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 Tesla&#x27;s cheaper EV model coming and going in the same week, FSD v15, Rivian R2 EPA numbers, and more.

Tesla's cheaper EV model comes and goes, FSD v15, Rivian R2 EPA numbers, and more

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I'll just add on my screen and we are live for a new episode of the Electrek Podcast. I'm Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintram. How are you doing, Seth? I'm good. All right. Good thing that you're good because we have plenty to talk about this week. We had kind of like a little teaser that Tesla might still be a car company and might still be working on new vehicle programs, and that was shut down quickly earlier today, even though

I think there's still some hope for it. We're going to dive into that. Then we're going to talk about v14.3. I'm talking about FSD here, and v15, which is now v15 unsupervised, safer than human. That's locked in. It's v15. It's happening. Oh, yeah.

Yep. We got some great data on Tesla Supercharger, the cost of deploying them, at least the cost of what Tesla is charging for it. So obviously, there's some profit on top of it. But it's very interesting data into the cost of deploying DC Fast Charger, which we think, pretty confident that Tesla is still by far the cheapest.

We got some Rivian R2 EPA numbers. No big surprise there, so nothing to be crazy about. We're going to talk to you about Volkswagen making big moves in the U.S., not in the right direction, as per usual these days when it comes to legacy automakers in the U.S. ID.4 is going away. Honda as a cute little funky EV that they are bringing overseas now, which we're looking forward to.

And we saw two new Ioniq concept from Hyundai. We're not super hype about concept here, but in the case of Hyundai, they have been pretty consistent in bringing something relatively close to production to what they show in their concept. So it's worth taking a look. And as usual, we're a show that is 100% live and we take questions from the audience at the end of the show.

So if you guys have any questions for us about any of the topics we're discussing today that I just listed or anything that you want or might take or set stake on in the EV world as self-declared experts at this point. I think we've put in our 10,000 hours and more. You're welcome to put your question in the comment section. We're live on YouTube, Facebook, wherever you get your live video podcast.

All right. Well, I'm going to remind you of that as more people trickle into the show. But yeah, the big Tesla news this week was coming from our friends at Routers who came out with a report in China. So they have a lot of reporters in China and they put a report together. Let me just put that in the frame. All right. And the report was based on four anonymous sources. Anonymous to us, not to Rotors, obviously.

And it's about a new vehicle program in the early stages developed specifically by Tesla in China to be produced first as a Gigafactory Shanghai, but then also adopted by Tesla's other factories in Europe and in the US. And this new vehicle program was referred to as an SUV, but a smaller SUV than the Mode...

Tesla's cheaper EV model comes and goes, FSD v15, Rivian R2 EPA numbers, and more

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Tesla's cheaper EV model comes and goes, FSD v15, Rivian R2 EPA numbers, and more

Transcript

Built for investment professionals

Every day you wait, your competitors are findingedge in conversations you're not hearing.

Every day you wait, your competitors are finding
edge in conversations you're not hearing.