Seth Weintraub

I am Fred Lambert, your host.

And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Winshaw.

How are you doing today, Seth? I'm good.

All right.

We have an interesting show today.

And then on the demand side, we're already a month into the quarter.

So Rivian probably has very good visibility into the demand for the R2 through December.

And that's really the biggest confidence builder for me personally, because my biggest fear since they launched the R2, I think Seth, we shared the opinion on this, is that With only the launch edition up until the end of the year and with the LiDAR situation for being talked about launching at the end of the year or maybe early next year now, it sounds like, it might affect demand for the vehicle because, one, the launch edition is much more expensive.

our live new episode of The Electric Podcast.

I am Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Weintraub.

How are you doing this beautiful Friday, Seth? I'm doing well.

All right.

What we're going to talk about today is primarily news that came out of the disloyal earnings this week that dominated the news cycle as usual, especially ahead of...

While what they're really doing is they're not making any money on the Robotaxi.

Obviously, it's money losing money.

operation right now they would lose a little bit less money if owners were deciding to put their own cars on the network um so they they're doing that uh i see very little value i see i don't know why someone would do that other than i mean there's not going to be any money in it anyway right now so i there's no reason unless you just you find it cool i guess Am I missing something, Seth? Do you see a value in doing that?

What else is there to say about the road? Oh, we got a new date.

We got a new date, Seth.

2028.

Actually.

In China, it's called assisted driving.

So maybe there's something to it.

You good, Seth?

Sorry about that.

Welcome back everybody to a new episode of the "Wheely" podcast.

I'm your host, Micah Toll, and I'm joined again by Electrek's Seth Weintraub.

How's it going, Seth?

I'm good.

Perfect.

Uh, there's some cool news in the electric motorcycle space if you've been considering getting a, uh, motorcycle license for a while and have been putting it off because you're not a fan of riding gas bikes, well, we've got some news for you.

And then we're gonna finish it off with a pretty wild new electric scooter, though I'm not going to spoil the surprise.

But where are we gonna start with this week, Seth?