Tesla Cybertruck spec leak, Volvo EX30 first drive, EV earnings, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 83 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 Cybertruck spec leak, Seth's Volvo EX30 first drive, EV earnings (Rivian, Lucid, and Polestar), and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla Cybertruck specs leak every dimension + 14-50 outlet in bed
- Tesla plans to build its $25,000 electric car at Gigafactory Berlin
- Tesla to integrate Elon Musk’s new AI assistant in its vehicles
- Tesla Sweden strike update: Tesla comments, sympathy strikes expand
- Biden says he supports UAW push to unionize Tesla, Toyota
- Volvo EX30 first drive: This tiny, inexpensive electric SUV is also Volvo’s quickest car ever
- Mercedes teams up with the ‘largest convenience store’ operator for EV charging
- Polestar Day news hub: new Korea factory, 350kW DC, V2G
- Polestar cuts 2023 delivery target but expects new EV launches to drive demand
- Lucid (LCID) cuts 2023 EV production target as operating losses widen in Q3
- Lucid Motors joins the ‘in crowd,’ will adopt NACS and offer access to Tesla’s Supercharger network
- Rivian (RIVN) raises production goal again after strong Q3 earnings beat
- Volkswagen wants to launch an EV under $35K in the US, says it’s not scaling back
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 | Two, one, we are alive for new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Winchab. |
| 0:08.1 | How are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:09.7 | I'm good. |
| 0:11.1 | All right. |
| 0:12.1 | We have a big show today, a lot of news. |
| 0:15.0 | A few, just a tiny few little news item from Tesla this week, a lot from other automakers, |
| 0:20.2 | because it's kind of the |
| 0:22.3 | EV earnings week for Rivian, Polestar, Lucid, all the EV-only automakers. |
| 0:27.4 | So we're going to get into that. |
| 0:28.9 | And of course, whenever there are earnings, there are all the news that comes out of that. |
| 0:32.6 | So we're going to jump into that. |
| 0:33.9 | Also, you have set can finally release is Volvo. |
| 0:38.3 | What is it? EX30. I'm having some issues with Volvo's naming scheme. |
| 0:46.3 | They are haul to keep in your head at the same time. I'm still in Japan right now. It's still 6 a.m. for me. I got a little bit confused with |
| 0:55.4 | time saving not being applied in Japan. But I'm up and early, ready to do the podcast, |
| 1:02.2 | sort of. I'm trying to be as energetic as I can. But this is my last day in Japan. |
| 1:09.9 | Next week, I'm going to be back in Montreal. Next week, I'm going to be back in Montreal. |
| 1:12.4 | Well, tomorrow I'm going to be back in Montreal. But for the podcast next week, I'm going to be |
| 1:15.7 | ready to go back to normal for me. I want to thank before we start the show. I want to take |
| 1:22.5 | our sponsor for this episode. We're sponsored by VMAX. If you're looking for a high-quality e-scooter with superior |
| 1:29.1 | performance, check out the new VX5, VX2 Pro, VX4, and the R40 and the R-55-5-5-5-speed race |
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