Daily Charge Up

Sorry to see AI Ben go. Was my go-to EV daily podcast. After Electrek’s daily has effectively stopped, and now this, there’s not another source that I really like for EV news. RIP Daily Charge Up.

Better than a Siri voice for sure but there is still room for improvement. I hope it continually gets improved. I also wish there were sources for news. Maybe there is. I haven’t seen show notes or anything yet. It’s ai so length shouldn’t be a problem for saying where the info comes from. I do like the small insights from Ben here and there talking about his own take on some things. I guess there could be a longer version of each show. Really great to just get a quick take on what’s going on daily. I love that there’s always something. Easy to add to my other podcast updates. I hope it sticks around.

I love how this gives me a glimpse into what is happening in EV tech, politics, and other news in a very quick daily dose. I don’t even mind the “AI” version of Ben Sullins. Need to change the title card and drop the “The” because I always forget to NOT say it when I ask my tech to play the latest episode and it likes to find me “The Daily Charge” podcast instead. 😖

I’ve always watched Ben Sullins since he started with an all Tesla YouTube channel, now he’s more focused on general EV and the now and then debunking of EV myths. While hearing him through a podcast is great I did noticed he sounded kinda strange in some podcasts until one of the YouTube episodes he said it was an AI model Ben, which kudos to Ben for making a good AI voice model, but I think a little more polishing into the sentence pause and finish would be great, in one podcast episode the AI spoke without pausing through a sentence and change the subject without notice. It sounded kinda weird. But everything else sounded 95% like Ben. Keep it going Ben, Free the Data!