Elon Musk's Twitter drama leaks to Tesla, wireless charging, the dealer problem, and more
Electrek
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4.2 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 57 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 Elon Musk's Twitter drama leaking to Tesla, wireless charging, the EV dealer problem, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla removes Disney+ from vehicles amid Elon Musk’s Twitter beef with Bob Iger
- Tesla unveils new bird-eye view 3D reconstruction park assist
- Tesla confirms wireless inductive electric car home charger is coming
- GM and Ford EV owners to get Tesla Supercharger access as soon as February
- Tesla launches project to build new Megafactory in China
- Tesla is having issues producing 4680 cells for Cybertruck, sketchy report says
- Tesla loses court appeal in Swedish strike, will it finally go back to negotiation table?
- Tesla removes stock-based compensation this year, report says
- Tesla Electric makes homeowner’s electricity bill disappear and pays him $1,000
- Ford confirms half of dealers will sell EVs in 2024 as some are opting out
- Half of US Buick dealers chose buyouts over selling EVs in 2023
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 for a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | I am Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:07.8 | And as usual, I'm joined by Set WinTrial back in New York this week. |
| 0:11.8 | Are you doing, Seth? |
| 0:12.8 | Good. |
| 0:13.8 | I look kind of very white for some reason. |
| 0:16.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.8 | The light is like catching the light properly. |
| 0:20.8 | You need one of these studio light that I have. Yeah, the camera's like catching the light properly. |
| 0:23.7 | You need one of these studio light that I have. |
| 0:29.9 | This week's episode of the podcast is sponsored by our own merch store, |
| 0:36.4 | the Electric Merge store at Merch.Elect.c.com, where you can buy some high- gears that are branded electric and we even have |
| 0:41.9 | our electric cars of note electric car of history of electric car t-shirt and also a tote bag so |
| 0:52.0 | you can check that out at merge. That electric. |
| 0:54.5 | Dot C.O. |
| 0:56.5 | And I'm even modeling the hat today. |
| 1:00.1 | Yeah, you have the hat this way. |
| 1:01.3 | Yeah, I'm supposed to get some gear. |
| 1:03.0 | I'll be able to have that soon on the podcast too. |
| 1:06.1 | I think I have a sweatshirt coming. |
| 1:10.9 | All right. |
| 1:11.7 | So we're going to start out today with something that kind of like it wouldn't be big news |
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