Tesla's Cybercab & Robovan unveiling, Lucid deliveries, Rivian supply issue, and more

Electrek

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🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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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's Cybercab and Robovan unveilings, Lucid deliveries, Rivian supply issue, and more

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0:00.0	Welcome to a new episode of the Electric Podcast.
0:03.0	I am Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Set Wintrault.
0:06.0	How are you doing, Seth?
0:08.0	I'm good.
0:09.0	All right, we missed you at the watch party last night.
0:11.0	I don't blame you for another attending.
0:13.0	It was late.
0:15.0	It was planned to be late, 10 p.m. on the East Coast, but it was also literally late on Elon time.
0:24.2	Though apparently they had a good excuse.
0:25.7	Apparently there was a medical issue or whatever that took a whole hour to solve and delayed the presentation quite a bit.
0:35.2	But then the presentation itself, that's what we're going to get into today.
0:39.6	The cyber cab, Robotaxis, looks like it's going to be Robotaxy.
0:43.2	The name is not a good start when you don't even have a clear name for the product.
0:49.2	On the Tesla website, they do mention Robot taxi, but there's not a clear page.
0:52.8	Robloxie is just a page for the event, the Re-Robot event. And could you, can I have? Yeah, I got this. Yeah, got it. So they do call it on the website Robloxie. Elon alternatively used Cybercab and Robotaxi on stage. So it's not clear.
1:12.0	I'm calling it, I prefer Cybercab.
1:13.7	I'm going to tell it's CyberCab.
1:15.8	And this is it right here.
1:18.6	I'm not going to lie.
1:20.1	Love the look.
1:20.9	I think it looks pretty good.
1:22.7	I think it's the, you know, they nailed it on that.
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