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Groundbreaking heavy equipment EVs (ha!) steals the show at bauma
It only happens every three years, but it's spectacular! I'm speaking of course, about bauma – one of the largest trade shows of any kind where heavy equipment manufacturers serving construction, forestry, mining, and more bring out their latest and greatest new job site innovations, and we've got a whole bunch of them here, on this special bauma edition of Quick Charge! With more than two million square feet indoors and twice that outdoors, bauma hosts more than 600,000 guests from 200 countries to see 3,600 exhibitors' hardware (and, increasingly, software). We're only going to cover a sliver, but it's a really cool sliver, you guys – enjoy! Source Links Volvo Penta set to show off its new BESS subsystem at bauma 2025 Volvo announces world’s first A30 Electric articulated haul truck Electric concrete pump truck can drive 30 miles, pump 65 cubic yards HD Hyundai set to debut production 14 ton hydrogen wheeled excavator E-quipment highlight: Liebherr Liduro Power Port 100 portable equipment charger LiuGong brings battery electric construction equipment portfolio to bauma Manitowoc brings massive, plug-in hybrid electric crane concept to bauma CASE Impact autonomous, electric wheel loader debuts at bauma Prefer listening to your podcasts? Audio-only versions of Quick Charge are now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded, usually, Monday through Thursday (and sometimes Sunday). We’ll be posting bonus audio content from time to time as well, so be sure to follow and subscribe so you don’t miss a minute of Electrek’s high-voltage daily news. Got news? Let us know!Drop us a line at [email protected]. You can also rate us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or recommend us in Overcast to help more people discover the show.
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Tesla (TSLA) is having a terrible month, and it’s only April 10th!
On today's troubling episode of Quick Charge, we explore all the troubles befalling Tesla (and TSLA stock) in the month April – with top executives fleeing the ship, demand plummeting, sales slipping, government incentives at home and abroad under threat, and a raft of receipts brought on by an OpenAI lawsuit hitting the brand, it's already a bad month for Elon ... and there's still 20 more days to go! None of this even touches on the $43 million "backlogged" rebate scandal Tesla's facing in Canada that's being blamed for people's negative attitudes about the brand (ha!) or the fact that neither the long-promised Roadster 2.0 or the Tesla Semi will see production anytime this year, either. The word you're looking for when you think of Tesla these days is, "cooked." Source Links Tesla’s top financial controller leaves (TSLA) Tesla loses another top talent: its long-time head of software Tesla Canada says its shady $43 million incentive grab was a misunderstanding Tesla already has new Model Y inventory available today in the US – demand is terrible Tesla launches cheaper new Model Y in US and Canada Tesla turns to ‘edgy’ social media marketing amid brand damage Cracks are forming in Elon Musk’s armor of lies Prefer listening to your podcasts? Audio-only versions of Quick Charge are now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded, usually, Monday through Thursday (and sometimes Sunday). We’ll be posting bonus audio content from time to time as well, so be sure to follow and subscribe so you don’t miss a minute of Electrek’s high-voltage daily news. Got news? Let us know!Drop us a line at [email protected]. You can also rate us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or recommend us in Overcast to help more people discover the show.
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Quick Charge | hydrogen hype falls flat amid very public failures
On today's hyped up hydrogen episode of Quick Charge, we look at some of the fuel's recent failures and billion dollar bungles as the fuel cell crowd continues to lose the credibility race against a rapidly evolving battery electric market. We're taking a look at some of the recent hydrogen failures of 2025 – including nine-figure product cancellations in the US and Korea, a series of simultaneous bus failures in Poland, and European executives, experts, and economists calling for EU governments to ditch hydrogen and focus on the deployment of a more widespread electric trucking infrastructure. Source Links Another hydrogen fail as Renault subsidiary Hyvia struggles to survive Another L for H as every hydrogen bus in this European city fails at once It just gets worse for Nikola as massive hydrogen recall follows bankruptcy Nikola founder Trevor Milton pardoned after $1.8m bribe to Trump (Updated) More hydrogen fails: Doosan, Air Products cancel over $1 billion in fuel cell deals MAN CEO: “impossible” for hydrogen to compete with BEVs Mahle CEO Arnd Franz says hydrogen will fail without fossil fuels Economists, experts call for governments to ditch hydrogen, go fully electric Prefer listening to your podcasts? Audio-only versions of Quick Charge are now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded, usually, Monday through Thursday (and sometimes Sunday). We’ll be posting bonus audio content from time to time as well, so be sure to follow and subscribe so you don’t miss a minute of Electrek’s high-voltage daily news. Got news? Let us know!Drop us a line at [email protected]. You can also rate us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or recommend us in Overcast to help more people discover the show.
