Tesla FSD Beta update, Tesla sends Chinese engineers to the US, Mercedes EQE US pricing, and more

Summary: This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. This week, we discuss Tesla's latest FSD Beta update, Tesla sending Chinese engineers to the US, Mercedes-Benz EQE US pricing, and more. Sponsored by Anyhill: Check out Anyhill’s latest UM-2 electric scooters featuring a new powerful brushless motor with a maximum 750W motor output power and detachable LG battery. The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. 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 5 p.m. ET, the video will be archived on YouTube and the audio on all your favorite podcast apps: Apple Podcasts Spotify Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS 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: Tesla releases new Full Self-Driving Beta update with high-level changes Tesla reluctantly gave Full Self-Driving Beta demo to DMV and critics Andrej Karpathy considers coming back to Tesla to work on Optimus and AGI Tesla tries to replicate Giga Shanghai’s success in the US with Chinese engineers Tesla price cuts are resulting in cancellations for China EV brands Panasonic aims for at least 30 GWh of batteries at new Kansas factory expected to supply Tesla Mercedes-Benz shares EQE pricing for US, starting below $75,000 with 305 miles of range Subaru won’t build electric cars in the US because it can’t compete with McDonald’s wages Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET): https://youtu.be/eFtHk9yaKsU