Tesla Master Plan 4, new affordable VW EV, wireless EV charging, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 42 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 Master Plan Part 4, a new affordable EV from VW, wireless EV charging, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla releases ‘Master Plan Part 4’, a smorgasbord of vague AI promises
- Tesla (TSLA) board fully loses its mind and offers Elon Musk a pay package worth up to $1 trillion
- Tesla moves ‘Robotaxi’ safety monitor from passenger to driver’s seat
- The stunning Volvo ES90 has arrived and it’s the automaker’s most advanced EV to date
- Volvo’s EX60 will be revealed January 21st, details emerge
- Volkswagen vows to make EVs more affordable, starting with the ID.Polo and a new SUV
- Meet the new BMW iX3: A 500-mile range EV with ultra-fast charging and much more
- Audi Concept C: a radical new style that may preview a new electric TT drop top sports car
- Porsche shows off Cayenne EV 11kW induction charging at IAA
- GM is already planning to cut EV production, including the all-new Chevy Bolt
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. |
| 0:02.1 | We are alive for a new podcast, I'm Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Winshaw. |
| 0:07.6 | Are you doing, Seth? |
| 0:08.4 | I'm good. |
| 0:09.5 | All right. |
| 0:10.3 | We have a lot to talk about today, and we're going to go pretty fast because I need to catch a plane. |
| 0:15.8 | But we just got the proxy statement from Tesla to shareholders this morning. |
| 0:22.0 | So we're going to have quite a bit to talk about regarding that. |
| 0:25.0 | But that actually followed the master plan part four that was released earlier this week. |
| 0:29.3 | So we're going to start out with that because it's kind of pre, it kind of sets the stage |
| 0:35.9 | for the proxy statement that was released this morning. |
| 0:39.3 | So Master Plan Part 4 has been teased for more than a year. |
| 0:43.8 | And it comes not too long after part 3. |
| 0:48.6 | That was kind of a flop. |
| 0:49.9 | Elon himself said that it was hard to understand that people didn't really, I don't know, |
| 0:54.9 | it was pretty straightforward. |
| 0:56.2 | It was about scaling all of Tesla's business. |
| 0:58.6 | It just was nothing to precise about it. |
| 1:02.3 | But part four is unsurprisingly the shift to AI. |
| 1:07.9 | That's the focus of it. |
| 1:10.5 | But like I call it in the headline here, a smorgasbord of |
| 1:14.4 | vague AI promises. It's pretty much it. There's no concrete product roadmap in there. |
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