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The grand prize winner can choose between a fully loaded Tesla of their choice, a checkered Model 000 tickets the live drawing is scheduled for February 24 thanks to Climate Exchange for sponsoring this video so let's start with some tweets of the week, here's a big deal on Sunday, Elon tweeted that in the future there will be a vote for major changes in politics, my apology won't happen again and then Elon tweeted a poll saying that if he steps down as head of Twitter, I will live up to the results. of this poll and 17.5 million people voted 57 said yes and Elon says as the saying goes be careful what you wish for because you might get it so he will quit or he might quit.

I think he will resign. I think he's going to follow what people, I mean, he's said it many

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according to the Mexican news organization millennio Tesla will announce after the New Year the location of its newest gigafactory and it will be in Santa Catarina in the state of Nuevo León Mexico called it we called it yes, remember that Elon visited Nuevo León in October, yes , but so why are all those photos tinted yellow?

Not because they were taken in Mexico. You know, any footage filmed in Mexico needs to add that tint, otherwise people might think it was just filmed in California, right, those are the rules, those are the rules, right? well, Millennial seems to have gotten hold of a confidentiality agreement between the government and Tesla that says that Tesla will come to Santa Catarina the investment will be finalized in the coming weeks after the end of the year will be announced the commitment is that it must be completed immediately after starting the year 2023. We know that it will generate employment and that it will be located in the only available area, which is the west of that municipality.

It is not possible to provide more information because there is a confidentiality contract. It is not part of a confidentiality agreement that you do not tell anyone properly. , so this would put Giga México just west of Monterey and I think I'm going to play the Factory concert in the Mexican state here and I think I'll wait here. All my years of geoaddiction don't fail me, wait, so you think it will end there, that's my best guess. And it's not a bad location. It is 40 minutes from downtown Monterey, which has a metropolitan area population of 3.8 million people.

I mean population is important, you need enough people to work for you and live nearby. 3.8 million in the metro area puts it in line with the top 15 US cities San Francisco Oakland Fremont has 4.4 million Detroit has 4.3 million Seattle Tacoma has 3.5 million now Where does that put us in terms of Giga Austin and Giga Nevada? Austin only has 1.8 million in the metro area and Reno Sparks has less than half a million. That explains why Tesla has pretty much stopped expanding Giga Nevada, there just aren't enough people there. right now for our Mexican viewers who live nearby, you are our eyes and ears and maybe drone pilots to cover what is happening in the area.

Yeah, I mean, we as a community have been very fortunate to have Joe Tegmeyer, Jeff Roberts, the rest of the Quad. Squadron in Austin, not to mention all the awesome drone pilots over gigash saying hello concert or Berlin, so now might be the perfect time to start your own YouTube channel and spin those swords and we'd love to cover it here in the news, so If you've been thinking about being a drone pilot, you'll have plenty of time to hone your craft and hey, if you want to give us some cred for calling it out, hit the like button and that brings us to Elon. retweeted the Christmas update that is rolling out now and it's rolling out much earlier than usual.

It's usually like Christmas Day and you say everyone's like, Hey, could you make the food? and you say: I have to upgrade my car, wait. so the first feature is one we talked about last week, yes it claims to view the cockpit camera from the Tesla app while using dog mode or Sentry mode to keep an eye on your pup and the images in the app are also Labeled with the temperature inside the cabin so you can now make sure your dog is comfortable while you run an errand. I think it's a very good addition and remember that with that update that came out in October you can now have Sentry mode and dog mode activated at the same time. time and let's talk about another big part of the Christmas launch Tesla announced on Tuesday that Teslas are now powered by steam, what kind of electrically heated water pump that drives the main shaft, no, no, I mean, the Steam gaming platform has now came to Tesla, so Elon. he tweeted that you can play cyberpunk Elden ring and thousands of other games in your car with an epic sound system, he said it even works with a keyboard and mouse, okay let's get to your model 3 and start playing some games, no, What's the matter, wait, let's play some games.

I'm just reading the release notes. He says that Steam is currently only available for Model S and The S and new from ? I mean, a lot of them get that chip right because it doesn't have a discrete GPU like the Model S or X, basically the Model S and X have their own dedicated gaming PC. I also want to point out that Tesla added Bluetooth controller support, but again, this is only for the Model S and X, check this out. It's a pain for Model 3 and Y owners and hopefully a Steam lite version will come out for those models, but I mean this is the differentiator Tesla wanted.

I think the S and X models are the flagship cars and are super desirable luxury cars. they have to have super desirable features like these types of games and don't forget that you will need at least 256 gigabytes of storage and we will talk more about that in one of our many additional Patreon stories this week by the Here's how you get the most out of this program join Join us on Patreon for survey goals, weekly bonus stories, and more. Join for just a dollar a month. This Christmas upgrade gift from Tesla was like when you get that gift.

When you were a kid your grandparents gave it to you and you tore up the wrapping paper and it's an amazing gift and then it requires batteries and they're not in the package so you can't play with it and you stared at it all day. Pretend it works except if you have a new model S or X Nothing for you and yes, I verified that it does not work with Sparky even though I just bought the updated mcu, yes, I mean, this is worse because it is possible that these cars never play Steam games, it's fine, but wait, but There are more gifts, yes, now there is Apple music. so the ability to stream 100 million songs and 30,000 playlists ad-free, we talked about media control last week, my Q connected garage door openers are now supported, we talked about climate control fan speed and emissions test mode via mobile app or basically remote fart. mode last week Zoom meetings can now be held in the car on the home screen.

