Electrek's Vehicle of the Year, Cybertruck Foundation Series, GM Bolt EUV only, and more
Electrek
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4.2 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 63 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 Electrek's Vehicle of the Year, Cybertruck Foundation Series, GM Bolt EUV coming back, and more.
Sponsored by Electrek's own merch store: we are launching a brand new merch store with some Electrek swag just in time for the holidays!
The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel.
As a reminder, we’ll have an accompanying post, like this one, on the site with an embedded link to the live stream. Head to the YouTube channel to get your questions and comments in.
After the show ends at around 5 p.m. ET, the video will be archived on YouTube and the audio on all your favorite podcast apps:
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla Model Y is Electrek’s vehicle of the year
- Tesla starts selling fully-loaded Cybertruck ‘Foundation Series’ for $120,000
- Elon Musk: low-cost Tesla is advanced, manufacturing is going to be revolutionary
- Tesla Holiday update leaks, and it’s a bit of a weak one
- Tesla’s head of Dojo supercomputer is out, possibly over issues with next-gen
- Tesla shares 48V architecture with other automakers to move the industry
- Tesla’s Swedish strike is spreading through Europe
- Tesla is officially losing half $7,500 tax credit on two Model 3 trims
- Ford Mustang Mach-E to lose EV tax credit
- GM says next-gen Bolt will be EUV-only as the SUV virus infects the industry
- Lucid Motors (LCID) updates its 2024 model year Airs, including lower prices and a RWD Pure
- Toyota unveils new Urban electric SUV to rival Volvo’s EX30 as affordable EV option
- Fisker (FSR) dials back its 2023 production targets yet again as it fights to keep going
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 | We are live for an episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I am Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:06.0 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Winchow. |
| 0:09.0 | Are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:10.0 | I'm good. |
| 0:11.0 | All right, I hope you're ready because we have a big week and news this week. |
| 0:15.0 | A lot of stuff came out, but we're going to start out with the Electrics vehicle of the year |
| 0:20.0 | that I just posted earlier today. |
| 0:22.6 | But before that, we don't have a traditional sponsor this week. |
| 0:26.6 | We are sponsoring our own show this week with our merch store, a new, an upgraded merch store launching on Electrek. |
| 0:34.6 | It's, let me share this screen right here. |
| 0:38.3 | It's March. |
| 0:39.3 | .electric.co. |
| 0:41.3 | We have a few new products that we're launching. |
| 0:43.3 | It's all electric branded stuff. |
| 0:45.3 | So if you're a big fan of the website or the show or whatever, |
| 0:48.3 | you like to show your support to us because the show is for free every week. |
| 0:53.3 | And sometimes we have sponsors, |
| 0:55.6 | not all the time. So you can grab yourself a little hoodie, a t-shirt. We have electric |
| 1:03.2 | stickers that would look real nice on your laptop. We have electric water bottles. And it's all |
| 1:10.6 | quality stuff real nice. A little |
| 1:12.5 | hat, little dad's cap they call it. A little pump pump knit. It's the winter right now. |
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