Tesla incentives, Cybertruck update, Rivian options, and more
Electrek
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🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 67 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 bringing back some incentives, the first significant Cybertruck software update, new Rivian options, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla brings back FSD and free Supercharging transfer despite what Elon said
- Tesla improves Cybertruck handling, charging, and more in new update
- Tesla appears to be preparing for a round of layoffs
- Tesla is controversially starting to advertise on Elon Musk’s X
- Rivian adds Standard battery pack option for R1T and R1S, plus a new option for even more range
- Porsche upgrades the 2025 Taycan with more range, performance, and fast charging
- Elon Musk introduces his new right-wing fans to a carbon tax; goes as well as you’d expect
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 | We are alive, everyone for a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:12.1 | I am Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:13.4 | And as usual, I'm joined by publisher extraordinaire Set Winchow. |
| 0:18.0 | How are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:19.2 | I'm good. |
| 0:20.2 | All right. This week, it? I'm good. All right. |
| 0:28.8 | This week, it was kind of a slow news week, but we have a few very interesting stuff, though, that did happen that we're going to discuss. |
| 0:37.6 | We have a new incentive from Tesla. We have a cyber truck first update. So the first significant software update. |
| 0:40.1 | We have Rivian coming out with a bunch of options, which is going to be interesting thing |
| 0:44.6 | to discuss with the R2 coming also. |
| 0:48.6 | And then we have the new Tycan that we're going to discuss. |
| 0:51.0 | The new Tycan, the 24 model the taikin that comes with some |
| 0:57.1 | significant upgrades that works worth discussing. |
| 1:00.8 | Let me share my screen with you guys so that we can get into it. |
| 1:07.3 | This one right here. |
| 1:10.9 | All right. |
| 1:11.5 | Let's start with Tesla bringing back the FSD transfer and free supercharging transfer |
| 1:18.7 | incentive for existing buyers. |
| 1:21.6 | So that first came out last year after owners basically begged Tesla to do the right thing and to enable |
| 1:30.4 | people to transfer the FSD package, which they paid up to $15,000 US dollars for it, $19,000 |
| 1:37.5 | Canadian dollars for it over the last few years. |
| 1:41.4 | For the simple logic that Tesla never actually delivered what was promised on it, |
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