TEN 585 | Tesla Tweaks FSD Contracts, VW Bans API Access, What's Pedaling? (VIDEO)
On this week's episode of TEN - Transport Evolved News!
Tesla stands accused by some customers of retroactively amending their FSD contracts, Volkswagen decides to ban all third-party API access for its telematics systems across all of its brands, and a court case in the Netherlands decides that pedaling an e-bike might not actually mean you need to make the pedals do a full revolution. These stories and more, on today's show!
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Episode Timeline & Sources
00:00 - Introduction and sponsor shoutouts
00:34 - Welcome to the show
00:45 - A personal thank you
00:57 - Tesla faces class action lawsuit in Quebec, Canada and Tesla changed driver contracts
02:02 - Volkswagen closes the door to its API access
03:10 - EA changes its charging process
04:11 - Rivian Adventure Network now over 1,000 stalls
05:19 - –– Jet Charge, Kempower, launches Australia’s first Pantograph-Down Electric Bus Depot
06:31 - BYD assumes full liability for accidents that occur while God's Eye Urban NOA is active, in China
07:34 - BMW iX3 does nearly 500 miles in latest range test while the Mercedes-Benz CLA EV impresses Edmunds by blasting past its EPA estimates
08:58 - A new study by ICCT shows that plug-in hybrids emit up to 5x their listed emissions.
10:10 - Poll of US voters show that they don’t support what the EPA is currently doing ,New York sues US Interior Department over $1 billion payment to oil company to abandon wind power investment, and House Transportation Committee advances $130 annual EV fee as part of surface transportation reauthorization bill
Sponsor Segment: CCAN Action Fund
11:17 - Sponsor Segment - CCAN Action Fund
⚠️Recall Reminders!
12:31 - Recall Reminder Notes
13:05 - Lucid recalls the Air for a Gen 4 Inverter failure
13:17 - Chrysler Pacifica among some vehicles recalled for rearview camera issues
📰News Shorts:
13:32 - Waymo sending retired EV battery packs to B2U second-life projects
14:03 - Vattenfall in the Netherlands starts V2G Pilot project using Kia and Hyundai EVs
14:19 - XPeng Financials show downward delivery figures
14:34 - Tesla patents camera wipers for FSD
14:48 - Trailseeker and Uncharted EVs outsell Solterra already
15:04 - BMW opens up its online configuration tool for its more affordable, RWD, iX3
15:15 - Waymo officially launches its Ojai robotaxi.
15:30 - Volvo CE, Hitachi Energy, Work together on Zero-emission construction sites
15:40 - AUDI E7X launches in China
15:57 - Xpeng adds a new model to its contract manufacturing agreement with Magna Steyr
16:07 - UK EV Market share now sits at 27.3%
16:23 - Irish government announces €10 million ICE2EV incentive program
16:37 - Samsung SDI reportedly in talks to supply battery cells to Volkswagen
16:50 - Moment Energy in Vancouver, BC announce world’s largest repurposing facility - and announces major investment round
17:01 - Kia adds new cargo, passenger variants to its PV5 family in the UK
17:13 - Nabrawind successfully installed a wind turbine in Namibia without using a crane
17:27 - Nikkei reports that Toyota has halted its next-generation Lexus EV model development
17:48 - Enercity in Germany sells electricity from EV battery packs onto the power market
18:02 - Electric motorcycle company Spiro acquires Coexilion, aims to set up its first African R&D centre for electric motorcycles, and raises $215 million in fresh capital
18:21 - Honda becomes a strategic investor in battery company Nexeon
18:44 - Gridserve opens a new charging site in the UK on the M6
18:57 - West Yorkshire orders 193 electric buses, including single and double-decker models, from Wrightbus
19:08 - Post-Brexit trade rules could make Oxford electric MINI production unviable, insider warns
19:21 - NIO slows its overseas expansion, to focus on the Chinese-market
19:35 - Mercedes-Benz looking at two additional variants of the GLC with smaller battery pack
19:46 - Polestar, Clever work on V2X program
20:00 - MG motor launches two new premium models to the German market
20:13 - Norway’s Market Share remains high
20:26 - FirstBus launches its first Repowered converted bus in the UK - in Bath
20:40 - MG confirms a new factory in Spain for EVs
20:51 - BYD's May sales end eight-month decline, driven by record overseas volumes
21:06 - Scania announces electric truck production for its Angers, France facility
21:19 - Amber Energy in Australia scales its V2G program from 50 chargers to 1,000 homes
21:36 - Daimler Truck announces a new eActros Lowliner variant
21:49 - Cylib and Vianode join forces on closed-loop battery graphite
22:01 - OrangeEV announces new 600 truck order
22:14 - Uber, WeRide plan new self-driving service in Madrid
22:24 - Rolls Royce updates the Spectre
22:38 - Tata to license Chery JLR’s Freelander platform
22:48 - Palmer Energy Technology Acquires Kleandrive out of administration
22:59 - Fraunhofer IAF displays a new 800v, bidirectional charger using GaN power electronics
23:13 - Nissan and Chery are looking at making vehicles in Sunderland for the UK market
23:24 - Zenobē, Vectalia sign €120 million agreement for electric buses in Spain
23:38 - Sany starts deliveries in Europe of its long-haul electric trucks
23:52 - Connecticut passes new bill extending solar incentives
Sponsor Segment: Energy sage, AND You
24:07 - Sponsor Segment - You
25:09 - (and Energy Sage!)
Final Two Stories:
25:48 - ID. Polo and Cupra Raval are now in production in Spain
27:14 - Court in the Netherlands decides in case over ‘pedaling’ an e-bike and Ontario readies a new update to its e-bike law to legally allow cargo bikes
28:29 - Closing Sponsor Acknowledgement
28:22 - Thank you - And Goodbye
🎙️ Credits:
Host, Script, Editor: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield
Camera, Color: Vi Horton
Art & Animation : Erin Carlie
Producer: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield
Music: via Artlist.io