TEN Transport Evolved News Episode 485: Biden's War On Chinese EVs, New Kia EV6, Steamboat EV!

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Welcome to today’s show!
On today’s show - The U.S. imposes new tariffs on Chinese-made EVs, Kia’s EV6 gets its refreshed reveal, and a very old steam boat gets an EV conversion!
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00:00 - Start
00:33 - Welcome!
00:53 - U.S. Federal Government announces increased import tariffs on Chinese-made EVs, European Union considering the same
02:08 - Kia’s refreshed EV6 breaks cover at last
03:06 - Tesla files with the SEC to show the ads it’s been paying for to try and convince shareholders to vote for Elon Musk’s new pay deal
03:56 - Arcimoto appears completely dead as NASDAQ delists and bills remain unpaid
04:51 - Mate Rimac seems to suggest that Rimac may make a gasoline vehicle
05:46 - Elon Musk says Tesla can now spend more than half a billion on Supercharger network this year
06:45 - Mercedes-Benz said to have cancelled next-generation EV platform - MB:EA Large
07:49 - Credit card data suggests that only 2% of Tesla drivers who tried FSD Supervised actually decided to buy it.
08:55 - Ford shares how it prepared its Mustang Mach E Rally for Market
09:47 - There are now 5 Million Solar Panel installations across the U.S.
12:01 - Mercedes-Benz e-Sprinter recall alert
12:21 - BYD launches the SeaLion 07, Prepares for export
12:41 - Former Sondors employee says that the metacycle wasn’t ever road-legal
13:03 - Tesla offers 0.99% financing on Model Y in US until end of May
13:20 - Stellantis, LeapMotor, announce new joint venture
13:36 - Volkswagen seems to suggest ID California might still happen (maybe)
14:00 - Oakland Unified School District becomes the first in the U.S. to have a 100% electric school bus fleet
14:22 - BYD expands its partnership with HuaiHai to launch joint venture for sodium battery manufacturing
14:42 - Chevrolet confirms it’s ending Malibu production make way for new Bolt EUV
14:59 - Vinfast says it’s secured 30,000 pre-orders for VF3 in Vietnamese market
15:22 - FERC announces all U.S. utilities in Lower 48 (minus Texas) must plan grids for 20 years into the future
15:41 - Chevrolet confirms specs of the Silverado EV RST
15:57 - Aptera produces an update video, closes its first funding round
16:15 - Volkswagen seriously considering the ID.1’s production
16:34 - Tesla’s head of cybertruck manufacturing and key AI expert leave the company
16:50 - Porsche Macan EV production starts in Leipzig
17:08 - Volkswagen confirms specs for 2024 ID Buzz in the U.S.
17:28 - Ford cuts its battery orders
17:45 - U.S. EV Registrations fell slightly in Q1 when compared to Q4
18:04 - Vinfast adds Sony entertainment options to the VF8 - rather than tackle more pressing issues
18:20 - Lower-cost Kona Electric gets EPA Rating
18:40 - Average selling price of new EVs dropped in April
19:00 - Zoox autonomous vehicles involved in two eerily similar accidents due to phantom braking
19:22 - Jaguar seems to suggest its first new electric model will be very expensive
19:41 - Lucid appears to trademark “Earth” for a new Ev model
20:00 - BP appears eager to snap up now-abandoned future Supercharger sites
20:20 - BYD sets a new sales record for one week
20:35 - Kia ups cash-on-hood deals for some EV models to $12,000
20:53 - Mullen says it’s raised capital needed to bring Bollinger trucks to market
21:09 - Tevva becomes insolvent
21:28 - Genesis expands the number of dealerships it has, expanding EV availability too
21:43 - Parkopedia, BMW, pair up on EV charging information
22:01 - Zeekr floats on the New York Stock Exchange
22:20 - ABB unveils dual-head charging station capable of up to 400 kW power transfer
22:37 - Rivian confirms R1 range will get RU-vid, Google Cast for future update
23:00 - Sponsored Segment: Atmos Financial
24:14 - There are now more than 140 Tesla Cybertrucks for sale in the U.S. (Despite no-sell clauses)
25:32 - A 138 year-old former steamer gets an electric conversion!
26:47 - Thanks, and Goodbye!

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@rossr6616 14 дней назад

No CEO or other Human Being needs or deserves a $55 Billion "compensation package"

@kensmith5694 14 дней назад

I would make an exception: Imagine if some guy in the back room at Tesla worked out how to make the cold fusion reactor a real thing and able to power a car. That guy would have contributed enough to get $55 Billion. Compared to that Elon has done nothing.

@patreekotime4578 14 дней назад

The compensation package made *some* sense back when Elon was the driving force behind interest in the company. But now, as he has become an increasingly polarizing public figure, and that many of the announcements he made that helped Tesla's popularity have simply not panned out... it seems misplaced for him to be demanding that compensation. Ironically, one of the things that indeered him to some people was his widely publicized refusal of a paycheck... so... yeah, turns out that a billionaire complaining about not getting paid enough isn't a very popular move. Lol.