Yes, we knew that was coming and reported it a few weeks ago, but it's only on certain models, all new Model S and X and only the Y and the three built since then. January 2022 and you must have premium connectivity for that to work and if you are really disappointed because you couldn't get Steam to work in your car, don't worry, now you have Mahjong which has always been added to the list of games. Rainbows, which is the option for the screen to show Rainbow Roads when there is now autopilot here, as we reported would happen last week, and the scheduled light show is now in the toy box.

What is that thing that allows you to program your Tesla's light show for up to 10 minutes? in advance or to watch a multi-car orchestra set to start simultaneously and now you can ring in the New Year with the Old Lang Syne light show. They have a new song and that should work with the custom, yes you can do that too. the custom ones, but this one is built in if you don't want to do any programming, there are also automatic turn signals and contact search which we discussed last week and now you can use Bluetooth game controllers.

Works well with PS5 controllers. I heard and again, that's just a new feature of the snx model, yes, and there is now a follow mode for the Model y performance models, which is great for the Model S. There are auto presence door handles that allow you disable the automatic presence door handles while parked at home and for the Model X there is now the ability to disable the automatic doors when parked at home. Rear screen control on the updated S and X models lets you select between the front and rear screens as the preferred audio source or lock the rear screen completely and confirm the phone. call transfer we talked about last week, so I was actually hoping for more games, not just Steam games, but Mahjong really wasn't enough for me.

I played it and it was fine if you like that game, but that's it. I wanted more Christmas presents, you know, I think you're spoiling yourself a little bit, Zach, I think I am, you know, it's going to be what Christmas always is, which is that the rich kids will let you know their special presence. You know, they get the best toys and you know we're going to catch something. I don't think it's about that, this is like the year I bought fencing swords, that sounds amazing, it sounds amazing in retrospect, but When I was a kid, when you expected something like a computer and you get fencing swords, it's kind of of disappointment.

You've never had fencing swords for me. Isn't it because it was a disappointment? It wouldn't have been a disappointment for me. It sounds amazing and it looks like Rivian also gave us an early Christmas gift, what do we get? Oh, camp kitchen, no, um, uh, the gear shuttle at least so that way we can slide the drawer out of the gear tunnel we ordered a year ago. By the way, we're still waiting for it, no, uh, but we got more reach, how would you like that? With the large package we went from 314 miles to 328 miles. R1s owners went from 316 to 321 miles, so we got 4.4 percent more range.

I mean, that's not bad and I wonder how they did it. I mean, do you think they unlocked just more battery? package, yeah, not sure if it was that or if they found a way to make things a little more efficient, like using one of the engines more than the other or something, and why the SUV version, the r1, only got 1.5 percent more range, yes. Comment below if you think you know how Rivian did it, andwe should try this but the problem is we have all terrain tires to get the ranges they are talking about here you need more efficient all season tires and others.

Arabian's Christmas present is the r1t which just finished crash testing and received the highest safety rating (Top Safety Pick Plus) from the iihs or the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, so the only Another truck currently receiving Top Safety Pick Plus is the Toyota Tundra. Yeah, so if you're looking for a safe truck, everyone told me when I was a kid, oh, you want to buy a truck because it's going to be safer, whether it's a truck or an SUV, because they're bigger when you get them. In the event of an accident, you'll kill the other person, no problem, but you'll be fine because you have more momentum, which I guess goes hand in hand with having a giant 135 kilowatt hour battery, and that's why, as with everyone electric vehicles, Elon. retweeted the Tesla suite introducing Tesla electric, the electricity plan that offers low-cost clean energy for homes with powerwalls starting in Texas, we call it, we call it too, we call it that. one a while ago, yes, Tesla said that if you own an electric wall with retail options in Texas, you can save on your electricity bills, you will have credits towards your bill when you contribute the energy stored in your electric wall to buffer the grid as a member, you can also monitor energy sources your 24/7 electricity supply in the Tesla app and make sure that any electricity you use from the grid is offset by 100 renewable energy generated in Texas, that sounds pretty good, yeah, I mean, I love it when we are right.

Yeah, I mean, we've been talking about Tesla doing this for years and becoming a utility, so we've seen Tesla launch VPPs or virtual power plants before there are 400 homes in Japan in 2021 and there was a vpp in california last year now that

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is showing that they are very serious about this happening statewide yes and i think this is just the beginning. Elon has said he wants Tesla's power to become a distributed global utility capability and that it could overtake the automotive business and how Tesla can demonstrate how well this works to save taxpayers money, make the grid more stable. for all.

More and more state public utility commissions will have to allow Tesla to do this in their states and this will spread, which will in turn. to increase demand for electric walls and solar energy. I love it, if you live in Texas and can sign up for this, make us a video about this and tell us how much it saves you on your electric bill. I know. which isn't the most exciting video because nothing moves, you're just going to say: here's my powerwall and here's my electric bill, but at the end of the day, that's better than things moving everywhere and saying whoa hey , easier to Shoot, yeah, well, I've got 4,000 guinea pigs here and they're all feeding my house.

I just think it's Powerwall in a lot of ways, it's better, yeah, than guinea pigs, yeah, so back in September we reported on this seemingly positive news that Rivian had. He partnered with Mercedes-Benz to build his electric vans in Europe last week. Rivien said he will not move forward with the deal. Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said we have decided to pause discussions with Mercedes-Benz Vans regarding the memorandum of understanding we signed. earlier this year for the joint production of electric vans in Europe, which I mean is just a memorandum of understanding, I mean it was not binding or anything like that, but normally when companies make those agreements public it means that they have quite serious plans in the works are seen, that is why we do not report on many of these company statements.

