Tesla prices, controversial fatal Tesla crash, Rivian R2 teaser, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 16 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 price changes and discounts, a controversial fatal Tesla crash, a Rivian R2 teaser, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla increases Model 3 price, now costs as much as Model Y
- Tesla announces a new temporary discount on Model Y
- Tesla confirms no Model Y refresh coming this year
- Tesla worker died in horrible crash on Full Self-Driving beta, but he was also drunk
- Elon Musk claims fatal crash was not on ‘Full Self-Driving Beta’ after Tesla said the logs were lost
- Tesla plans new world’s largest Supercharger, a glimpse at the future of charging
- Tesla Cybertrucks are already rusting, but there’s an easy fix
- Tesla offers to accelerate Cybertruck delivery with referral program, sold out in hours
- Tesla is now accounting for ‘battery age’ in its range calculation
- Stellantis finally adopt NACS, but there’s no deal with Tesla
- Rivian teases first look at R2 as reservation site goes live, deposits start at $100
- GM nearly doubles its map of Super Cruise hands-free driving routes in North 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):
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We are live for new episode of The Electric Podcast. |
| 0:05.4 | I am Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:06.7 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintra. |
| 0:09.1 | Are you doing this week, Seth? |
| 0:10.5 | I'm good. |
| 0:12.2 | All right. |
| 0:14.0 | No sponsored for this week's episode. |
| 0:15.9 | If you guys want to sponsor the Electric Podcast, |
| 0:18.4 | one of the top 10 biggest automobotest podcast in the world. |
| 0:22.2 | You can reach out to us through the show notes or info at electric.co, and we're going to get back to you. |
| 0:29.9 | We have plenty of talk about this week. |
| 0:32.0 | It was a very interesting week in the EV space. |
| 0:36.8 | We're going to start with some Tisla news as we usually do. And then we're |
| 0:40.2 | going to move on to some Rivian news, interesting Rivian news, GM news and much more. And then at the |
| 0:46.1 | end of the show, as we always do, because we're alive on all the platform, we're going to take |
| 0:51.7 | some questions from you guys. So if you have any question for us, you can put them in the comment section right now we're going to get to that in |
| 0:57.1 | about 30 40 minutes or so and if you do enjoy the show you can always press the like button the share |
| 1:03.4 | button the notification subscribe button all those things help the show tremendously help the stream |
| 1:08.1 | so all right let's jump right and let's start with some |
| 1:11.5 | Tesla pricing news there was a price change a price increase which is pretty rare for |
| 1:19.7 | Tesla these days on the model 3 and it's the brand new well newly launched model 3 refresh |
| 1:25.9 | in North America obviously it's not quite new in the rest of the world. |
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