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Tesla sale incentives intensify, new California EV credit?, Rivian's new factory, and more


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In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Tesla increasing its sale incentives, a potential new EV credit in California, Rivian's new factory gets funded, and more.

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The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel.

As a reminder, we’ll have an accompanying post, like this one, on the site with an embedded link to the live stream. Head to the YouTube channel to get your questions and comments in.

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    Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:

    • Tesla now offers lease buyouts – after saying it would keep cars as robotaxis
    • Tesla boosts referral reward to $2,000 discounts on new EVs, even Cybertruck
    • Curious Tesla vehicles under covers raises some questions
    • Tesla releases API pricing, dev says would cost $60 million per year to run his 3rd-party app
    • Tesla adds longer cables and more to Superchargers as non-Tesla EVs complicate things
    • Elon Musk fires back on excluding Tesla from California’s new EV incentive he wants to kill
    • Rivian Adventure Network open to other cars soon, will be ‘awesome’ says CEO
    • Rivian secures $6.6 billion loan for new plant – but with one major caveat
    • Porsche will keep gas-powered and hybrid vehicles alive as EV sales slow
    • BYD confirms next-gen Blade EV battery is coming soon, promising even more range
    • Leaked email signals BYD’s plan to heat up EV price war
    • Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET):

      https://www.youtube.com/live/OkI3LviRMsg
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