Summary: This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including another shakeup in Tesla's Autopilot leadership, a bunch of new electric vehicles are unveiled at 2018 China Auto Show, and more. Thanks to this week’s Electrek Podcast sponsor Wunder Capital, the easiest way to invest in large-scale solar projects across the US. To learn more, visit WunderCapital.com/Electrek The Electrek Podcast is me, Fred Lambert, editor-in-chief of Electrek, and Seth Weintraub, founder and publisher of Electrek and the 9to5 network, discussing all our top stories of the week while taking questions from our readers and highlighting the most insightful comments on the site. Today we have very special guest Galileo Russell who is a Seeking Alpha contributor and has a Youtube channel covering TSLA The show is live every Friday at 4pm 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 5pm ET, the video will be archived on YouTube and the audio on all your favorite podcast apps through our RSS feed: https://electrek.co/podcastRSS. Grab the quick link to iTunes here. 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 today: Tesla’s VP of Autopilot and chip guru Jim Keller is leaving, another former Apple chip designer is tapped Tesla’s increasingly important mobile app had a network-wide outage last weekend Tesla plans to sell $400,000 worth of ‘electric motors and batteries’ to Elon Musk’s Boring Company New Tesla Gigafactory 1 flyover shows new section underway, parking lot and solar rooftop array Mercedes-Maybach unveils all-electric luxury SUV concept BMW unveils new all-electric iX3 SUV with 250 miles of range and 150 kW charging Nissan unveils a new Leaf-based electric car to be mass-produced in China VW’s Chinese joint-venture launches a ~$19,000 all-electric SUV Canadian cities will get a new curbside electric car charging network to enable urban EV driving Target partners with Tesla, ChargePoint and Electrify America to install over 600 chargers Tesla is reportedly in talks to join Ionity charging network along with other automakers Ford to phase out passenger cars as it focuses on trucks and electric vehicles Volvo clarifies electrification plan, aims for 50% of sales to be ‘fully electric’ by 2025 Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4pm ET (or the video after 5pm ET): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvcNbawtv5w
