Electrek car of the year, NIO Day, what's coming for EVs in 2025, and more
Electrek
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🗓️ 27 December 2024
⏱️ 62 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 our choice for Electrek car of the year, NIO Day, what's coming for EVs in 2025, and more.
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:
- Electrek’s EV of 2024: The Volvo EX30
- Tesla Semi factory gets its main structure, on track for production in 2025
- Tesla wants to kill EV incentives in US because of Musk, but it is lobbying for them elsewhere
- NIO Day 2024 recap: Firefly’s first EV will compete with MINI and Smart, ET9 launches on a 925V platform
- Honda and Nissan confirm EV merger to survive the every ‘100 years’ industry shake-up
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 | Welcome to a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Fred Labert, your host. |
| 0:08.0 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintra. |
| 0:10.3 | Are you doing set for this last podcast of the year, 2024? |
| 0:14.3 | I'm good. |
| 0:15.7 | All right. |
| 0:16.6 | So it's going to be a short one unless you guys have a ton of questions or topics you want |
| 0:21.1 | or take on because we're going to have plenty of time for that because obviously the |
| 0:25.9 | week of last week of the year slash Christmas time and all the holidays and all that there's |
| 0:32.0 | not a ton of news that comes out. |
| 0:33.8 | We still have a few interesting news items I want to discuss. We also just released |
| 0:38.4 | the electric car of the year announcement. So we're going to get into that. Then a couple of |
| 0:45.4 | Tesla news. The Neo Day 2024, what happened just earlier this week. So there was a few |
| 0:53.0 | interesting announcement in that. A little bit more detail or the Honda, Nissan partnership merger being official. |
| 1:00.0 | So we're going to discuss that. |
| 1:02.0 | And then if you guys have any questions, I know probably going to be fewer people live today because it's the holidays and people have other things to do. |
| 1:09.0 | But still, we're going to have plenty of times. |
| 1:11.4 | You can put in the comment section right now. |
| 1:13.2 | Any question about any of these topics? |
| 1:15.3 | We're going to discuss our expectation for the EV world in 2025. |
| 1:21.3 | Maybe your hope, though I think our hope and our expectation might be quite different. |
| 1:27.4 | There's going to be a gap between those two. |
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