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Tesla and Rivian launch referral programs, EREVs a thing?, cheap Chinese EVs, more

Electrek

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Model, Musk, Vehicles, Evs, Technology, Clean, Tesla, 3, Electric, Automotive, Energy, Electrek, Leisure/automotive, Elon, Leisure

4.2602 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 49 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 Tesla and Rivian launching new referral programs, should EREVs be a thing?, cheap Chinese EVs coming, and more.

The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel.

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0:00.0

Welcome to a new episode of the Electric Podcast.

0:07.2

And Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm read by Sett World Traveler.

0:12.4

It was Paris a few weeks ago, then Los Angeles.

0:15.7

And now where are you set?

0:17.2

I'm in Las Vegas at a friend's birthday party.

0:20.2

Nice. What happens in Las Vegas? Days in Las Vegas at a friend's fifth birthday party. Nice. What happens in Las Vegas?

0:23.9

Today's in Las Vegas, of course. I won't ask any further. Except for the podcast.

0:28.4

Oh yeah. Podcast is the only exception. All right. We have a big show this week. So, you know,

0:33.8

that's the little weeks. We've been complaining that it has been a little slow in a news week and all

0:37.4

that. And it started to pick up a little bit this week. It's not, I don't think we're in full throttle just yet. I think the autumn is always, the fall is always a little better for that. But end of the summer was getting a little bit of interesting news here. I'm going to start with Tesla as usual, but we don't have too much talk about Tesla this week.

0:55.4

Then if you want to skip that, you know what to do.

0:58.0

And then we jump into some Hyundai news that's going to be interesting.

1:04.4

We are going to get a little bit more philosophical about this one.

1:07.7

So stay tuned for that.

1:09.2

And then we're going to talk a little bit about something

1:11.8

that has been on everyone's mind in the industry lately is the cheap Chinese EVs that are coming.

1:18.3

So stay tuned for that too. But we're going to start out with Model Y, the best selling,

1:24.1

not just an electric vehicle in the world, but best selling vehicle in the world period,

1:27.1

or at least it was last year.

1:30.4

We've been talking a lot about this juniper, this supposedly upcoming refresh of the vehicle.

1:37.0

And there's been talk about it happening this year.

1:40.1

Tesla was clear about that.

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