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I sold all my TSLA shares, Tesla AI roadmap, Volvo EX90 first drive, and more

Electrek

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Model, Musk, Vehicles, Evs, Technology, Clean, Tesla, 3, Electric, Automotive, Energy, Electrek, Leisure/automotive, Elon, Leisure

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🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 88 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 why I sold all my TSLA shares, Tesla AI roadmap, Volvo EX90 first drive, and more.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to a new episode of the Electric Podcast.

0:09.5

I am Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintra who's back home in New York City.

0:15.8

How you doing, Seth?

0:17.0

Good.

0:19.3

Perfect.

0:20.5

All right, we have a big show today. a lot of news happened this week and we're

0:24.2

going to start out so with a bit of personal news when it's not that personal it was like it was

0:29.9

the big story yesterday that we posted where i divested completely from Tesla I sold all my shares

0:35.9

and i put some sort of my like my teases together,

0:40.0

kind of a long post if you haven't seen it, where I, I explained why I sold. Like if you,

0:46.8

obviously, if you've been following the podcast for a while, you probably have a good idea of

0:51.2

most of my points that are in there. It's, I've been, it's not something

0:55.9

that happened overnight. It's something that gradually have been, you know, there's, there's some

1:02.7

main reason that I listed in there. And the main reason are the mission. So I've invested

1:10.6

originally in this as mission because I thought that combination of battery powered vehicles with the its coal sourcing of those battery materials combined with battery recycling and increasing renewable electricity production through solar, wind, hydro,

1:30.3

geothermal, and whatever else.

1:34.0

A combination of all those things together would be the only sensible way to decarbonize

1:39.8

the transportation sector and make it sustainable long term because obviously fossil fuels are

1:45.2

finite resource.

1:47.8

And I thought that Tesla was the only pure play on that mission, really.

1:54.3

I think to this day, I think they have also accomplished that in a big way.

1:59.3

They have accelerated the transition in a massive way, which I'm really grateful to Tesla for that.

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