Tesla’s Magic Dock is Ready? | Tesla Time News

Hi everyone, I'm Zach and Jesse and you're watching episode 333 of Tesla Time News. Oh, you know this episode is sponsored by Ground News. We used Ground News when we researched our program and we'll tell you more about it in a few minutes, as we all know by now, Tesla recently cut prices across the board and around the world. Yes, last week we reported on price cuts of up to 21 percent, for example, the model y got a price cut of 13,000 down to 54,630, which means it made it eligible for the 7,500 tax incentive so so effective that it got a twenty-five-hundred-dollar price cut and the effect of these Tesla price cuts has been enormous.

Automotive analyst firm Edmonds reports that on-site buyer consideration for Tesla vehicle pages in Edmonds increased to four percent of all brands researched compared to 1.9 percent the previous week. The Tesla Model and became the second most researched vehicle in Edmonds behind the Honda CRV, up from 70th the week before Tesla volume tested in Edmonds more than tripled and accounted for 3.1 percent of all vehicles in their website, up from 0.8 percent the day before Tesla's price cut, so this has caused many other automakers to scramble to remain competitive, oh my god, it's happening, e.g. Lucid Motors sent an email to reservation holders saying that they are now offering a discount of 7500 for customers who rent a Lucid Air.

This could reduce the price of the Lucid Air Grand Touring to approximately 131.5, difficult to compete with the Model S Plaid, which now starts at 114,990. xpang, the Chinese Evie manufacturer, has reduced prices on almost all of its models, the biggest cut was for its p7 sedan x-pen reduced the price by 36,000 RMB or about fifty-three hundred dollars. Vin fast, the Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturer, brought the vf8 in vf9 to North America says that as a new brand entering the market, when other brands reduce their prices, we have to create promotions to ensure the competitiveness of Vin Fast. We are considering many promotional programs and soon we will announce something funny, as all the media found out from this press release.

Even though there were no numbers and they haven't actually announced what the promotion is, this is going to be really interesting because I think all the EV manufacturers are going to have to do something because Tesla is just eating its lunch right now. Of course, when price cuts are announced, the first thing people think about is margins, and we'll be talking more about Tesla's margins this week in our Investor Club bonus stories, so for the second month consecutively, the Tesla Model Y is Europe's Model Y. Best-selling car Car News reports using data from Data Force that the Model Y sold 31,562 units in December across Europe, an increase of 300 from November, when it was also the best-selling car.

Did I read correctly? The Y model was the best. -sell cars in Europe for three of the last four months, that's right: September, November and December, the model y sold more than any other car model in October, Fremont just didn't deliver as many cars, so the model y came off the top. and also the model 3 was the second best-selling car in Europe in December. That's also correct, the Model 3 sold 20,258 units across Europe in December to claim second place, and third place is the dachia Sendero, a subcompact ice car. car that costs around thirteen thousand euros and sold 17,000 units in December, so the model could become the number one selling car in Europe this year, yes, in 2022 it was the Peugeot 208 that sold almost 200,000 cars So if Tesla can maintain this momentum, the Model Y should take top honors in 2023 as the best-selling car in Europe for the year.

It's probably surprising that it's taking it away from a very affordable ice car, yes, and Tesla's price cuts have had the desired effect in China. Also, yes, in just one week, from January 9 to 15, there were a total of 12,654 new Tesla Model 3 and Model Y registrations in China, according to China Merchants Bank International, representing a 76 percent increase over Compared to the same period of the previous year. And it is that during the week that the overall car market in China experienced a drop of 14.5 percent and, just for perspective, in the first week of January, before the price cut, 2,110 Teslas were sold in China and then , a week later, six more

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As we all know, Tesla has been opening Tesla Superchargers in Europe for non-Tesla EVs and they can do that because they have been opening CCS Type 2 compatible superchargers in Europe, but we just received this leaked image of a supercharger in Hawthorne, California , where it says it will have CCS. compatibility, but Tesla hasn't added any CCS type 1 chargers in North America, so how do they expect to open up their network well via adapters? So everyone will have to go out and spend 500 on an adapter, no it will. be in the super what Tesla is going to build a small box where they will place the adapter how are they not going to steal it the

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this sounds like a proprietary port on a 90's game console what is the magic dock so Drive Tesla Canada got this leaked image from the Tesla app where you as a non-Tesla driver are supposed to select your position to make it easier to supercharge with your non-Tesla electric vehicle, and this image was later changed so you can see that the supercharger looks a little different. now it seems pretty normal to me to look closer see that big black box in the top left corner what am I looking at are you looking at the magic base for the CCS adapter what adapter is in that black box I mean think about If you approach the supercharger of your Tesla, okay, as usual, you walk towards what you grab the wand, in this case you're going to press the button, okay, pull out the regular Tesla plug, charge your car, no big deal. when a non-Tesla electric vehicle stops, it needs to use the charger, so it stops, they tell their app what position they are in, the wand grabs onto the adapter and then the adapter releases from its magic base, they pull out a The CCS plug charges their car uh, they finish charging, they put the adapter in and they plug it back into the Magic Dock and it's a normal supercharger again, but what if it gets stolen?