@scottmcshannon6821 14 дней назад

he has not been paid anything since 2018, would you be willing to work 80 hours a week for 6 years for free?

@kensmith5694 14 дней назад

@@scottmcshannon6821 He hasn't worked 80 hour weeks. You can discover that with just a little research.

@fynfynsidian1870 14 дней назад

Especially as they slash staff due to slow sales. Tighten your own belt Elon

@skeptibleiyam1093 14 дней назад

To be fair, the high performance toys of the super rich are a trivial factor compared to the SUV that the middle class uses to commute to work.

@jessebrook1688 13 дней назад

Or the personal jets of the super rich that they use to commute everywhere...or the cruise liners that take people lots of new places and pollute the waters of those new places. There's a whole lot of things we could improve. Our leisure has been very CO²-intensive since the early 1900s.

@midnight4109 14 дней назад

Understanding that the news can't always be all good, this is one of your most informative and delivered with hardly taking a breath. The future of EVs is as good as ever in spite of hick ups. Kudos for all you do, I'm sure you're not getting rich.

@ashtaroth1975 14 дней назад

Awesome thumbnail Erin

@gmv0553 14 дней назад

Great news from Aptera!

@Jcewazhere 14 дней назад

Subscriptions or charges for installed hardware needs to be illegal.

@ashtaroth1975 14 дней назад

Those toys usually end stored and not driven so it's not really bad news

@user-sn7gb5cy2j 14 дней назад

Perhaps this will help stop people from perceiving evs as toys rather than useful tools. But these people won’t be helping develop new ev technology

@patreekotime4578 14 дней назад

Aspirational vehicles as a whole have a completely negligible impact on global vehicle emissions. HOWEVER, they have a dramatic impact on the *aspriations* of average drivers. At this point we have a whole generation of young people who have been salivating over images of the Rimacs cars and statistics who desperately want to own a sporty electric car so they can feel connected to that brand. Same exact reason boomers will buy a Porsche-badged vechile no matter how hideous or unlike a 9/11 it is. People want a piece of that aspirational story from their childhood. So when aspirational brands say are shifting back to pistons... that doesn't just impact the emissions of the few dozen people who can afford to own one... that has a dramatic impact on young people and car enthusiasts the world over.

@simson4t 14 дней назад

Also the number of hyper cars so low that even if they were daily driven, it wouldn't matter.

@user-sn7gb5cy2j 13 дней назад

@@patreekotime4578 yes, you hit it on the head. This has the potential to change how certain people feel about electric cars. That makes it a problem.

@outbackev-hunter6035 14 дней назад

Even though higher tariffs are trying for Europe and the US, places like Australia that don't have a tarrif as they have ceased manufacturing....can really jump ahead in cheap EV solutions....BYD is already capitalising on this...

@Russwig 14 дней назад

Yay Oakland!!! Way to go Aptera! Boo Vinfast... Oh, I got my 2015 Soul EV back after 3 months in the shop. A new software update which corrects the battery management. I now get 95+ miles at 100% charge. We shall see how it goes from here. Keep Evolving Nikki!!!

@nordlandak6853 14 дней назад

Boy you’re proud of a crappie ev that was in the shop for three months. That’s just sad.

@Russwig 14 дней назад

@@nordlandak6853 Not so sad... I am proud to be driving an EV! And I can't wait to get an Aptera. That's wats up here in the USA!!!

@rp9674 14 дней назад

Awesome, that's a good range!

@JasonTaylor-po5xc 14 дней назад

Nice to see the hosts admit some EVs can be fun to drive. That's really the main way they will win - not everyone is onboard the save the planet bit - even so-called environmentalists - so EVs need to legit win by being better, period. That's what got me hooked, the other stuff was a nice bonus.

@fynfynsidian1870 14 дней назад

My coworker signed up for $99/ month for his M3

@zhugeliange5816 14 дней назад

I almost upgraded to FSD, but had a horrible experience on my last day of trial where FSD wouldn't engage on a long trip. Had to drive it myself.

@nealy2815 14 дней назад

Great channel.

@darmou 14 дней назад

That logic from Rimac does not make sense, I mean combustion engines are super common so would't that mean moving to hydrogen instead?

@Loanshark753 14 дней назад

Maybe it is going to be a rebadged Bugatti.

@patreekotime4578 14 дней назад

They are following the logic of the rich people who buy their products. You know, the same people who every day make utterly illogical decisions on the stock market. The spooked horses club just got spooked again.

@arleneperk7472 13 дней назад

Thanks for the updates.

