Tesla Supercharger for all, new Roadster, Fisker on life support, and more
Electrek
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🗓️ 1 March 2024
⏱️ 59 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 Superchargers for all in North America, new Roadster to be unveiled later this year, Fisker being on life support, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Ford officially launches Tesla Supercharger access, free adapter now available to order
- The business behind Tesla opening its Supercharger network: selling ‘memberships’
- Tesla to unveil new Roadster this year, Elon doubles down on rockets/SpaceX collab
- Tesla increases Model Y prices back up as part of new temporary discount strategy
- Hands-on with the ChatGPT-enabled VW ID.4, with big 2024 model year changes
- Funding secured: Polestar’s (PSNY) outlook bounces back with $1 billion in external cash
- Polestar 3 production kicks off in China, US builds will soon follow
- Fisker Q4 report: ‘Substantial doubt’ it can continue, seeks investment from ‘large automaker’
- Volkswagen and Xpeng to roll out two new EVs, starting with an SUV
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 | Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:07.9 | I am Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:09.2 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintraub. |
| 0:11.8 | Are you going, Seth? |
| 0:12.9 | I'm good. |
| 0:14.8 | All right. |
| 0:15.4 | Let's jump right in. |
| 0:17.0 | We have plenty of stuff to talk about this week. |
| 0:19.1 | And big news. It's not news. It's not a new |
| 0:23.3 | information. It's the build milestone that is worth talking about is the official opening of |
| 0:29.2 | the supercharger network to the first non-Tesla EV automaker. And obviously, a lot of them will follow suit very shortly. |
| 0:40.5 | But the first one is Ford, rightly so, |
| 0:43.2 | because Ford did get the ball rolling, |
| 0:45.2 | if you remember last year when they announced |
| 0:48.1 | that they're going to adapt, |
| 0:49.0 | Nax as the official charge connector |
| 0:52.6 | for all the electric vehicle in North America starting in 2025. |
| 0:56.0 | We're not 2025 just yet, but they did plan for an adapter to be available before that |
| 1:05.0 | so that all the 4DV owners would have access to the supercharger network, even though their |
| 1:09.7 | vehicle don't have the right connector |
| 1:11.6 | for it. |
| 1:12.6 | And that's what happened this week is the launch of the Nax connector, CCS to Nax. |
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