Tesla goes into wrap business, 4680 cell update, new Kia, BMW, and more
Electrek
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4.2 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2023
⏱️ 53 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 going into the car wrap business, a 4680 battery cell update, new Kia and BMW EVs being unveiled, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla starts selling vehicle wraps for Model 3/Y at a pricey $7.5K-$8K
- Tesla announces 4680 battery cell production breakthrough
- Tesla slashes lease pricing on Model 3/Y, expects to lose half tax credit on 3
- Tesla brings V4 Superchargers to the US – critical to Cybertruck and non-Tesla EVs
- Early Tesla Cybertruck goes for $400,000 at auction
- Tesla sells its recently acquired wireless charging company
- Kia shares how EV9 trims and pricing will break down ahead of start of reservations this month
- Kia follows up with official EPA ranges for the EV9 SUV, topping out over 300 miles.
- The Kia EV5 and its cool bench seat may never come to the US
- BMW’s new EV crossover is small, slippery, and not coming to America
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET):
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I am Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintra. |
| 0:10.5 | Are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:11.9 | I'm good. |
| 0:12.9 | All right. |
| 0:13.6 | Let's jump right in. |
| 0:15.3 | But right before that, I want to say a quick thanks to AMP, |
| 0:18.4 | who's sponsoring this episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:20.1 | AMP is the makers of energy management solution for immobility products. |
| 0:25.5 | We're going to have a little bit more to say about their service later on the show. |
| 0:28.4 | So stay tuned for that. |
| 0:30.9 | But let's jump right into the news today. |
| 0:33.2 | We have a few Tesla news to discuss. |
| 0:34.9 | And then we're going to jump into non-Tesla EV news and then we're |
| 0:39.0 | going to take you guys questions, comments, subjects and go right into it. So, Tesla launched a new |
| 0:46.1 | service this week, getting into a brand new business, the rap business, and I'm not talking about |
| 0:52.2 | hip-hop. I'm talking about the wrapping of their |
| 0:56.4 | vehicles. So that's something that has been a rumor. But I mean, I say rumor for a while. |
| 1:00.5 | This actually did this in China a few years ago, at least briefly. I don't know if they still |
| 1:06.1 | do it in China. But now this is in the U.S., you can go straight on Tesla's website, the Tesla shop website |
| 1:12.7 | actually, where you can buy other accessories. |
| 1:15.8 | Now you can buy a wrap for the Model 3, Model Y, or a clear wrap also. |
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