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🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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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's Autopilot 'recall', our first drives of the Porsche Macan EV and Chevy Blazer EV, and more.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
0:08.1 | I am Fred Lambert, your host and as you know, I'm joined by Seth Wintra. |
0:11.3 | Are you doing for today's show set? |
0:13.4 | I'm good. |
0:14.4 | All right. |
0:15.4 | This week episode is sponsored by Wolf Box, a leading brand in the automotive electronics market with an |
0:22.3 | unvarying commitment to quality and durability for its customer around the world. |
0:26.9 | We're going to have a little bit more to see about them later on the show. Stay tuned for that. |
0:30.5 | But thanks to Wolf Box for sponsoring this week's episode of the Electric Podcast. |
0:35.4 | On this week's episode, we're going to have a little bit of Tesla news as usual, but then we're going to talk about our first drive of the Porsche |
0:43.0 | McCann EVE, set had did that last month, I think, and then you... It's actually in October. |
0:50.5 | In October, all the way back in October, so there was a big embargo on this, so now I can finally discuss everything about the Mikan EV, which itself has been delayed quite a few times where I can wait to see that car hit the market. |
1:01.0 | It's going to be a big one for Porsche. |
1:03.0 | Then we also had the first drive of the Chevy Blazer EV that our own Jameson Dow did earlier this month. |
1:12.8 | He's going to be joining us on the show later to talk about it. |
1:16.7 | But let's jump into the test and use right away. |
1:19.2 | So one of the bigger piece of news that came out of this week is the whole autopilot |
1:24.1 | recall, safety recall. |
1:26.2 | I'm using air quote here if you're just listening because people |
1:29.8 | don't like to use the word recall for Tesla recalls because most of the time, like this time, |
1:35.8 | it's just an over-the-year software update that is being implemented. But this is still a bigger |
1:43.3 | recall because it's the, hopefully the conclusion of the |
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