Tesla announces new EV variants, Robotaxi wars, big Lucid news, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 54 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 Tesla announcing new Model 3 and Model Y variants, the robotaxi expansion wars, big Lucid news, and more
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla announces Model YL, a larger 6-seater SUV coming this fall
- Tesla prepares to launch Model 3+ with 800 km (500 mile) range
- Tesla launches a long list of new discounts and incentives in the US
- Tesla’s long-time head of sales in North America is out
- Tesla’s penis-shaped Robotaxi expansion illustrates how unserious the business is
- Waymo outlengths Tesla: Elon’s phallic Robotaxi map backfires in Austin’s expansion battle
- Uber to deploy 20,000 Lucid Gravity robotaxis equipped with Nuro Driver, beginning next year [Video]
- Mercedes-Benz unveils the new CLA Shooting Brake EV with impressive range
- Subaru enters Uncharted EV territory
- Faraday Future unveils FX Super One, an EV minivan with a funny F.A.C.E.
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 an episode of the electric podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | I am Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:12.4 | And as you know, I'm joined by Set, which are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:16.3 | I'm good. |
| 0:17.6 | Put that light on it real quick so you guys can see my face. |
| 0:23.1 | All right. |
| 0:24.1 | We have plenty to talk about this week. |
| 0:26.8 | No sponsor this week. |
| 0:28.2 | We're a little lap of a sponsor. |
| 0:29.9 | So if you guys want to sponsor the show, you know you can reach out to us at fred at |
| 0:35.7 | electric. |
| 0:36.1 | We're set at electric. We'll set up. |
| 0:40.6 | Yeah, we're going to talk about Tesla launching while preparing to launch two new variants of the Model Y and Model 3, mainly in China. |
| 0:49.6 | For now, the information is coming from China, but the expectation is that those will eventually come to North America. |
| 0:55.1 | We'll see about that. |
| 0:56.9 | A new discount in the U.S. from Tesla, the ad of North America leaving. |
| 1:01.8 | We talk about the Rubotaxi expansion and kind of the Robotaxe expansion wars in Austin, Texas right now between Waymo and Tesla. |
| 1:10.2 | There's a little back and forth, a little friendly competition going. |
| 1:13.6 | Then Uber is entering the race a bit away with big news from Lucid in partnership with Lucid and the gravity. |
| 1:20.6 | We have the unveiling of the electric CLA shooting break, the Subaru unchtered, which Carl is in the chat already talking about it right now. |
| 1:32.2 | And we had Jamie check out Faraday Future FX Super 1. |
| 1:37.9 | That thing was wow. |
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