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Podcast: Elon Musk’s Tesla company-wide meeting, Cybertruck sighting, Tesla radar? and more

June 10, 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 Tesla company-wide meeting, a new Cybertruck sighting, Tesla adding back a radar to its self-driving sensor suite, 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…
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Electric scooter and micromobility giant Bird lays off 23% of employees in extreme cost cutting

June 10, 2022
Los Angeles-based micromobility company Bird is looking to trim down, at the cost of hundreds of jobs. The shared electric scooter company has reportedly let go 23% of its employees in its latest round of layoffs. Particularly hard hit was Bird’s consumer product division, which expanded to include electric bikes and electric scooters that were designed for direct-to-consumer sales, in…
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Apex.AI tapped to implement its autonomous tech into swarms of electric farming robots

June 9, 2022
Yes, you read that correctly. Agricultural machinery manufacturer AGCO is continuing its technical partnership with Apex.AI in order to use its Apex.OS software development kit to add autonomous capabilities to its farming robot concept. The battery-powered Xaver farming robots were developed by AGCO brand Fendt and can autonomously plant seeds on farms 24 hours a day. Apex.AI is a scalable…
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White House announces plan for new standards for first-ever national network of 500,000 electric car chargers

June 9, 2022
The White House announced today a plan to develop new standards for what they have been describing as the “first-ever national network of 500,000 electric car chargers.” While many potential EV buyers were hoping Build Back Better Act to pass for the new EV incentives, the government passed another infrastructure bill last year that already had significant investments for electric…
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