Summary: This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including our Audi e-tron first drive review, Tesla Model 3 Mid-Range gets its EPA rating, the Boring Company will have a new product unveiling, 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. 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 (today at 4:30pm), 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: Audi e-tron first drive review: a solid SUV that happens to be electric Tesla Model 3 Mid-Range gets official EPA rating with surprising results Tesla Model 3 configurator opens across Europe with Feb delivery, 544km range Tesla Model Y to have third-row seat, mid-2020 production at Gigafactory 1 according to leaked docs Tesla would consider buying shuttered GM factories [again], says Elon Musk Tesla’s giant battery saved $40 million during its first year, report says Tesla’s giant virtual power plant with Powerwalls expands to 1,000 more homes in Australia Elon Musk’s Boring Company to unveil ‘fully road legal autonomous transport cars’ SK Innovation announces new electric vehicle battery gigafactory in the US Aston Martin to offer electric conversions of classic cars Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 3:30pm ET (or the video after 4:30pm ET): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3EtRJF2oRo
