Tesla v12.4, Rivian next-gen R1s, VW ID.7 GTX, and more
Electrek
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4.2 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2024
⏱️ 60 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's upcoming v12.4 update, Rivian's next-gen R1s, VW ID.7 GTX, and more.
Today's Podcast is sponsored by the Electrek American Solar Challenge 2024
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Elon Musk says Tesla FSD v12.4 will drive a year between interventions, but there’s a caveat
- Tesla releases new software update with improvements to adaptive headlights and more
- Elon Musk asked Nvidia to prioritize GPU shipments to X over Tesla, emails reveal
- Tesla Cybertruck unveiled as imposing police vehicle
- Rivian unveils next-gen R1 EVs to cut cost without affecting driver experience
- I drove the next-gen R1S/R1T and Rivian is getting better at making electric vehicles
- Volkswagen unveils the new ID.7 GTX as its most powerful EV yet
- Porsche Cayenne EV caught testing hints at larger, bolder big brother to the Macan
- Kia EV4 spotted for the first time revealing the stylish new low-cost EV [Video]
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 | Welcome to a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:07.3 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wimtram. |
| 0:09.4 | Are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:10.7 | I'm good. |
| 0:12.0 | All right, we have plenty to talk about today. |
| 0:14.3 | We're going to talk a bit about some Tesla news, as usual. |
| 0:17.8 | I can finally talk about my Rivian next generation drive from last week, |
| 0:22.6 | a new unveiling of the ID7 GTX, and plenty more to talk about. And we also want to talk to |
| 0:29.3 | you guys. So if you guys have any question for us, you can put them in the comment section right now |
| 0:32.9 | and I get to it in just a few minutes after we're done talking about the news. |
| 0:42.3 | Before we jump in, I want to say quick thank you to a sponsor this week. |
| 0:46.6 | Well, kind of sponsoring our own thing this week with the Electric American Solar Challenge 2024 coming second week of July in Kentucky, in Bowling Green Kentucky. |
| 0:53.1 | So we're going to talk a little bit more about it later on the show. |
| 0:55.7 | But if you guys want to check out this very cool student race with electric solar car that we're sponsoring, you're welcome to do so. |
| 1:05.1 | All right. |
| 1:07.1 | First, we want to talk about V12.4, because last week talked a little bit about, like, where is it? |
| 1:13.8 | It's been delayed a little bit. |
| 1:15.2 | It hasn't reached the customer fleet just yet. |
| 1:17.5 | So Elon talked about it this time. |
| 1:20.5 | Says that now, so that they kind of, not postpone, they kind of cancel the original 12.4 |
| 1:28.4 | releasing to |
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