Tesla goes all-in on Elon, Robotaxi crashes, Nissan kills Ariya, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 55 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 going all-in on Elon with his new comp package, Robotaxi crashes, Nissan killing Ariya, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Elon Musk has trapped Tesla shareholders: give me $1 trillion or I won’t lie for you anymore
- Tesla settles another fatal Autopilot crash before it gets to trial
- Tesla is trying to hide 3 Robotaxi accidents
- Tesla is redesigning its door handles after people were left trapped in the cars
- Tesla discontinues cheapest Cybertruck, no one wanted it
- Tesla partners with Uber Freight to offer Tesla Semi electric trucks at discounts
- The 2026 Cadillac Optiq EV arrives with much more to offer at a lower price
- Rivian breaks ground on the Georgia factory where it plans to build R2 and R3
- Nissan cuts the Ariya electric SUV in the US… because of the new LEAF?
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, a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm Fred Niebuhr, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintra. |
| 0:12.5 | Are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:13.7 | I'm good. |
| 0:15.0 | All right. |
| 0:16.4 | We have plenty of stock to talk about. |
| 0:18.4 | As usual, we're going to focus on Tesla a little bit first and then move on to other stuff. |
| 0:22.3 | But Tesla, we're going to talk a lot about the situation right now with Elon's basically trying to get, well, not that he didn't already have full controller company, but going even deeper in it. |
| 0:34.4 | A little bit of a Robotaxy crash that was released this week. That was interesting. |
| 0:39.3 | A redesign of the Dorandals that was kind of forced a little bit on Tesla. |
| 0:44.0 | Then good news on the Tesla SMA front, a big partnership with Uber Freight I want to talk about. |
| 0:51.2 | The 26 Optic Cadillac coming with a few new interesting cheaper variant. |
| 0:59.0 | We have Rivian breaking ground in Georgia and we have Nissan and has a little big change |
| 1:05.0 | to its EV lineup coming. |
| 1:07.0 | I just posted this big article. |
| 1:09.0 | I've been writing this throughout the week a bunch of times, |
| 1:13.2 | and I finished it today. |
| 1:15.1 | But I kind of summarized everything that happened this week with the, |
| 1:20.6 | am I lagging a little bit? |
| 1:22.2 | Everything's okay? |
| 1:22.9 | You're hearing you? |
| 1:23.3 | Okay. |
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