Big charging news, Tesla FSD v13, Audi A6 first drive, Climatize CEO interview, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss big charging news, Tesla FSD v13, our Audi A6 first drive, an interview with Climatize's CEO, and more.
Today's show is sponsored by Climatize – a platform that allows investors to fund solar energy, EV, and energy efficiency projects across the US while earning up to 10% annually. Be sure to use referral code EV2025 to get $25 in investment credit once you complete your onboarding process. Learn more here.
The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- FHWA: Tesla-based plug J3400 will be ‘the standard moving forward’
- No apps, no swipes – every EV will get Supercharger-like charging in 2025
- Tesla releases Holiday update: Apple Watch, SiriusXM, and more
- Tesla starts pushing dumb-down version of Full Self-Driving v13
- Judge shuts down Tesla’s attempt to reinstate Elon Musk’s giant CEO pay package
- Tesla shuts down Cybertruck production for 3 days at critical time for the company
- Tesla decreases lease prices on Cybertruck
- Nissan EV drivers will be able to use Tesla’s Supercharger network next week
- Audi A6 e-tron first drive: power, range, and luxury in a sleek design
- Rivian dominates owner satisfaction, Tesla comes third
- Lucid (LCID) just built its first Gravity electric SUV for delivery
- Electrogenic is giving Mazda Miata fans an EV version with its ‘Plug-and-Play’ conversion kit
- Lion Electric lays off half its staff, looks to Groupe Mach for a bailout
- (Solar) power to the people! Aptera re-opens its crowdfunding program
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET):
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And we are alive, a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:05.3 | I am Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:07.4 | But not as usual. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm not joined my one child this week. |
| 0:10.5 | He's taking a little bit of a break. |
| 0:12.4 | We're going to see him back soon. |
| 0:13.9 | But we have a great sub for this week's episode. |
| 0:16.0 | We have Scooter Doll, if you've been following, not just the podcast, but the website and the YouTube |
| 0:22.8 | channel, you probably remember him already. He's kind of the lead underground reporter at |
| 0:28.4 | Electricek. So welcome to the podcast, Cooter. Are you doing? I'm doing well. Thanks, Fred. Happy to be here. |
| 0:34.2 | Longtime fan of the show, big fan of the website, especially the writers. So I'm honored to be here. Perfect. And we have a few of Scooter Stories in there. If we can join us next week through, he has a great story that he cannot talk too much about this week. But next week is going to be able to, so hopefully he can join the show and talk to you guys about that because it's a big one. But we have plenty to talk about this week and we got jump right in. |
| 0:58.3 | But right before we do that, we're going to thank this week's episode the sponsor, |
| 1:03.7 | Climatize a platform that allows investor to found solar energy EV and energy efficiency |
| 1:08.8 | projects across the US while earning up to 10% annually. |
| 1:12.9 | Be sure to use referral code EV 2025 to get $25 in investment credit once you complete |
| 1:19.3 | your onboarding process on the website or app. Learn more here in the show notes. |
| 1:24.4 | Or we're going to actually have a lot more to say about them mid-show |
| 1:27.9 | and even interview someone from Climatized, so that should be interesting. |
| 1:32.6 | But before we do that, we have plenty of stories talk about this week. |
| 1:35.5 | We have a couple of charging updates that are very interesting. |
| 1:39.3 | Then Tesla's software update stuff. |
| 1:42.1 | And then we have my Audi 86 ETRon first Drive that I can finally talk about from last month. |
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