They are often not worth the paper or websites they are written on and is just another example of how the changing economic environment is affecting businesses like. Rivian, which is burning cash right now, yes, remember Rivien had a $1.7 billion loss in the third quarter and this is probably not the time for them to burn more cash in more factories until their capital plans existing ones are profitable, yes, as RJ said at this time. Right now we believe that focusing on our consumer business, as well as our existing commercial businesses, represents the most attractive near-term opportunities to maximize value for Rivian and I mean, it's funny to me how you thought three months ago that this was a good idea or that it was a good idea. just to be a distraction to the shareholders when he had such a big loss to talk about, I think it's very common in companies, we have something bad to tell them, so we're going to make up for it with some fun new deal we have and it was just one mou and keep that in mind people, when companies say we have a mou, you basically know you want to try that tomorrow, hey, that sounds good and then it's like hey, oh, sorry, I can't make it. uh something else I have to do and I knew it when I told you I was coming but I'm not going to tell you that yeah it's pretty disappointing and that's why there are so many announcements every week it's just like we're going to build a factory we're going to do all these things and then they can just cancel them and it's never exactly big news in this case it's because Rivian isn't doing so well so all the news agencies are going Is this a top story?

Yes it is and I mean, I guess we're covering it too. Yeah, what are you looking for a raise? Come out and in SpaceX news, Starship just completed another static fire test last Thursday at Starbase in Texas, so this was it. Starship prototype number 24. It fired one of its six Raptor engines for about seven seconds and if you're wondering why it didn't take off well, that's what a static fire test is to hold the ship to the ground so it can. Before taking off, you light a rocket and test it to make sure the output is what you thought it would be.

The plan now is to dock Booster 7 and Starship 24 together after all static firing tests have been performed for an upcoming orbital. flight that could take place in the coming months, both NASA and Starlake will be two of Starship's first customers, obviously Starlink wants to launch massive amounts of Internet satellites and NASA wants to launch an Artemis mission to return people to the Moon, I mean. Q3 next year, next year, it's not possible to meet that schedule, you never know. Thanks again to one of our favorite drone pilots, YouTuber Joe Tegmeyer, who just saw this, two-by-fours and some plastic-covered stuff.

I mean, what are we looking for? here no, no, look closely on the right and you will see the word idra as in idra 9000 ton gigapress from Italy oh wow, I mean the Giga press finally arrived in Giga Texas, now it's out, no, this is actually looking towards the gigafactory. through a window, so he flew the drone to the window and looked inside. On Friday, the Giga press area seemed to be preparing for the gigapress installation and I wouldn't be surprised if it was up and running maybe in the next month or two because This is right next to the mega presses or we call them mega presses.

Are they still Giga presses? They are still Giga presses. Yes, those are the four thousand six thousand tons. This will be the 9,000 ton one, probably for cyber. super exciting truck and we've been seeing a lot of job postings for cyber truck related jobs in Austin so I'm really excited about the cyber truck coming in the middle of next year yeah and speaking of Cybertron we've reported on the cyberlander , which is a futuristic caravan. In fact, for the Cyber ​​Truck we interviewed the founder and CEO a couple of times and we're looking forward to checking it out when it comes out.

Yes, another futuristic Cyber ​​Camper option now enters the market, the starting price of 24,000 from Space Campers and I. I must say it looks really cool with tons of features so the base version offers a seamless installation with no modifications needed on the Cyber ​​truck to load and unload it, just back up your thing, place it and hold it . Your truck has full access to the truck bed when it is open and closed. I think that's really cool because on the other one, the Cyberlander, you gave away your rig and this way you keep your rig, there are air-powered actuators that break down the caravan with the turn. of a keyless entry switch that uses the Cybertrox tailgate locking mechanism and compatibility with the Cyber ​​Truck battery for accessory add-ons, yes, things like water heaters and such, the bed is six foot eight inches long by four feet two inches wide and you mean the sleep in bed, sorry yes the sleeping bag, there is an additional kitchen accessory that can be used in various configurations and many other cool features , so we will be reaching out to space campers for more information, so stay tuned and watch.

I know some of these. Accessories and features are probably aspirational. I mean, we don't even know the exact dimensions of the Cyber ​​truck, but look, some of these cool accessories could be solar roof racks, a rear rack to mount the magnetic kitchen projector for watching TV and movies inside. and outside the truck and a full camp kitchen and might even arrive before Rivi and also a shower and a bathroom, so comment below what you think and what you would like us to ask the company when we contact they. and we'd like to thank our friends at the Cyber ​​Truck Owners Club, which is where I think a lot of people are going to talk about this directly because they help sponsor Tesla Time News.

They have a website for Cyber ​​Truck news. discussions and community for cyber truck enthusiasts and future owners like us, there you will find a crowdsourced reservation tracker that you can update and find your place in line. We've been testing our sandors meta cycle on our channel that we now review, which just surpassed. 10,000 Subs btw, we just posted a video showing some real world range testing. Now this is important because I think this bike has created a new category in electric mobility. They aptly named it metacycle because it lives between an emo ped and a motorcycle in my opinion, shouldn't it be called a moped? so moped is not sexy.

They probably thought about that and said, uh, no, don't cross it off the list, uh, look, it's a new breed, so to speak, and I think it's going to appeal to a lot of people who experience it, but it needs to have the right scope for what it is. what you want to do with it and we have the data to help you make that decision, so check it out in the knowledge review and don't forget. to subscribe and leave us a comment there so we know what you would like us to review and cover on that channel.

