TALKING TESLA
Every week Mel Herbert, Tom Wolfson, Joel Sapp and Robert Rosenbloom get together to talk about the cars, the batteries, the superchargers, the rumours, the stock price, anything and everything Tesla and Elon and SpaceX and Boring Company and Hyperloop and our renewable energy future. Two episodes are available in wide release each month and two are exclusive to our Patreon supporters. Join today https://www.patreon.com/talkingtesla and never miss a single show.
TALKING TESLA
TT 190: The Undercarriage
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Season 6
Highlights/News/Events
- How to watch the Jupiter and Saturn 'great conjunction' of 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/dec/15/how-to-watch-the-jupiter-and-saturn-great-conjunction-of-2020
- On Dec 21st Jupiter and Saturn will appear closer to one another and brighter than they have in 800 years
- an event known as a “great conjunction”
TESLA,THE STOCK & EV STORIES
- Plug-in hybrids in new emissions scandal as tests show higher pollution than claimed https://www.transportenvironment.org/press/plug-hybrids-new-emissions-scandal-tests-show-higher-pollution-claimed
AUTONOMOUS DRIVING
- Las Vegas approves Boring Company’s Loop transport system with Tesla vehicles
- Here’s a map of the next stop, The Wynn: https://www.teslarati.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/wynn-to-lvcc.jpg
BATTERIES, GIGAFACTORY, ENERGY STORAGE
- Rumor: Tesla Giga Berlin Will Soon Receive Model Y Prototypes with New 4680 Tabless Cells & Structural Architecture https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-giga-berlin-will-soon-receive-prototypes-model-y-with-4680-tabless-cells-and-a-new-architecture
SUPERCHARGER UPDATE
- Thank you to supercharge.info
- Since our last BIG show, Supercharger activity includes:
Open20
Construction11
Permit1
TeslaStations:2079
Stalls:18,940
- Electrify America (Volkswagen)
Stations:525
CCS Stalls: 1776 +24
CCS-CHAdeMO Stalls: 521+ 5 = Total: 2,297SPACE-X & AEROSPACE
- SpaceX SN8 Flew, Pitched, Belly Flopped, Rited itself then KABOOMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egHxiX40eJY
MEDIA PICKS
- Mel
- The Virgin Way - Richard Branson
- Robert
- Cooking with AOC https://www.instagram.com/tv/CIpCnIFHoE3/?hl=en She starts to make salmon in a cream sauce and gives an off the cuff breakdown of government efforts to pass a COVID stimulus bill, provide student debt relief and more.
- Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me by Charlamagne tha God, A super honest self assessment and example setting for good health both physical and mental from provocative cohost of Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club
- Tom
- Street Food: Asia on Netflix - A lovely (low carbon) way to pretend to not be locked in your home and be able to travel in your mind
- Season 2 of the Mandelorian
- Aussie Gold Hunters on Netflix
- Joel - https://www.parrygripp.com/ for the parents. He’s really good.
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