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Tesla Cybertruck first driving impressions, Kia EV3, Chevy Silverado EV RST and 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

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 75 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 Fred's Tesla Cybertruck first driving impressions, Kia EV3, Chevy Silverado EV RST and more.

Today’s episode is sponsored by Momentum, a new brand of lifestyle e-bikes from Giant Group designed to deliver a full range of innovative electric, hybrid and city bikes with premium features, long assist ranges and sensor technologies that offer natural riding experiences that are both energy saving and fun.

Sponsored by SplitVolt: The Splitvolt Splitter Switch automatically shares power from your existing 240V dryer socket with your Level 2 EV charger. Learn more here.

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

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Transcript

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0:00.0

And we are live for a new episode of the electric podcast. Everyone, I'm Fred Lambert. And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintra. Are you doing today, Seth? I'm good. All right. I hope you are because we have a ton to talk about and some very exciting stuff. But before we do that, let me just thank our sponsor for this week's episode. Today's episode is sponsored by Momentum, a new brand of lifestyle

0:21.0

e-bikes from Giant Group, designed to deliver a full range of innovative electric, hybrid,

0:26.6

and city bikes with premium features, long assist range, and sensor technology that offer

0:31.4

natural riding experiences that are both energy-saving and fun. We're going to have a little bit more

0:37.2

to say about them later on the show, so stay tuned for that. But we also want to thank our other sponsor for this week's episode, Splitvolt, the Splitvolt Splitter Switch Automatically shares power from your existing 240-volt dryer socket, which are level 2 EV charger. We're going to have a little bit more to say about them too. Later on the show, stay tuned for that.

0:55.0

But what we're going to start today, it's not actually an article from us this week because I haven't

0:59.3

had time to write it yet, but also I need a little bit more time with the truck to do it. It's about

1:04.6

the cyber truck. We're going to talk cyber truck because I finally got my hands on one.

1:09.2

Just good timing, basically, because I'm here for the Ford Mustang rally,

1:16.7

Mikey rally that was unveiled this week.

1:19.5

But the driving impression I cannot share until next week.

1:24.1

So we're not, I could, I could talk about it a little bit, but not much more than

1:28.6

when we already talked about a few months ago when the, uh, uh, release the specs and pricing and all that. So the, the core of it will keep for next week when we can talk about it. And then we have Rivian coming out next week. That's going to be exciting. But in the meantime, I'm like, Let's stay in Seattle and make a, make it a little like workation, all of it.

1:28.6

Awesome. be exciting but in the meantime i'm like let's stay in seattle and make a make a little like

1:45.3

workation all of it i need i need a vehicle to do that and uh you know ford's vehicle couldn't

1:52.3

work i was hoping to get a rivian actually because you know like you spend a lot of time with

1:56.8

a riven obviously you you test drove a lot of them and you own one. But I'm the one driving it the next gen now.

2:04.1

And I'm like, oh, but I don't have so much experience with the current one to compare it and everything.

2:10.9

Unfortunately, they couldn't make it work.

2:12.6

So I'm like, all right, well, let me just go on Toro and find some electric car that's going to be fun to drive. You know, I'm always looking like Tesla's always interesting, especially if I'm going to drive a lot. I'm like, I like autopilot and all that. They can be good. But then I saw a cyber truck. I'm like, and it was the only one in the area and everything. I'm like, let me see if I can talk to this guy. I can make it work and we could make it work.

2:35.4

So I got it yesterday.

2:38.3

And it's been, it's been an experience for sure.

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