26 Jan 2025 | Tesla Model Y Has Single Launch Edition Outside China, EV Tax Credit Changes and Zeekr 007 GT Wagon
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🗓️ 26 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to eB News Daily. Coming up today, the Tesla Model Y has just a single launch edition outside of China. |
| 0:05.9 | The EV tax credits are changing in the US and he'll be affected, and the Zika-O7GT wagon is rather gorgeous. |
| 0:14.2 | Plus stay tuned because later in the show I'll tell you why construction equipment is the latest frontier in the move to EVs. |
| 0:19.9 | Well, good morning, good afternoon or good evening, wherever you're listening around the world. |
| 0:23.2 | Welcome to EV News Daily. |
| 0:24.5 | Your trusted source of EV information for Sunday 26th of January, I'm Martin Lee, and I go through every EV story so you don't have to. |
| 0:31.1 | Patreon supporters get the shows ad free. |
| 0:32.8 | Be like them by clicking on a link in the show notes. We'll start with news of the Tesla Model Y coming to the United States and Europe with better features and a higher starting price. |
| 0:42.7 | It's because they've bundled in some options. |
| 0:44.8 | The updated version is known as Launch Series. |
| 0:47.0 | Now in China, they get two launch series. |
| 0:49.6 | But outside of China, on the US website, on the European websites, we just get the one. Sales of the |
| 0:56.2 | Model Y will start in March in the United States, with the base price of $59,990, we'll call it |
| 1:02.9 | $60,000. That's $12,000 more than the previous long-range, all-wheel drive model Y, but you might want to pay a premium to get this all-new |
| 1:12.8 | styling, fantastic wraparound lightbar at the front, very innovative rear red light bar that |
| 1:19.0 | you can't see the LEDs along the back, but the LEDs are kind of pointing back towards |
| 1:24.8 | this reflective strip, if you like, and it makes a really cool red strip behind the car |
| 1:30.3 | on the asphalt as well. But lots of styling changes, but it is more expensive. That's because |
| 1:35.9 | they have bundled in FSD supervised. So if you want the latest, greatest model, why you're going to |
| 1:42.3 | be contributing to the list of people who have got full self-driving supervised. They're not stupid, are they? They'll be able to say, |
| 1:48.4 | oh, more people are buying FSD supervised? Well, you have to have it if you want the new |
| 1:52.8 | model Y. So actually, if you strip out that and you strip out all the options, because if you |
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