That adapter cannot be stolen. The adapter is locked in the Magic Dock. or to the end of the plug, it is never locked, so this would allow the same station to charge Tesla and not Tesla. Yes, if these images are correct, this could be Tesla's solution which makes a lot of sense because I was thinking that Tesla was going to We had to do what they did in Europe, which was put in new cables that had CCS and then you would have a CCS cable and a Tesla wire, but you're saying this is like a magic base, yeah, and basically we could We'll see one relatively soon because there's a supercharger that says it's going to be CCS compatible now that people have gone to look and they don't see any magic papers, so they haven't installed it yet, but this could be a fairly cheap retrofit where Tesla can fit as many or as few superchargers as they want.

It now allows for a higher functional quality of the supercharger because if the magic base can lock the adapter and lock the plug, that reduces tampering. because people won't be able to turn that plug around um and that would allow Tesla to maybe allow reservations, that way if you approach the supercharger and your app says don't enter stall 2B and you stopped at stall 2B and you thought that I was just going to plug it in anyway, you couldn't actually take it out and then put it in your car and say, "See, I'm charging here." Another driver might stop and say: I've reserved that spot.

Wow, so magic pier. Magic dock. It seems like this could be it. Did Tesla call it Magic Talk? Where do we get that name? I don't know, I don't know, it's necessarily I don't like it, but it seems like we need a better name. What's wrong with that Tesla dock or not? That's too confusing. That's okay, because it's for non-Tesla people. Well I do not know. Guys, help me here. Comment below. What is better? name that magic magic that you lift no, I like magic, the right charger for you, it's magic, no, I like it, I mean, David Blaine will be the face, like you don't have to advertise it, people will need to use these. superchargers, so in more fun Tesla news, it looks like an over-the-air software update for the Tesla steering wheel is coming.

Winter is coming, so according to not a Tesla app, one of the first Tesla updates for 2023 will be 2023.4 now there. There should be two features regarding the steering wheel, the first would be an automatic setting that would allow users to match the temperature of the steering wheel to the temperature of the cabin, so basically as the cabin heats up the temperature of the steering wheel will decrease , that's exactly what I want, no, it's just I'm going to match the temperature inside. I'm not a car, I don't think so. I think when you first get in you want the steering wheel to be nice and warm and then as it gets hotter you want it to cool down nicely, so the second feature will apparently be a manual setting so you can set the temperature of the steering wheel.

Oh, instead of now, it's like on or off. This is the feature I want, but you just said that the automatic feature is what you want, yeah, I guess. I want both soon you'll have both options and I think this is pretty amazing because they're adding a whole new um control system and the cool thing is they're using existing heaters and the thermocouple is that hard to make. Not really, I mean they're probably just implementing a digital PID controller, but it's amazing that they can do this over the year. PID controller is a mathematical way of controlling.

You just said it was easy to do. Oh, it's not an easy thing. to learn, but tuning a PID controller isn't that hard, oh yeah, I do it all the

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, yeah, as you know Tesla started adding heated steering wheels in Fremont to the three and the Y in early 2021, yeah, like that that this would be good because Basically you would normally get in the car and if you had turned on the heated steering wheel, it can be a little hot for some people I know, so now this would allow you to have a lower steering wheel, it's still hot, solving First world problems, thank you. you, Tesla, I mean, no, I love it, I love it, so for the second time in a couple of weeks an apparently broken down Tesla truck was seen on the side of the road in California.

We received this photo from Twitter user silent alert one and this Tic Tock video footage from sunnysing84 of the Tesla semi-truck. Look, we don't know what happened, it could be a problem with the semi trailer related to the software. Hardware. Batteries. Motors or flux capacitors. It could simply be that the truck hit something and needs a repair, we just don't know, look, is it a bad look if it was in fact necessary to tow two Tesla semi-trucks in such a short period of time given that there are only a few dozen them in the wild, yes, but again my Tesla Fanboy argument?

It's just that finding and fixing whatever problem there is now is a really good thing and I don't think anyone can remember this in a year when there are hundreds and maybe thousands of Teslas on the roads and maybe some of them break down,but there will be a lot more of them than you know, even just passing them correctly, Tesla has made a change to their referral program. You can now use your referral credits to purchase a fully autonomous enhanced autopilot and throttle boost, so right now if you refer someone to get Tesla solar you can earn 6,000 referral credits, so if you referred 40 people to get Tesla solar, you would earn 240,000 credits or enough to get an enhanced and fully autonomous autopilot would cost you 120,000 credits and the acceleration boost is 45,000 credits and now is a good time to earn those referrals because Tesla currently is running a promotion where you can earn 9,000 referral points per solar referral, three thousand more than usual, so what do you think this change to Tesla's referral program will sell more Teslas or have more? people sign up for full autonomous driving, unfortunately it doesn't look like you can use your benchmarks to purchase FSD subscriptions.