As we have been reporting, Tesla plans to vertically integrate lithium refining by building its own lithium refinery that Tesla just acquired. With the unanimous approval of the Robstown Independent School District near Corpus Christi, Texas, for the tax abatement for the proposed project, essentially the taxable value of the land would be capped at $20 million for the first 10 years after it is built. reopen the refinery, which would give Tesla a savings of $16.2 million. its tax bill, but it doesn't appear to be a done deal for Robstown yet, as Tesla senior global director Rohan Patel said a couple of weeks ago during a public hearing that Tesla is still deciding between three potential locations: Louisiana Robstown, Texas and north of Toronto in Canada, yes, it seems like the decision should come soon and I think it is very unwise of Tesla to make all these districts compete with each other for incentives.

We want you to come here and build Elon. Well, there are a lot of incentives coming here. uh, so big now that unlike other companies that probably don't have the resources to test all these different locations, Tesla can basically go to each of these locations and say what they can offer us according to CNBC. Ford is adding a third move to its truck plant in Dearborn and the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Michigan to meet demand for its F-150 Lightning all-electric pickup truck, so Ford had only planned to produce 40,000 trucks a year when it opened reservations, but now Ford says that with this third 10-hour shift and that's seven days a week, by the way, they will be able to reach an annual production rate of 150,000 units by the fall of 2023.

So now the number of workers has also expanded from 500 to 750 working on the all-electric lines Ford plant manager Corey Williamssays that this is how we are doing it so quickly: we are building a product while we are building the factory and I think this is an important political point, as the number of workers around the world shifts from fossil fuel jobs to jobs related to clean energy. Political pressure against sustainable energy from Big Oil will demand it end because politics follows money and right now there is more revenue. of these workers just go from a car factory to probably the exact same car factory, um and they're just going to say oh wow, today I didn't put in an exhaust system, I put in an inverter or something, and uh it's not so cool and instead of, you know, a big tube that runs the length of the vehicle so we don't kill people when they're sitting in the cabin, I put something in that will allow people to power their homes or something like that in case of a emergency oh what a difference that is and it makes people think differently, I bet, but I have something to choose before, oh yeah, I still can't get over those Panzer engines, uh, no, this. one is a little more recent, uh, Ford just raised the price of its Ford F-150 Lightning based model to 56,000.

Okay, so when Ford first announced the F-150 Lightning, the base model was going to cost thirty-nine thousand nine hundred 74. US dollars, you know, this inflation is 40 percent. Hey, at least they didn't do it all at once. They were forty thousand dollars when they were released. Then in August all Lightning went from six to eight thousand dollars and in October they raised it to fifty-two thousand. and now it's 56,000. I mean, what are you going to do? Do you think the base cyber truck will still hit 39.9? I mean, I know, but the top model Lightnings haven't gone up since August, don't you think it's because there's a little more room to play, I mean, I know, but other than a few fleet sales here and there, neither you could even buy one of the basic models, maybe for people who pre-ordered it, comment below or let us know on Hello Now.

You know, Channel.com, we want to know if you already have yours and I think it's important to note that as of November, Ford has sold 13,258 Lightning trucks so far this year, which is much less than what they promised us, yeah, because it's harder than it looks, but don't worry, we're adding a third turn. One of the wonderful things about a Tesla is the ability to fix software bugs with over-the-air updates and the fact that Tesla offers incentives for finding bugs, yes, a good example. Spot Ryan Levinson from the kilowatt YouTube channel identified this bug that allowed guests you shared access to your vehicle with to disable the owner's mobile access, so basically if you rented your Tesla on turo, for example, and gave me mobile access using the add driver function.

It could disable mobile access for you and then you would no longer be able to access your own car in your mobile app. Yes, I experienced this on my trip to Oregon to visit Arcimoto in July. my turo wouldn't let me use the mobile app so I couldn't access all those cool features like preconditioning and seeing where I parked etc because the owner didn't want me to be able to block it, but now Levinson has earned 300 a through the Tesla Bug Bounty program, as this was considered a P3 level security threat. Yes, P1 threats that are exposed can generate up to 15 thousand dollars.

We'll put the link below for all the white hat hackers and for the In this way, Tesla has had an average payout of $965 in the last three months, so if you find a flaw or a security risk, whatever to get paid, which is so clever that you might think it's a lot of money, it's nothing, it's a pittance in comparison. if they have some kind of horrible hack, having white hat hackers find this stuff and tell you about it early is very clever and you might be saying, well, it's a good thing there are all these white hat hackers about the difference between a White hat. hacker and a black hat hacker is what you pay them, so as the end of the year approaches people start to get excited about Santa not because after Santa returns to the North Pole for his well-deserved sleep on the night of the 31st , the Americans will do it.

He dreams of models, not sugar plums, won't they all be outside getting beaten? No, the inflation reduction law reminds that the electric vehicle incentive will kick in and for the first time in three years, you should be able to get a 7500 tax credit for a Tesla. Again, who exactly is going to want to buy a Tesla now? Tesla has a bit of a problem on its hands here if it wants to show decent numbers for this quarter, so they have been offering some incentives to attract hospitalized buyers. They were offering three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars off for people to take delivery this year and now they're adding 10,000 miles of free supercharging.

Wow, yes, although it can only be used within two years after delivery, it is difficult to do, yes. but it is approximately a value of 500, it is true, that is, more like a value of twelve hundred dollars if it were gasoline, but is it enough? For some people, it might be, some people who really wanted it and me, but I'm fine, but if 500 off, but I can wait a few more weeks and get 7500 off, why wouldn't I wait? It's a tax credit and if you don't qualify for the credit, this is a good time to get a deal that is It's a good point, but it also shows what an unwinnable situation Tesla is in right now and how this is a of the ways they are trying to solve this problem now.

