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Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Mary Barra, discuss about the future of EV charging! · Elon Musk Thinking

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  Wello everyone, welcome and thank you for joining me on Twitter spaces and hi
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  Elon, thanks for joining. Absolutely, welcome to Twitter spaces. It's great
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  to have you, and I think everyone's really excited to care of the announcement.
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  Well, great, Elan. I'm I'm really excited to join and join
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  you on this. And you know, when you think about what's happening in
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  our industry, and I've been in it for forty years, this is the
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  most exciting time when we look at this transformation to EVS. Absolutely, I
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  think this is one of the great inflection points in vehicles. It's I think
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  comparable to really the the movie production line, and so it's a profound change
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  in the world. Yeah. Absolutely, And I think you and I both
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  know and that in order to drive ev adaption, we need to have charging
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  a robust charging infrastructure, and so I'm really excited to announce our collaboration with
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  you and with Tesla. And by the way, your team is fantastic that
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  we plan to adopt the North American charging standard and we're working really hard that
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  our first vehicle will come in twenty twenty five. To me, what's even
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  more exciting is that our existing EV customers can leverage the twelve thousand Tesla fast
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  chargers early next spring with an adapter. So I couldn't be more excited about
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  what this is going to do for customers and for EV adoption. That's that's
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  great. Um and uh, obviously one of EMI says that you have our
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  full support and we're incredibly excited to part with you on this. It's a
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  and just really make make it a fantastic electric vehicle experience, whether somebody is
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  driving a car from GM or from Tesla. Well, I agree, and
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  I think, um, you know, I think we have a real opportunity
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  here to really drive this to be the unified standard for North America, which
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  I think will even enable more mass adoption. So I couldn't be more excited.
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  Well, it's fantastic, So I think this, Yeah, this is
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  really great for consumers. UM and I'm not sure if people in North American
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  realized, like it's really it's much better standard and US it's only one connector
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  that automatic FEAT detects whether it's AC or DC, automatically adjusts with the the
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  current UM. And it's also it's light and easy to handle, and I
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  think esthetically is also profitable Um, so we're honored to have you join us,
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  and as I said, you will have our absolute full support. Well,
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  I appreciate that. I appreciate the full support. And what you just
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  mentioned I think is one of the key reasons why we're excited you making this
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  change because of the design and performance of the North American charging standard, you
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  know, from an ergonomic perspective and from a you know, a reliability durability.
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  So I think it's like I said to me, anytime you're making a
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  decision that is better for customers, uh, you know, it's it's better
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  for the company as well, better for the industry. And uh you know,
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  from a GM perspective, this really almost doubles access to chargers um that
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  GM has already made available. So uh again, this is this I think
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  is a really positive day for GM. I'm glad you feel it's great for
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  Tesla as well. And I don't if you want to say anything else,
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  or maybe we could take some questions. Yeah that sounds great. Um yeah,
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  I think questions would would would be great at do you want to do?
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  Want to big people? Or how should we do it? Uh?
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  Well, um, I think uh, if you have what why don't we
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  start. Um, I know, one of the questions we're going to be
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  asked is why is General Motors making this change now? And uh, you
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  know, from a from a GM perspective, as I said, you know,
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  as we looked at this and realized we could I uh, you know,
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  really address one of the biggest issues that customers are telling us is,
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  Hey, you know, I like EVS, but if it's going to be
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  my only vehicle, I need to know that there's a robust charging infrastructure.
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  So UM, I think this gives us a huge opportunity to to do something
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  that's better for customers and to drive it to be the standard. So that's
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  why GM's making this decision. But let's see if there's some other questions in
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  the chat. Great, Um, Well, it's um, I think you
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  have post authorities, so it's it's up to you to sort of pick someone
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  and invite them to be a speaker. UM. But I think, you
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  know, I see a lot of a lot of really um you know,
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  great people that have that have tuned in and know a lot about the electric
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  bical industry. So I think you could almost pick almost anyone and they'll have
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  some great questions. All right, Well, I'm looking at the chat right
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  now, and there's what I'm seeing is a lot of excitement, people saying
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  can't wait. Exciting, But there is one question coming in that says,
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  um, when will the dapters be available? And so you know, and
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  we plan to have adaptors be available to customers early next spring, and so
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  again this is coming soon, even though the vehicles will be in twenty five.
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  Let's see. Another question is what would you say to someone considering an
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  EV but is skeptical of the available charging And I said, I would say
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  that, you know, when you look at the fact that you know Tesla
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  and Elon, you know you have a large charging network already, and then
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  you know, with General Motors joining and with four the three US based auto
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  companies are all on one standard. And so I think that's going to drive
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  a lot of adoption, which I think will be really important. So for
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  the customer who's skeptical of an EV, I think it all just got a
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  little better. I don't know, what do you think? Yeah, no,
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  absolutely, I think this will really help people put people's minded ease,
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  and um, yeah, we can we can focus on one standard and it's
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  it's really going to be grateful consumers. Um, they just won't have to
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  worry about you know, which you know, which which plug, which so
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  could which charging station? Um? And and it'll just work seamlessly. Um.
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  So I think this is going to be just a really fundamentally great thing
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  for the advancement of electric vehicles in North America. Yeah, I completely agree.
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  Here's another question. Will new gm evs with the North American Charging Standard
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  be able to use the CCS charger? Yes, you know, I think
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  it is today that a Tesla consumer can do that, and those customers will
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  be able to use an adapter with CCS chargers. And that's why I think
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  this is so important because it unlocks both. But I think when you look
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  at the fact that Tessa already has the North American Charging Standard and now when
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  you look at you know, you've got two big OEMs doing it as well,
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  I think that that's key. That sounds great And I do want to
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  reiterate to Jim owners out there that you know, t Tala is not going
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  to do anything to prefer tells us, so it really will be, you
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  know, um, an even playing field. So how many people should should
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  feel comfortable buying a TAILS or a jam Car, and we will provide UM
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  support equally to both. So UM, the most important thing is that we
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  advanced the electric vehicle revolution. I completely agree with you, Elon and so
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  UM. I know you're super busy, so I really want to thank you
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  for taking time to make this announcement. So I think we probably should close
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  things out, but again, an important step for for general motors for sure.
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  I think something good for the customers and good for our industry. So
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  I really want to thank you and again shout shout out thanks to your team
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  as well. You're most welcome. It's an art work with you. Thank
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  you, have a great day. Goodbye,