That would be good because you would need fewer points. Well, I mean, if people start, you know, recommending, getting likes. one model and for his friends this is going to be great you only need 40 friends and then you have full autonomous driving this is the problem here 40 people get solar energy like what do you mean solar energy? I mean, if you have to get 40 people you know to get solar before no, no, what about cars, what do you mean cars, what if I recommend someone to buy a model? I don't think they're running that program right now, so I have to do it. as far as i know make them get solar in my app at least comment below but imo the only way i can get referrals right now is um solar oh interesting it's almost like they forgot of the referral program, they really do it too.

I don't need it, so last Thursday the Tesla Model 3 and Wise were seen being driven from a cargo ship towards the coast of Thailand. Wow, for the first time, yes, and it looks like Tesla buyers in Thailand will also get lower prices than they asked for. of them received emails indicating that they would receive updated prices. Wow, because we heard from a lot of people in Thailand that the prices were al

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We want to start seeing some photos of Thai Teslas on January 13. Stunning Drone pilot Joe Tegmeyer captured this shot inside the gigafactory. Now many people were wondering what this was. Now a post by Twitter user Gregor Truck with a bill of lading from zdm, which is the Zen Z machinery and mold company in Xinjiang, China, may explain it. probably cyber truck injection molds for 9000 ton Giga idra press now, if you look at the bill of lading very closely, notice how heavy some of these items are, this one weighs 117,000 kilograms i.e. 129 tons , so you're telling me that's what the cast aluminum is placed in so you know which body piece is the mold.

Molds are large pieces of steel that rattle. Wow, this means that if we are right, if this is for a cyber truck that is getting ready to go into manufacturing. cyber truck yes, and that means since they finalized it, you don't order a mold unless you're ready to go for the most part. You can make minor changes. This is January. I know. I know this excites people. This means that I believe. We're on schedule, we've seen the Model Y as rear castings and those are huge, but these could be really, really, really big aluminum parts, so comment below.

Do you think this will be a part for the model Y? Or do you think this is going to be a part for the Cyber ​​truck or both? In other Cyber ​​truck news, Tesla filed and received a patent for a new way of forming glass, the glass that will apparently be used in the Cyber ​​truck's windshield, yes, in the Tesla patent explains what's wrong with the methods automotive glass and says that, in general, such processes for manufacturing glass structures are limited by the amount of richer curvature or bending that can be achieved with the glass, for example, only high radii of curvature are typically used for automotive glass structures.

What is Tesla? patent is a process for forming an automotive glass structure that has one or more characteristic lines or curves that include the application of localized heat to one or more locations of the glass structure whereby the glass structure is bent at the location of localized heat In some examples the glass structure is supported by a support tool so that, as localized heat is applied, gravity forces the glass structure to bend at one or more locations along a line longitudinal of the glass, thus forming a characteristic line or curvature in the glass, in some examples additional forces can be applied. applied to the glass structure, for example, through a press, vacuum air suction or the like to assist in bending or shaping the glass structure, in some examples, a radius of curvature of the feature line or curvature in the glass structure in one or more locations is between two millimeters and five centimeters, which means a very pronounced curve in a glass windshield.

Yes, my question here is: If we look at a photo of the Cyber ​​truck and have been in it, I don't remember seeing curved glass like a windshield. In the end I thought it was just a normal looking windshield piece, but this would involve looking at this image from the patent where the glass is going to bend at the sides, so do you think they'll like to change what we've done? ? seen in the prototype or is it just for some future use. I mean, it's entirely possible they could have it wrapped around the thing. Wouldn't this increase the cost dramatically?

It could but it could help with the aerodynamics. um, I feel like I would. It's a very expensive replacement, although it's usually covered by insurance, but, yeah, comment below what you think is something you know about Tesla's patent that you may never use or think will actually be used. Yeah, I mean, you have to keep it. In mind, patents don't necessarily mean you're going to do something, it just means someone had a really good idea, yeah, but they went legal, but they put the cyber truck on the patent, but they have a ton of pictures of the cyber truck. , so they say, well, what you know the Legal Department says, what should we use and they say: I don't know, there's a cyber truck, something I don't know, it's just an idea we had and they want to patent it and they say okay, we'll do it, that's how it works, you know, it's not like that, it's the only thing we're going to do, it could be, but it could also be. it just may be that it was just an idea that they had, you know what you need to do, you need to go to our sponsor Cyber ​​Truck Owners Club and there I'm sure they already started talking about this and these will be photos.

There will be shooting and they will have I made a mockup of the windshield, yeah, um, and I love the Cyber ​​Truck Owners Club, which is why it's such a wonderful place for Cyber ​​Truck enthusiasts and future owners, so you and I. We have been busy reviewing electric vehicle chargers lately on our review channel, yes well there are so many people buying electric vehicles lately that they will be looking for portable chargers, so we just reviewed the Nema 1450 Level 2 Electronic Charger. It is a portable charger intended for be brought with you to work or for when you're charging at a friend's house, so we've covered everything you need to know about it now, let's go over it, so don't forget to go check it out because, of course, I mean, we explained it in the Al end of the video, how we are giving it away and how you can win it, and we also review the batteries now, let's review this one that we just reviewed and it's huge, yes, it's the Zender Super Bass v, a battery that has a lot of storage.