I don't think it's that big of a problem. The problem isn't and it's going to go away in two weeks, so all you have to do is just stockpile the cars right now, which I know is a big No-No in the industry or whatever, but you'll sell them in January. , well, and that's why quarterly numbers are poop, yes I know, can we say poop, yeah?, so here's one of those stories you can share with your uncle who hates EVs and always beats you up with this false nonsense at family gatherings. I know I was reading this article that my friend sent me online.

You know he emailed it to me and he said that electric vehicles are going to break the electrical grid and we're all going to die and the lights are going to go out because you're driving. That fight, I mean, what do you say? Well, Uncle Grumps, a study just done 10 years ago by Synapse Energy Economics looking at electricity usage data from 735,000 households driving EVs in California found that EV owners actually helped make the grid cheaper. electrical. For everyone, according to their research, utilities made $1.7 billion in profits over 10 years and because US utilities cannot keep excess profits, they in turn had to reduce electric rates for everyone, including you, Uncle Grumps.

Now, how could EV owners use more? electricity that average households do so well because EV owners tend to charge during off-peak hours to save money, which saves utility companies from having to turn on expensive plants at peak hours and pass those savings on to all the contributors, so I think it's really cool that we now have enough data to prove Uncle Grumps wrong, so by the way, head over to our clip channel, now you know, where we cut this into a little clip bite-sized just for Uncle Grumps that you can share with him this holiday season. little Christmas present for him okay it's time to go to the future sponsored by our friends at Henson Shaving and maybe Uncle Grumps deserves a shaver if he's been better and you can get 100 free blades if you use the code now that you know checkout, just make sure you put them in your cart before you check out, so finally Amtrak America's long-distance rail system is announcing that it's finally going electric.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that was signed into law last year is providing $66 billion in rail funding, so Amtrak just revealed this, the Amtrak Arrow will be dual powered, both electric motors and diesel engines, which is the difference between this person? Every diesel locomotive is not how diesel locomotives work. It is a diesel generator that goes to electric motors. Yes. Siemens is manufacturing 73 arrows in California and they will be first deployed in the Northeast Corridor around 2026. Amtrak's current trains are 50 years old, so I think this is all just an improvement in technology, so now Amtrak says the Arrow will have 90 percent less particulate emissions in diesel operations and these hybrid electric trains will go all-electric in certain tunnels to make them zero emissions.

For those parts here's the train with executive seats, here's the coach seats, now I get it, rail only creates two percent of US Emissions according to the EPA, but still electric trains are the way to follow, no hybrids. Yes, I totally agree. At first I was very excited when I heard the story because I thought, of course, these will be completely electric trains. No, all new Aero trains will be operational in 2031. So yeah, I'm not, I don't know. I'm bummed because we know electric trains exist and I thought this was a perfect use case for them and me.

I mean, you know, yeah, in terms of emissions, it's not a big deal and trains are generally much more efficient than cars, so it's not the end of the world or anything, but I agree, it's like if we definitely had the technology. We have technology in the 40s, well, here's the other thing. I mean, if these trains they're replacing are 50 years old, that means we'll probably be stuck with these drains for 50 years, which means you know, 2081 is when the story begins. It will go out as if we didn't replace them with those Fusion before doing so.

We are so smart now that it will probably be electric. We thought about why exactly we are putting Fusion engines there. I was sponsored by ecoware now look the holidays are coming up if you haven't received your gift yet head over there there are lots of great gifts and gifts for under the tree we plant several trees ourselves for each order and help plug abandoned oil wells that release methane. With the Well Done Foundation making their purchases carbon negative, I think many of us who don't regularly use transportation services like Uber and Lyft, don't really know what's going on with their efforts to electrify, yeah, I think we're all kind.

I don't know that Uber and Lyft have published goals of going electric - for example, Lyft says it wants to offer 100 electric rides by the end of this decade - but the goal and reality are often very different, so this week I was intrigued to learn the incentives. that Lyft is now offering its drivers to go electric. I think actions speak louder than words, so let's look at what Lyft is currently doing. Firstly, it is now offering a new incentive in California for its drivers to earn an extra 150 per week up to eighty hundred dollars if they give 50 electric trips per week until December 29, 2024.

Number two up to 45 off for charging in evgo chargers Number three drivers can earn between one and seven percent cash back at public chargers with the Lyft Direct Debit Card so seven percent if you're a platinum driver and it drops to one percent for everyone else and number four, Lyft has partnered with Walmart Box and Coil to offer drivers discounts on sales and installation of Level 2 chargers for their homes, Paul Augustine, director of elevators. Sustainability says electrifying our transportation network is a crucial step to help reverse the negative impacts of climate change. We know many Lyft drivers want to switch to EVS, so we're focused on addressing the biggest barriers they face in the transition from upfront costs and charging access to these offerings is the latest of many steps we're taking to help drivers to switch to an electric vehicle on Lyft.

What do you think if you are a Lyft driver? Do you think Lyft is doing a good job incentivizing its drivers? go electric or they could be doing more yeah comment below and tell us what you think but I think the first thing they're doing there is 150 a week for giving 50 electric rides. I think it's a pretty big incentive. Basically, if you have, for example, a Tesla or something like that and you're thinking you know I'm going to get three or four rides a week, this might force you to go, you know, let me try to get a lot of rides there each time. week, whatit will expose more people to Tesla and if you're starting to make more money doing it and you start telling your friends and they say what, if I drive an electric vehicle I get an extra $150 a week, not just Are you saving gas like it could be enough for people to switch to an electric vehicle?

