Elon is still CEO of Tesla, BYD EV sales surges while Tesla's collapse, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 74 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 Elon being challenged in his role as CEO of Tesla, BYD EV sales surging while Tesla's collapse, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla board is reportedly floating replacing Elon Musk as CEO
- Tesla board denies having done the only right thing it has been reported to do in years
- Tesla (TSLA) sales continue to crash in Europe despite new Model Y
- Tesla sales have collapsed in Sweden
- Tesla hikes prices on its EVs in Canada amid tariffs, expect demand collapse
- Tesla Semi public charging network coming with 46 stations in 2027
- Tesla Powerwall 3 is disrupting the solar inverter market
- Facing pressure, Trump scales back tariffs for US automakers
- Waymo and Toyota partner to go after Tesla with personal self-driving vehicles
- BYD had a blowout sales month in April with more EVs sold than hybrids, and that’s not all
- China’s 3-row 872hp SUV would destroy the EU/US market: $40K Lynk & Co 900 PHEV
- Hyundai’s new electric SUV is here: IONIQ 9 prices start at $60,555 with 335 miles range
- BMW hits pause on EV production in the US, but don’t expect prices to rise yet
- Aptera April update: ‘Artemis’ feature-complete pushes forward, first solar deliveries, and a new partnership [Video]
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 | We are live for a new episode of The Electric Podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joining by Seth Wintraub. |
| 0:10.0 | How are you doing, Seth? |
| 0:11.3 | I'm good. |
| 0:12.4 | All right, good thing, because we have plenty of talk about today. |
| 0:15.1 | It was a big week, and nothing like major news, but a lot of, plenty of tidbits of information that were interesting to discuss. |
| 0:23.0 | So we're going to talk a little bit about the little scare that some people at Tesla had with the rumors that Elon could be replaced as CEO. |
| 0:32.2 | Though, we're going to discuss how probably the reality. |
| 0:41.5 | Sorry, I just lost my whole screen here for a second. |
| 0:42.8 | Okay, I'm back in, sorry. |
| 0:49.1 | The reality behind this report, which I think is still interesting, even though it was somehow denied by Tesla, but we all know that Tesla and Elon likes to deny news report that turned out to be true at times. |
| 0:57.9 | We're going to discuss a bit of Tesla's European sales still crashing quite a bit. |
| 1:02.6 | A giant price hike on Tesla vehicle in Canada that's probably going to collapse demand in the market. |
| 1:09.0 | The Tesla's my public charging network coming in the next few years. |
| 1:12.6 | The Powell III having a giant impact on solar inverter business. |
| 1:18.2 | Waymo and Toyota partnering, B.YD sells, a couple of Chinese EVs, |
| 1:23.0 | the new Ionic 9 pricing and spec release. |
| 1:27.7 | And then a few impact of the tariffs. |
| 1:31.1 | Well, I mean, the Canada, the decimal pricing in Canada is also the impact of the |
| 1:35.6 | tariff, but still. |
| 1:37.3 | All right. |
| 1:37.7 | Let's start with this report that came out this week from the Wall Street Journal. |
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