Apple CarPlay in Tesla cars, VW on Superchargers, Toyota electric pickup, and more
Electrek
9to5Mac
4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Apple CarPlay possibly coming to Tesla cars, VW getting access to Superchargers, a Toyota electric pickup, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla is working on Apple CarPlay integration, report says
- Tesla recalls over 10,000 Powerwalls in the US after several fires
- Tesla Supercharger live availability is now in Google Maps
- Volkswagen EVs finally get access to Tesla Superchargers (for real this time)
- Waymo expands service map and adds freeway access to three major US cities
- Toyota’s first electric pickup is finally here [Images]
- Toyota opens the doors to its first EV battery plant in the US, but that’s not all
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET:
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And we are alive for a new episode of the electric podcast. |
| 0:02.9 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:04.1 | And as usual, I'm joined by Set Winschal. |
| 0:05.8 | Are you doing this week, Seth? |
| 0:07.3 | I'm good. |
| 0:08.3 | All right. |
| 0:09.3 | As you can see, I'm now back home, back from China. |
| 0:16.2 | Plenty to talk about. |
| 0:17.8 | I haven't reported a lot of what I did in the last few days in China while I was |
| 0:21.4 | there because I'm still waiting from some cool, a little footage to show you guys before |
| 0:27.2 | making some videos and post about it. But I guess I can tell you a little of a preview. I went to |
| 0:35.4 | B.YD's headquarters in Shenzhen, just outside of Shenzhen. |
| 0:40.3 | And that in itself is impressive. |
| 0:44.4 | VYD is so huge. |
| 0:46.1 | It's just, it's hard to overstate the scale of it. |
| 0:50.5 | I mean, just the headquarters. |
| 0:51.6 | Now they don't have any, they used to have a factory at |
| 0:54.3 | the headquarters. Now it's just, they got so big. It's just, uh, engineering and, and, and, |
| 0:59.1 | just office worker and all that. And just that is, is, like a hundred thousand people. They |
| 1:07.4 | have a hundred thousand, just in R&D, they have a hundred thousand. |
| 1:11.1 | That's wild. |
| 1:11.7 | I mean, that's the size of Michigan Stadium. |
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