Tesla slows production, Audi Q6 e-tron, GM Ultium turns a corner, and more
Electrek
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4.2 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 66 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 Tesla slowing down production, Audi Q6 e-tron unveiling, GM Ultium turning a corner, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla (TSLA) stock drops on report it is reducing EV output at Giga Shanghai
- Tesla produces enough battery cells for 1,000 Cybertrucks a week
- Tesla Cybertruck resale market loses all momentum
- Tesla Cybertruck is wireless inductive charging-ready
- Tesla Roadster won’t really be a car, says Elon Musk
- First non-Tesla branded V4 Superchargers are being deployed
- Rivian gains access to Tesla’s Supercharger network, free adapter coming
- Audi unveils Q6 e-tron: a new standard for next-gen premium EVs
- Ford plans affordable small electric pickup and SUV, starting around $25,000
- GM believes ‘production hell’ is behind it with plans to build 20X more Ultium EVs in 2024
- Fisker (FSR) stock falls after failing to make an interest payment, pauses EV production
- Aptera CEOs discuss IPO plans, solar EV production, 3-wheel variants, and a possible 4-wheel model
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 | We are alive, everyone, for a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:09.7 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wincham. |
| 0:11.9 | How are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:12.9 | I'm good. |
| 0:14.3 | All right. |
| 0:14.9 | I hope you are because we have a ton of news to discuss today. |
| 0:18.2 | As you can see, the docket is full of articles to discuss. |
| 0:22.1 | So we're going to do our usual some test-unus first, but then plenty of non-testin-use |
| 0:26.9 | after that. |
| 0:27.6 | So stay tuned for that. |
| 0:28.9 | And then I also going to discuss my first look at the Audi Q6 E-Tron that I posted earlier this |
| 0:34.4 | week that I sort of teased about last week, but couldn't discuss |
| 0:37.5 | because of a little thing called an embargo. |
| 0:42.0 | All right. |
| 0:43.2 | So this is kind of big news. |
| 0:44.7 | This came out this morning. |
| 0:47.1 | It's not confirmed, but it seems like a serious report coming out of Bloomberg based on |
| 0:51.6 | employees at Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai, |
| 0:54.8 | is this Tesla reportedly reducing on-purpose production capacity at the factory due to lower demand? |
| 1:03.3 | So if you've been following Tesla, obviously, this is the biggest global EV automaker in the world, |
| 1:08.4 | though B.YD is sort of catching up as caught up as of last |
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