Tesla Cybertruck news, Rivian and Lucid earnings, and more
Electrek
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4.2 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 44 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 a bunch of Tesla Cybertruck news, Rivian and Lucid earnings, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla is working through its giant Cybertruck backlog pretty fast
- Tesla launches Cybertruck in Canada, and it’s pricey
- Tesla Cybertruck’s tow hitch snaps off the frame in torture test
- Tesla is testing Supercharging at over 300 kW
- Tesla launches new bundle with 3 years of FSD, Supercharging, and premium connectivity
- Rivian (RIVN) stock slips after pivotal earnings: Here’s why the CEO is defending its progress
- Lucid (LCID) beats Q2 revenue estimates with another $1.5 billion injection from Saudi PIF
- EVs and PHEVs outsell gas cars in China for the first time
- BYD undercuts Tesla Model 3 prices by nearly $10K with the new 2025 Seal EV
- Dodge officially reveals prices for its first EV, the 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona
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 | We are live for a new episode of the electric podcast. |
| 0:08.3 | I am Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintraub, coming us live from |
| 0:13.9 | Paris again this week. |
| 0:15.1 | How are you doing, Seth? |
| 0:16.4 | I'm good. |
| 0:17.9 | All right. |
| 0:18.5 | I hope you are because we have friendly to talk about this week. |
| 0:20.6 | We have a couple of cyber truck news. |
| 0:23.4 | Then we're going to jump into the supercharging peak charge rate going up. |
| 0:30.5 | Rivian and lucid earnings, B.YD, Dodge Charger, Daytona, EV pricing being available, and a little bit more. |
| 0:39.7 | So stay tuned for that. And at the end of the discussion around these pieces of news, |
| 0:45.3 | we're going to take your guys comments. So if we are live and we are taking questions, |
| 0:49.5 | so if you guys have questions for us about any of the topics that we're discussing today |
| 0:52.7 | or any other topics in the EV well you want us to get into you can put it in the comment section right now and get |
| 0:58.2 | to it about 30 40 minutes or so all right so just yesterday I was posting about the fact that |
| 1:06.5 | the Tesla is working through its giant backlog of reservation for the cyber truck pretty fast. |
| 1:14.4 | Supposedly, Tesla had over a million a reservation for the cyber truck, |
| 1:17.8 | but we always noted just a little caveat that it's not the biggest show of interest in the vehicle |
| 1:24.9 | because for the first time, the cyber truck, when the Sunve fielded in 2019 they requested only a hundred dollar deposit for a reservation which |
| 1:32.0 | you know prior to that it was between five hundred dollars and forty thousand dollars |
| 1:37.4 | depending on the vehicle program like the roadster for example on the iran and uh model |
| 1:42.2 | three model y was even more than, even though the cyber trucks are |
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