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China reaches EV tipping point, Tesla retreats, some slack with tax credit, and more

Electrek

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Clean, Electrek, Leisure, Evs, Electric, Energy, Technology, Elon, Model, Automotive, Leisure/automotive, Musk, Tesla, Vehicles, 3

4.3621 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 63 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 China reaching the EV tipping point, Tesla's retreat in Europe, EV buyers receiving some tax credit relief, and more.

The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel.

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0:00.0

two one we are live for new episode of electric podcast i'm fred lambert your host and as usual i'm joined by

0:06.3

set windchab are you doing this week set i'm good all right um joining you live from uh british

0:12.6

columbia i'm doing a little road trip and testing out the cadillac escalade iq iqqq iqqq

0:19.8

iqqqqqqq iqq which is a very impressive road trip vehicle, honestly.

0:24.7

I think 200 plus kilowatt-hour under you when you're doing a road trip is extremely useful.

0:30.4

Getting over 800 kilometers of range.

0:33.2

There's five people in the car full of luggage for 10 days and we fit very nicely.

0:39.9

The only complaint that I have and that's like a narrow user more than anything else

0:45.8

is that I should have specified not to have the executive seat.

0:50.3

So the GM gave me the executive seats.

0:52.7

And if you're more than four people and so you need to have someone in the GM gave me the executive seats. And if you're more than four people, and so you need to have someone in the back seat,

0:57.8

with the executive seat, you get the giant center console in the middle.

1:01.8

And that does make the third row a little bit less useful because it's a lot harder to get in

1:07.0

and out.

1:07.4

And also they have less space because they cannot use the middle space for

1:10.9

their legs so that that's my only complaint so far but i should have just specified hey just give me

1:17.2

the regular six-seater captain's seat because you can get like regular captain seat which are still

1:21.7

nice you just don't have like the controls on the side of my coach stuff and are like 300 kilowatt hours or sorry, 300 kilowatts or 200 kilowatts?

1:33.6

I haven't really had the need to really.

1:36.6

So we pick up the car from Vancouver and then we went to Whistler right away.

1:42.8

So that's about like 200. Well, we went quite a bit past Whistler right away. So that's about like 200.

1:44.7

Well, we went quite a bit past Whistler.

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