Summary: This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including the Tesla Model 3 Dual Motor price increase, Tesla's production numbers, Tesla removing paint options to streamline production, and more. Support our show! 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. The show is live every Friday at 4pm ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel. 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 will be available on all your favorite podcast apps through our RSS feed: https://electrek.co/podcastRSS. For the Apple Podcasts app, 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 increases price of Model 3 Dual Motor AWD again Tesla to eliminate some paint options to increase production efficiency, gives last chance to order Tesla production picks up in the past few days as end of record quarter approaches Tesla is releasing more battery capacity and giving free Supercharging to owners in Hurricane Florence’s path Tesla to achieve leading $100/kWh battery cell cost this year, says investor after Gigafactory 1 tour Tesla Semi production to get ‘serious’ by 2020, says investor after Gigafactory 1 tour Tesla obtains patents for the design of Tesla Semi as it is being sued over it Tesla launches its own in-house ‘Body Repair Centers’ to reduce repair time Tesla’s fleet reaches total of 9 billion electric miles on the road to the rEVolution NIO raises $1 billion in US IPO to ramp up production of electric vehicles Nissan announces 2019 LEAF US pricing, says longer-range version available ‘in the future’ VW CEO says electric car costs higher than expected, sees competition making progress VW is planning a capacity of 100,000 electric cars per year for first plant to go electric Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4pm ET (or the video after 5pm ET): https://youtu.be/xdJpq61diOs