@EliotHochberg 14 дней назад

Hm I think in the set up on the Chinese vehicle tariff, the story was pretty even handed. But it was couched in “this is very bad news“ Now I’m not sure that 100% tariff is the way to go to deal with the Chinese product issue. But you need to provide a greater context. Essentially with the Chinese automobile industry is doing is an international version of what Walmart does to small towns when it moves in. It undercut prices until all of the other options go away, and then once that’s true, it can then set whatever prices it wants. I have a friend in Raul Pennsylvania who just related to me how Walmart is the only grocery store within an hour of her house, And vegetables are more than twice as expensive as they are if she were to drive an hour away. Climate changes, and it seems substantially to be a result of human action, at the same time, Chinese electric vehicles, or even electric vehicles in general, are not going to solve the omissions problems we have. they’re going to help, I think it’s about a third of emissions, but we have to be very careful not to undermine further our own industries, unless we end up not being able to manufacture cars in the United States or the European Union, and then China, politically very much leverage all over the world, and then set the prices for electric vehicles to whatever they want without other countries being able to stop it. If these Chinese companies are prepared to create subsidiaries in Europe and the United States and any other country that cares, in a long term that is a much better result. While this channel may perceive it as protecting a capitalist system and large US corporations who are slow to react to the issue of climate change, we have to remain aware that the Chinese governmental system is currently stands is only as good as the current leader. if the current president of China were to die and somebody came into power, and the United States in Europe were completely dependent on products, I have no doubt that there is the possibility that everyone in the world might be subject to the kind of surveillance and potential oppression as Chinesecitizens experience now.

@rp9674 14 дней назад

Tariffs protect USA workers & corporate, look beyond just getting cheap stuff. Chinese companies under pay & mistreat workers. We are trying to avoid a race to the bottom.

@rp9674 14 дней назад

Tariffs protect USA workers & corporate, look beyond just getting cheap stuff. Chinese companies under pay & mistreat workers. We are trying to avoid a race to the bottom.

@WanderingCactus 14 дней назад

Maybe they should make a convertible Bolt and call it the Malibu

@midnight4109 14 дней назад

The Bolt has lots of potential. Call the convertible the Bolt convertible. Maybe also as an inexpensive sports car.

@rossr6616 14 дней назад

Bolt 'Topless'

@rp9674 14 дней назад

Nut. I would like more of a t-top type format

@WanderingCactus 14 дней назад

@@midnight4109 True, but I was being a bit silly, after all I believe Nikki said the Malibu is being retired to make room for the next Bolt, but why retire it when you can use the name?

@tokepanduro7302 14 дней назад

Where is the evidence of Chinese subsidies?

@michaelrch 14 дней назад

It's kinda irrelevant given the pretty big subsidies in the IRA. This is just old fashioned protectionism. It sucks for transitioning to EVs but if the US wants to have an EV and clean energy industry in the future, this is their only shot.

@mikewallace8087 14 дней назад

@@michaelrch The forcing of a Green World market will do what?

@garydmercer 14 дней назад

Open your eyes. The evidence is so overwhelming, it reminds me of the saying, " You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink." The evidence is very clear--so you are either blind or just refuse to look at the evidence and the truth that China is dumping super cheap EVs on the world market? That's lazy.

@michaelrch 14 дней назад

@@mikewallace8087 What do you mean by green world market?

@michaelrch 14 дней назад

@@garydmercer you say that China is producing cheap electric vehicles, as if it's a bad thing!

@robfelts8076 14 дней назад

Great job as always.

@wooddavid8293 14 дней назад

Thanks!

@gfbprojects1071 14 дней назад

Re: govt subsidies. All administrations step back from ideology and increase subsidies for their own EV manufacturers. Western industry is slow to change direction while it is still making profits from the old business model. Sometimes the market needs a temporary distortion to achieve a common good ie: a rapid transition to cleaner transport.

@dcvariousvids8082 14 дней назад

The way that Kia built the EV6, I doubt that the 84kWh battery will add much to potential range. More likely, is that the increase will be aimed at an increase in acceleration and perhaps a flatter charging curve.

@Sekir80 14 дней назад

Nikki, interesting choice going for comma ai. Do you have experience with it? If Ford's or Tesla's nagging is mandated by regulation(s) and say comma does not have nagging features, how is that legal?

@jmonsted 14 дней назад

They have Comma in their Chevy Bolt and installed it in Kate's Kona too, AFAIR. There are several videos on the subject on the channel.

@jbgrooves 8 дней назад

Nicky you look great. Whatever you're doing its working.

@badskpr 14 дней назад

Talked to Soboba Tribal Environmental Department today, They said they have never heard of TEN or any of the GRANTS or incentives. Wonder if this is true of all Indian Country?

@kdenyer1 13 дней назад

Love these fingerprint readers. Hope they are better than phones. I work as a engineer and some times I get cuts then phone won’t work.😂

@davidreadbikes 14 дней назад

Hi Nikki, two questions: do we know if anything is happening with EV chargers at Whole Foods stores? We recently visited two: one in Lynnfield, MA and another in Columbia, MD and where we had previously been able to charge at both, their EV chargers had been taken out. Also is Kate still working on the conversion of her Morris-Minor? Thanks!