I really think you're right because I think at the end of the day, for a lot of Lyft drivers it's a monthly game. It's how much I'm spending on the car, how much I'm spending on gas and maintenance and how much I'm making per week or month and then 150 per week I mean is enough, so it's 600 dollars per month if you did it every week. enough, I mean, I know it caps at 8,100, but that's enough to maybe make your payments exactly and then you'll save money on electricity, so it might make a lot of sense, yeah, okay, it's spot time. solar, so Tokyo is local.

The assembly ruled last Thursday that all new houses built by large-scale homebuilders in Tokyo must have solar panels installed starting in April 2025. Currently, only four percent of buildings in Tokyo that could have solar panels They actually have them installed, so Tokyo is first. The Japanese municipality will require solar on new homes, so hopefully other cities in Japan will follow suit, and if you say yes, but Zach and Jesse, it's expensive to require it. The Tokyo government estimates that the 7,200 initial cost for installing four kilowatts of solar panels will turn a profit in six years with the government subsidies that the local government is providing, this will also help Tokyo meet its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030 and if you say Japan, who cares, the small island nation can't make a difference in global warming, well, Japan is the fifth largest carbon emitter, so yes they do make a difference and Tokyo has 12 million residents so imagine how much the demand for solar panels will increase due to this decision.

Alright, it's time for our video contributor. stories and by the way we need your stories so remember to keep sending them in two minutes or less, record them in landscape format with good audio, no music, send them to hello, now you know canal.com because we really want to hear what's going on . What's going on with Jason? Jason sent us this story about his electric scooter that he has been using. Hi, Zach and Jesse Jason here. So you often talk about electric mobility. They know they review scooters and they love electric bikes and I just wanted to.

To share, I have had this electric scooter for about a year and a half. I've put maybe 2500 miles on it now and it's cost me maybe fifty dollars in maintenance. I love it and just wanted to share. with you what I have which is a mini motors while dualtron mini motors and there she is and I just wanted to share with you how amazing I think scooters are and I use it everywhere it's great look at this beautiful day okay? Now you know well, thanks Jason. I love hearing about people's use of immobility. It really makes it real for me because sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who knows.

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It's a little Christmas gift for you so you can see what our extra Patreon stories are like. Okay, we're back from the Patreon bonus stories. It's time we thank Patreon and if you want your name to appear in the end credits. What you need to do is go to patreon.com and register. Who do we have this week? Justin Waterman Ernest Wells Autry Tim Hawks Georgie Georgiev and Sir Edelot. Thank you very much for supporting us. This program doesn't happen without you. It's time for a Patreon poll, we asked what you think about Elon and Twitter and this was before Elon's poll, literally I think minutes or hours before his poll, so these results may be a bit mixed.

Really interesting distribution of results here, like what's number one. So number one was, I can see why you bought Twitter. I wish I hadn't done it. So the second one is: I can see why you bought Twitter. It wouldn't have been my decision, but I support it. So I'm really glad that he bought Twitter and then I don't like the effect that it's having on Tesla stock more than anything and then all the other results are, you know, 10 or less, I think it's interesting, so I mean to the fact that he will likely leave as CEO of Twitter.

I wonder how. that's going to affect people's thoughts yeah, and speaking of Twitter and Elon, it's time for Elon's tweets of the week and Rick and Tomlinson said, dear Elon, you have one job, only one thing you do or don't do It will be remembered in a thousand years. do you open the solar system to humanity or not period Twitter etc are dangerous distractions and can kill sleep please stay away from the keyboard and Elon said social media in general especially Twitter where civilization is eroded. I'm okay with that if civilization collapses before Mars becomes itself. -hold then nothing else matters human conscience has disappeared Elon said under pressure from hundreds of activist employees Twitter unseats Trump as sitting US president even though they themselves acknowledge that he did not violate the rules and is talking about part 5 of the Twitter Archives um Elon posted this meme of him apparently killing Bots, then Elon said: follow the bunny, follow the White Rabbit, oh the White Rabbit, right, yes, Elon established that the ratio of digital computing to biological is growing exponentially, then Elon removed this tweet from the cockpit of the Tesla semi.

Significantly larger than that of traditional heavy duty trucks with plenty of storage space and easy access. Yes, I remember being in the cab of the truck and there's a lot of room in there, Elon said, risking to state the obvious: be careful with debt in turbulent macroeconomic conditions, especially. when the FED keeps raising rates and then Elon shares this meme, yeah, from Gladiator, what we do in life, then he said highly recommended reading and he's talking about this article by Mike Solana about pirate cables, which I reviewed, it's possible that you want to see it too.

Okay, and then we're talking about doxing here, which, if you don't know what that means, means revealing someone's location, he said that any account that doxes someone's real-time location information will be suspended, because is a violation of physical security, this includes posting. links to sites with real-time location information, posting locations that someone traveled to with a slight delay is not a security issue, so it's okay and we're going to talk more about this in the Patreon bonus stories and this because, as he said Last night, the car carrying Little Legal action is being taken against Sweeney in organizations that supported the harm to my family and then him. tweeted the photo of the person who supposedly got into the car, does anyone recognize this person or car and Jim Hall said wow this is the guy who jumped on the hood, Elon said yes, Elon then retweeted Spacex's tweets.

Starlink will provide high-speed Internet. to the Moscow Pet Tang Reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada starting next year and basically every home in Moscow's Patong saltex nation will have internet thanks to Starlink and he retweeted this Giga Texas hits the 3000 model and builds a week. Congratulations to the Tesla team and just remember that 45 days ago they attacked 2,000 cars per week, so now Giga Texas has an annual run rate of 150,000 cars per year. SpaceX tweeted that Ship 24 completed its single engine static fire test at Starbase in Texas and then Elon put it in I did a poll saying that accounts that altered my exact location in real time would be reactivated and most people said that Yeah.

