Tesla investing in xAI, Norway 100% EV, Aptera goes public, and more
Electrek
9to5Mac
4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 46 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 investing in xAI, Norway going 100% EV, Aptera going public, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla investing in xAI: the good, the bad, the ugly
- Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla’s unsold Cybertrucks
- Norway says ‘mission accomplished’ on going 100% EV, proposes incentive changes
- GM’s feeling the heat after the US pulled the plug on the $7,500 EV tax credit
- Aptera secures access to $75 million to bring its solar car to production
- Kia plans to build 100,000 EV2 and EV4 models a year, far more than expected
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 Priscilla Electric Podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | I am Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:07.7 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wincham. |
| 0:10.2 | How are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:11.7 | I'm good. |
| 0:12.9 | All right. |
| 0:14.4 | So kind of a slow news week in the EV world this week. |
| 0:18.4 | It was not that much to talk about. |
| 0:20.5 | So what is going to happen is going to give It was not that much to talk about. |
| 0:24.2 | So what is going to happen is going to give us more time to talk to you guys. |
| 0:28.0 | So I'm going to repeat it when we've been life a little bit longer. |
| 0:29.3 | There's more people coming in. |
| 0:36.4 | But if you have questions for us or any topics you want to take on in the EV world or renewable energy world, |
| 0:37.7 | you can put it in the comment section. I want to get to it at the second half of the show. |
| 0:41.4 | But still a few things that want to talk about. |
| 0:45.2 | So when there's a slow news week, I do like to do some more in-depth reporting on |
| 0:49.9 | things that I think are going to be impactful. |
| 0:52.0 | And this one was an interesting one here. |
| 0:55.0 | It's like as everyone is focused on Elon's pay package on the vote for the |
| 1:02.0 | shareholders in two to three weeks now, first week of November, everyone is focused on |
| 1:07.8 | that big number, a trillion dollar package. |
| 1:10.5 | But there's something else that's happening. |
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