More Tesla layoffs, charging team all gone, what is going on? Let's talk about it
Electrek
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4.2 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 69 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 the additional Tesla layoffs, the entire charging team's departure, and more. Let's talk about it.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after firing team
- Elon Musk is throwing his weight around Tesla, comes in like a wrecking ball
- Tesla (TSLA) surges on reports China is approving Full Self-Driving deployment
- Tesla unveils new Cybertruck off-roading features, Cybertent mode, and more
- Tesla Semi spotted being used by another customer
- Rivian gets $827m incentives to expand Normal, Illinois factory for R2
- Cadillac balks on plans to go all-EV by 2030, may still offer gas cars for ‘a number of years’
- NIO begins public trials of its 150 kWh semi-solid-state battery packs ahead of a full rollout
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| 0:00.0 | We are live, everyone, for a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:09.9 | I am Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintra. |
| 0:13.5 | How are you doing this week, Seth? |
| 0:14.9 | I'm good. |
| 0:16.0 | All right. |
| 0:17.0 | And I want to thank Split Vault for sponsoring this week's episode. |
| 0:21.1 | The Split Volt Splitter Switch automatically shares power from your existing 240-volt dryer socket with your level 2 AV charger. |
| 0:29.6 | You can learn more in the link in the description, but we're going to talk a little bit more about them and they're a great solution for charging in your garage. |
| 0:41.7 | All right, a lot to talk about this week. |
| 0:48.2 | And it's going to be at the different levels. So we're going to try to explain to you the weird moves that happened this week and try to give you some context to try to understand it because a lot of people |
| 0:56.4 | just don't try to understand it because they don't have the full context. |
| 1:00.9 | And then we're going to talk about the possible impact of it, which is going to be |
| 1:04.1 | speculative because we cannot know for sure. |
| 1:06.3 | But I think it could be a big impact in a negative one, unfortunately. |
| 1:09.9 | Then we have a few better Tesla news to discuss and some non-Tessalon use, |
| 1:15.4 | like Rivian expending in the normal Illinois, Cadillac. |
| 1:20.4 | And solid-state batteries are actually semi-solid state batteries, |
| 1:25.1 | making it into actual EVs on the road. |
| 1:28.2 | But yeah, the first move is Tesla firing the entire supercharge. |
| 1:34.6 | Not only the entire supercharger team, the entire charging team. |
| 1:40.0 | Well, I should jump to this article. |
| 1:41.8 | Actually, this one I actually put a little bit more information in it. |
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