Podcast: Electrek does CES, Tesla deliveries, cheaper Model Y, and more

is the first that is not a type of dealer network because I don't really count the dealer network because it is not as optimal as an actual charging network intended to allow long distance driving, which is generally what a charger is used for DC fast, except maybe in cities for people who don't. having access to home charging, which is also very important, but when you're talking about a Mercedes owner, you have an eqs or an eqe, I assume you have access to home charging, whether you normally have a garage . a garage. I know there are obviously some exceptions to that rule and that's why people are building charging stations within cities so people can go there once a week and charge instead of having a full battery every time they go out. in the morning at home, so this is great news.

You should note that Volvo actually has a small mini charging network. from Seattle to Colorado, at Starbucks stations, oh really, they did a little press release. I think we did a little post on that and they're also using a charging point, something similar to this, but obviously in a much broader sense. smaller scale, yeah, so let me rephrase that for sure, Mercedes-Benz is the first automaker, the first legacy automaker to follow Tesla to have a global DC fast charging network, the supercharger is the only network dc5 dual charger, even whatever evgo is doing with GM. that's only in North America and Rivian is also only in North America, although I know they have global ambitions, but I don't think they're going to leave the North American market and go anywhere else for a while like they need to. discover this market first, so right now, this plan for Mercedes-Benz is the first to follow Tesla and no longer rely on third-party stations.

I mean, people will say, oh Volkswagen, like chosen for the United States, but that's a completely different story, I mean, they were forced to do that by the regulators, and then you have in Europe Ayanna, that's what A long time ago this makes a lot of sense, to be honest I don't see it. I'm not throwing an iron at a group of automakers. Fold together and build that, but it's still a third-party company that you have a stake in and Mercedes is actually one of the companies that you've taken over or Daimler, I should say, but yeah, now. you have your own branded station, unlike Tesla, although Tesla is obviously opening up the network at the moment.

Mercedes plans to make those stations available for any EVS from other brands, but they see Mercedes-Benz owners going to have benefits just for them, including the ability to reserve a station, which worries me a little that there won't be as many. charging points per station, but we'll see if we jump to yes. Almonds, that's an hour already, okay, have we heard the rumors about the North Star 2 becoming our rear-wheel drive and getting

more

range by 2024? I think Pollstar 2 already had rear wheel drive.

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um, but I saw that maybe half an hour ago an email popped up with a new endpoint that I want to style or something.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same person asking now because it's a phrase. It is worded similarly. um yeah, but I know there's some efficiency improvements in the extraction warehouse as well, so it might be that it's not necessarily like a new

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, but they save the 2024. The 2024 wouldn't be exactly that, so yeah, there's a single mortar, oh. It's a front drive motor, a single motor, yes that's the difference, yes that was my idea, um, yes I prefer a rear drive for an electric vehicle, to be honest that would be good news and yes, there are definitely some efficiencies.

They can make improvements and increase the range a little bit and in my opinion North Star 2 could use a little

more

range so yeah yeah we'll keep an eye on that. I think we're talking about the Dodge Ram. or the Ram truck uh here from empty to full 500 miles 200 kilowatt hours 36 dollars to fill up at the house depends on the house yes, where you are located yes, yes, my house is going to be a lot

cheaper

than that. living the dream yes tfl says they removed the bottom center screen in ram. Oh yeah, we talked about that.

I expect more for the VW id1 and id2. I mean, let's go to the ID3 first, but you know, we saw the life of the ID. that's what it was called, but I think it's going to be id2 and life is all, it's a little confusing, but I mean, if we follow what just happened with the ID Ira, that becomes the id7, I think the ID life its going to be the id2 if i mean the live concept was going to become the id2 so its going to be

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yeah it makes sense why is there such a delay in getting the EV bolt?

I don't know what we're talking about. at that time okay that was VW no I think they are asking if people are having trouble getting the UV and saying it's hard yeah yeah demand for such an affordable vehicle especially with the return of taxes. some dealers say up to eight months, which is like when the Equinox comes out, okay, Chris Mullen, electric is not just about being chemically clean, it's also about, maybe we don't go ahead with that, right? agreement? uh Brian Martindale I hope you received my email but no media package for my 48 day trip in an electric vehicle provided by Chevrolet to recruit 100 adult kidney donors for 100 children.

