Tesla in Musk/Trump divorce, EV sales in EU, Hyundai's new electric minivan, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2025
⏱️ 64 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 being in the crosshairs of the Musk/Trump divorce, EV sales in Europe, a new Hyundai electric minivan, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Here’s how Tesla might be impacted by the Musk/Trump divorce
- Tesla becomes desperate with Cybertruck, launches biggest discount yet
- Tesla admits it would ‘suffer financial harm’ if its self-driving crash data becomes public
- Tesla (TSLA) sales continue to crash in Europe as it clings to a fluke in Norway
- BYD outsold Tesla in the UK last month and it’s catching up fast for the year
- Hyundai’s electric minivan spotted driving for the first time [Video]
- The 2026 Polestar 4 is officially on sale in the US, priced slightly higher than originally promised
- Nissan reveals new photos of the next-gen LEAF EV and confirms its global debut
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET:
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| 0:00.0 | Two, one, we are alive for an episode of the electric podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm Fred Lever, your host, and as I'm joining by Seth Wintraub. |
| 0:09.2 | How are you doing, Seth? |
| 0:10.4 | I'm good. |
| 0:11.4 | It looks like you are reporting from the sun today. |
| 0:13.3 | What's going on over there? |
| 0:15.2 | I'm not sure exactly because from the room right now, it doesn't look too bad. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm in a Tammy right now next to Tokyo, |
| 0:23.0 | going to Tokyo next week. And it's like one of those traditional Rio can where the |
| 0:28.3 | light is warm, but it looks really clear in real life. I don't know why my camera is picking |
| 0:35.0 | it up like that, but we'll deal with it. |
| 0:38.7 | All right. But obviously, we have a lot of talk about we're going to start with the little |
| 0:44.5 | must-trump divorce and how it may or may not affect Tesla in the coming weeks or months. |
| 0:51.8 | And the EV market, the broader EV market in the US, obviously. |
| 0:56.3 | We have a little update on the cyber truck, probably the biggest discount yet on it. |
| 1:01.0 | We have self-driving crash data that Tesla is openly trying to hide from the public, |
| 1:09.4 | sells data from Europe, |
| 1:11.6 | B.YB, outselling Tesla and then port on European market. |
| 1:15.6 | We have the new electric mini van for Hyundai that I've seen the gas version of it quite a bit last week in Korea. |
| 1:21.6 | And I was, I really like those vans. I'm happy that they're going electric. |
| 1:25.6 | I'm going to talk a little bit about them. Polestar 4 hitting the US market and Nissan Leaf, having a new picture of the Nissan |
| 1:33.8 | Leaf. |
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