EV tax credit on chopping block, Tesla's China problem, Slate gets interest, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 68 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 how the GOP plans to kill the EV tax credit, Tesla's China problem, Slate getting some interest, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- GOP tax bill helps its biggest donor Musk, but harms his company, Tesla
- Tesla (TSLA) slows down in China despite new Model Y production
- Tesla (TSLA) Chinese deliveries dropped to a scary low level
- Tesla’s robotaxi fleet will be powered by ‘plenty of teleoperation’
- NHTSA asks Tesla how it plans to release its robotaxi service based on FSD
- Tesla employees ask Elon Musk to resign, confirm massive demand problem, get fired for it
- Elon Musk hires another Tesla board member to cash checks and let him destroy the brand
- Toyota’s bZ electric SUV gets a new name, more range, an NACS port and other upgrades
- BYD’s latest low-cost EV hits dealerships: Meet the new e7
- GM’s new EV battery cells promise more affordable, long-range electric trucks and SUVs
- Ram is once again delaying its first electric truck: Here’s when you can expect to see it now
- Slate’s $20k electric pickup that can be converted into an SUV has secured 100k reservations
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. |
| 0:04.3 | I am Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:05.8 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintra. |
| 0:08.2 | How are you doing, Seth? |
| 0:09.4 | I'm good. |
| 0:10.5 | Yes, all right. |
| 0:12.2 | Plenty of you talk about this week. |
| 0:13.9 | We're going to start a little update that we've been doing in the last few weeks about the tax credit. |
| 0:18.8 | We have a much better idea about the EV tax credit now in the US |
| 0:22.3 | thanks to the full tax bill being released, although plenty of time to change. So it's a fluid |
| 0:29.9 | situation. Let's keep that in mind. Then we have Tesla's delivery numbers in China that are |
| 0:36.6 | starting to put some red flags out there. |
| 0:40.4 | Quick update on the Robotaxi launch in Austin. |
| 0:44.4 | Then we got to talk a little bit about Tesla employees pushing back against Elon Musk. |
| 0:51.1 | That was interesting. |
| 0:53.1 | And Toyota, as its new version of its BZ4X, which is now called just a BZ and a few more to discuss. |
| 1:03.0 | But as usual, we're going to have plenty of times to talk to you guys too. |
| 1:06.0 | So if you guys have questions for us, you can put them in a comment section right now. |
| 1:09.0 | I want to get to that later on on the show. |
| 1:11.1 | It can be about any of the topics we're discussing today or any other topics in the EV |
| 1:15.8 | world that you want or take on with your life everywhere. |
| 1:19.7 | You can put that in the comment section and now we'll get to it at some point. |
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