Non-Tesla EV Supercharger access, Cybertruck sales, Rivian $$$, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
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 non-Tesla EVs getting Supercharger access, Cybertruck sales in the spotlight, Rivian getting some money from Biden, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla Supercharger access coming to Honda and Acura in spring, says Honda
- Kia’s Tesla Supercharger access is late, but some owners found a way to charge
- Tesla claims Cybertruck is ‘best-selling electric pickup’ without even confiming sales
- Tesla throttles down Cybertruck production, shift workers to Model Y
- Elon Musk misrepresents data that shows Tesla is still years away from unsupervised self-driving
- Tesla boycott is gaining momentum in Germany due to Elon Musk’s meddling in politics
- Tesla says a new way to clean cameras are coming
- Trump DOT nominee signals extra fees for EVs, continued NHTSA investigation into Tesla
- The top electric cars in this winter range test will surprise you
- Hyundai Ioniq 5 charges faster on a Tesla Supercharger than a Model 3 does
- Rivian (RIVN) secures billions in US funding for its new EV plant in Georgia [Updated]
- Rivian (RIVN) stock rises as Volkswagen plans to expand $5.8 billion EV partnership
- Polestar expects profits in 2025 with 5 GT launch, confirms Polestar 7 will be an entry level compact SUV
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET):
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | two, one. And we are live, everyone, for a new episode of the electric podcast. I am Fred Lambert, |
| 0:05.9 | your host, and I have to apologize because we're a little bit late because of me, I had some |
| 0:10.7 | technical issue with Chrome, but we're right back, and we are, as usual, with Set Winthrop. How are you doing, |
| 0:15.8 | Seth? I'm good. All right, sorry for this little delay. I'm on a new computer. I'm on a little workation right now in Mexico. Great signal, so it shouldn't be a problem. Worked in great all week. So it's just my new computer that didn't like the Chrome. But yeah, I mean, we are in mid-Generary right now. It's always a little bit slow in the electric vehicle news, but it was not one of those weeks. |
| 0:39.6 | We have plenty of news discussed this week, and we're going to jump right in, starting with some Tesla supercharger access for non-Tesda vehicles. |
| 0:46.8 | Then we have a bunch of Cypertruck news that, part of what Elon tweeted out and whatnot, more stuff that Elon tweeted out and whatnot. |
| 1:00.3 | More stuff that Elon tweeted out regarding full self-driving and some great data that we were are going to be able to dive into from the self-driving program. |
| 1:05.5 | Then some Riven stuff that was really interesting this week. |
| 1:08.5 | We are starting to see the impact of Trump getting |
| 1:11.2 | into office with his Department of Transportation nominee and a cool of other stuff to to jump into. |
| 1:17.1 | So first of all, the full self-driving, the full self-driving, the super-charger access through |
| 1:26.5 | NACs for non-TESLA EVs has been updated this week. |
| 1:31.3 | Tesla has added a bunch of automakers to the program as coming soon. |
| 1:36.3 | And, you know, the coming soon thing has not been the greatest indicator on the ENX page so far. |
| 1:43.3 | Sometimes it's good. |
| 1:44.4 | Sometimes it's bass, it just doesn't work. |
| 1:46.8 | So, but with the update this week, a bunch of automakers started discussing it. |
| 1:51.2 | So we go directly to those automakers. |
| 1:53.9 | Normally, the timeline is a little bit better. |
| 1:55.7 | This was all supposed to be done last year and, you know, early 2025. |
| 2:00.3 | But obviously with Tesla's a complete refresh of the |
| 2:03.6 | charging team it kind of slow things down a little bit now we have under akura that i've come out |
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