Battery holy grail too good to be true, NVIDIA open sources self-driving, Tesla Model Y 'Standard', and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 65 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 a battery holy grail too good to be true, NVIDIA open sourcing self-driving, Tesla Model Y 'Standard' Long Range, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla launches ‘Standard’ Model Y Long Range in Europe, and non-Long Range in Canada
- Tesla’s full 2025 data from Europe is in, and it is a total bloodbath
- Elon Musk’s xAI tells investors it will build AI for Tesla Optimus, amid breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit
- Nvidia unveils open-source AI for autonomous driving, ships in Mercedes-Benz CLA in Q1 2026
- Elon Musk wishes NVIDIA luck on self-driving, strangely silent on Hyundai’s humanoid robot
- Elon Musk moves goalpost again: admits Tesla needs 10 billion miles for ‘safe unsupervised’ FSD
- Verge unveils 370-mile electric motorcycle with solid state battery; sounds too good to be true?
- Ford goes all in on L3 eyes-off driving, starting with the $30,000 EV pickup
- Volvo’s new 400-mile EX60 is a specs monster
- Kia reveals three new GT EVs, two sporty electric SUVs and a hot hatch
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET:
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| 0:00.0 | And we are live for a new episode of The Electric Podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | I am Fred Lambert, your host, and I'm joined by Seth Wintram. |
| 0:11.8 | Are you doing Seth? |
| 0:12.5 | I'm good. |
| 0:13.7 | All right. |
| 0:14.9 | Excuse me, everyone. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm a little bit under the weather today. |
| 0:18.3 | There's something going around here, and I might have caught it this |
| 0:22.9 | morning, but I'll power it through. You just might hear some sniffles every now and again. |
| 0:29.9 | But yeah, big show today because we have a lot to talk about. It was CES. A lot of things came out of |
| 0:35.1 | CES. A lot of other things unrelated to CES too. |
| 0:39.0 | We have some new model Y standard long range. |
| 0:43.1 | That's a new thing now. |
| 0:45.3 | We have some sales data from Tesla in Europe. |
| 0:48.7 | We have a few things that came out of CES that put a lot of pressure on Elon Musk and now |
| 0:54.1 | he was kind of skating around a lot of pressure on the Elon Musk and now he was |
| 0:55.6 | kind of skating around a bunch of the announcement this week, including Nvidia, basically |
| 1:00.5 | open sourcing AI for autonomous driving. |
| 1:05.3 | So we're going to discuss that. |
| 1:08.5 | A little update, a little goal post moving from Tesla FSD. |
| 1:12.9 | Then one of the biggest thing of the week, it went while, the entire industry went while on the donut lab slash verb motorcycle news about the new solid state battery. |
| 1:23.5 | The first, what they claim to be the first production solid state battery in the world. |
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