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Quick Charge | the terrifying Trump tariffs are finally upon us!
On today's tariff-tastic episode of Quick Charge, we've got tariffs! Big ones, small ones, crazy ones, and fake ones – but whether or not you agree with the Trump tariffs coming into effect tomorrow, one thing is absolutely certain: they are going to change the price you pay for your next car ... and that price won't be going down! Everyone's got questions about what these tariffs are going to mean for their next car buying experience, but this is a bigger question, since nearly every industry in the US uses cars and trucks to move their people and products – and when their costs go up, so do yours. Source Links Trump imposes tariffs on all car imports: here’s where all EVs available in the US come from Tesla gets more than 20% of its parts from Mexico, yes it will be affected by tariffs Report: Trump’s tariffs on imports could cripple Stellantis’ annual earnings by 75% Elon Musk: Tesla (TSLA) is ‘not unscathed’, tariff impact is ‘significant’ Hyundai reveals multi-billion-dollar bet to dodge Trump’s tariffs and boost EVs in the US Tesla complains about being target of retaliatory tariffs, and it was right: it’s starting Get this $20,000 Tesla conquest deal on Polestar 3 (before the tariffs hit) BUY IT NOW: these EV deals will be hardest hit by Trump’s tariffs after April 2nd Prefer listening to your podcasts? Audio-only versions of Quick Charge are now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded, usually, Monday through Thursday (and sometimes Sunday). We’ll be posting bonus audio content from time to time as well, so be sure to follow and subscribe so you don’t miss a minute of Electrek’s high-voltage daily news. Got news? Let us know!Drop us a line at [email protected]. You can also rate us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or recommend us in Overcast to help more people discover the show.
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Elon’s missing billions, Tesla terrorism, bots rig surveys, and a Nissan battery deal
Is Elon Musk using the missing $1.4B to fund anti-Tesla protests as part of a massive false flag operation that will give him control of both the police and the courts? There's absolutely ZERO evidence to support that idea (plus: I just made it up), but it's 2025 and that means anything goes on today's bats**t episode of Quick Charge! If there's one thing narcissists love it's playing victim, and the guy who asked everyone at Trump's inauguration if they's seen Kyle and spent the last decade stacking billions by failing to deliver on a mission to mars, an all-electric roadster, an underground super-speedway, and a self-driving car seems to think it's someone else's fault that people don't like him. We talk through the state of that debacle along with news from two credible car companies, and I predict Volvo will have the first mainstream L3 car in America – enjoy! Source Links Elon Musk promotes negative Tesla survey turned positive by bots Tesla is done in Germany: 94% say they won’t buy a Tesla car Thousands of Tesla owners doxxed. The only way to get off the list? Sell your car Tesla vandalism: Trump and AG claim someone ‘coordinate and fund’ them Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4 billion missing Nissan just secured enough batteries to build about 1 million EVs in the US ZEEKR launches first door-to-door Level 3 autonomous driving technology ZEEKR to display ‘heavyweight’ EVs at CES 2025 Volvo ES90 revealed: 800V beauty is midway between SUV, sedan Prefer listening to your podcasts? Audio-only versions of Quick Charge are now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded, usually, Monday through Thursday (and sometimes Sunday). We’ll be posting bonus audio content from time to time as well, so be sure to follow and subscribe so you don’t miss a minute of Electrek’s high-voltage daily news. Got news? Let us know!Drop us a line at [email protected]. You can also rate us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or recommend us in Overcast to help more people discover the show.
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