Kia EV Day, TSLA stock crashing, VW ID.4 surging, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2025
⏱️ 67 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 announcements made at Kia's EV Day 2025, TSLA stock crashing, VW ID.4 surging, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Kia EV Day 2025 recap: EV4 is coming to US, plus an up-close look at the EV2 and PV5 [Video]
- Tesla (TSLA) stock is crashing like a ‘soufflé under a sledge hammer’ as Elon Musk predicted
- Tesla announces Model S and Model X refresh later this year
- Tesla can already deliver new Model Y orders within 2 weeks in China – demand problem?
- Tesla applies for ride-hailing service in California, but with human drivers
- Tesla protests gain momentum while the hate is dividing Tesla owners
- Volkswagen ID.4 was the best-selling EV in Europe, top 3 in the US last month
- Volvo’s new ES90 has lightning-fast EV charging speeds and up to 435 miles range
- Meet the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra, the luxury Chinese EV everyone’s talking about
- Lucid (LCID) expects EV output to double in 2025 as the Gravity SUV rolls out
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 | And we are live for new episode of the electric podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | And I'm Fred Lambert, your host. And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintra. How are you doing today, Seth? I'm good. All right. We have plenty of news to discuss this week. We're going to start out with the Kia Evie Day 2025 that happened earlier this week. We discussed it a little bit last week with the podcast. We had some previews, but now we have the full vehicle. |
| 0:21.8 | We wanted to have Scooter on the podcast. |
| 0:23.5 | We was there live at the event, but unfortunately couldn't make it today. |
| 0:27.0 | It's in the middle of moving right now, so we wish him luck. |
| 0:30.6 | Then we're going to discuss a little bit about the Tesla. |
| 0:34.8 | The stock took a hammering this week, 15%. We'll discuss a little bit about that. |
| 0:40.3 | Model S and X, new model Y, deliveries in China. Then we have the Voxygen ID4. I'm kind of making |
| 0:49.1 | a little bit of a surge in Europe impressively. We have a little bit more detail on the Volvo ES90. |
| 0:57.2 | Same thing for the Shami SU7 Ulthra, kind of a crazy vehicle. |
| 1:03.3 | And then Lucid's earnings were out. |
| 1:04.9 | So we're going to discuss that a little bit later on on the show. |
| 1:07.7 | And as usual, we're going to take you guys questions. |
| 1:09.8 | So if you guys have questions for us, you can put them in the comment section right now or any time on the show. And as usual, we're going to take you guys questions. So if you guys have questions for us, you can put them in the comment section right now or anytime on the show, we are live. And we're also taking question now. If you can leave us a five-star reviews on Apple and in the comments that we view, we're going to take questions from the crowd through that too, so that we appreciate when you do that, only if you enjoy you enjoy the show of course all right let's jump right in into the kia evit day 2025 so kia much like |
| 1:35.7 | honda the korean automakers are very much still focused on etchic vehicle despite the little |
| 1:43.3 | push back in north america that's |
| 1:45.0 | happening right now that is you know worrying some of the makers especially the tariff wars and all that |
| 1:50.7 | kia is very much committed on continuing its full force approach to all electric vehicles and the |
| 1:58.1 | uh even on monday was uh kind of aliving the entire situation. |
| 2:04.1 | And we, so we have the obviously EV6 from Kia, the EV9, but now they have the EV3, |
| 2:13.0 | AV4 and EV5 that are coming along with a van that we showed a little bit last week. |
| 2:20.9 | So the AV4, now we have all the details from it from the event here. |
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