@mikewallace8087 14 дней назад

Outpost Foods removed theirs too. Insurance costs were the deciding factor being too close to the Store building .

@jamesvandamme7786 14 дней назад

@@mikewallace8087 Because EVs "always blow up"??

@mikewallace8087 14 дней назад

@@jamesvandamme7786 No not always but the insurance companies have evaluated that risk.

@mikewallace8087 14 дней назад

@@jamesvandamme7786 Warning : you must be careful here as to what you say. I was accused/warned of cyberbullying here by Utube .

@rossr6616 14 дней назад

We stopped going to Whole Foods because, one by one, they stopped selling the very items we went there for. Why would a charging service be any different?

@danheuser5148 13 дней назад

I'm curious if when people paid for the FSD hardware if they were told that to use it they would need a subscription. I had just assumed that if you paid for FSD that you would get that functionality when the feature was functional.

@nettlesoup 13 дней назад

Every Tesla car on sale for the past ~5 years comes "for free" with the FSD hardware necessary to allow FSD to work. The data collected from the cameras while driving (manually or otherwise), sifted through locally for unusual scenarios, and then occasionally uploaded to the Tesla training servers, is probably worth Tesla subsidising the (relatively low) hardware cost even before we consider its usefulness for manual driving (rear camera and side camera views) and parking (free dashcam and enhanced security alarm now with video notifications). Those who are paying $99/month or who get the free month trial are exactly the people who did not purchase the additional FSD option package at point of sale or afterwards. If you already paid in full for the FSD option, then in North America you can enable or disable FSD Supervised at any time, at no additional cost. Similarly, in the rest of the world, those of us who have already paid for the FSD option, will be able to enable it for free once it is available here. For now, we're stuck with a far more restricted version mainly due to regulations that sound like they were drafted last century and are due for a shake up.

@berthogendoorn2133 14 дней назад

The latest Tariffs are going to kill the solar installation trend, we do not have many solar manufacturers in the USA that can produce inexpensive solar panels in volume, bad decision white house, this will cause a significant reduction of solar installations.

@stevewausa 14 дней назад

It's a very challenging balancing act between domestic job opportunities (remember all the solar manufacturing that got shut down once cheap imported panels flooded the market?) and jump-starting installations. Given where we are in the election cycle this decision isn't too surprising.

@mikewallace8087 14 дней назад

@@stevewausa what effect does the election cycle have? Lay out all your opinions .

@rp9674 14 дней назад

Sad, but cheap stuff is not worth being a China territory

@durwoodmaccool890 14 дней назад

A cybertruck parked in front of the JC Penny, you don't see that everyday. Too bad about Arcimoto, I saw one on the road around here a few years ago.

@danielmadar9938 13 дней назад

Thanks

@samijokinen9246 10 дней назад

Rimac is owned by VW. You may think that may have some influence to Rimac "leader" outcome.

@davidcadman4468 11 дней назад

Hi Nikki, been a few years since I unsubscribed, about 3... taken up with political news in EU and Rossiya.. and made it to 76 in reasonably good health... re subbed as I have grown my shares in BYDD, NIO and TSLA and it's hard to find good firm news. Hope all is going well with you and your family. Cheers DC... PS Putting on my Futurologist Hat: I believe you will manage to 71 in better shape than many in the USA...

@jackcoats4146 14 дней назад

I wonder if we will get to the new solar level with Chinese Panels being taxed out of price in the US? Sigh.

@rp9674 14 дней назад

Sad, but cheap stuff is not worth being a China territory

@kensmith5694 14 дней назад

The KIA EV6 might be my next car. It is a little larger than what I want and has a lot of "features" I don't want buy end up paying for but it seems to be the least bad fit for the car I want.

@dalet9849 14 дней назад

Steamship of Theseus? 🤣

@fynfynsidian1870 14 дней назад

Being on the Vinfast!

@thetj8243 14 дней назад

as many automakers still mainly build suv/crossovers at least an option like the new mach-e looks interesting

@patreekotime4578 14 дней назад

It is technically a crossover. Although it is not much bigger than a Subaru Outback, I guess that car is also now a crossover.

@alanrickett2537 14 дней назад

Cheering the 100percent tax on Chinese made cars while spending at last 5 year calling for affordable EVs. Killing any chace of the smaller cars getting to US market before 2026

@rossr6616 14 дней назад

Used Bolts are pretty affordable. And tariffs push foreign companies to invest in U.S. factories resulting in U.S. Jobs!

@alanrickett2537 14 дней назад

@@rossr6616 yes and that delays production , not faulting the policy either way pointing out the hypocrisy. As to bolts never buying GM ever again because EV1

@rp9674 14 дней назад

Sad, but cheap stuff is not worth being a China territory

@kdenyer1 13 дней назад

Self driving would be great but at 8000 for something you can’t transfer from car to car you have got to be joking 😂

@scottmcshannon6821 14 дней назад

i have yet to see any chinese cars exported at low cost. they are expensive everywhere but in china.

