Electrek Formula Sun, Trump on EVs, most efficient EV ever
Electrek
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🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
On the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Podcast: Electrek Formula Sun Challenge, Trump on electric vehicles, Lucid producing the most efficient EV ever, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Electrek Formula Sun Grand Prix 2024 wrap-up and final results
- Trump says he’ll end the EV mandate. The only problem: there isn’t one.
- Elon Musk supports new VP candidate that would crush Tesla’s sales in the US
- Elon Musk confirms Tesla Robotaxi delay, says front design change
- Elon Musk might give up on Tesla’s 4680 battery cell by the end of the year
- Tesla Supercharger deployment is already slowing down in critical time
- Tesla gives free hardware upgrades with Full Self-Driving to qualify for tax credit
- Tesla secures absurdly large multi-billion Megapack contract
- Lucid confirms the 2025 Air Pure offers 5 miles per kWh, making it the most efficient car in the world
- Chevy’s more affordable Silverado EV LT revealed for the first time in new images
- Aptera partner US Capital Global leads $60M investment round to reach low volume SEV production
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 9:00 a.m. ET (or the video after 10 a.m. ET):
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, no, we're still not left. |
| 0:06.2 | Oh, no, we're on my. |
| 0:07.8 | All right. |
| 0:08.7 | We're live for a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:12.2 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Winthrop, |
| 0:14.2 | coming us live from Tennessee, if I'm right. |
| 0:18.0 | That's right, Nashville. |
| 0:19.2 | We're at the Electric Formula Sun event and we just left the Adventure Museum where all the cars |
| 0:28.3 | are being displayed. |
| 0:29.5 | If you're around Nashville area, please go check it out. |
| 0:32.6 | It's the Adventure Museum in Nashville. |
| 0:34.6 | We'll be there till 9 a.m. tomorrow. |
| 0:38.3 | Super. |
| 0:40.9 | So, you know, we've been sponsoring this event for a while now. |
| 0:46.5 | And the first part of the event happened this week, the on-track race, if you will. |
| 0:50.6 | And then we have the cross-country race that it's starting this weekend. So Seth's going to be able to tell us what happened this week on the track and |
| 0:54.3 | give us a little bit preview what is going to happen throughout the next week. And then we have |
| 0:58.9 | plenty of other news to discuss. We have, you know, Trump commenting a lot on EVs this week through |
| 1:05.7 | as he's now become the official candidate. And then his VP pick also has a lot to say about EVs so that's |
| 1:12.5 | going to be interesting to dive into that and then we have the CEO of the largest um |
| 1:18.6 | the largest automakers electric automaker in the world that's back trum so we're going to also |
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