Trump moves to kill $7,500 tax credit, deep Tesla discounts, Cadillac Vistiq, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Trump moving to kill the $7,500 tax credit, deep Tesla and Ford discounts, the new Cadillac Vistiq, and more.
Today’s episode is sponsored by LiTime, a prominent brand with 15 years of experience in renewable energy storage, specifically focusing on renewable LiFePO4 Lithium batteries. Now through December 15, LiTime is offering up to 60% off its products during its Black Friday Sale.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla supports killing $7,500 EV tax credit – going directly against its mission
- Tesla adds 3 months of free Supercharging and Full Self-Driving to its end-of-year deals
- Tesla (TSLA) turns back to free Supercharging, big discounts in Europe to boost sales
- Ford is offering big EV discounts to close out the year
- Tesla announces 500 kW charging as it finally delivers V4 Supercharger cabinets
- Tesla recalls over 2,000 Cybertrucks to replace inverter that cause loss of power
- Tesla celebrates milestone of 1,000 Powerwalls in a day after claiming twice as many
- Meet the new Cadillac Vistiq, a luxury three-row electric SUV with over 300 miles range
- Polestar’s new luxury electric SUV just got cheaper with up to 350 miles range
- Rivian (RIVN) and Volkswagen officially launch their new EV business partnership
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. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:06.6 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintra. |
| 0:09.2 | How are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:10.5 | Good. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm in California, specifically south of San Francisco. |
| 0:15.4 | We're reviewing the Sierra Evie Denali, which is GMC's third EVEV if you count the Hummer and the Hummer S UV as two. |
| 0:25.1 | Third EV pickup. |
| 0:27.7 | Yeah, yeah, you're just starting to get a nice lineup. |
| 0:29.7 | And this one is a luxurious one, so I'm sure you're having a cool time with it. |
| 0:33.6 | Yep. |
| 0:35.4 | You're going to have a report on it next week. |
| 0:38.2 | Is there an embargo in this thing? |
| 0:39.5 | Yeah, there's an embargo. |
| 0:40.6 | I think it's Tuesday. |
| 0:41.8 | Well, I don't know if I'm supposed to say when the embargo is, but it'll be soon. |
| 0:46.3 | Okay. |
| 0:46.6 | So next week, we should have some more to tell you about the Sierra Denali EV. |
| 0:53.1 | All right. |
| 0:54.0 | Plenty of you talk about this week, but before we do, I want to say a quick thanks to today's sponsor for the podcast, Leithime, a prominent brand with 15 years of experience in renewable energy storage, specifically focusing on renewable life-po-4 lithium battery. |
| 1:09.9 | Now through December 15, Leight is offering is up to 60% off |
| 1:14.3 | its product during its giant black Friday cell you can learn more in the link in the |
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