Tesla Robotaxi prototype spotted, Porsche Macan range, Lucid teases next-gen, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 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 a Tesla Robotaxi prototype being spotted, the Porsche Macan range, Lucid teasing its next-gen, and more.
The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla is testing a goofy camouflaged Robotaxi prototype ahead of reveal
- Tesla self-driving promises are getting weaker on new cars
- Tesla’s Full Self-Driving v12.5 rollout on HW3 failed, what happens next?
- Tesla appears to be winding down its Cybertruck wrapping business
- Tesla is looking to sell its first virtual power plant
- This retro-futuristic Renault R17 EV restomod needs to go into production immediately [Video]
- Porsche Macan EV hits US dealers Sep 30; EPA range just certified at 308mi
- Lucid teases its new midsize electric SUV: Here’s our best look yet at the sub-$50K EV
- Lucid’s (LCID) latest software update is a big one with new 3D lane visualization and more
- The only pickup truck awarded an IIHS Top Safety+ rating is the all-electric Rivian R1T
- Mercedes will start testing EVs with solid-state batteries on the road ‘in a few months’
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 a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | I am Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:08.1 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Winchaw. |
| 0:10.6 | Are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:11.8 | I'm good. |
| 0:13.0 | All right, all right. |
| 0:13.7 | All right. |
| 0:13.9 | You know the deal, people. |
| 0:15.8 | We get all the best news in the EV world of the week and we discuss it. |
| 0:23.2 | And then what we do after that is that we make it interactive and we take you guys questions. So if you guys have question about |
| 0:27.9 | anything that we're going to discuss today, you have the show notes live on the show right now. |
| 0:32.2 | You get all the articles we're going to discuss. Or it can be any other topic in the EV |
| 0:37.1 | world that you want or take on. |
| 0:38.9 | You can put them in the comment section below. |
| 0:41.5 | And if you do enjoy the show, you can always give us a like, subscribe, and all that stuff. |
| 0:46.0 | You can share the show to your friends that love EVs. |
| 0:49.1 | All those things are free to do, and it helps the show a ton, and we appreciate when you do it. |
| 0:54.1 | All right, let's start with the talk of the 10th. free to do and it helps the show a ton and we appreciate when you do it. |
| 1:00.5 | All right, let's start with the talk of the town of the Evie Town today. This is this weird image that popped up in the Warner Brothers Studio area in Los Angeles |
| 1:08.7 | today. |
| 1:09.9 | And it's all over the social media. |
| 1:13.0 | Is this vehicle here. |
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