
Quick Charge Podcast: January 15, 2024
01/16/24 • 6 min
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as soon as they’re available.
Stories we discuss in this episode (with links):
- Tesla Optimus robot can’t build cars yet, but it is folding clothes
- Panasonic to soon make new batteries for Tesla, could ‘reduce’ EV prices: report
- Elon Musk complains about his smaller stake in Tesla after wasting it on buying Twitter
- Lucid (LCID) poaches Polestar, Maserati exec to spearhead European EV offensive
- BMW declares ‘tipping point’ in shift from gas-powered cars to EVs as sales heat up
- Harvard develops a solid state battery that charges in minutes
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Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as soon as they’re available.
Stories we discuss in this episode (with links):
- Tesla Optimus robot can’t build cars yet, but it is folding clothes
- Panasonic to soon make new batteries for Tesla, could ‘reduce’ EV prices: report
- Elon Musk complains about his smaller stake in Tesla after wasting it on buying Twitter
- Lucid (LCID) poaches Polestar, Maserati exec to spearhead European EV offensive
- BMW declares ‘tipping point’ in shift from gas-powered cars to EVs as sales heat up
- Harvard develops a solid state battery that charges in minutes
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Quick Charge Podcast: January 13, 2024
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as soon as they’re available.
Stories we discuss in this episode (with links):
- Tesla launches Model 3 Highland refresh in North America
- Tesla shutting down Berlin factory for 2 weeks due to Red Sea shipping attacks
- Volvo joins Tesla in halting EV production due to Red Sea attacks
- Tesla Model 3s from Hertz are going for as low as $14,000
- Hertz says it will invest some of proceeds from selling Tesla cars back into gas cars
- Tesla (TSLA) increases workers’ wages amid union push
- Tesla Cybertruck gets delivered with ridiculous body defects
- Hyundai undercuts Tesla Model 3 by $9,300 with 2024 IONIQ 6 special cash offer
- Hyundai-Kia surge past Ford, GM to take second in US EV sales in 2023
- Nissan is delaying EV production again at its Canton US plant
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Quick Charge Podcast: January 16, 2024
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as soon as they’re available.
Stories we discuss in this episode (with links):
- Dead Tesla cars pile up at Chicago Superchargers in extreme cold
- SIXT drops Tesla, buys 250,000 rental cars from Stellantis
- Mazda announces NACS adoption – its many EVs are going to flood Tesla Superchargers
- A cheap Toyota EV? Not right now, the company says
- Ford expects to begin building the electric Explorer in June, second EV by the end of 2024
- Ram’s first EV, the Ram ProMaster electric van, hits the US to rival Ford and Rivian
- Lightyear shelves solar EV plans, hires executives to spearhead solar systems for other OEMs
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