Now if someone published real-time locations and addresses of New York Times reporters, the FBI would be investigating, there would be hearings on Capitol Hill and Biden giving speeches about the end of democracy and he tweeted: I love Barbra Streisand LOL and that's all because Barbara had a house on Hollywood Hill, oh right, the Streisand effect, yes, and the more you try to keep your location hidden, the more people want it I know Mark Anderson said a warm welcome to all the new converts to the great American cause of free speech and Elon said Twitter right now is fire and soon, ladies and gentlemen, the coup de gras, big questions, should real-time doxing be allowed on Twitter?

Meanwhile, Twitter usage by real humans once again hits all-time highs Kaboom, a sixth of the Twitter archives is out. SpaceX said Falcon 9 launched surface water and ocean surveying mission to orbit first-stage boosters returning to Earth, second launch today, space is back. and the people who have spoken out about the accounts messing with my location will now have their bans lifted, so even though he thought of one thing one day, he changed his mind the next and was very open and transparent about it. Twitter will begin incorporating muting and blocking. Verified Blue signals, not legacy blue, like downvotes and very inspiring to see the new love for freedom of speech by the press, I think it was a bit ironic, those who want power are the ones who deserve it least and, yes, he is going to do it. he's stepping down as CEO of Twitter at least according to the poll, that won't stop him from tweeting so we'll still have our tweets of the week.

It's time to eat in community and remember, share your stories, your photos, your videos with us. in Hello, now you know canal.com I learned a lot this week from our viewers, let's see what we learn. Our skipper Drew saw these Amazon Arab trucks and this R1 while he was driving through Normal Illinois. Stu saw this at Three Rivers Casino in Florence Oregon, very unusual. but on the spot for Oregon Bradley saw these Domino's Chevy bolt delivery vehicles in downgrade Indiana none in Massachusetts, but Indiana gets them Richard shared the story with us about this unique home charger he made.

My son-in-law gave me this 1943 Bennett gas pump. It came from a Sinclair gas station, it has been stored in his backyard for the last 25 years, he said I could have it if I use it for my home charger, son-in-law sanded it and They primed it, I painted it blue, I bought the Globe online and put the Tesla decal on it, an electrician friend installed it for me. Great, that's amazing, good job. Charles saw this Solo in Cincinnati, Ohio. Jason found this sondor electric bike at a local Costco in Marysville, Washington. Matt found this Rolls-Royce Specter EV, yes he said he today.

While charging our 38 kilowatt hour Hyundai ioniq on a DC fast charger in the McDonald's car park in Didcock Oxfordshire, UK, a Rolls-Royce Specter pulled up and charged next to us, the Specter won't be released until late 2023 and will be estimates it will cost around £350,000 in the UK so this is pre-production yes and you saw it thanks Matt imagine our skipper Anthony found this x-pang store in Copenhagen and shared these photos of the p7. I don't know why I didn't know it had Shelvin sent us these photos of an electric truck that they saw in British Columbia, Canada, and now it's time to review the supercharger to get people to work and before we get to the reviews of superchargers Well, normally we talk about beautiful superchargers, but this week I want to talk about beautiful megachargers.

These are four new mega chargers that just rolled into the Pepsi beverage plant in Sacramento, California at 7550 Reese Road, yeah, so it looks like there are now three mega charger locations so far in the world, two in California and one in Nevada , and I mean it's a beautiful thing in a non-beautiful sense, I mean the first three in the world, there will be more very soon, yeah, okay, let's see what We have supercharger locations in the world, second Jesse, this is Daniel . I'm here doing the Tesla Supercharger and Fort Valley review off Highway 75 and there are 16 stands that are located at the bakkies in the Bakkies gas station is one of the largest gas stations I have ever seen with a beautiful and excellentbarbecue that we invite you to come and visit.

We are on our way from Atlanta Georgia on the way to Florida and over here at this gas station. At the station you can find very clean restrooms with a nice food shopping area and I will give a 10 review for this Tesla Supercharger. I highly recommend it. I hope we get more of this in every state because this is an amazing place to stop and it's open 24 hours so you can come here anytime. Jessie. I'm Janine and Supercharger. This site has eight positions. It is located next to a secondary road, so it is not the main road but a Scenic One.

It is surrounded by some shops. A local shopping center across the street. and there's a Tim Hortons right here a minute walk from the Chargers and a Canadian Tire right behind it generally. I would give this location a solid 7 out of ten and now you know, okay thanks Jeffrey, this is Tyrone traveling to the water of Calais. with my wife and my niece we are in the air to the bed supercharger in France there are 10 superchargers 150 kilowatt hours it is an incredible facility there are bathrooms there is a shelf station that is a bus image also Starbucks to have a coffee incredible views from the tower and a beautiful walk that we are going to explore in a moment after we have eaten some food, we have to leave at 80 because it is very busy, so that is the maximum you can charge until before and I will stick with this supercharger and eight out of 10 .now you I know I'm here at the Newburgh, New York supercharger, which is an interesting place about a mile, a mile and a half from the highway.

It's right at the back of this restaurant. I think it's Cozimos or Cosmos, a great restaurant. at the stalls, here at the back of the restaurant, you have to walk through there to the entrance, however the station completely failed while I was here, I got about five inches of charge and then the station went offline and there is no way to contact Tesla to let them know about it so if I had completed my charge I would have given it like an 8 but since I couldn't charge and I can't contact anyone I'm going to give you a message thank you so much for doing supercharger reviews .