@alancapes5644 12 дней назад

Look at Australia and SE Asia. The cheapest rental cars in Australia are BYD and MG.

@brunoheggli2888 14 дней назад

Hey,hallo!

@pawelglowacki3771 13 дней назад

Sadly, Aptera will probably end up like Arcimoto in near future :(

@Pottery4Life 14 дней назад

Thank you.

@shavaughndavidson2257 14 дней назад

Am just saying how many times in the past has the Americans subsidized or bailout American car companies......

@kensmith5694 14 дней назад

In a way you could say it has been done every year since at least the 1950s. Taxes paid for the roads they6 drive on.

@bigboxofstuff 14 дней назад

Another great episode thank you all!

@williamlathan6932 14 дней назад

For $55 bill, the ceo should only run one company. Conflict of interest?😮

@mrxmry3264 14 дней назад

10:01 how many times have i seen that house in videos like this? 26:47 a donut? where the hell did that come from? yes, i know what JFK said all those decades ago, but what does that have to do with this converted ship?

@ztyhurst 14 дней назад

I’m tempted to buy Tesla shares just to vote “no”

@crowfoot1199 14 дней назад

I know, right?

@atw9913 14 дней назад

I guess that makes me one of the 50. In general I have FSD on more than it is off. I know the areas and types of interchanges where it has problems and take over when I don't want to cause problems. $100 / month is on the edge of its value. Unless I am in a hurry I now get in the car, set my destination and let it drive. I mean FFS, it will navigate down an unmarked gravel road until it gets to a road it knows. What other tech does that. The problem is with expectations. Once I realized it reliably can't do FSD now I lowered my expectation and I am very happy with what it can do. It drove me on a 500 mile round trip with minimal interventions.

@bannor99 12 дней назад

Please explain why your expectations are NOT based on the statements of the man who sold you on Full Self-Driving

@atw9913 12 дней назад

@@bannor99 Do you always base your expectations of a product based upon advertising or what a CEO of the company says? I don't. Every single company lies about the capability of their product. I used FSD everyday for 30 days of the free trial. I learned what it can and can't do. There is sooo much of what it can do and I fully expect them to fix what it can't do that I was willing to spend the $100/month to keep using it. $200 was a no go but $100 was just cheap enough for my buy in. Would rather have it at $50 though. If the nags go away in the next update then it will be well worth the price, even with the limitations.

@bannor99 12 дней назад

@@atw9913 If you can't trust what the CEO says, you're a fool to put your faith in the product. Find me an example of ANY other CEO of a publicly traded automaker making the kinds of claims that Elon has

@atw9913 12 дней назад

@@bannor99 LMFAO, not sure how you can even write that with a straight face. How many Automaker CEO's have said they were all in on EV's only to pull that back. What about Toyota and their "LMFAO" Solid state batteries that were to be in their EV's by 2021? Every single automaker CEO has flat out lied. Every other automakers self driving tech is an absolute joke requiring fully mapped roads requiring frequent updates and costly add-on packages to enable its use and even then does not work. Mercedes self driving requires ANOTHER car to drive in front of it and when CR or whoever it was did their testing it followed the TESLA but they made the Tesla slow down because the Mercedes could not keep pace. If you don't actually drive a Tesla with FSD I am not sure how you can even comment on any of this.

@bannor99 12 дней назад

@@atw9913 I'm speaking specifically about the claims made by a CEO or senior exec of a product or package available for sale. I don't buy anything based on what any company of any kind claims will be available in the near future - I've been around too long to fall for that nonsense. Get back to me when Elon says Tesla will fully indemnify FSD. Based on Elon's prior statements that was expected by 2019 so will that be by Xmas of this year? Or by 2030?

@rp9674 14 дней назад

Poor musk Maybe if this next presidential election goes well, we'll see an increased level of commitment from EV makers

@Pottery4Life 14 дней назад

14:00 @transportevolved It would be great to see a follow-up report on this Zum project say next Fall.

@Pottery4Life 14 дней назад

Search, "PR Newswire Zum Launches Nation's First School District with 100%" for full story.

@thorbjrnhellehaven5766 14 дней назад

❤Arcimoto❤ 😭😭😭😭😭

@jamesvandamme7786 14 дней назад

Tesla oughta fire Elon and let him play with his rockets and robots, and let someone who knows how to build, repair, and sell cars without political baggage run the show. Or merge with Ford.

@Molishious 14 дней назад

I agree. He’s certainly one of the main things keeping me from buying a Tesla. I’m not investing in Tesla so the robotaxi is of no interest to me and I’m fine using Uber and having a conversation with someone who is making some money. Right now I just want to buy an EV SUV, so I’d like to see Tesla concentrate on making what they have better and making more affordable EV’s. After he fired the supercharger group I lost any confidence in him I might have had. I heard he’s rehiring which indicates it was not part of some kind of genius plan that the Musk apologists thought it was. He’s promoted some very vile stuff on is extwitter platform that would lead one to question his sanity.

