Elon Musk's Twitter drama leaks to Tesla, wireless charging, the dealer problem, and more
Electrek
9to5Mac
4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
On 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's Twitter drama leaking to Tesla, wireless charging, the EV dealer problem, and more.
Sponsor: Buy Electrek Merch!
The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel.
As a reminder, we’ll have an accompanying post, like this one, on the site with an embedded link to the live stream. Head to the YouTube channel to get your questions and comments in.
After the show ends at around 5 p.m. ET, the video will be archived on YouTube and the audio on all your favorite podcast apps:
We now have a Patreon if you want to help us avoid more ads and invest more in our content. We have some awesome gifts for our Patreons and more coming.
Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla removes Disney+ from vehicles amid Elon Musk’s Twitter beef with Bob Iger
- Tesla unveils new bird-eye view 3D reconstruction park assist
- Tesla confirms wireless inductive electric car home charger is coming
- GM and Ford EV owners to get Tesla Supercharger access as soon as February
- Tesla launches project to build new Megafactory in China
- Tesla is having issues producing 4680 cells for Cybertruck, sketchy report says
- Tesla loses court appeal in Swedish strike, will it finally go back to negotiation table?
- Tesla removes stock-based compensation this year, report says
- Tesla Electric makes homeowner’s electricity bill disappear and pays him $1,000
- Ford confirms half of dealers will sell EVs in 2024 as some are opting out
- Half of US Buick dealers chose buyouts over selling EVs in 2023
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
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome for a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | I am Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:07.8 | And as usual, I'm joined by Set WinTrial back in New York this week. |
| 0:11.8 | Are you doing, Seth? |
| 0:12.8 | Good. |
| 0:13.8 | I look kind of very white for some reason. |
| 0:16.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.8 | The light is like catching the light properly. |
| 0:20.8 | You need one of these studio light that I have. Yeah, the camera's like catching the light properly. |
| 0:23.7 | You need one of these studio light that I have. |
| 0:29.9 | This week's episode of the podcast is sponsored by our own merch store, |
| 0:36.4 | the Electric Merge store at Merch.Elect.c.com, where you can buy some high- gears that are branded electric and we even have |
| 0:41.9 | our electric cars of note electric car of history of electric car t-shirt and also a tote bag so |
| 0:52.0 | you can check that out at merge. That electric. |
| 0:54.5 | Dot C.O. |
| 0:56.5 | And I'm even modeling the hat today. |
| 1:00.1 | Yeah, you have the hat this way. |
| 1:01.3 | Yeah, I'm supposed to get some gear. |
| 1:03.0 | I'll be able to have that soon on the podcast too. |
| 1:06.1 | I think I have a sweatshirt coming. |
| 1:10.9 | All right. |
| 1:11.7 | So we're going to start out today with something that kind of like it wouldn't be big news |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from 9to5Mac, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of 9to5Mac and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.