EV price war, Tesla demand boom, cheaper EVs, and more

This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. This week, we discuss the potential EV price war, Tesla's demand booming, cheaper EVs, and more. 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. After the show ends at around 5 p.m. ET, the video will be archived on YouTube and the audio on all your favorite podcast apps: Apple Podcasts Spotify Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS We now have a Patreon if you want to help us to avoid more ads and invest more in our content. We have some awesome gifts for our Patreons and more coming. Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast: Tesla just started an EV price war that it will likely win Tesla (TSLA) is seeing ‘unprecedented demand,’ stores hitting new records Tesla ramps up communications as Elon Musk becomes more controversial Tesla clandestinely downgrades performance brakes, adds cover to hide it Tesla increases the price of its home charging station by 20% Take a look at Tesla’s first battery passport proof-of-concept New Volvo C40 and XC40 EVs get improved range, faster charging, RWD, and more Chevy Bolt cheap? This Chinese knockoff is a third the price, readying for export Hertz and Uber announce deployment of 25,000 Tesla and Polestar EVs in Europe Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET): https://youtu.be/XGkbu-edCt8