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Quick Charge Podcast: October 8, 2022

October 8, 2022
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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This is how government overreach could bring the US solar industry to its knees

October 8, 2022
The Solar Energy Industries Association, the nonprofit trade association of the US solar industry, just flagged a proposed change to the 2024 International Building Code by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that would do more harm than good to the US solar industry. Bureacratic overreach on solar Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the SEIA, published a blog yesterday that…
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Automaker behind internal combustion engine start says buyers will switch to luxury EVs, good for business

October 7, 2022
Mercedes-Benz, the German automaker known for pioneering the internal combustion engine, says electric vehicles will be the dominant car on the road, particularly luxury EVs. The automaker’s CEO says he sees the switch to luxury EVs happening step-by-step within this decade. It was New Year’s Eve, 1879, when the first stationary gasoline engine ran for the first time, according to…
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Podcast: Elon Musk’s Twitter deal, Tesla Bot, Dojo, Tesla Semi, and more

October 7, 2022
This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. This week, we discussed Elon Musk’s Twitter deal and how it is affecting Tesla, Tesla Bot, Dojo, Tesla Semi production, 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…
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