They gave it motorized wheels, yes you can even drive it remotely with the app, so we go over all the stats on this really cool battery system and talk about the use cases so you can see if this might be something you should keep . you're safe during power outages or it allows you to work on the road or somewhere remote and um I just want to talk about this for a second, big batteries now allow us to think about different places where we can play live and work and we're starting to see products that really give you this capability that are completely Plug and Play and you don't have to be an electrical engineer to use them and I think that's really exciting and that's why I was really excited to review this Zender battery.

I know we should think about doing it. We made a video where we made a mobile office in the Ford F-150. The lighting we had was Starlink and the battery that is in the car. We should think about making a video where we're going to grab some big batteries. Some maybe. portable solar panels and see what we can do, can we live and work off the grid? That would be fun, yes, so Aptara just unveiled its launch edition on Friday. This is the Delta version that they are running in final crash tests and other homologation tests. and they will begin production, they say, at the end of this year.

So far, Aptara has over 40,000 orders for this electric three-wheeler, so let's go over some of the statistics that revealed some that we already knew, but others that are new to us. We knew that some versions will have a range of 1000 miles, but it looks like this first launch edition will have a 42 kilowatt hour battery for a range of 400 miles with three motors in the wheels and we will have 700 watts of solar panels for up to 40 miles per day of solar powered driving so the drag coefficient is a surprising 0.13 for those of you who don't know about drag coefficient it's basically how it cuts through the air because it's been designed to be almost like a fish , it's just great. aerodynamic, can go from 0 to 60 in four seconds, which is faster than some three models, by the way, a top speed of 101 miles per hour, it seats two, although there is plenty of cargo space in the rear, 32 cubic feet so it's 47 inches wide and 70 inches long so you can sleep in it it has all wheel drive and it's priced at 33200 and the only color you can get now is silver Luna will charge using NAX oh what's next ?

Why would that be Tesla's North American charging standard? You know the Tesla plug we all know and love, wait so it can be overcharged, but again, you may not need to charge much depending on where you park and your daily commute because the sun can provide up to 11,000 miles of range. per year free, okay, but will they really be able to produce this vehicle now? Of course, mass production is one of the most difficult parts, but Aptera has been working with the CPC group to streamline the manufacturing process. An example is its B and C or bodywork and carbon.

They are producing the main body as a specialized composite so that all parts come out exactly the same and fit perfectly again. That sounds good, but how many are they going to make? Aptera says they plan to quickly scale to a full-scale single. shift production of 10,000 vehicles per year from there, Apterra will expand its production to 20,000 vehicles per year on a double shift basis from its Carlsbad, California facility, Chris Anthony, co-founder and co-CEO, said that while our delivery schedule depends of funding, we aim to start production by the end of 2023, once we meet our fundraising targets we will be able to provide a more precise delivery schedule, so we will discuss more about this on disruptive investments this week as well to head over to that channel and check out I can't wait to get our hands on our Terra app, we'll probably be one of the first to get it yeah, so we'll talk more about this on di because I want to talk about the weather. maybe it has similar problems to ARCA Moto hmm SpaceX just signed a deal with Carnival Cruise Lines to install Starlink Internet terminals on its cruise ships, Carnival Corporation CEO Josh Weinstein said that for many of our guests it has become increasingly It is most important to maintain the type of connectivity at sea that they are accustomed to at home and, of course, share their crews' unforgettable experiences with friends and family.

The first ships to get Starlink will be the Carnival and Ada ships, followed in the coming months by other Carnival brands. Canard Costa cruises Holland America line pno Cruises Princess Cruises and Seabourn so my question is how many terminals pership they're going to need because I mean, look at the size of these ships, there are thousands of customers on board, right? I want to watch Netflix at the same time and then won't they need dozens and dozens of Starling terminals? I mean, each terminal should provide between 100 and 350 megabits per second, so I have a question. When you use Netflix, you typically need at least 20 megabits per second to get any type of viewing.

Can you just divide the 350 megabits per second by 20 to find out how many people can use it? It works like this. I think so and I also think it is the biggest limitation. It will not necessarily be the number of terminals. I think they're going to hit a hard limit in terms of the number of satellites providing the downlink and uplink, because obviously there's going to be a bottleneck somewhere and it could be up there in space where it's getting congested, so do you think that's going to happen? Will customers be charged more to use it?

I don't know, that will depend on Carnival Cruises. I guess so, and they are joining Royal Caribbean Celebrity and hertegrutin cruise lines. You're already using it, so if you're a cruise line customer, let us know how it works for you. Do they charge you more and were the speeds good enough to watch Netflix or did it get really slow when everyone was back in their cabins and uh take some pictures of the terminals if you can find them yeah I mean yeah we already had a viewer who took some pictures and I think it looked like two, one or two dozen terminals, but I feel like you're going to need a lot more than that, but it's not just cruise ships that are getting Starlink, yeah, SpaceX just signed on to deal with Thor Industries, the parent company of many RV brands you've probably heard of, including the Airstream Integra trainer, Jayco, and Tiffin SpaceX.