We'll cover 18,000 miles hoping it's a start that your network will be interested in, thanks okay. We will be attentive to that email. Yes, that's good for you. Yes, school. Mike and Angelus have the idea that convenience stores or restaurants would purchase a DC fast charger to make money and provide a destination for EV drivers. How long would it normally take? pay the investment, that's the idea, yeah, and that's actually the million dollar question because these DC fast charging stations sometimes cost like twenty thirty thousand dollars or even fifty thousand if you know a couple of positions, so they are hundreds of thousands of dollars, some of them too, yes, actually you just mentioned that the price would be pretty cheap, but it would also be a price closer to a 50 kilowatt station or something, which I think is fine for restaurants like, especially, maybe not for convenience stores. um more like a gas station as you go, you're going to want to have a top of the line station like a 250+ kilowatt station, uh, but restaurants, uh, I think even level two would make sense to some extent, uh, because you're going to be there. . unless it's fast food, I'm not talking about fast food, but you'll be there normally for at least an hour or something, yeah, so a slow direct current or a fast alternating current, as you know, this is an easy 16 kilowatts.

It would make more sense, I think they're a lot cheaper than the fast charger, the older ultra fast charger, yeah, and you know, I saw a lot of those at CES and I kept asking prices. Nobody wanted to talk about it, but everyone said. prices were going down as we scale and you know innovation happens there so that's good okay let's move on uh oh vi there will be a tax cut for the Bold euv you must be new here that's The only thing we talk about, yes, there is one right now. For the next three months at least hurry up, go get one, okay Curtis Mullen, we need nationalities, we should pay half the cost of the first pound, whatever, you know, I'm not going to go on about that, congratulate them. better a little Yes, guys, work on that a little.

Is there any discernible consistency or logic behind Tesla's pricing in various markets? It seems so, they just do what they want without worrying about what customers think about fairness. Yes that is good. Point out if I'm old enough for Google to say I'm old enough to remember why Teslow is so proud and brags all the time that his pricing policy has no discounts and the same price everywhere, plus costs shipping, tariffs and poor quality. duties and all that, that's no longer the case now it's whatever we can sell for that price in that specific market, that's Tesla's policy now, yeah, and that's capitalism, okay.

I'm going to try to get through some of these. Yeah, okay, let's see, have there been any notable CES debuts that have made EV technology move forward in a big way? Not really, I mean, I would say some of the CCS combo stations we looked at are reducing the price by adding batteries. you know, packaging them in a way that's good for the IRA, the infrastructure, that's the idea, getting a lot more DC fast charging stations is what we need to do, so that's my answer to that, um. let's see and people who suddenly continue to operate properly designed archaic, okay and I have something about the audio like uh Dan Oberst.

I think Tesla should market the yoke as safer as it prevents you from putting your arm over the airbag and preventing you from hitting. you'll die in an accident if you're holding the steering wheel wrong, you're supposed to hold it ten and two like it's uh, in my opinion, not really a good argument, okay, uh, trying to get some good ones, Tesla

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n't I don't think That the general public will notice the old look while the new look. I guess they are waiting for an update. Do you know of any EV vans for the EU market other than the Maxis MX 90?

I don't even know what the Maxis mx90 is it's a Chinese imported truck that we don't know about yeah you guys have some of those and the dial up microphone is a Alibaba thing and yeah no you guys or you can just follow Mike like me. I have a post, I think so, Ford is going to release the F-150, they just have so many orders here that they finally don't have them, yes, but I mean trucks like you, it's usually not a priority. Okay, do you think after the steering wheel stock will return to the SX?

No, that would be sharp because it would be a big change from Elon's comments that every entry is an error, there is an error, like they want zero entry. driver and Tesla has made a lot of moves over the years that are based on them complying with autonomous driving and obviously they haven't done that yet, but reversing something like that would be, it would be a big problem, oh silver. I said hello, so if I fixed my uh I had my wheel hubs fixed a few weeks ago, I appreciate that. I was in a bad situation for that and I also have to pay like $2500 to Tesla.

Okay, good solution, I think we can. End there. I'm seeing a lot of not very good questions, so okay, Tyler Hyler said where's the Tesla safety report? It's a full year away right now, yeah that's weird. Tesla simply stops publishing its safety report on the Autopilot mileage accident. and all maybe I should do an article on that because it's strange that they stopped that, we have this suspicion that Tesla when they don't publish data it's because the data

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n't look that good and that safety report obviously the data was so bad to begin with which wasn't good data, the only thing it was good for is if you compare it to itself, so if you see some improvement over time, but we saw very little improvement over time, so maybe this.

I just left it, I don't know, at one point I even liked the fire facts, which was also interesting and that made this look a little better, I think especially when the fires were a big story, but I think the fires It's not that big of a story for Tesla anymore, so maybe they just thought it wasn't worth pursuing. I don't know anyway, thanks everyone for listening. I appreciate every one of you, if you enjoy the show, if you can give us a like, subscribe, whatever it is on the app you're watching because we're available everywhere.

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