I'm not sure you can talk about electric cars or the global transition to electrification without talking about Tesla. And you can't talk about Tesla without talking about Elon Musk.
That's been the case for well over a decade now. But I'd argue it's even more true as Tesla faces declining sales globally, is on the cusp of relaunching the world's best-selling car, and is making a gigantic, unproven artificial intelligence play—all while Musk sets up shop in Washington D.C. and starts to—illegally, according to attorneys and constitutional scholars—take apart bits of the federal government.
What a sentence to write. What a moment to cover. And here at InsideEVs, asking what this all means for the world's longtime leader in EVs is a material question.
It's one that we look into on today's episode of the Plugged-In Podcast. My co-host Tim Levin and I will examine Tesla's most recent earnings call and try to game out where things are going this year.
But it's not all Elon, all the time around here—thankfully. We're also talking to Frank Reig. He's the CEO and co-founder of Revel, an electric rideshare company in New York City that's rapidly expanding into the DC fast-charging space and may be seen in your town soon enough.
Why do you care if you don't live in New York? Well, besides Revel's big expansion plans, it's no secret that the Big Apple is one of the hardest places in America to build anything. But to paraphrase Frank Sinatra and Jay-Z, if you can build it here, you can build it anywhere. And that includes EV infrastructure. We had a great chat and we hope you'll enjoy it too.
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