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Tesla Cybertruck launch, car dealers, Volvo EX90, and more

Electrek

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

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🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 77 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 the Tesla Cybetruck launch in detail, Volvo EX90, car dealers lobbying against EVs, and more.

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

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0:00.0

And we are live, everyone, for a new episode of the Electric Podcast.

0:06.2

I am Fred Lambert, your host.

0:07.6

And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wincham.

0:09.9

Are you doing, how are you doing today, Seth?

0:11.9

I'm good.

0:13.3

All right.

0:13.8

So I guess as you imagine, a lot of the today's episode is going to be around the

0:17.9

cyber truck launch yesterday, even though we have this watch party. if you, if you joined us yesterday, but it was more like a real live reaction.

0:25.8

And even then, we didn't have all the details because the event, the event itself didn't get

0:33.1

a lot of good reaction, really. Like, it's, it was a lot of rehashing of the 2019 event.

0:39.5

A few, a few pieces of specs that were confirmed that in the event that was nice, there

0:45.9

was a few cool moments like the, the towing of the, well, the quarter mile race against

0:52.7

the 9-11 and now it turns out that the cyber truck is towing a 9-11 also.

0:57.8

So that was cool.

0:59.6

But for the most part, like no one was very impressed by the event itself.

1:05.9

So and the biggest concern was like the event handed, you know, started delivering the cyber trucks.

1:11.6

And you're like, wait, what you're doing? You know what? You didn't talk about the range. You didn't talk about pricing.

1:16.6

And then sure enough, it was a good, it sounds like there was a good reason for that.

1:21.6

That they didn't discuss that in the event that is more publicized is because it's not the best use on that front.

1:27.6

So we had to look into the cyber trucks updated configurator website.

1:32.8

Well, it's not a configurator.

1:33.8

It's an updated website.

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