We are live for a new episode of The Electric Podcast. I'm Fred and I'm Bert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintra. Are you doing today, Seth?

I'm good. All right. Let's keep it at that. All right. A lot to talk about this week. We're going to start with some Tesla news as we usually do.

And then we're going to jump into a few, well, one on the ceiling of a new car.

And then we get two 2024, 2025 model a year update with some interesting stuff to talk about.

But first, something that happened last weekend right after the last podcast episode,

Elon announced an unveiling date for the Robotaxi.

So this is the actual dedicated build from the ground up new Tesla vehicle for self-driving.

Rumored not too much, not rumored, I think pretty

much confirmed by Elon that it's not going to have a steering wheel. It's going to be a

robot taxi. The image that you're seeing right now, if you're watching on YouTube or whatever,

is that image that was released in the authorized biography of Elon by Isaac Walter Jackson.

And it was marked as the early prototype there.

So we don't know exactly how much of this is going to be in the actual vehicle.

But it was interesting that that was an early prototype because you have like the rear wheel being covered.

Some people are suspecting maybe a three-wheeler, but I doubt that I'm thinking more four-wheel

with wheel cover.

But that was again an early prototype.

So Elon announced this weekend that the unveiling is going to take place August 8th.

And what was interesting at that is like he announced that that date right after the Roller's report came out saying that

Tesla scrapped their model 2 or the cheaper $25,000 Tesla model.

We don't know the name, the NEM model 2 has been thrown around in favor of the Robotaxi,

and then Elon denied the report.

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