How Elon killed Tesla Model 2, global EV sales surge, and Chinese EVs keep killing it
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 73 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 how Elon Musk killed Tesla Model 2, global EV sales surging, how Chinese EVs keep killing it, and more.
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- Elon Musk shut down internal Tesla analysis that showed Robotaxi would lose money
- Tesla (TSLA) brand damage is destroying used car value: ‘People don’t want them anymore’
- Tesla Odometergate: is it Tesla’s own Dieselgate or nothing burger?
- Tesla Cybertruck is in crisis: new discounts and throttling down production
- Global EV sales jump 40% in March despite tariff turmoil
- ZEEKR unveils 7GT as ‘The EV that does everything’, complete with 10-minute charging and 825 km range
- Bespoke British sports car manufacturer RBW EV Cars breaks ground on new US facility
- Archer unveils eVTOL air taxi network with United to connect passengers to all major NYC airports
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| 0:00.0 | We are live for a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:06.9 | I have Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:08.3 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Winchaw. |
| 0:10.6 | Are you doing good today, Seth? |
| 0:12.4 | I'm good. |
| 0:13.6 | All right. |
| 0:14.2 | We have a smaller show this week. |
| 0:16.5 | There wasn't that many news. |
| 0:18.0 | You know, it's kind of a 4-D week. |
| 0:19.5 | If not for us, though, We're always there on Friday. |
| 0:23.4 | But yeah, it was a little bit slower on news side. There was no big tariff changes. I mean, |
| 0:32.1 | some tariff changes, but nothing that affects the auto world too much for better or worse. |
| 0:39.9 | I mean, we're kind of expecting some good news to on the tariff side. |
| 0:43.4 | Like I would assume that he's going to back down at some point. |
| 0:49.0 | Right. |
| 0:49.5 | That's going to be good news at some point. |
| 0:52.1 | But for now, I don't think it's going to get much worse than 145% tariffs on China and that, you know, 10% or so on the rest of the world, |
| 1:01.2 | 25% on steel. That affects the auto business too, obviously. But we still have a few interesting |
| 1:07.9 | to discuss. So yeah, the biggest story of the week probably was an interesting new report that kind of give us more details on Elon's decision making to kill the, let's call it the model two, the $25,000 Tesla. |
| 1:18.9 | So we're going to have a little bit more details about that. |
| 1:21.3 | We're going to get into. |
| 1:21.9 | I think it's, you know, it was a big event that Tesla that kind of changed the course of the company and kind of solidified |
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