Vice President of Business Operations Chad Gibbs says we are excited to work with Thor Airstream Integra trainer, Jayco and Tiffin, to bring Starlink to RV owners around the world by providing revolutionary connectivity in remote locations, as whether parked or moving. Starlink is pushing the boundaries of where RVers can explore while still staying connected to friends and family. Thor Industries offers customers a factory-installed Starlink mobile system and one month of free Starlink service. This is the first RV company to integrate starlinks into their product line, no doubt others will follow and Again, these are just new opportunities for people to have fun and work remotely because before you really know you have to bring your Blu-ray player and a bunch of Blu-ray discs and that was all you could watch when you were on the road, a dedicated hotspot so you could get those work emails and convince your boss that you could work or had You park in a Starbucks parking lot and use their Wi-Fi now you can basically be anywhere.

I think the implications of this are good and it could mean that more people will want to travel in RVs now because a lot of things I mean, look, let's be honest, yeah, getting away and away from the electronic stuff is great. but we still also want the benefits of those electronic things, so now you can have both. Yes, I'm excited to see what will happen. Really smart of Thor to integrate this. This is how it was last week that we reported on the Tesla model. That Dutch company is building 3 hearses. Well, this week we have another electric hearse, this time built from a Ford Mach E.

Yes, Coleman Milne, a funeral vehicle supplier based in Bolton, Ireland, has designed and built what they call ATIV, which carries the name of the Scotsman. River is currently being tested for 40,000 miles before it can be approved in March. It should have an estimated range 200 miles less than the Mach E's original range of 273 miles, and the ATIV can carry up to seven passengers, not all of them living. Graham National Sales Director for Cloud at Coleman Milne said “We have long championed the electric hearse at Coleman Mill and are proud to welcome the ATIV Hearse and Limousine as the latest additions to our range to be offered in left- and right-hand drive models and will be available in the UK and European markets from summer this year.

Now I was looking for the derivation of the word hearse which comes from the French word hearse, a frame that holds candles on an altar and the first hearses were made in Cincinnati, Ohio and Still 60 percent of the hearses in the USA are manufactured in Ohio at the SNS Superior coach company. Heck, you learn something new every day, which is why the state of Wyoming appears to be trying to pass a new law that would ban VVS sales by 2035. Yeah, right. go to Wyoming Ban ice cars I mean, you probably have more horses than cars, but still no, no, that's pretty cool.

Said. I said they are trying to ban electric vehicles by 2035. EVS, as the bill is titled, will phase out sales of new electric vehicles by 2035 and is sponsored by Wyoming Republican State Senator Jim Anderson, but why the bill explains that thousands of Wyoming residents work in the oil industry and EVS threaten their source of income, so it is a Luddite bill, remember the Luddites in early 19th century England? We all remember that the textile workers who formed a secret group so they could destroy those new textile machines that would take away their jobs look at Wyoming.

I heard you that EVS don't burn fossil fuels and many of you work for the oil industry so you know what it historically does. It doesn't work to try to stop technology, you know what works? Adopt new cleaner, safer, cheaper technology and embrace the new jobs and bigger economy that inevitably follow. I mean, if you're watching right now and you live in Wyoming, contact your legislators and tell them how you feel, do you think this bill will help Wyoming or do you think it will put Wyoming at a huge disadvantage? Yeah, I mean, what if Wyoming had banned cars in the early 20th century because they loved horses so much? this bill Wyoming and all you will do is help Montana and other border states sell more electric vehicles and collect sales tax instead of you, yeah name me another state that passed a luddite law that worked, no really, tell me in the comments if you found a Luddite law that really helped, they never worked very well Wyoming, make yourself an even bigger black hole, oh okay Bob, so you're worried about losing your job to those UBCs.

I'll help you. I'll help you. I'm your Army Senator, I'll write a bill and we'll put an end to those stupid EVS. Hey, see if you want to share this story or others you've seen on the show today but don't want to share the entire hour. -Long show, go to our channel of clips you already know, where we cut them into small clips that are easy to share on social media and in emails. Okay, it's time to go to the future sponsored by our friends at Henson Shaving and I want to thank you for my shave every week.

I know you can't see me in the middle of the week. I mean, sometimes, to get it deep, you do, but uh, man, just a great, consistent shave every week, you can upgrade your razor at hensonshaving.com and you can get a hundred free double-sided razor blades, so that's 200 free shaves using our code, you know, a really interesting study out of Nature Communications, the title is that electric vehicle batteries alone could meet short-term demand for grid storage as early as 2030 It's not a catchy title but it's very explanatory, so as a vehicle to grid, yes, but not only v2g, they also plan for you to use secondary batteries from Life vehicles to reinforce the energy storage in a big way, okay, but I I mean who.

Whether vdg will ever be so widely adopted is fine, but they have a lot of different scenarios to show how it could be possible even with a low participation rate. How so, those second-life batteries basically at the end of a long life, an electric vehicle battery pack has likely degraded to the point of losing about 30 percent of its capacity, which makes making it less desirable to use in a vehicle; However, it's still perfectly good for sitting and powering down; There is no reason to fill a pack on land as you can do it. just being connected to a secondary life application, oh so you think companies will be formed to buy second life battery packs from people, yeah I mean if batteries are still worth that much, honestly it's a take super interesting, I mean, we've been so focused on v2g and battery recycling that it's easy to forget that there's a really powerful potential step right in the middle.

