Electrek Podcast: Tesla Model 3 goes north, Musk says cost could fall to $28k, oil industry feels Norway, and more
Summary: This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including Tesla Model 3 arrives in a big way in Canada, Elon Musk says the cost of Model 3 could fall to $28,000, the oil industry starts to feel the pressure in Norway, and more. 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. 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 starts large scale Model 3 deliveries in Canada Tesla Model 3 international expansion is pushed to early and mid 2019, says Elon Musk Tesla Model 3 teardown points to only $28,000 in potential material and production cost Tesla is building up in-house insurance as Model S tops list of most expensive cars to insure Tesla announces a flurry of new executive hires from Apple, Amazon, and more Tesla hires new head of Energy operations from Amazon and head of Tesla Europe from BMW Tesla tries to justify position of 3 board members ahead of shareholders meeting and after pushbacks Oil industry is finally starting to be affected by Norway’s rapid electric car adoption Audi reveals e-tron quattro all-electric SUV aero performance, will have optional cameras instead of mirrors GM’s self-driving car division receives over $3 billion in backing to go to market next year BMW announces ‘major increase in capacity’ at battery factory to support new iX3 electric SUV BMW launches wireless electric car charging system touted as convenient but inefficient Hyundai Kona EV gets Norwegian price/specs as company plans to make own batteries Waymo orders 62,000 Chrysler Pacificas as Fiat Chrysler in talks on selling self-driving cars 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=wjCPTrGyr1A
