{"id":74096,"date":"2024-07-08T17:43:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T21:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=74096"},"modified":"2024-07-08T17:43:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T21:43:42","slug":"elon-goes-to-war-model-y-refresh-ev-lease-deals-and-electric-nascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=74096","title":{"rendered":"Elon goes to war, Model Y refresh, EV lease deals, and 1300 hp electric NASCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border video-embed featured-image\">\n<lite-youtube params=\"enablejsapi=1\" videoid=\"tWZZBNWRDs4\"\/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>On today\u2019s episode of <em>Quick Charge<\/em>, we ask: What does war look like to someone who \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesouthafrican.com\/news\/offbeat\/how-elon-musk-narrowly-avoided-military-service-south-africa-2-november-2022\/\">narrowly avoided<\/a>\u201d military conscription in South Africa? Apparently it involves lots and lots of robots, and a cameo appearance from <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2021\/02\/16\/bill-gates-commends-elon-musk-climate-change-effort-after-being-accused-shorting-tesla-tsla\/\">Bill Gates<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-370784\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Elon took to X to say he was ready to wage war on TSLA shorts \u2013\u00a0and, once he has self-driving cars and the Optimus robot figured out, his stock gains will \u201cobliterate\u201d Bill Gates \u2026 all of which seems very sane and normal. In other news, there\u2019s a Model Y refresh, Model S\/X sales are tanking, Lucid sales are up, killer EV lease deals about, you can get a Nissan LEAF for $19 in Colorado, and NASCAR goes electric!<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-source-links\">Source Links<\/h2>\n<p>Prefer listening to your podcasts? Audio-only versions of Quick Charge are now available on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/quick-charge\/id1494750564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/1fIpG4hB4lhGo0Iuygs1zJ?si=7FwqE-lHRnK_DXUCCZa8aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Technology-Podcasts\/Quick-Charge-p1284966\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TuneIn<\/a>, and our<a href=\"https:\/\/feedpress.me\/quickcharge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0RSS feed<\/a>\u00a0for Overcast and other podcast players.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/08JUL_AUDIOEDITED.mp3\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday (that\u2019s the plan, anyway). We\u2019ll be posting bonus audio content there as well, so be sure to follow and subscribe so you don\u2019t miss a minute of Electrek\u2019s\u00a0<em>high-voltage<\/em>\u00a0daily news!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Got news? Let us know!<\/strong><br \/>Drop us a line at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:tips@electrek.co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tips@electrek.co<\/a>. You can also rate us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or recommend us in Overcast to help more people discover the show!<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-disclaimer-container\" readability=\"6.3518518518519\">\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\"><em>FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/about\/#affiliate\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- post ad --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s episode of Quick Charge, we ask: What does war look like to someone who \u201cnarrowly avoided\u201d military conscription in South Africa? Apparently it involves lots and lots of robots, and a cameo appearance from Bill Gates! Elon took to X to say he was ready to wage war on TSLA shorts \u2013\u00a0and, once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}