If you want to see a map that has all the supercharger reviews where you can even upload your own review, you can head over to our website nowknowchannel.com and that's how you get on the show and now it's time to see the newest, the latest and the last thing, and we have three pages of them, Jesse, so prepare your lips for this, oh my goodness, three pages in one week, I'm not kidding since the last Tesla news, these are the new superchargers. that moved in this week crazy I'm going to have to get some coffee post 16 in Red Oaks Texas post eight Stalin offshore Norway post eight in Shenandoah on Metro Park Drive Texas post eight in College Station Texas Ave South Texas number eight in Edison Route 1 New Jersey number eight in Downington Pennsylvania number 52 in Australia number four in Tenterfield New South Wales number eight in Rome Northern Italy style 20 in Norway uleval number three in Shanghai in plaza China the three star stall in Shanghai at jaiwan dream plaza china the three stalls in Bayou Long John International Hotel China the three stalls in Shanghai in Forte Central Plaza China the three 150 kilowatt stalls in Hai Zhu at the Golden Bay Regal Resort China the sixth doll in Jang Ming at the ending Yucca Hotel China the 40th place in Sherman Oaks on Ventura Boulevard California the number 54 in Japan is the 6th place in yizu Japan the 12th place in Faust Norway the number 102 in Norway is the 12th place in vaguely Norway the 6th place in Castlegar British Columbia number 129 in France is the 12th place in mega V France the three places in zinmi guanyon town square China the three places in yangzhu in Wu Yi Plaza in China the three places in forshan the dachshund Shandi Metropolis China the 8th place in Melissa Texas the 8th place in Valley decarnia Italy the 27th place in Austria is the 16th place in Volcker Market Austria The 103rd place in Texas is the 8th place in McKinney and University Drive Texas the #40 Stahl in Schleitz Germany #8 in Kamloops powwow Trail British Columbia #172 in Canada #12 in Edmonton on Currents Drive Northwest in Alberta Corinths Drive that's cool 80 Stahl in Coalinga California #8 in Valencia California #19 in Belgium it is a number 16 in Liege Belgium it is a number 16 in Lake Elsinore in Grape Street California number 56 in Pennsylvania it is a number 12 in Cranberry Township Pennsylvania it is a number 34 in Arizona it is a number 12 in Mesa Arizona it is a number 8 in North Bergen at John F Kennedy Boulevard New Jersey number 53 in New Jersey is number 12 in Little Ferry New Jersey number 330 in California is number 24 in Beaumont at Oak Valley Village Circle in California Number 153 in Germany is number 40 in Merkelingen Germany Number 63 in Italy is number 12 in Sarzana Italy Number three 39 in Maryland is number 12 in Bethesda on Elm Street Maryland number six in Chongqing in paralong plaza China number three in Chengdu in xinjing easy home ChinaThe number 1516 in China, 9th rank in Shanghai Bailon zinhui mall, China and 77th in New York, 162nd in the United States and 4554 in the world, 8th rank in Hancock, New York, Wow, they all built.

Those in a week, how is it possible? I think some of the ones from China might be a little late, maybe, but I feel like that happens sometimes. Have you seen the list of permits in Australia? No, it's like doubling the number if they build them according to the permits, that's crazy, so we didn't get to Topher's question about one of our clients last week in our question with z and j. That's where every month or so we try to ask our clients 30 minute questions, um, and I thought I'd try it now because we didn't make it and Topher said thank you, this is why I became a sponsor so I could ask you these two questions. : Will Tesla have a wooden shelf for the Cyber ​​truck? put a winch on it and look, I wish we knew the answer definitively, obviously we don't, but I think this will be one, if not the best-selling truck in the world in no time, so even if Tesla doesn't make lumber The companies third parties surely will and as for putting a winch on it, I think it would be silly for Tesla not to have their own winch attachments and other accessories, but again, even if Tesla doesn't, as long as you can bolt on. a winch somewhere on the frame, it will be ready and this gets to the crux of the matter.

I have to believe that Tesla's designers and engineers understand what trucks are supposed to do, unlike Ford and I. I'm only saying that because we're going to post the video talking a little more about that soon now that winter is coming, yeah that's a clue for you, but yeah Topher, I think we'll be in good shape with Tesla. I can't imagine they're going to forget things as important as what you said, you know, racks, winches, hopefully, plowing, but you know, if we don't know yet and that's what we're excited to find out, well, end of the The day it's going to be made of stainless steel they won't even paint it, so all you have to do is take a rag, clean it up a little bit and that's it, oh, welding, yes, no, not welding stainless steel, it's not. difficult, we haven't made it a little difficult yet, but I mean people know how to do it, you can learn how to do it, it's true, I mean learn how to weld, we know how to weld aluminum and steel, so I'm sure that the stainless steel.

It's very easy, but when we have our cyber truck, that will be one of the things we will do. I know if we weld to our cyber truck, please note it in the comments. Okay, now I know what I want to welcome you. Hi thanks. All these people that stop by, you make the show possible and if you're wondering how you can get your name here on the final plaque, head over to patreon.com, now you know, support us for as little as five bucks. a month and you'll be at the end making the show happen every week and you'll have access to the patreon polls, the question with the engine, the bonus stories, Discord is the bonus stories, um, you'll get a lot of really good content and stuff, um, if you want more stuff, we have better things, oh, even out of context, by the way, yes, we have so many different levels, um, to choose from, you can go all the way up to getting your name as an executive. producer at the end of these 10 credits um and also these mugs, I think we're still, we may have sold out no, we have some, yeah, we have some, yeah, worst case scenario, we'll have to get more, um, but thank you all very much. who supports this channel, thanks for watching, we really appreciate it, we can't do the show without you, um, and we can't do it without the people who press the like button, it's true, I don't know why we did it. a special holiday episode launching next week.

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