@davidmccarthy6061 14 дней назад

For a while now it's been apparent that to move forward and grow that Tesla needs a real auto exec. Otherwise it will remain a small niche player like Lotus. They have already reached their saturation point for their sedans/hatchbacks, which it's what is wanted in the U.S.

@ericvet8b 13 дней назад

20:20 no, really don’t trust BP…

@georgehand5149 14 дней назад

I wouldn't trust BP with a ham sandwich.

@brunoheggli2888 14 дней назад

Why?

@kensmith5694 14 дней назад

@@brunoheggli2888 Check their history for reasons

@patreekotime4578 14 дней назад

@@brunoheggli2888 They have a bad habit of using token ham sandwiches in PR campaigns to make themselves look more hammy, while not actually implementing ham or cheese widely across their global storefronts.

@brunoheggli2888 14 дней назад

@@patreekotime4578So they arent nice?

@rp9674 14 дней назад

Of course they lobby & influence gov. BP has been involved in several criminal cases, including the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, which caused the largest environmental disaster in US history. In 2012, BP pleaded guilty to 11 counts of manslaughter, two misdemeanors, and a felony of lying to Congress for its role in the disaster.

@EliotHochberg 14 дней назад

Go Bolinger! Here’s hoping their sensibilities result in a retail consumer vehicle we can all get!

@banderson8444 14 дней назад

Love the channel! Would you clarify the price on the Vinfast VF3? For the VF8, is the issue "road manners" or "road banners"?

@transportevolved 14 дней назад

We’ve heard many people having issues with the VF8 steering and adas The VF3 price is under the equivalent of $10k in its home market

@copaloadofthis 14 дней назад

15:30 Con-tig-u-ess 👍

@transportevolved 14 дней назад

What?!

@curtismmichaels 14 дней назад

@@transportevolved I believe they're trying to correct your pronunciation of the word, contiguous.

@patreekotime4578 14 дней назад

@@curtismmichaelsAmericans correcting Brits on their pronunciation of the English language will never not be unintentionally funny. Even funnier is when they don't even get the American pronunciation right, as it should be: Con-tig-yu-us.

@matthewburroughs9597 14 дней назад

Yep, that stood out a mile Nikki!

@rp9674 14 дней назад

People that don't speak British?

@user-tp6ci6cv1m 5 дней назад

OH no a WEF sponsored channel.

@kevinpolito1529 14 дней назад

FSD has from the beginning been intended to make robotaxis and their lucrative potential possible. Tesla has tried to sell the system to private owners only to offset their development costs. Most car owners are not enthused about the novelty feature.

@Pottery4Life 14 дней назад

8:00 I am a bit shocked that in one month's time, only 3,500 Tesla owners gave FSD a go and then only 2% thought is was worthwhile to purchase. I would LOVE to interview/survey the 3,430 that didn't bite and ask them why. Mostly a value issue?

@alanrickett2537 14 дней назад

That's because it's not true , the sample size yip had was 3500 that's not the number of trails and the 50 is the number of those that signed up with that credit card for the service without any gap in operation. Or in other words it's a meaningless number release for headline, this doesn't mean it was more than 2 percent or less it means the number of penguins hatch this year doesn't mean you know the migration route of swallows this year.

@rossr6616 14 дней назад

some just don't like paying subscriptions for items they already own*

@alanrickett2537 14 дней назад

@@rossr6616 hardware does not mean you own the software unless you pay for it , a issue every coder has when trying to get paid.

@patreekotime4578 14 дней назад

@@alanrickett2537 How are they paying for it then? Magic beans or wheel barrows full of nickles?

@alanrickett2537 14 дней назад

@@patreekotime4578 no saying they are paying for it but they could be using a different credit card, a debt card , a direct debt a standing order or they could have used the same card but waited till the weekend finished before paying

@unclegeorge7845 13 дней назад

Doe anyone know where I can get my deposit back?

@1964mcqueen 14 дней назад

Musk could have saved Tesla a lot of headache, and market value, if he had been a little less impulsive, downsized instead of firing the team, and announced the half billion investment as part of one release. As it is, Tesla appears disorganized and at the whims of an ill-tempered CEO.

@kensmith5694 14 дней назад

Musk partly fixed a problem he created. I think Tesla would be better without him.

@silluete 11 дней назад

ICE car are really turn I to mechanical watches is it?

@MatthewCrawford 14 дней назад

Your outro outreach is always really cool. A small word of encouragement can help people through dark days. Also the rest of the video is cool too, thanks for the clear informative reviews and news.

@mikewallace8087 14 дней назад

Volkswagen announces to ramp up Hybrid production and reduce EV production . I like that.

@kensmith5694 14 дней назад

Hybrids are just an ICE car that carries around a bunch of batteries. Studies have shown that people don't charge them and that the fuel use in real world is not much below that of a purely ICE car that was designed for good fuel economy.