Yeah, what I really liked about this study was that it's not like every 100 people have to use their vehicles this way, a very small percentage. of people can use their batteries in this way and this will make the grid completely stable. This is a participation rate of 12. Up to 46 percent can help stabilize the grid in such a way that we can use full renewable energy and I hardly have to add stationary battery systems like new, everything could be done using EVS now no it's necessary and there are already a lot of stationary battery systems online which we'll talk about next, but it's really cool to see that. this study shows that it could be done if we wanted to do it, it would be like if you had your old ice car, you know, a 10 year old Toyota Corolla and the engine just died, but you can actually take the engine out and still use it. it's for some useful purpose, whereas now you can't do it, no, it's a load of rubbish, yeah, okay, time to go green.

Disruptive Investments YouTube Channel we interviewed the President and CEO of Violia Environmental Solutions and Services which is a company that recycles Wind Turbide Blades is an interesting interview with a company that I knew nothing about and it turns out that it is a great company that solves many environmental and waste problems. Yes, it was interesting for me to know what Bob and his team were like. about solving the problem and the solutions they found and this was for wind turbine blades which I don't think anyone would have planned to recycle and now we have these new blade technologies that are actually designed to be recycled, yes.

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Kamehameha as Dragon Ball Z no Kamehameha, the king of Hawaii. her great granddaughter founded the school and this is really exciting because solar energy is very important in Hawaii, if you don't have solar energy or some other renewable energy source, your energy must be generated from imported oil, I mean they don't have any sources of energy you know on the island besides the sun, wind and waves, yes, as Sheely Kamura, president and CEO of Hawaiian Electric, said, stabilizing energy costs for our customers is a priority and projects like Wawa solar will power the electricity to the grid at about half the cost of oil, so the reduced cost of electricity can now be passed on to all taxpayers on the island, yes, because don't forget Hawaii has some of the most expensive electricity in the country.

Okay, it's time to publish contributor stories on video and we need your stories. Send them in two minutes or less. Shoot them horizontally. Send them at a low level. Now you know canal.com. What do we have this week? Curtis sent us this review of a charger from Electrify America in Fort Worth, Texas, which I had issues with Hi Zach and JC, I'm Curtis. I'm in northwest Fort Worth, at a four-star Electrify America charging station next to Sams. I've been here for 30 minutes trying to get it to work. I've been through three. different charging stations I finally got the 150 kilowatt version to accept my membership and I went ahead and started charging at about 40 kilowatts which is nothing.

I tried the 350 one, it definitely wouldn't work, so I tried credit cards. I tried withmy phone. I tried them all. of the options he gave me and there was just no Rhyme or Reason as to what I would and wouldn't accept so anyway I finally got him to accept through my membership through the app and that's what it looked like want. Anyway, there's nothing around here but a Sam's and I'd give this one out of ten because it's actually loading so it gets the one but none of this is a good experience so you know what.

It's not funny, yeah, I feel for you. Curtis, other charging networks don't compare to Tesla Supercharger Network, thanks for that Curtis, okay it's time for our patreon bonus stories, what do we have this week? We'll talk about Arcimoto's closure of its factory in Investor Club bonus stories. um and then Tesla has some new videos that we're going to watch and Jeep has some serious problems and more yeah so head on over to patreon.com now you know support us for just a dollar a month and get all these patreon. free bonus stories maybe join our investor club and see you there okay we're back from our patreon bonus story it's time for the shout outs these are important people who help support the show go into the end credits .

At the end of the program, who do we have new this week? webcrafter Robert rubanski will be F Cunningham Patrice de Chabot and Dave bossage thank you so much for supporting us we can't do this work without you and we had a patreon survey if you want to join our patreon to complete the survey every week please do so. What was our question this week? Have you heard people in your daily life talk about Tesla's price reduction or the EB tax credit and the results are pretty? interesting only 39 percent said yes, but that's pretty good, I mean, that's really good, yeah, if you think about it, I just hoped that the majority had heard it, so that means that the mainstream press really didn't is covering the story, well, I mean. not everyone is going to talk about this you know people have to be looking for a car and you have to hear about them and it's only been a week and a half so I can totally understand why we don't have a hundred percent but forty percent not bad, okay, it's time for Elon's tweets of the week.

Elon said that deleting accounts you hate will cause our algorithm to show you more of those accounts by deleting your interactions and basically saying if you love deleting junk. that account, then you'll probably love trashing this account too, it's actually not bad LOL, so Elon said the car was aquatic, of course, from the Anderson movie, um, but yeah, this basically looked like a boat for a second , Elon then talked about the dozens. of media companies established content agreements for 2023 with Twitter and Elon said that the game is that the media wants to control what they know, that is why citizen journalism is essential and that is because the designer of Doge tweeted that Twitter is now the number one news app on the App Store.

