Jeff Bezos steps away as Amazon CEO / Ford's electric Mustang Mach-E / Apple Car rumors

The Vergecast

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Technology, Tech News, News

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Sean O'Kane, and Becca Farsace discuss driving Ford's electric Mustang, what's next for Tesla's product line, rumors around Apple's Car endeavors, and Jeff Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO. Further reading: Scientists want to know if vaccinated people can still become COVID-19 long-haulers If you’re starting an online class, check to make sure your professor is alive Volunteers built a one-stop website to find open NYC vaccine appointments Amazon will have a new CEO as Jeff Bezos transitions to executive chair later this year Bezos’ Amazon: from bookstore to backbone of the internet Meet Andy Jassy, Amazon’s next CEO Amazon’s electric Rivian vans will start making deliveries in 16 cities this year Ford Mustang Mach-E Kuo adds fuel to Apple-Hyundai electric car rumors Apple and Hyundai-Kia pushing toward deal on Apple Car Tesla’s new Model S can go up to 520 miles Tesla Roadster production delayed to 2022 Tesla agrees to recall cars with failing displays Tesla’s next car will seamlessly unlock with UWB, FCC leak suggests Don’t buy Teslas during a production ramp, Elon Musk says Another SpaceX Starship nails clean test flight, but explodes on landing Elon Musk’s shot at Amazon flares monthslong fight over billionaires’ orbital real estate The Alpha 1 is Sony's new flagship camera with monstrous iOS 14.5 tries to solve Face ID’s mask problem with your Apple Watch HP’s Spectre x360 14 review: the best 2-in-1 you can buy Rad Power Bikes raises $150 million to grow its electric bike empire Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on the VRT test, we got a car show back at Farsache and Sean O'Kane join us talk about the Mustang Mach E review.
0:05.9	There's some Apple car rumors, some Tesla news. Also, Jeff Bezos stepping away from the CEO of Amazon that's coming up on the VRT test now.
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0:55.5	Hello and welcome to the VRT test. The flagship podcast of America's Auto Industry. Would that be great if we were a trade car or podcast?
1:01.5	I mean, we're going to try for it today. Yeah, but I meant like we were like deep in the weed. We were actually the trade group podcast.
1:08.7	And it was all just like endless hyping of cars, specifically American cars.
1:13.7	Nonstop differential discussion. Yeah, exactly. No one thinks this is as fun as I do, but I think it'd be hilarious.
1:19.2	Anyway, I'm Neil, I'm your friend. Debra is here. I'm your compatible charging plug. I don't know.
1:24.4	We're actually going to talk a lot about cars today. So Sean O'Key and our senior transportation reporters here. Hey, Sean.
1:29.7	Hey, and back up far, such is here because she got to drive a very cool car this week as well.
1:34.9	I did. I still don't understand how y'all let me do that, but we're here to tell it.
1:40.2	I'm excited. So yeah, Sean and Becca worked on our Mustang Mach E review, which is up on the site on YouTube.
1:46.3	We're going to talk about that in great detail. There's a ton of like Apple car rumors all over the place.
1:52.8	There's Tesla news. We're going to have a car show. It's going to be great.
1:56.5	Also, you might have noticed that Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men in the world in the sea of Amazon,
2:02.6	has stepped down. So we're going to talk about that a little bit. And there's some guys to talk about too.
2:05.4	So a packed show. First, as always, the biggest story in the world continues to be the pandemic,
2:12.0	which hopefully, if you're looking at the numbers, that some of the numbers are going down, which is good,
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