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EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

09 May 2024 | Briefly

EV News Daily - Technology and Business of EVs

Martyn Lee

Business, Leisure, Technology, Automotive

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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It’s EV News Briefly for Thursday 9th May, everything you need to know in less than 5 minutes if you haven’t got time for the full show. I’ll be back later but Patreon supporters get the episodes as soon as they’re ready AND ad free. You can be like them by clicking here.

Polestar Slashes 2024 Polestar 2 Lease Prices by Over $120/Month with New $10,000 Incentive https://electrek.co/2024/05/08/polestar-2-lease-299-a-month-new-10k-discount/

Tesla Giga Mexico Job Postings Vanish Amidst Global Layoffs https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-mexico-jobs-disappear-career-page/

Tesla to Temporarily Halt Production at German Gigafactory Amid Expansion Protests https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/tesla-pause-output-german-plant-ahead-protests



BMW Leads UK's Electric Vehicle Market as Plugin Share Rises to 24.7% https://cleantechnica.com/2024/05/08/evs-take-24-7-share-in-the-uk-bmw-leading-battery-electric-brand/

Nio and GAC Partner to Standardize Battery Swapping Technology https://www.electrive.com/2024/05/08/nio-teams-up-with-gac-on-battery-swapping/


Compact Urban EV Launching in US at $11,990 Price Point https://newatlas.com/automotive/eli-zero-electric-micro-car/

Transcript

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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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