Electricity is the base currency, Tesla Robotaxi crashes, new Porsche Cayenne EV, and more
Electrek
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🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 78 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 electricity becoming the base currency, Tesla Robotaxi crashes, the new Porsche Cayenne EV, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla Robotaxi had 3 more crashes, now 7 total
- Tesla Robotaxi ‘safety driver’ caught sleeping on video
- Tesla delays next-gen AI5 chip to mid-2027, Cybercab will launch on AI4 hardware
- Waymo expands to three more US cities with test vehicles rolling out immediately
- The most powerful Porsche ever is electric: The new 1,139hp Cayenne EV
- Meet the Jeep Recon EV: An off-road electric SUV that’s an absolute beast [Images]
- Lucid Motors launches Gravity Touring SUV, starting below $80,000 [Video]
- Genesis is crashing the luxury party with the GV60 Magma, its first performance EV
- Check out Hyundai’s cool new off-road electric SUV concept [Images]
- Electricity is about to become the new base currency and China figured it out
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 live for a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:06.8 | I am Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:08.4 | And as usual, I'm joined by Sal Wrenshaw. |
| 0:10.5 | Are you doing this week's set? |
| 0:11.5 | I'm good. |
| 0:12.7 | All right. |
| 0:14.2 | We have a lot of things to talk about. |
| 0:16.5 | Let's get a quick overview before we jump into it. |
| 0:18.9 | We're going to start with some Tesla stuff as usual. |
| 0:21.3 | We are not that much to see news this week. |
| 0:23.3 | So those that are getting bored of that are going to be happy. |
| 0:26.3 | Just three little news article, mainly about the Rebel Taxi and Autonomous Driving effort |
| 0:32.0 | that we're going to talk about. |
| 0:33.5 | Then we're going to talk about the competitor to that effort, which is Waymo. |
| 0:36.4 | A big week of announcement from Waymo here, it's accelerating its expansion quite a bit. |
| 0:43.7 | Then we checked out the Porsche Cayenne EV in all its details after you had like a prototype review of that a few months ago, right? |
| 0:53.7 | That was Peter. |
| 0:55.0 | He was in Leipzig in Germany for that. |
| 0:59.0 | I helped him write it up. |
| 1:01.3 | Okay, okay. |
| 1:04.3 | Then we have the Jeep Recon EV that was on Ville this week and an off-road vehicle from Stentis. |
| 1:11.4 | Then we're going to talk a little bit about the gravity touring, which is a lower-hand version |
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