
Podcast: Tesla battery breakthrough, TSLA stock split, Hyundai IONIQ, and more
08/14/20 • 57 min
This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including a Tesla battery breakthrough, TSLA stock split, Hyundai's new IONIQ EV brand, and more.
The Electrek Podcast is me, Fred Lambert, editor-in-chief of Electrek, and Seth Weintraub, founder and publisher of Electrek and the 9to5 network, discussing all our top stories of the week while taking questions from our readers and highlighting the most insightful comments on the site.
The show is back live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel. As a reminder, we’ll have an accompanying post, like this one, on the site with an embedded link to the live stream. Head to the YouTube channel to get your questions and comments in.
After the show ends at around 5 p.m. ET, the video will be archived on YouTube and the audio on all your favorite podcast apps through our RSS feed: https://electrek.co/podcastRSS. Grab the quick link to Apple Podcasts here.
We now have a Patreon if you want to help us to avoid more ads and invest more in our content. We have some awesome gifts for our Patreons and more coming.
Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast today:
- Tesla researchers show path to next-gen battery cell with breakthrough energy density
- Tesla battery researchers mention enabling electric aircraft with new batteries
- Tesla announces 5 for 1 stock split, TSLA jumps 8%
- Tesla slashes price of CCS retrofit for Model S and Model X
- Tesla pushes to upgrade Destination Chargers with Gen 3 Wall Connectors, enables paid charging
- Cadillac Lyriq electric car to surprisingly start at less than $60,000
- Electric Corvette? GM files for ‘E-Ray’ trademark
- Hyundai launches IONIQ as new EV brand, confirms 3 new electric cars
- Lucid Air electric car is going to have insane EPA range of over 500 miles
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET):
This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including a Tesla battery breakthrough, TSLA stock split, Hyundai's new IONIQ EV brand, and more.
The Electrek Podcast is me, Fred Lambert, editor-in-chief of Electrek, and Seth Weintraub, founder and publisher of Electrek and the 9to5 network, discussing all our top stories of the week while taking questions from our readers and highlighting the most insightful comments on the site.
The show is back live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel. As a reminder, we’ll have an accompanying post, like this one, on the site with an embedded link to the live stream. Head to the YouTube channel to get your questions and comments in.
After the show ends at around 5 p.m. ET, the video will be archived on YouTube and the audio on all your favorite podcast apps through our RSS feed: https://electrek.co/podcastRSS. Grab the quick link to Apple Podcasts here.
We now have a Patreon if you want to help us to avoid more ads and invest more in our content. We have some awesome gifts for our Patreons and more coming.
Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast today:
- Tesla researchers show path to next-gen battery cell with breakthrough energy density
- Tesla battery researchers mention enabling electric aircraft with new batteries
- Tesla announces 5 for 1 stock split, TSLA jumps 8%
- Tesla slashes price of CCS retrofit for Model S and Model X
- Tesla pushes to upgrade Destination Chargers with Gen 3 Wall Connectors, enables paid charging
- Cadillac Lyriq electric car to surprisingly start at less than $60,000
- Electric Corvette? GM files for ‘E-Ray’ trademark
- Hyundai launches IONIQ as new EV brand, confirms 3 new electric cars
- Lucid Air electric car is going to have insane EPA range of over 500 miles
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET):
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Tesla car wrap service, Model Y Long Range RWD, Cadillac Lyriq, and more
This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including Tesla's new car wrap service, Model Y Long Range RWD, Cadillac Lyriq, and more.
The Electrek Podcast is me, Fred Lambert, editor-in-chief of Electrek, and Seth Weintraub, founder and publisher of Electrek and the 9to5 network, discussing all our top stories of the week while taking questions from our readers and highlighting the most insightful comments on the site.
The show is back live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel. As a reminder, we’ll have an accompanying post, like this one, on the site with an embedded link to the live stream. Head to the YouTube channel to get your questions and comments in.
After the show ends at around 5 p.m. ET, the video will be archived on YouTube and the audio on all your favorite podcast apps through our RSS feed: https://electrek.co/podcastRSS. Grab the quick link to Apple Podcasts here.
We now have a Patreon if you want to help us to avoid more ads and invest more in our content. We have some awesome gifts for our Patreons and more coming.
Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast today:
- Tesla Model Y diary: Day 4 range test family trip with bikes
- Tesla launches its own car wrap service
- Tesla starts trial production of Model Y Long Range Rear-Wheel-Drive
- Tesla is working on massive sales presence expansion with new markets
- Tesla prepares production increase at Fremont factory, builds new parallel line under tent
- Tesla makes tiny change to Model Y that will save owners some headaches
- Tesla is ‘highly likely’ to make smaller Cybertruck for Europe, says Elon Musk
- Tesla’s wiper controls are ruled illegal in Germany after someone crashed while using them
- Tesla’s made-in-China cars lead market in quality while US-made Tesla cars score lowest
- Tesla urges owners to push for allowing charging payment by kWh
- Tesla launches Model 3/Model Y leases in Canada, expands in the market
- Electric pickup truck maker Lordstown Motors announces deal to go public at $1.6 billion
- Audi e-tron 2021 electric SUV gets $9,000 price cut and 18 more miles of range
- Cadillac reveals Lyriq electric crossover with 19-kW home charging option, due late 2022
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET):
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Tesla (TSLA) stock insanity, Tesla Dojo project, Lucid charging
This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including Tesla's (TSLA) stock going inside, Tesla's "not-so-secret" Dojo project, Lucid Air's charging capacity, and more.
The Electrek Podcast is me, Fred Lambert, editor-in-chief of Electrek, and Seth Weintraub, founder and publisher of Electrek and the 9to5 network, discussing all our top stories of the week while taking questions from our readers and highlighting the most insightful comments on the site.
The show is back live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel. As a reminder, we’ll have an accompanying post, like this one, on the site with an embedded link to the live stream. Head to the YouTube channel to get your questions and comments in.
After the show ends at around 5 p.m. ET, the video will be archived on YouTube and the audio on all your favorite podcast apps through our RSS feed: https://electrek.co/podcastRSS. Grab the quick link to Apple Podcasts here.
We now have a Patreon if you want to help us to avoid more ads and invest more in our content. We have some awesome gifts for our Patreons and more coming.
Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast today:
- Tesla (TSLA) surges to $2,000 ahead of stock split and shorts are running
- Elon Musk hints at Tesla’s not-so-secret Dojo AI-training supercomputer capacity
- Tesla is working on HW 4.0 self-driving chip with TSMC for mass production in Q4 2021, report says
- Tesla cars are going to play elevator music through external speaker because Elon Musk likes it
- Tesla is rolling out suspension update with real-time visualization
- Tesla applies to add short-range interactive motion-sensing device inside cars
- 2021 Porsche Taycan gets small speed boost, color HUD, new charging options, more
- Lucid reveals impressive 300 kW charge rate for Air electric car, bi-directional charging, and more
- Lucid electric SUV prototype spotted ahead of launch
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET):
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