Tesla Supercharger update, is battery swap going to be a thing?, Ford goes back on BEV, and more

Electrek

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🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 61 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 what's happening with the Tesla Supercharger network, is battery swap going to be a thing?, Ford goes back on BEV, and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome, everyone, to a new episode of the Electric Podcast.
0:09.9	I am Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Winthrop, coming
0:13.9	us live from New York.
0:15.1	Are you doing, Seth?
0:16.3	I'm good.
0:17.7	All right, and I want to give a quick thank you to our sponsor for this week's episode, SplitVold.
0:22.3	The Split-Vol splitter switch automatically shares power from your existing 240-volt dryer
0:28.1	socket while your level 2 with your level 2 EV charger.
0:31.7	You can learn more here in the link in the description of this podcast.
0:35.6	But we're going to have a little bit more to say about them later
0:37.8	on on the show too. So stay tuned for that. They have a very cool product that we are happy to
0:43.2	promote. All right. We have a lot to talk about this week. As per usual, we a little update to
0:50.4	Tesla's lineup last weekend that we've't discuss in the podcast because it happened
0:54.9	right after. A little bit more layoffs. We're going to discuss a little bit of an update on the
0:59.1	supercharger situation. Then some ifsd stuff. We have Trump is on the docket today. So I'm always
1:09.6	make for some fun comments.
1:11.7	We'll try not to get too political around here, but you might be the next president of the United States.
1:16.6	So it is, we need to talk about it.
1:20.1	As long as he is not in jail.
1:23.1	No, he could be president from jail.
1:25.6	Is that there's nothing in the laws in the U.S. Constitution against that.
1:30.6	No, I don't think that founding fathers thought that it would be possible.
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