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Tesla Door Probe, Ram Kills EV Truck + The Future Of E-Bikes w/ Infinite Machine

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RAM's EV truck cancellation reveals the hidden cost structure problems legacy OEMs face.

Patrick George and Tim Levin open the weekly transportation news show with Ram. They treat the electric pickup cancellation as a real business problem, not just a product footnote. Tesla’s flush electronic door handles come next, along with a bomb-blast investigation. The segment connects that hardware choice to the headaches that can follow when a clean-looking feature meets a messy real-world event. Then the show turns to Joe Cohen, co-founder and CEO of Infinite Machine. He talks about building electric bikes and scooters for city life. Patrick is blunt about the larger point: a lot of people do not need a car, and plenty cannot afford one. That opens into a bigger argument about micro-mobility. Joe says Infinite Machine wants to make the best personal electric vehicles on Earth. He argues the category is huge, putting it at roughly a $200 billion market now, with a path toward half a trillion by the end of the decade. He also says the average product in the space is still low quality and not very differentiated. The episode uses that claim to push past the usual EV cheerleading. Instead of treating electric as automatically better, it asks who each machine is really for. The hosts keep circling back to city use, practicality, and whether smaller vehicles make more sense than big electric trucks. The conversation gets lively. Joe is candid, animated, and the show warns that he drops more than a few F-bombs. The whole hour stays loose and conversational, with jokes and corrections folded into the analysis. That makes it a good listen for people who want transportation coverage that argues from use case, not just horsepower.

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A grounded EV-news episode that treats micromobility as part of the real transportation mix.

This week's Plugged In Podcast stays on practical transportation, not gadget hype. Ram's canceled electric pickup, the scrutiny around Tesla's flush electronic door handles after a bomb-blast investigation, and Patrick George's talk with Joe Cohen of Infinite Machine all point…

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You want transportation EV news that tests whether the product still makes sense for real buyers and real cities.

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