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Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 17 April 2024
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Tesla Halts Discounts on EVs to Refocus Sales Strategy https://evne.ws/4b24v5f
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| 0:00.0 | It's EV News briefly for Wednesday 17th of April. Everything Evie in less than five minutes. |
| 0:03.6 | If you haven't got time for the full show, Patreon supporters, get the episodes. |
| 0:07.1 | At first, then add free. Be like then by clicking on a link in the show notes. Tesla is halting |
| 0:11.0 | any discounts on their inventory, even though they've got more inventory than ever. |
| 0:15.4 | We saw up to $7,000 discount for inventory, i.e. new, but already produced model-wise. |
| 0:21.8 | And that discount has now gone, but fear not, if you are in the market, I would say simply |
| 0:25.9 | wait to the end of the quarter last couple of weeks of June, and I'm pretty sure you'll |
| 0:29.5 | see those discounts back. |
| 0:31.1 | The NHTSA, the Traffic Safety Administration in the US, is now probing safety reports of the accelerator pedal issue, |
| 0:39.5 | now widely reported with Tesla's cyber truck and those vehicles currently undergoing a not-stop |
| 0:45.7 | sale, but a stop delivery whilst that part looks to be re-engineered. Ford's F-150 lightning |
| 0:51.0 | shipments resume after a quality check delay since February 9th and alongside a new trim for the F-150 Lightning. |
| 0:59.6 | The Flash trim under 70K with all of the best bits really that they say that many of their buyers want a bit of a sweet spot. |
| 1:07.1 | The long-range battery, high-tech interior, but without too much of the fancy stuff. |
| 1:12.7 | GMC's Sierra EV, Denali Edition 1, is arriving this summer, and they have revised the range upwards significantly. |
| 1:21.8 | In fact, by 10%. |
| 1:22.9 | 440 miles is the new range. |
| 1:28.0 | They say because of improvements in the Ultium technology, of course, |
| 1:31.1 | it's going to have that double stack, double layer, |
| 1:33.6 | 212 kilowatt-hour Hummer battery, the big battery from the Silverado. |
| 1:37.4 | If you squint, there's lots of similarities between the Hummer, of course, |
| 1:40.0 | and the Sierra EV, Denali Edition one. |
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