New Tesla (temp) Cybertruck, Cybercab, Ford wants China in the US, and more
Electrek
9to5Mac
4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 49 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 new Tesla (temporary) Cybertruck, Cybercab news, Ford wanting China in the US, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla launches $60k AWD Cybertruck, reverses $15k Cyberbeast price hike
- Elon Musk kills first Tesla Cybertruck ($60k) that makes sense just 10 days after launch
- Tesla has to pay a historic $243 million judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says
- Tesla rolls first steering wheel-less Cybercab unit off the line before solving autonomy
- Tesla fans think this reviewer will have to shave his hair due to Musk’s $30,000 Cybercab claim
- Tesla avoids 30-day California sales suspension after dropping misleading ‘Autopilot’ marketing
- Tesla admits it still needs drivers and remote operators — then argues that’s better than Waymo
- Ford is asking the Trump Administration to allow Chinese EV tech in the US
- Slate pricing to be revealed in June, ‘Blank Slate’ truck still expected in the mid-$20k range
- Polestar goes on the offensive with FOUR new models in THREE years
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 | One, we are live for an episode of the electric podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | I am Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:05.0 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wincham. |
| 0:07.2 | How are you doing this week, Seth? |
| 0:08.4 | I'm good. |
| 0:10.1 | All right. |
| 0:10.8 | Now I can actually talk to you this week. |
| 0:12.3 | We had some issues with the live broadcast last week, but it looks like the internet situation |
| 0:17.7 | is a little bit easier this week. |
| 0:19.7 | And the stream yard stuff is always pretty |
| 0:23.4 | heavy on the internet I don't know why the like when we have like zoom calls and everything |
| 0:28.7 | it's fine but stream yard not so much but we're back to a regular show this week let me mute |
| 0:37.4 | my notification right now so that I can focus entirely on the show. |
| 0:43.6 | All right. |
| 0:45.9 | We're going to start out by a new cyber truck being launched this week. |
| 0:50.8 | I was very excited about it for a good half a day, because after half a day, |
| 0:59.1 | Elon already canceled it, or sort of. |
| 1:02.4 | So for those of you that haven't followed, last night, Tesla updated its online configurator for the cyber truck |
| 1:09.4 | and launched a new all-wheel drive |
| 1:11.9 | cyber truck at $60,000, starting at $60,000. So compared to the $70,000 real-wheel drive |
| 1:21.8 | cyber truck that was decontended, it was, we went to Tesla launched it last year. We right away, we right away we said this is not going to work. |
| 1:31.1 | It's going to be canceled very soon. |
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