Tesla hate goes biblical, BYD comes out swinging, Renault 5 Turbo 3E, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2025
⏱️ 60 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 hate going biblical, BYD coming out swinging with new record charging time, the new Renault 5 Turbo 3E, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Several Tesla vehicles burned down in Las Vegas and Kansas City, arson suspected
- Tesla vandalism: Trump and AG claim someone ‘coordinate and fund’ them
- Tesla used car prices are falling at 3x the rest of the market
- Tesla already starts to offer 0% interest on new Model Y in China – showing weak demand
- Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off
- Trump’s US Commerce Secretary, who owns Tesla stocks, publicly recommends to buy TSLA
- Elon tells Tesla employees not to sell TSLA stocks as board and execs are dumping
- BYD confirms new 1,000V ‘Super E-Platform’ capable of fast charging 400km in 5 minutes
- BYD’s cheapest EV is launching in Europe soon with a new name and more upgrades
- Renault’s insane 5 Turbo 3E electric hot hatch ships in 2027, limited to 1,980 units
- Korea’s first electric pickup is already in high demand, and it’s not from Hyundai or Kia
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 a new episode of Electric Podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host. And as you all, I'm joined by Seth Winchow. How are you doing, Seth? I'm good. All right. I'm not at home right now. I went all the way up to Shikutsimi on North of Quebec. And next week, I'm also traveling to Las Vegas, so not on the usual studio for the podcast for the next two weeks, but we'll make it work. |
| 0:30.2 | And we're still producing articles like crazy because right now, I mean, it's a crazy time, especially for covering Tesla. |
| 0:36.2 | So we're going to, as usual, tell you the latest news about Tesla this week, and it was pretty crazy stuff. |
| 0:40.6 | Then we're going to get into Tesla's biggest competitor globally, B-Y-D, |
| 0:46.4 | came out swinging this week with a big charging upgrade and some news about rolled out of new models in Europe. |
| 0:51.0 | The Renault 5, Turbo 3E was unveiled and this thing is a crazy hot hatch. |
| 0:58.5 | We're going to get into that. |
| 0:59.9 | And then a cheap electric pickup coming from Korea that we might see in other markets. |
| 1:04.7 | It could be interesting. |
| 1:06.1 | All right. |
| 1:06.7 | But first off, we'll give you the little update on the, I use the headline Tesla, |
| 1:14.2 | hate goes biblical. It's a reference to YouTube video that went viral this week from a guy I didn't |
| 1:21.2 | know about called H-Rioch, which is kind of a, I guess, kind of a business YouTuber. And he did an |
| 1:27.3 | amazing video on the Tesla situation right now, kind of breaking it down |
| 1:31.7 | for the layman, for people that are just not aware. |
| 1:34.7 | Like obviously on the podcast, here you guys, you get like weekly updates or what |
| 1:38.0 | happened every week, like more up to date. |
| 1:39.6 | So for someone like you might not be the greatest post but it's something that you can send like |
| 1:45.0 | if you want to give someone a primer on the on the situation and and that post i think was |
| 1:51.4 | supposed to yeah that was like last weekend so it it even became more through this week because |
| 1:57.6 | things are getting crazy you still have the protest the peaceful protests which are are rumping up this week because things are getting crazy. You still have the protest, a peaceful protest, which are rumping up. |
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