09 May 2024 | Briefly
EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs
Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 9 May 2024
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| 0:00.0 | It's TV news briefly. Everything you need to know in less than five minutes. If you haven't got time for the full podcast, Patreon supporters get the shows first and ad free. Be like then by clicking on a link in the show notes. Paul Star giving some lease offers in the US right now. And bizarrely, the single motor and jewel motor available for the same price. So why wouldn't you? Maybe you've got a preference. |
| 0:22.4 | It's now $299 per month, over 27 months, with $3,300 due at signing. That works out at about |
| 0:31.7 | $421 a month before taxes and fees. I'm never recommending the people lease cars, but that does seem to be another one of the |
| 0:39.1 | attractive ways of getting into a brand new Polestar 2. |
| 0:42.3 | That'll probably be a Polestar 7 in 2027 when that vehicle gets replaced. |
| 0:47.3 | Tesla's Gigamaxico job postings have vanished from their website. |
| 0:51.8 | Ammixed the global workforce reduction happening at Tesla right now. |
| 0:56.3 | Job listings for their upcoming Gigafactory Mexico mysteriously disappearing from their careers page |
| 1:01.3 | despite local ministers for the Nuevo Leon area saying that Gigamexico is happening at the same timeframe and moving forward. |
| 1:11.1 | And it's definitely going to happen despite all of the reductions in workforce that are happening at Tesla right now. |
| 1:17.2 | More than 10% was what the phrase that their CEO, Elon Musk, used in the original email. |
| 1:22.9 | And we've seen every Sunday night into Monday morning, another round of layoffs. |
| 1:26.8 | Most famously recently, |
| 1:27.8 | the supercharging team, 500 or so people, not in the servicing and maintenance, but the |
| 1:33.7 | rollout department are all getting laid off. And so a question's being raised about what's |
| 1:39.7 | happening with Gigger Mexico. They've got a huge overcapacity at Tesla with the facilities they've already |
| 1:44.9 | got making cars. They can't sell the ones they're making. So why would they build another |
| 1:51.2 | factory? Now, when I suggested this recently, I got shot down a little bit, but I still have |
| 1:56.0 | questions in my head about whether Gigamaxico will ever actually happen. Tesla is going to halt production at |
| 2:01.8 | their German gigafactory amidst protests coming from environmental protesters. Obviously there is a |
| 2:08.7 | bank holiday in Germany. They're going to close tomorrow the factory and then they don't open |
| 2:14.1 | at the weekends anyway. It's a Monday to Friday plant. And so, looking like, |
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