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Tesla Master Plan 4, new affordable VW EV, wireless EV charging, and more

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Electric, Model, Electrek, Leisure, Elon, Clean, Musk, Tesla, Leisure/automotive, Automotive, 3, Evs, Vehicles, Energy, Technology

4.3621 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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Transcript

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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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