EV/Solar killing bill moves forward, Elon lies about Tesla's demand, cheaper EVs, and more
Electrek
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🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 63 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 EV/Solar killing bill moving forward, Elon lying about Tesla's demand, cheaper EVs coming, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla (TSLA) is badly affected by Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ the GOP just passed
- Elon Musk materialy lied to Tesla (TSLA) shareholders – transcript and proof
- Tesla pulls all the demand levers with discounts and incentives as sales crash
- Tesla Full Self-Driving veers off road, flips car in scary crash driver couldn’t prevent
- Tesla Model Y compared to ‘Tesla killer’ Xiaomi YU7: it’s not even close
- Chevy gives the 2026 Silverado EV the Trail Boss treatment with 725 hp and off-road upgrades
- Volkswagen builds first pre-series ID.2 parts and the low-cost battery system to power it
- BYD’s best-selling EV arrives in Europe as the Dolphin Surf with prices starting at $26,000
- Rivian R2 kicks off real-world validation and even its camo wraps are cooler than everyone else’s
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 | We are live for a new episode of the electric podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | I am Fred Lambert and as usual I'm joined by Seth Winshaw. |
| 0:13.0 | Are you said? |
| 0:14.0 | I'm good. |
| 0:15.0 | All right. |
| 0:16.0 | Plenty to talk about this week. |
| 0:18.0 | It was a, we started a little bit slow the week, but information picked |
| 0:22.3 | up, we're going to have to give you their weekly update on the US budget bill that's |
| 0:28.0 | going to have a big impact on virtually everything, but obviously we're going to focus on the |
| 0:31.7 | EV and renewable energy sector. |
| 0:35.2 | Then some, Elon lying about Tesla's demand. |
| 0:38.3 | It was really interesting. |
| 0:40.3 | He's not even hiding it anymore. |
| 0:43.3 | It's like straight up lying these days. |
| 0:46.3 | We have a pretty crazy FSD crash that we want to discuss. |
| 0:50.3 | We have the launch of the Xiaomi YU7, |
| 0:56.3 | which has been dubbed the Tesla Killer. |
| 0:59.1 | It might be actually the first real Tesla Killer. |
| 1:02.9 | We have the Silverado Evie Trail Bus, |
| 1:05.5 | off-road version that was unveiled this week. A little bit of news on the ID2, |
| 1:07.9 | on the RivianR2, |
| 1:10.1 | and another BYD cheap vehicle. That launch, because cheap EVVs are really coming now. |
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