New Tesla Model Y launches in NA/EU, Rivian is popular, Trump's effect on EVs, and more
Electrek
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🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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In 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 new Tesla Model Y launching in NA/EU, Rivian getting popular with OEMs, Trump's effect on EVs, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla launches new Model Y in North America and Europe
- Tesla announces giant price hikes to all electric cars in Canada
- Tesla has a new self-driving computer retrofit, but it’s not even for HW3 cars
- Tesla points to diner integration in app, insurance discount with Full Self-Driving, and more
- Polestar sees Elon’s antics as an opportunity to steal sales from Tesla
- Trump attacks EVs with executive orders, but mostly signals further damages
- Rivian (RIVN) plans to roll out hands-free driving this year, eyes-free system in 2026
- Rivian (RIVN) has several automakers ‘knocking on our door’ for EV tech
- Nissan drops plans to bring a Rogue-like electric SUV to the US
- Hyundai wants to re-badge EVs and sell them to GM: Here’s how it will work
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET):
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| 0:00.0 | And the show is live. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I am Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintrao. |
| 0:10.6 | Are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:12.0 | I'm good. |
| 0:13.1 | All right, we don't have a crazy big show this week. |
| 0:15.5 | Like January, February, it's pretty slow in our industry. |
| 0:18.7 | But there was a few interesting thing that |
| 0:21.4 | we're going to get into the model Y launch in North America and the EU obviously not as |
| 0:26.8 | exciting as the hell two weeks ago through three weeks ago when it was launched in China because |
| 0:30.9 | you know it was newer then but there's still some information that we're getting into then |
| 0:35.7 | we're going to talk about Rivin a little bit. |
| 0:37.7 | Riven is sort of like the popular kid on the blocks when it come to OEMs, apparently. |
| 0:43.5 | They reveal that there's some interest about their technology and further partnership, |
| 0:50.0 | much like they did with Volkswagen recently. |
| 0:57.9 | And then we're going to talk a little bit about the impact of Trump. |
| 0:59.0 | That was Trump's first week. |
| 1:04.4 | And he did a bunch of executive orders, including some about electric vehicles or affect electric vehicles or try to affect electric vehicles. |
| 1:07.2 | We're going to get into that. |
| 1:09.2 | All right. |
| 1:09.4 | Let's start right off with the Model Y, new Model that's how Tesla is calling it really the new model Y in |
| 1:15.2 | North America and Europe they open up the configurator for those but this is |
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