Tesla getting close to FSD?, Equinox EV is here, Chinese EVs, and more
Electrek
9to5Mac
4.2 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 64 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 Tesla getting close to Full Self-Driving, Equinox EV is here, Chinese EVs, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Elon Musk claims Tesla’s next Full Self-Driving update drives ‘5 to 10x more miles per intervention’
- Tesla spotted testing prototype with new camera setup
- Tesla launches 0.99% financing on Model Y for limited time
- Tesla drops Steam gaming support inside its vehicles
- Chevy Equinox EV deliveries kick-off with $35,000 model coming soon
- Kia unveils the new EV6 with more range, updated features, and a sleek new design
- Biden quadruples tariffs on Chinese EVs, up from 25% to 100%
- NIO’s new low-cost Onvo L60 EV could boost sales to +20,000 per month
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 | Welcome to a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:09.2 | I am Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:10.8 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintraub. |
| 0:13.3 | Are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:14.7 | I'm good. |
| 0:15.9 | All right. |
| 0:16.8 | Before we jump right in, let's give a quick thank you to our sponsor for this week's episode. |
| 0:21.6 | Split Bolt. |
| 0:22.6 | The split-volt-splitter switch automatically shares power from your existing 240-volt dryer socket with your level 2 EV charger. |
| 0:29.6 | You can learn more about it in the show note and the link in the show notes, but we're going to talk a little more than later on on the show also because they have a pretty cool product that I think is useful to the AV community and we thank them for |
| 0:42.6 | sponsoring this week of their text podcast this week is pretty was pretty light on news not any |
| 0:48.1 | type of giant news this week but a few interesting item that we wanted to discuss and I think |
| 0:53.6 | especially a big one I'm probably going |
| 0:55.5 | to have an impact for for a while so but what's that's going to do is I'm going to go has |
| 1:01.5 | plenty of time to discuss you guys what you want to discuss in the EV world this week so if you |
| 1:07.2 | have any question for us you can put them in the comment section right now on all over, on any app that you're watching. |
| 1:13.1 | We're live on YouTube, Facebook, X, Lincoln and all that. |
| 1:16.2 | So put the comment in the comment section. |
| 1:18.5 | It can be about either of these, any of these topics that are listed in the show notes or any other topic in the EV community that you want us to discuss this week. |
| 1:27.3 | All right. First off, Tesla |
| 1:30.1 | FSD. So we've been talking how impressed we were with V12.3. Whatever version you're right now. |
| 1:41.0 | And Elon, last week we discussed about Elon giving some kind of like framework for the upcoming |
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