TT 264 - Melvis Speaks

Talking Tesla Nation. This weeks show will be the final regular show of this podcast. We are forever humbled by your love and support throughout the years we have been doing this show. The plan is to potentially do special shows every so often when there is some exciting news to share and we just want to talk about it, but the regular weekly show you have come to expect is no more. We hope you enjoy this show and once again we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for listening to our show. It has been our pleasure to talk with you each week. Sincerely, Mel, Tom, Joel and RobertSupport the show

Mel, Robert and Tom are in studio this week and fired up! A few letters kick off the show and then there is discussion of V4 superchargers in the wild as well as the California ask for a credit card payment system to be added to SC in order to take advantage of a small grant. Some newly approved Alaskan drilling rounds out the show as well. Enjoy.Show Note are HERE Support the show

Tom, Robert, and Joel get together to discuss all the goodness and badness from the 2023 Investor Day event livestream. Mel sent in his thoughts as well and we kick off the show hearing from him. So much was covered and we tried to get through it quickly for you. Let us know your thoughts on all the stuff that was discussed during the event. email us at [email protected] Show Notes can be found HERE Support the show

Robert and Joel are joined by Patreons and FSD beta users Michael Pastrone and Matt F Anthes-Washburn  - For this discussion of the current state of FSD beta and their hopes for improvements.  Matt lives near Beaverton Oregon and when he is not putting FSD Beta through its paces he’s hiking and surfing or pulling a camper with his  Performance Model 3.Michael lives in a sleepy bedroom community outside of Boston where he finds time to test FSD the areas cold and snowy weather. Michael has been on record saying he would let FSD drive his kids to school in his Long Range Model S. Support the show

Robert and Tom are at the helm this week and what a week it has been. The Super Bowl was all EV all the time, with a massive number of ads for EV's ran during the broadcast. Ford has shut down the F-150 "lightning" assembly line in the wake of some battery issues and Tesla is recalling 300,000 + vehicles for problems with FSD. Large scale solar projects are being piloted in California with the hope of someday covering the aqueduct in solar panels. All that and more on  this weeks show. Click HERE for show notes Support the show

This week we are going back to an old "Elon Daily" style episode. Mel shares his thoughts on the current state of EV's with a special spotlight on the latest news from Toyota. We hope you enjoy. Support the show

This weeks show brings you a conversation focused on the final earnings call of 2022. Final production numbers, overall financial health, and the overall current state of Tesla Inc. are topics of discussion. Show notes featuring charts and a link to the presentation deck can be found HERESupport the show

This week on the EV show of record we bring you the dynamic duo of Robert and Tom. Topics up for discussion this week are auto window wiper settings on the model 3, The recent price reductions of the Model 3 and Y and the impact on market share these price reduction can have for Tesla, also on the slate is an interview in Slate with Bloomberg news Tesla beat writer Dana Hull and an Iberian wind farm that just got a major solar panel upgrade. Good things are happening all over the place to get us to the carbon goals we need to get to. Show notes can be found HERE Support the show

Joel and Mel talk about the really large price drops on Teslas in Nth America and there implications. What is going on here, the beginning of the end, or the start of complete dominance! Tesla Daily: https://www.youtube.com/@TeslaDaily/videosSupport the show

Joel, Robert and Tom are your hosts for Episode 260. The first episode of 2023 and it's a doozy (sp). A bit longer than usual as there is a lot going on in the world of Tesla and Elon. We discuss the final delivery numbers for 2022, spoiler alert, they are pretty good, but not great. There is a discussion about FSD...I know, I know it's enough already, but it's such a critical part of Tesla's future that we can't seem to help ourselves. We discuss the lack of female crash test dummies and the risk that poses to female drivers and passengers as a result, and a couple of companies that are working to rectify that major safety shortcoming of the auto industry. We hope you enjoy the show and please leave us a review on whatever platform you listen to us on. Show notes can be found HERESupport the show