New Tesla Model Y unveil, Mazda 6e, Aptera solar car production-intent, more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 63 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 official unveiling of the new Tesla Model Y, Mazda 6e, Aptera solar car production-intent, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- This is the Tesla Model Y Juniper refresh, just unveiled in China
- Tesla goes full circle and copies its own copycat with new Model Y
- Tesla issues recall on over 200,000 vehicles for the self-driving computer failure
- Elon Musk claims Tesla is doing ‘unsupervised self-driving trials’ while playing video games
- Tesla board members officially settle excessive compensation case for nearly $1 billion
- Mazda unveils its new EV for Europe: Meet the Mazda 6e with nearly 350 miles range
- Volvo sold nearly 100,000 EX30 SUVs its first year and now it’s ready to take the US by storm
- Aptera shows its production-intent solar EV at CES, ships this year? (Update)
- Sony’s AFEELA 1 EV gets $90k price (+subscription), reserve now for $200
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 | We are live for a new episode of the Electric Podcast. I'm Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintra. Are you doing today, Seth? I'm good. All right, so no surprise. The big subject of the week is going to be the Model Y refresh that came out last night |
| 0:23.2 | that was on Ville in China. |
| 0:24.6 | Let me shut down my notification. |
| 0:27.1 | I should do that before the show start. |
| 0:29.5 | But we've just been doing that for, I don't know, six years. |
| 0:35.3 | And I never do it. |
| 0:37.2 | All right. Okay. Yeah, the Mullah And I never do it. All right. |
| 0:38.2 | Okay. |
| 0:39.8 | Yeah, the Mullahi Refresh was unveiled in China. |
| 0:42.2 | Like, same thing that happened with the Model 3. |
| 0:44.2 | Same thing that happens with most Tesla vehicles these days. |
| 0:46.6 | China first, it's the biggest market. |
| 0:48.9 | It's the biggest factory. |
| 0:51.0 | It's the most efficient factory that's there. |
| 0:53.3 | So Tesla is able to launch things a lot |
| 0:55.0 | faster there. And that's what happened with the Model Y Juniper, Model Y refresh, modify |
| 1:02.2 | mid-cycle redesign, however you want to call it. So let's take a look right away. So we already, |
| 1:09.5 | like, the big thing is like no, no big surprise. |
| 1:13.4 | Basically, everything was reported ahead of time. |
| 1:15.3 | Now we have more like a complete look at it. |
| 1:19.3 | Feature image show a lot here. |
| 1:20.8 | Though the feature image look quite a bit retouch, if I have to say. |
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