Tesla self-driving roadmap, Lucid Gravity, F150 Lightning production pause, and more
Electrek
9to5Mac
4.2 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2024
⏱️ 79 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 an update to Tesla's self-driving roadmap, Lucid Gravity orders, F150 Lightning production pause, and more
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla gives update on self-driving roadmap, v13 slips, more promises
- Tesla self-driving test driver: ‘you’re running on adrenaline the entire eight-hour shift’
- Tesla launches new Powerwall 3 expansion units that slash installation times
- Tesla releases rare blog post and it’s an interesting one: Standardizing Auto Connectivity
- Lucid Gravity orders set to begin next week with two trims, one priced below $80,000
- Ford is shutting down F-150 Lightning production for nearly two months: Here’s why
- Polestar EVs are now able to use the Tesla Supercharger network
- Polestar (PSNY) hits major milestone delivering its first US-made Polestar 3 electric SUV\
- Volkswagen warns mass layoffs, historic plant closures are coming
- Aptera completes low-speed drive in its first production-intent solar electric vehicle [Video]
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 | Three, two, one. |
| 0:02.6 | We are live for a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Fred Labert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Winchow. |
| 0:09.0 | Tell me how you're doing, Seth. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm good. |
| 0:11.3 | Oh, that's good to hear. |
| 0:14.6 | This episode of Electric Podcast is sponsored by Alset Otto, North America's leader in paint protection and restyling, |
| 0:22.7 | offering colored wraps paint protection, window tint, ceramic coating, and more exclusively |
| 0:28.4 | for electric vehicles, too. |
| 0:30.2 | We're going to have a little bit more to say about them about their business model |
| 0:34.4 | earlier on on the show, so stay tuned for that, but thanks for all set for sponsoring this week's episode of the I Trek podcast. |
| 0:41.3 | An episode that's going to be a little bit lighter. |
| 0:44.9 | Like the last week was crazy. |
| 0:46.4 | Like it went an hour and a half because we had a ton of news, especially from the |
| 0:49.9 | Tesla earnings. |
| 0:50.8 | As you can see from the show notes here, if you're watching on YouTube or whatever I have. A lot less news this week, which is going to give us more time to get |
| 0:59.0 | into the questions and answers section of the podcast. So I'm going to remind you a bit later on, |
| 1:04.3 | but for people that are already trickling in right now, if you have a question for us, either |
| 1:08.7 | about any of the topics that you see right now on the screen or, you know, any other topics in the EV world or renewable energy world, we're going to have sometimes, you can ask a question in the comment section, and we're going to sometimes talk about it later on the show. All right. One of the main thing, well, we are the 1st of November, and that means that a new new month a new self-driving roadmap update Tesla |
| 1:30.5 | has been a little bit more consistent in giving us you know an idea of what they are working on |
| 1:36.1 | when it comes to the FSD program full self-driving supervised and hopefully unsupervised by |
| 1:42.9 | Q2 2025. |
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