Tesla Semi news, VW ID.Buzz pricing, Ford's change of plan with EVs, and more
Electrek
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4.2 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
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 a bunch of Tesla Semi news, VW ID.Buz pricing, Ford's change of plan with EVs, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla launches FSD v12.5 on HW3 vehicles
- Tesla deploys rare mobile Megacharger for electric trucks in Utah
- Tesla Semi electric truck caught on fire on highway
- A Tesla Semi is spotted in Europe, but why?
- Ford’s first affordable EV will be a new electric pickup, but there’s more
- VW ID.Buzz pricing, range & interior colors announced
- GMC’s 2024 Sierra EV Denali Edition 1 is finally here – with a 440-mile range
- Lucid (LCID) will launch three new affordable EVs to challenge Tesla’s Model Y, Model 3
- Aptera receives bodies in carbon delivery, multiple production intent solar EV builds to follow
- BMW tops Tesla in EV sales for the first time as gap narrows in Europe
- German auto lobby recommends ending all fossil fuel sales by 2045
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET):
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| 0:00.0 | In LA for a week and you're already like a full TV mode producer. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey, everyone, welcome to a new episode of the LA Trek podcast. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm Fred Labor to host and I'm joined by Seth Wintraub coming us live from California. |
| 0:19.4 | How are you doing, Seth? |
| 0:20.5 | Good. We're a little late today. |
| 0:23.1 | That's my bad. It took me a little longer than I thought to get to the Aptera plant where I'm at now |
| 0:28.6 | and we're working on a story here. But for now, we're doing the podcast live from Aptara in Carlsbad, California. |
| 0:37.8 | But because of the timing, |
| 0:39.8 | we're going to probably have a lot more to talk about Aptera |
| 0:43.1 | on the next episode of the electric podcast next week |
| 0:46.0 | because literally, like you said, he just arrived, |
| 0:48.4 | but didn't have time to do the tour of the facility and whatnot. |
| 0:51.9 | That's going to be next week. |
| 0:52.7 | But we still have an Aptera news that we want to discuss later on in the show. |
| 0:56.8 | So pure coincidence. |
| 0:58.3 | So that's interesting. |
| 0:59.5 | But we're going to start, as usual, with some Tesla news. |
| 1:01.9 | Not that much this week. |
| 1:03.0 | Pretty slow week news for Tesla. |
| 1:05.5 | But then plenty of other talk about like Ford changing its AV plans. |
| 1:09.1 | We have some pricing and spec situation from the |
| 1:12.0 | id buzz uh shira a v denali a little bit of lucid news and more but let's start with something |
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