@mikewallace8087 14 дней назад

@@kensmith5694 Sure , The system is E.P.A. approved . The battery doesn't have to be charged because of braking regeneration . They are HEV . PHEV are the ones you cite and they must be recharged . You are disingenuous . Jesus , Ken you work on radios and say those things.

@kensmith5694 14 дней назад

@@mikewallace8087 You seem to have missed the point of my comment. On a hybrid, you are carrying around a bunch of extra weight. When the fuel consumption in the real world is looked at, a hybrid saves almost no energy. What you gain from regeneration on braking is mostly eaten up by the extra energy needed to get to highway speeds. On the freeway, the EV is just extra weight you are carrying with you. It is not what is moving the car. Thus for those who drive on the highway, the electric part does basically nothing useful.

@mikewallace8087 14 дней назад

@@kensmith5694 Search this: How much gas does a Toyota HEV save? I suggest you call and convince them and the E.P.A. that their claims of fuel saving is grossly overstated.

@mikewallace8087 14 дней назад

@@kensmith5694 HEV cars save the owner $2,000 in annual fuel/ gasoline costs. You say that Toyota designed and made a nothing burger and people have been buying nothing burgers for over 20 years. I can't say what I want to because , you know.

@alancapes5644 12 дней назад

Great video, other than repeating that clickbaity Yipit story, ridiculous sample size on over 2 million NA vehicles, and zero trasparency on data.

@metricstormtrooper 14 дней назад

The Ford rallycross course looks no more difficult than the average Australian dirt road.

@martinutr 14 дней назад

I will vote NO on both of Tesla’s shareholder proposals.

@kensmith5694 14 дней назад

Yes, both look bad for everyone but Elon. The money that goes to Elon could instead be used to fix all the issues with the Cyber Truck and/or the Semi. Or it could go towards developing a lower cost EV. Moving to TX because you are being forced to obey the law seems about typical for companies that are about to be in a lot of trouble.

@patreekotime4578 14 дней назад

But how else will he parachute out of the company he is actively destroying???

@darmou 14 дней назад

It was so depressing seeing Elon lay off all those hardworking staff and then help himself to billions :(

@eastmanwebb5477 13 дней назад

I appreciate your journalistic integrity, which is why I’m a Patreon supporter.

@cheeriomartinez 14 дней назад

Great video! I don’t know what person is complaining about you guys asking for donations.

@transportevolved 14 дней назад

Many, many people. They complain we’re wasteful/don’t use our money wisely. We operate very leanly, and barely stay on the positive side of cash flow!

@PandaKnight52 14 дней назад

I can only assume this a missinfo/Russian bots looking to cause trouble and pain. Ask for the value you guys are worth !

@karlInSanDiego 14 дней назад

I think you buried the lede on Ford's battery cancelation. They didn't just lose considerable money. But the losses were reported all kinds of sideways, with Bloomberg giving a stupidly rounded number of "more than $100,000" loss per vehicle, tons of outlets repeating a seemingly wrong number of $132,000 loss per vehicle which assumed 10,000 vehicle sold when they actually sold 20,233. Even if it's only $64,251 (the -$1.3B was a coarse figure), it's substantially worse than 2023 losses of $40,525 of last year and moving in the wrong direction. Large battery EVs are less profitable than small battery ones, if you can sell both. EV pickups appear to be less profitable than EV sedans, because the battery is the largest variable cost, and bricks on wheels abuse battery use with poor efficiency. They could have assumed pickups would be used for local farm hauling as originally intended when Ford and Chevy pioneered them, but instead they cater to boys towing toys to far away destinations every weekend. GM appears to have gotten this the most wrong, choosing 200+ kWh slugs of e. But Cybertruck surely intended to do the same, thus missing all their design brief promises at launch with their puny 124 kWh battery. Ford, GM, Rivian, and now Stelantis and Tesla, presumed slashed battery prices back when they announced their upcoming pickups/SUVs with large batteries and reasonable prices. They trusted that Elon was right, that Tony Seba and Adam Dorr weren't full of crap, and battery prices would follow Moore's law or Wright's law. But battery resources are scare, even if it's just mining and refining bottlenecks and battery supply is pinched via battery plants. Sprint to build batteries like a renegade and you end up with battery fires, massive recalls, maybe kill your brand. This is what is keeping EV prices high, not failure to know how to build an EV as Tesla fans have always protested. Ford, having only built a truck and an SUV with a large packs is nowhere close to profitable. Are there figures for the Mach-e 70kWh vs. 91 and 99 kWh pack take rates? Elon's pivoting to AI and robotics, because he doesn't see any future in competing with others to build EVs. I've personally never believed Tesla was profitable, assuming among all the other lies from that company's lead, that they are performing creative accounting to bury their losses and declare profitability. We all saw them pull that BS of valuing their least cars as appreciating assets because they would become their own Robotaxis. That should worry everyone that this was never a profitable business. Not that it's impossible to build EVs or that there is no such thing as a profitable EV. But while they compete with ICE and hybrids, there's maybe no foreseeable profitable full sized EV on the horizon and the quants all told them this.

