Tesla sale incentives intensify, new California EV credit?, Rivian's new factory, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In 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 increasing its sale incentives, a potential new EV credit in California, Rivian's new factory gets funded, and more.
Today’s episode is sponsored by Huffy Bicycles, a household name in micromobility. For a limited time, use promo code "ELECTREKGM" at checkout for 30% off the purchase of an Electric Green Machine drifting Trike, and be sure to explore all of Huffy's Black Friday Deals at Huffy.com.
Today’s episode is sponsored by Buzz Bicycles, an omnichannel eBike brand that prioritizes excellent value for its growing base of eBike enthusiasts. For a limited time, use promo code "ELECTREK200" at checkout for $200 off the purchase of a Buzz Centris Folding eBike, and be sure to explore all of the company's Black Friday Deals at Buzzbicycles.com.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla now offers lease buyouts – after saying it would keep cars as robotaxis
- Tesla boosts referral reward to $2,000 discounts on new EVs, even Cybertruck
- Curious Tesla vehicles under covers raises some questions
- Tesla releases API pricing, dev says would cost $60 million per year to run his 3rd-party app
- Tesla adds longer cables and more to Superchargers as non-Tesla EVs complicate things
- Elon Musk fires back on excluding Tesla from California’s new EV incentive he wants to kill
- Rivian Adventure Network open to other cars soon, will be ‘awesome’ says CEO
- Rivian secures $6.6 billion loan for new plant – but with one major caveat
- Porsche will keep gas-powered and hybrid vehicles alive as EV sales slow
- BYD confirms next-gen Blade EV battery is coming soon, promising even more range
- Leaked email signals BYD’s plan to heat up EV price war
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 | And we are live for a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:04.0 | And I'm joined by St. Winthrop, was a happy camper today because he had his first snow in Vermont. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm great. |
| 0:12.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm good. |
| 0:14.7 | All right. |
| 0:15.3 | I want to say a quick thank you before we jump into today's episode to two sponsors. |
| 0:19.9 | We have our friends at Huffy Bicycle sponsoring |
| 0:22.6 | this week's episode, a hustle name in micro mobility for a limited time. Use promo code |
| 0:28.0 | electric GM at checkout for 30% of the purchase of an electric green machine drifting trike. |
| 0:34.8 | And be sure to explore all the Offie Black Friday deals at offi.com. You have a link in the show notes, but we're also going to have a little bit more to say about then because Seth actually tried the green machine and really enjoyed it. But before that, I also want to say a quick thing Q2 are sponsored. Also at Buzz Bicycle, an Omnichannel e-bike brand that prioritized excellent value for its growing base |
| 0:54.8 | of e-bike enthusiasts. For a limited time, use promo code Electric 200 at checkout for $200 off |
| 1:01.2 | purchase of a buzz centrist folding e-bike. And be sure to explore all the company's |
| 1:05.8 | Black Friday deal at buzzbicycle.com. We also can have a little bit more to say about them |
| 1:09.6 | there on the show, but a |
| 1:10.9 | $200 off, if you need a folding e-bike, it's probably one of the best that we can get out there. |
| 1:17.1 | All right. So as we do in the last few weeks, as we've been doing, we often cover the new |
| 1:24.1 | sell incentive, new discounts and everything Tesla is doing to achieve its record sell this quarter. |
| 1:29.4 | They're trying to deliver just over half a million vehicle to not be down for the full year. |
| 1:35.3 | And these incentive stack up. |
| 1:38.4 | This is, this is me. |
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