Elon put out this poll and said the World Economic Forum should run the world, so this is Davos, where all the World Economic Forums meet in Davos and 86 percent of people said no. I was looking at the prices, if you like. to go next year we can get you know we can go I think 200,000 each so maybe just one of them I'll walk in and open the door for you. Elon asked why the American media went from questioning the state to telling the truth. to power to do his bidding, to be clear. I am not someone who thinks many government agencies should be abolished, maybe some, but we should always question our institutions as this strengthens the foundation of democracy.

The Silicon Valley owner said electric vehicles make up 10 percent of auto sales and EVS are up 68 year over year in volume and Elon said great work by the Tesla team and then tweeted that Veritas is that, um, Harvard, I guess it's true, true, that's not the truth and it's on a shield, right? someone knows graduate maybe go maybe maybe go to teach there getting another degree Elon retweeted the takeoff of the 166th landing of an orbital rocket I know so boring Elon said that Twitter is already possibly the least wrong source of truth about the Internet, but We obviously still have a long way to go, allowing community notes to operate at scale and providing maximum transparency into how Twitter works are critical to building trust.

You'll get notifications coming soon if you liked or retweeted something that was later corrected by the community and he said the main Twitter improvements we just launched are that you can now flag tweets from the tweet details page. It is important that bookmarks are private, unlike likes, no one but you can see your bookmarks and Elon had pinned this, which is basically that you can use pinned lists to improve your Twitter experience. You can tap lists on your profile page. Create lists of accounts to follow and then tap the pin icon. This allows you to slide left and right between you and those following you.

I mean, it's complicated, but I can see how it is. improving the platform uh Elon retweeted this from Tesla that track mode allows you to use the instant response and torque of your Tesla to feel superhuman on the track available now on the Plaid Model S, the performance of the model 3 and, but no in the plot X Matthew said that Tesla began actively tweeting dates and educational content in early December, the result has been tremendous. I hope Tesla continues to use Twitter this way. Twitter users and businesses should take note of this interesting content post and the results will follow.

This is a graph of how much more. opinions Tesla has gotten since they started publishing all that stuff. Ineline said exactly that if businesses publish interesting or entertaining content they will gain an audience quickly, so instead of advertising exactly interesting and said that businesses in general are missing out on the incredible opportunity that Twitter provides to simply reach customers. tweet interesting things, that's all it takes and it shows a list of total views here where Tesla got 275 million views versus, well, VW with 0.05 million views, that's not even half of it, that's 5,000 views . I'm right, fifty thousand fifty thousand, sorry next.

The Twitter update will remember if you were active i.e. it recommended you follow the O list you made and it will stop switching you to the recommended tweets and then it tweeted a phrase in French and said that in the coming months Twitter will translate and recommend awesome tweets from people From other countries and cultures there are epic tweets in other countries every day. Japan, especially tweets, will be translated before being recommended and he said that the ads are too frequent on Twitter and too big. Steps will be taken to address both in the coming weeks and there will also be a higher subscription price. doesn't allow ads and tweeted a Huggy Emoji because it was National Hug Day, that's cute, yeah I hope you all get your hugs, it's time for Community Mail Time and this is where we give you some virtual hugs to send your Photos and videos for us on Hello, now you know Channel.com, so let's see what we have.

Alistair found this joint EV at the Istanbul airport. Oh great, that's Turkish Evie. Yes, Daniel found these EVS charging at the Ionity station in Switzerland. Stu sent us this. Image of a new Tesla showroom opening in Salem, Oregon, our viewer Davron from Seattle got a cyber truck for the kid. DC found this Vin Fast showroom in Ventura, California. Do you still have the stickers? They have them. You can remove them. I haven't taken them down yet maybe they are delivering them maybe I would still take them down before you deliver them Macy found this r1 in lexana Kansas Jason found these while driving around Delray Beach Florida Calvin saw this cool rap Model S in Kapolei Hawaii Morty Saw these five custom wrapped ionics in the parking lot of the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey, and our patron Jasper spotted this ID Buzz at a VW dealership near Rotterdam.

He says it's not as good as when the first concept came out, but it's still cool, thanks. guys okay it's time to review superchargers this is where you guys go out into the world and show us what's up with superchargers what's up Zack and Jesse my name is Buff this is my review of the Rancho Cucamonga supercharger unfortunately I lost the original audio. When I recorded this review, I had to go back and test it again in post. It's an 8-stall, 250-kilowatt supercharger and is located in a very busy area of ​​Rancho Cucamonga, especially here on a Saturday night, which is where we found ourselves landing here.

We are on a very long road trip from California to Florida and we are towing this trailer, which made this a very difficult area to get through, especially since it was very busy at the time, which also meant we had no places to ditch . the trailer in uh, which is going to be a problem selecting a spot to load, there were a lot of open spots or eight stalls and we had a few to choose from, but there was no way to really maneuver it at least at my skill level or park it. in charge without blocking people, which is what we ended up doing, unfortunately we had to block these cars.

I wasn't happy about it, I didn't want to bother anyone just to charge my Tesla, but I didn't really see any other way, especially since it was getting really late and we had to get to our final destination of the day anyway, as you can see, There are many places here, many restaurants and shops, and all that during the day, there is a cafe here which I'm sure would be nice. Go especially to go to the bathroom, but unfortunately, when we got here on Saturday night, it was closed and that made finding a bathroom or anything very close and accessible, you know, quick and easy, kind of hard to find.