@sparkysho-ze7nm 14 дней назад

Quality information fluent pronunciation ana splash humor great job👍👍👍

@patrickmckowen2999 13 дней назад

👍

@user-xj5xp6qz5g 14 дней назад

go Elon!

@transportevolved 14 дней назад

Walk out the door?

@user-xj5xp6qz5g 14 дней назад

@@transportevolved I dont get it

@Riki-io4yd 6 дней назад

A Gloria Gaynor reference.

@paolopetrozzi2213 14 дней назад

At 19:30 Nice joke!

@mikewallace8087 14 дней назад

U.S. economically coupled with that Nation . Will the comeuppance harm the global economy .

@ElectricCarAustralia 14 дней назад

❤

@robertn2951 14 дней назад

A lot of bad news. More and more every week...

@kensmith5694 14 дней назад

I am not a young person. I can't remember any time when "news" was mostly "bad news". Even when men were walking on the moon, most of the news program was bad news.

@jameshiggins-thomas9617 12 дней назад

It's such "fun" to see rich people arguing they deserve more when their businesses do poorly and they have to lay off large numbers of the people who actually contribute to what success they had.

@teardowndan5364 14 дней назад

The Chinese EVs sold in China have often horrible build quality. If the EVs China is attempting to sell outside China are built to the same standards, China should be more worried about an outright ban for public safety reasons. There is nothing affordable about EVs that quit working 300 miles out of the dealership, spontaneously combust while on a vehicle carrier, randomly lose wheels or whole axles, randomly lose brakes, etc. I'm not surprised at all that many car manufacturers are backing off on full-BEVs. Fast-charging infrastructure is not growing fast enough and not reliable enough for normal people to feel confident about EVs with less than 300mi of range or driving entirely on battery power and be left with a scrapyard brick when the battery eventually dies on their primary/only vehicle. At the same time, battery tech to enable said range isn't getting cheaper nor lighter fast enough to make EVs economically viable yet. While SSBs may potentially change that, right now they are 5-10X as expensive per kWh. We're 3-5 years away from EVs being truly ready for the mainstream.

@transportevolved 14 дней назад

Actually there are great quality Chinese EVs. Polestar is one example

@matthewburroughs9597 14 дней назад

There build quality is quite good actually, they learned that by coping the Western companies that they partnered with.

@kasmstamps1897 13 дней назад

@@transportevolved We just got a BYD Seal. Luxury🤗 with over 250miles of range. Next week we get 13.2kw solar panels. Now just need to save for a charger.

@nordlandak6853 14 дней назад

I’ve found the ev church of optimistic fantasy. 😂😂

@transportevolved 14 дней назад

Would you care to give us some more in depth reasoning?

@nordlandak6853 14 дней назад

@@transportevolved certainly you believe that ev will save the planet. Sorry not going to even move the needle. Plus you think it’s ok to have others pay for your vehicle. And are ok with authoritarianism forcing adoption.

@transportevolved 14 дней назад

We're open to discussion. Electric vehicles can be a benefit to many different groups - because electrification ≠ only electric cars. e-bikes are a great way of helping people get fit. electric buses and trains burn far less CO², have a longer lifespan and lower maintenance costs. Add trolleybus infrastructure to reduce reliance on batteries. Renewable energy and V2G makes things even better.

@nordlandak6853 14 дней назад

@@transportevolved how much is the planets atmosphere co2? How much is man made?

@kensmith5694 14 дней назад

@@nordlandak6853 Why don't you look up the answers to your own question. Too much of nearly anything is a problem. There is too much CO2 and about a 1/3rd of it was put there my mankind.

@00Zy99 14 дней назад

I know your not a doughnut. But what am I? I personally don't have too much of a problem with tariffs on Chinese companies. I just can't stand the idea of giving even MORE support to that government. Its just a bad actor all around, and we need to be trying to rid ourselves of any sort of dependence on it.

@stevebloom55 14 дней назад

Welp, I'm out. "Cheese grater" indeed. Channel blocked.

@transportevolved 14 дней назад

Cheese graters can be great. We’ve used and owned plenty of cheese grater Macs

@alancapes5644 12 дней назад

TE I would never expect you to resort to Trumpian derogotory name calling.

@Riki-io4yd 6 дней назад

My last Apple was a Lisa. My current computer is the same C-30 I've had for decades. You youngsters are all spoiled by today's tech. Heck, if my godson hadn't made me learn to use a Kindle, I wouldn't know what a touch screen was. We have the privilege of having working computers hooked up to the web - Why are we arguing about the nicknames of our machines?!

@mapleleaf8948 14 дней назад

Garbage over compensated person ($55B?? are you F'ing kidding me?) moves head office to garbage state that is screwing individual freedom and its low wage workers. How on brand.