Elon gets $26 billion while Tesla gets flooded with lawsuits and Dojo is dead
Electrek
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🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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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 Elon Musk getting a sweet $26 billion payday from Tesla while the company gets flooded with lawsuits and Dojo is dead.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla board (TSLA) gives Elon Musk $26 billion worth of shares
- Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash
- The Tesla Autopilot lawsuit floodgates are open, lawyer who beat Tesla is going for round 2
- Tesla used car prices keep plummeting, dips below average used car
- Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer looks dead as more execs leave for competing startup
- US military is buying Tesla Cybertrucks to use as targets for missiles
- Ford puts new electric pickup on the back burner, but promises lower-priced EVs
- Lucid (LCID) cuts production target for 2025, but there’s more to it
- Acura is teasing its new all-electric RSX before its debut at Monterey Car Week
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 | Two one, we are live for a new episode of the electric podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host, and as Joel, I'm joined by Set Winthrop. |
| 0:06.8 | Are you doing this week, Seth? |
| 0:08.3 | I'm great. |
| 0:09.2 | All right. |
| 0:11.1 | We have a lot to talk about this week. |
| 0:12.7 | Not a lot of great news in the EV world, unfortunately. |
| 0:16.9 | But we're going to start about with Tesla, as we usually do. |
| 0:21.8 | And one person that had a great week this week is Elon Musk. |
| 0:25.2 | We just started the week with a nice little $26 billion payday. |
| 0:31.4 | The lucky bastard. |
| 0:34.9 | Yeah, I mean, I got like this was like Monday morning news like first post of the week. |
| 0:39.9 | I get the filing from the SEC. |
| 0:42.9 | I see that about all. |
| 0:44.1 | I mean, kind of expected it at some point that we're going to do it. |
| 0:47.2 | So I write my post real quick. |
| 0:48.8 | I'm like Tesla moves to give Elon $26 billion. |
| 0:51.5 | It's like it's $29 billion, but like when you remove what he has to pay for the stock options, it's basically a $26 billion. It's like, it's $29 billion, but like when you remove what he has to pay for the stock |
| 0:56.0 | options, it's basically a $26 billion profit. |
| 1:00.7 | So I move, Tesla moves to give Elon Musk a $26 billion deal, assuming that they're going to go |
| 1:08.3 | for a shareholder vote. |
| 1:09.7 | And then like I post this and everything. |
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