Summary: This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including Tesla announcing a round of layoffs, the end of the referral program, a few new electric vehicles are announced and unveiled, 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, 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: TSLA profit drop in Q4, 7% workforce cut planned after growing 30% last year Tesla will end referral program to help Model 3 cost, says Elon Musk Tesla is giving away over 80 new Roadsters for free, which might have killed the referral program Tesla is giving a Model 3 away to a hacker who can crack it Tesla implements innovative way to avoid gas cars ‘ICEing’ Superchargers Tesla vehicles targeted in series of break-ins, owners try to find solutions Tesla launches new Wall Connector with NEMA 14-50 plug Cadillac reveals images of the brand’s first EV, built on GM’s “BEV3” platform to challenge Tesla GM confirms it’s moving away from hybrids to focus on all-electric Ford confirms all-electric F-Series pickup truck coming Ford and VW are considering partnering on electric vehicles Audi is bringing its all-electric supercar to production to compete with new Tesla Roadster Mercedes-Benz is planning a smaller all-electric SUV to be unveiled this year VW is investing $800 million in US factory to build electric cars Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00pm ET (or the video after 5:00pm ET): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_TuWR2uuag
