with autonomous driving technology. |
| 0:49.0 | Weimo currently has about 600 of these vehicles and at last count, only about 180 of those had been fully |
| 0:54.8 | equipped for autonomous driving. These vehicles right now are being primarily |
| 0:58.3 | used for research and development as well as the pilot program of a self-driving car network that Weymo is testing in Phoenix that we've talked about. |
| 1:08.0 | Today the news is that Weymo has agreed to buy thousands more of these vehicles from Chrysler. There is no |
| 1:13.7 | specific number but from what I've read it appears to be more than 10,000 that |
| 1:18.2 | Waymo plans to buy from Chrysler but they don't plan to start delivering |
| 1:22.0 | these vehicles until the end of 2018. |
| 1:24.9 | There are no details on the cost of these vehicles, so we don't really know how effective |
| 1:28.8 | this is to scale. |
| 1:30.4 | But there was a quote from waymo CEO saying, |
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