Tesla price cuts, Chevy Bolt EV and EUV unveiling, and more

This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including Tesla's price cuts, the unveiling of the Chevy Bolt EV and Bolt EUV, 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 back 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 PodcastsSpotifyOvercastPocket CastsCastroRSS 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 reduces Model 3 and Model Y prices, now starts under $37,000Tesla Model S refresh spotted with ‘regular’ steering wheelTesla produces another new Tesla Semi electric truckTesla Powerwalls and other home battery packs proving more than useful in Texas blackouts2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV and EV announced with almost everything you asked forMercedes-Benz cancels launch of EQC electric SUV in the USFord invests $1 billion in building electric vehicle factory in GermanyElectric snowmobile and jet ski maker Taiga goes public and raises $100 million 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/MB0N6Ejbc7Y Transcription [00:00:00] Fred Lambert: And we are live for a new episode of the electric podcast. Welcome back everyone. As usual, I'm joined by set one champ. Are you doing today? Set. I'm good. All right. Well, let's dive right in. We have a few, not too many news. This was kind of a, a slower weeks in in the world, but there was a big weekend with the reading of the bolt E V E V last weekend. [00:00:21] So we're going to discuss that old letter M on their show, but we're going to start as usual with the Tesla news this week. And the, the bigger news this week. I would venture to say, was that the price got for the model S three and model? Y I should say. And yeah, some, some pretty significant price. [00:00:37] Got, sorry. I'm hearing myself from new things that, well. Hmm, not true. Yeah.  [00:00:46] Seth Weintraub: It's coming through my  [00:00:47] Fred Lambert: head outside one, two, one, two, one, two. Yeah. I think I'm hearing from right now. It sounds not too bad, man. I don't know, let us know in the comments if you're eating the same thing, but I'm I have a lot of feedback and it feels like it's from a group you're speaker. [00:01:00] There's nothing coming out of your speakers. And you're saying no, one, two, one, two, one, two, [00:01:09] this strange. All right. Let's power on. Yeah. And the CFN price guts, especially for the base version on both mall three and more why the standard range Polis gets down to $37,000 from $38,000. And the model, Y it gets an even bigger price cut from $42,000 to $40,000. So the normal wife for the first time now is under 40. [00:01:33] And if you remember that standard range, mole wide didn't exist until last month when it was a. Launched by Tesla. So. So this is a, this is a quick price drop for the, for the new 3m of the, of the electric SUV. But other than that the long range all wheel drive for Baltimor…