Tesla self-driving computer failure, Cybertruck issues, Honda/Nissan merger, and more
Electrek
9to5Mac
4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 61 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's issues self-driving computer failure, Cybertruck is also having some problem, Honda/Nissan merger, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla is having major issue with its self-driving computer inside new cars
- Tesla is buffing Foundation Series badges off Cybertrucks to sell them as regular trucks
- Tesla finds ‘cell-dent’ issues in Cybertrucks, starts replacing battery packs
- Tesla delivers electric semi trucks to another customer, confirms efficiency
- Tesla (TSLA) sales in Europe are down 14% year-to-date and it’s time to worry
- Tesla Shanghai starts mass production of Model Y refresh in Jan, says local media
- Tesla looks for new comms manager, is a PR dept coming back?
- Rivian (RIVN) made a ‘secret’ deal with the UAW: Here’s what that means for the EV maker
- Cadillac’s new Vistiq electric SUV starts at under $80,000, but higher trims can get pricey
- Honda and Nissan close in on an EV merger to survive the industry’s rapid shift to electric
- NIO’s low-cost Onvo EV will arrive in its first European market in early 2025
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, everyone, for a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Winchow. |
| 0:10.0 | Are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:11.2 | I'm good. |
| 0:12.3 | All right. |
| 0:13.4 | So plenty of talk about this week. |
| 0:15.0 | We got a bunch of exclusive reports that we are released throughout the week. |
| 0:19.3 | I thought we're really interesting. |
| 0:21.7 | We have also a new testes of my delivery to a customer, which was also very interesting. |
| 0:29.4 | We have a little bit of news on the Model Y refresh going into production. |
| 0:33.5 | A lot of people are excited about that one. |
| 0:35.9 | Then we have a couple non-Tesda news that's really exciting, including we're going to talk |
| 0:41.9 | a little bit about what it would look like if a merger between Honda and Nissan goes through, |
| 0:47.7 | which is something that's actually been talked about. |
| 0:50.4 | It's not exactly a done deal, but it's getting a little bit more serious. |
| 0:54.1 | And we know that these two companies are not exactly doing very well. |
| 0:59.2 | So maybe them together can go through these tough times. |
| 1:04.3 | Let's see. |
| 1:05.7 | All right. |
| 1:06.4 | Let's start with this was a big report this week. |
| 1:09.0 | This is something that I've been hearing about for the last few weeks to a month, basically. |
| 1:15.6 | A lot of failure with the brand new cars, with the hardware for computer failing and everything |
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