Cybercab dead on arrival, Donut Lab's miracle battery, Waymo expands, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 57 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 Tesla's Cybercab being dead on arrival, Donut Lab's miracle battery, Waymo expanding, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Elon Musk threatens to halt Tesla Giga Berlin expansion over union vote
- Tesla Cybercab program manager exits ahead of launch
- Tesla adds 64 Megacharger locations to map, revealing Semi truck charging routes
- Used Tesla prices rise 4.3% while rest of EV market drops after tax credit ends
- Donut Lab’s ‘miracle’ solid-state battery confirms 0-80% charge in 4.5 min — but there’s a catch
- BYD to unveil 1,500kW EV charger that can add 2km of range in 1 second
- Lucid (LCID) announces ‘step-change’ in Q4 as it aims to build 25,000 to 27,000 EVs in 2026
- Waymo adds 4 more cities to its robotaxi service, now 10 total (Tesla: still 0)
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 | All right. We are live for a new episode of the Electric Podcast. I am Fred Lambert, your host. And as usual, I'm joined by Sat Winthrop. How are you doing, Seth? I'm good. Sunny Florida. |
| 0:16.4 | Florida, beautiful Florida, escaping the last little bit of winter we have. |
| 0:23.1 | How's the temperature down there? |
| 0:25.8 | Probably 75, sunny. |
| 0:27.9 | Oh, nice about. |
| 0:29.8 | It's not too bad here too. |
| 0:34.0 | I think we have like one more snow and then it's calming down. |
| 0:35.5 | But you like the snow anyway. |
| 0:36.5 | You're always snowboarding. |
| 0:38.4 | All right. |
| 0:43.1 | What we have on the electric podcast this week, we're going to talk a little bit about Tesla. |
| 0:43.7 | We usually do on good testing news this week. |
| 0:46.9 | We have some decent, not so good testing news first, but then some decent test and use. |
| 0:53.2 | We're going to talk about a little bit of an update on |
| 0:55.9 | the donut lab I've been calling it the miracle battery solid state it is some actual third-party |
| 1:03.6 | testing is starting to trickle in slowly and so far so good so we'll check that out |
| 1:09.5 | still remains somewhat skeptical but we'll see. |
| 1:13.3 | We have Lucid that had their hernings this week. |
| 1:16.1 | We're going to talk a little bit about that. |
| 1:17.5 | And then Waymo is having a giant expansion. |
| 1:20.1 | But first, let's talk about one of the biggest EV factory in the world is kind of |
| 1:26.2 | in a tough spot. And we're going to know a lot more |
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