The supercharger gets points. for having pool facilities like this, which is nice to have when you're not towing, however we'll take a few points off when you're actually towing, especially when it's busier, for that reason, for Teslas that are towing, I'd give this a 4 out of ten and for everyone else who gives this about a 7 out of ten, you know, hey Zach and Jesse, I'm Michael. I'm in Macomb Mississippi, just south of Jackson Mississippi. There's an eight-stall Tesla charger here that I just bought. a used 2021 Tesla Model 3 and I was driving, there's an Office Depot, there's a Burger King and an O'Reilly Auto Parts, so there's a lot of stuff here.

I would give this about a seven out of ten and now you know it here. We are in Margaret River, this is the 50th installation in Australia, there are three versions, three superchargers here, this is in a small shopping center where there is a supermarket, a cafe and a couple more, there are also three hpwc, these are only currently . roped off because they just finished painting the base of the parking lot so now you know we're on a road trip from California to Florida and I want to tell you about every supercharger I found along the way we're now outside of Bakersfield about five heading south and we've turned on this random supercharger here, I really appreciate it being here, but it could really use a lot of work.

There are 12 stalls we're doing around 200 kilowatts, so it's not too bad for charging speed. There are bathrooms here, but not much else. We are also towing this iron horse trailer and it doesn't seem to be easy to tow, which means I had to ditch the trailer to park in a stall and start loading, which sucks. about a 4 out of 10. We are here in the supercharger of Tel Aviv, Israel. We have a 250 kilowatt station with six stalls in the Azraeli shopping center, the first in Israel, right in the heart of Tel Aviv, right off Highway I, which is like the main highway.

So as long as there is no traffic, you can get Chuck cheap, since we say nothing is free in Israel, but all Tesla chargers in Israel are free for now. Overall, I'd say I'd have to give it a 9.3 out of 10. What about you? left eight and a half out of ten harsh critics, you know, thank you very much for submitting your supercharger reviews, if you don't know how to do it, we have a website, now you know channel.com and we have a map. with all the superchargers in the world and you can upgrade those superchargers, you can also make target chargers, so the instructions are there, it's pretty easy to shoot with your phone and follow the instructions, so what do we have new? superchargers in the world so this is just this week yeah uh Tesla made these superchargers.

Number 134 in France is number 24 in Noyes Godal, France, all three places in Pangyo in Baikyun B, South Korea, number 156 in Germany is number 18 in Linsteau, Germany's number.1582 in China is the rank of three in tyun in North Plaza China the number 58 in Japan is the rank of eight in Chiba in age Japan the rank of five in Elon swao Taiwan the number 68 in Taiwan is the rank of six 120 kilowatts in Kausing City Asia new Bay Area Taiwan number 13 in Israel is number 8 in meva Sarat Zion Israel number 116 in South Korea is number 6 in chionan B South Korea number 12 in Maple Ridge in dudney Trunk Road British Columbia Canada number 21 in South Carolina is number 12 in Colombia in Town Center Place South Carolina number 24 in Ohio is number 12 in Beaver Creek Ohio number 177 in Canada is number 6 in Minden Ontario number 57 in Pennsylvania is #12 in Pottstown Pennsylvania #16 in Alabama is #12 in Greenville Alabama and #27 in Oregon #1636 in the US #47-10 in the world is #16 on Hood River Anchor Way Oregon and a special thanks to supercharge.info for putting all this information together each week and you know what?

I noticed Jesse take a look at this graph here. The UK, Norway and Australia are about to get a lot of new superchargers according to the permits that are being obtained because at supercharge.info they show you not only what is online but also what is under construction and what is permitted . Take a look at this about 31 coming to the UK, 19 coming to Norway and 34 more coming to Australia if these permits are correct. Wow, I mean Australia is set to leapfrog Japan, Sweden, Italy and Taiwan, yeah, um, get to the top. seven or so, it's a really interesting place to go if you want to see where Tesla is going to put more effort because obviously where you're stacking on more superchargers we hope to have more cars, yeah, I'm excited to do that.

I see new superchargers in Thailand, yes, well, we come to the end of the program. Thank you very much for watching it? Don't forget to tell your friends and family about these Tesla prices that are being cut because I think a lot of people, you know, you see this all the time, you know this, but a lot of people may not know it and these aren't like two percent of price. The cuts are enormous. We mentioned how the model and it just dropped in price effectively. in the US twenty five hundred dollars if you can get the federal tax credit I mean that's a game changer for a lot of people so don't assume that everyone knows as much as you do go out and tell them about this because it's possible that can get them to switch from an ice car to an electric vehicle because a lot of people seem to assume that all Teslas cost at least eighty thousand dollars and that's simply not the case, especially with these price cuts and tax credits. um, it makes these cars incredibly affordable, um compared to eighty thousand dollars, so, yeah, definitely tell people about it, start the conversation, get them thinking about it, get them thinking about the cyber truck and other things like that, because are those. types of conversations that are really going to have a big impact and we hope we can help give you the tools you need to have those important conversations and you know who else has a really big impact.

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