Tesla tries to make FSD mainstream, Polestar 4, Fisker is done, and more
Electrek
9to5Mac
4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 54 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 trying to make FSD mainstream, Polestar 4's US launch, Fisker being on its last leg, and more.
The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla (TSLA) delivery estimates are all over the place
- Elon Musk mandates Tesla to install and demo Full Self-Driving Beta for every new delivery
- Tesla is ‘no longer compute constrained’, running out of excuses for self-driving
- Tesla starts using ‘Supervised Full Self-Driving’ language
- Tesla Cybertruck ramp is impressive, but it comes at a cost
- GM in talks with CATL to license cheaper LFP EV battery tech and joint North American plant
- Polestar 4 electric SUV unveiled in the US as Tesla Model Y rival, prices start at $56,300
- Ford Explorer EV launches with more range and refinement
- Ford drastically cuts workforce at F-150 Lightning EV plant amid ‘much slower’ demand
- Fisker slashes MSRPs of Ocean trims by tens of thousands as it fights to stay in business
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 to the new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:09.1 | I am Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:10.3 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintram. |
| 0:12.4 | Are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:14.2 | I'm good. |
| 0:15.5 | All right. |
| 0:16.1 | Let's jump right into the news this week. |
| 0:18.5 | We have, I was kind of a slow news week, but we still have a few items that I think |
| 0:24.0 | I'm going to be really interesting to discuss. |
| 0:25.8 | And a lot of things that are probably going to launch some new discussions and things |
| 0:31.1 | like that. |
| 0:31.4 | So if you guys want to jump into the comment section and talk about it with us, you're welcome |
| 0:37.1 | to. |
| 0:37.8 | Let's just put myself into focus so we don't get all these notifications coming in. |
| 0:43.1 | There we go. |
| 0:44.6 | All right. |
| 0:45.8 | So we're going to start out with, since it's going to be our last podcast before the |
| 0:50.4 | Tesla delivery results coming in early next week, probably on Monday, I think. |
| 0:56.2 | Yeah, Monday. |
| 0:58.0 | So we're not going to be able to talk about it until next podcast. |
| 1:01.1 | But there's been a lot of updates this week, a lot of analysts again downgrading their estimates. |
| 1:08.7 | The consensus keeps going down. |
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