Cybertruck price increase, BYD makes everyone look bad, and Donut Lab update
Electrek
9to5Mac
4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 41 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 the Cybertruck price increase, BYD making everyone look bad, and a Donut Lab battery update.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla increases Cybertruck AWD price to $70,000 after creating artificial urgency
- Tesla sends Canadian Model 3 inventory to the US as it expects Chinese EVs back
- Tesla changes FSD transfer rules again, screwing over Cybertruck AWD buyers
- BYD’s new Blade EV Battery 2.0 unlocks 1,000+ km pure electric range and 10 min fast charging
- BYD’s new 1500kW ‘flash charger’ is over 3x faster than anything US has
- BYD unveils stunning flagship electric SUV for the first time [Images]
- It’s official: Hyundai axes IONIQ 6 from US lineup, Kia EVs remain in limbo
- Aptera (SEV) completes first Solar EV build off its validation assembly line
- Donut Lab solid-state battery survives 100°C discharge in second independent test
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 | One, we are live for the new episode of the electric podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | I am Fred Limbert, your host. And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintram. Are you doing this week, sir? I'm good. All right, let's jump in. We have plenty of talking about this week. We were going to talk about a little cyber truck update last week. We talked about we didn't know exactly what was going to happen with it and how we know. |
| 0:26.6 | The B-Y-D basically shamed the entire auto industry this week with a bunch of unveiling regarding its latest battery technology and its charging technology, making basically everyone |
| 0:32.2 | not bad. |
| 0:33.1 | We have another Donald Lap update, and that's becoming like a little weekly thing for us to |
| 0:37.3 | talk about |
| 0:37.8 | is it real or not and yeah a little Laptara update also that we're going to discuss so |
| 0:43.5 | let's jump right in starting with the cyber truck so probably the weirdest trim lunch ever |
| 0:52.4 | if you don't remember this will announce a new all-wheel drive cyber truck at $60,000. |
| 0:59.0 | And it's the new cheapest cyber truck ever, production one at least. |
| 1:05.5 | And unlike the rear-wheel drive once that they launched at $70,000 last year for a very short lifer at a time |
| 1:12.1 | with completely decontented with a bunch of feature missing. |
| 1:15.6 | This one was actually pretty good value if you are willing to say that about the cyber truck. |
| 1:22.9 | But it came with a weird deadline of like only for 10 days. |
| 1:28.3 | And that's what Elon said. |
| 1:30.3 | Then he later clarified that the price is only for 10 days. |
| 1:33.3 | And then even weirder than it all, he says that this is going to use this 10 day period to gauge the demand for the vehicle and then it will increase the price accordingly. |
| 1:46.0 | Which makes no sense because the data is completely invalidated by the fact that you just created an urgency to buy the vehicle. |
| 1:53.0 | So you won't really have a real idea of the demand at any price. |
| 1:57.0 | Even at the $60,000 price, you don't even have real good demand idea for the vehicle. |
| 2:03.3 | But what happened is basically exactly what we expected. |
| 2:06.8 | 10 days happened March 1st. |
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